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Commoner. I . a THE FORUM OF THE WEEKLY PRESS . . I I l Crowley (La.) News: The slowness of the Samar Islanders to believe In their pacification is accounted for by the limited circulation of republican newspapers in that region. Ironton (Mo.) Register: The reor ganizes arc running everything in Missouri with a high hand this year. The democrats will take charge when the conventions are held next year. Onoka (Minn.) Free Press: The bankers have a genuine friend in Sec retary Gage of the national treasury. He is forever devising financial sys tems by which the banks may get the best of it. Detroit (Mich.) People: The dem ocracy will never succeed, so long as democrats stand ready and willing to surrender the most essential principles declared for in their national platforms of 1896 and 1900. Maryville (Mo.) Forum: The re publican party is pursuing a policy which contracts the metal money of the nation. The democratic party will favor the increase of our metal money by bimetallism. Salem (111.) Democrat: The "reor ganizers" have made some headway, but it is hardly probable that a few thousand of them will be permitted to dictate to the legions; but we must be alert. . r golden J (Mo.) Enterprise: A few years ago'the republicans branded the statement that they intended to re deem the silver dollar in gold, as a democratic lie. Now they openly ad vocate it. Wahpeton (N. D.) Times: Speaking of his shipping bill, Senator Frye ex claimed pathetically, "I have been pushing it for twenty years." Yes, and' the taxpayers of the country have been resisting it as a deliberate steal for the same length of time. Shelbyville (Ind.) Democrat: Re publican gall is almost limitless when it comes to dealing with public money, but the republican majority in con gress will hardly dare to indorse Sec retary Gage's plan of loaning the treas ury surplus to the national banks. Kosse "(Tex.) Cyclone: President Roosevelt proposes to appoint some democrats to office, but those of the Bryan stamp are warned not to apply. The warning is unnecessary, for demo crats that follow Bryan and his teach ings are not to be found around the republican pie-counter. Sabinal (Tex.) Sentinel: President Roosevelt has not yet appointed a genuine democrat to office in the south or anywhere else. The drivelling rot indulged in by the subsidized press over the Alabama judgeship appoint ment was nauseating. Greencastle (Ind.) Star Press: This republican administration has "been -displaying its financial ability by buy ing in government bonds at 36 per cent premium, to retire them for each dollar of indebtedness thus cancelled the government pays $1.36. And the nenrjle pay the bills. Hastings (Mich.) Journal: The na tional bankers convention at Milwau kee was noted for two things. The vehement demand for the retirement of the greenbacks, and the redemption of silver dollars in gold. Funny, isn't it, that bankers are the only persons, who are not satisfied with the government Issue of money? Pocatello (Id.) Advance: That con tractor who purchased his iron at $10 a ton cheaper by pretending he wanted to ship it to England, than he could by letting it be known he wanted it for use in this country, must be an anarchist. Surely nobody but an an archist would deliver such a blow to a republican law as that. Webb City (Mo.) Register: The democratic party still stands for an income tax. It still believes in the Jeffersonlan doctrine of "equal rights to all and special privileges to none" and for that r.eason it wants the rich to pay their just proportion of the taxes. Trusts and corporations have long enough escaped from assisting in bearing the burdens of government. Bellfontaine (0.) Examiner: The republican party, by dint of unprece dented government extravagance, sup plemented by the conversion of the public debt into currency, has flooded the country, with, money. And',.this passes for public "prosperity." And it is a temporary sort of prosperity, to be pure. But there will be born of It a day of reckoning and disaster. Just you wait. Augusta (Me.) New Age: It is a noticeable fact that whenever a re publican president or governor ap points a democrat to office the ap pointee is generally the sort of man the democratic party doesn't want. The president has just selected George E. Koester for collector of internal revenue for the district of South Caro lina. His principal recommendation .is that he is a prominent gold demo crat. Glasgow (Mo.) Missourian: Ac cording to the republican press the promoters of the ship subsidy bill will force its passage at the next session of congress if it is possible to do so. Such a measure would be a rank imposition upon the people, but the republican promoters, who are largely stockholders in steamship lines, that would be benefitted, care nothing for the interests of the people. Shelbina' (Mo.) Democrat: Andrew Carnegie has made between one and two hundred million dollars, enough to make 15 to 20 thousand families, 75,000 people, very comfortable, by means of the protective tariff that robs the many to enrich the few. He knows exactly how it works, and hav ing become enoromusly rich by this legal robbery, and having retired from business, he says, "The best policy is to reduce protection duties." He is right hi this. Every1 principle of jus tice and fairness demands this. Olympia (Wash.) Standard: Is any better proof wanted of the perfidy of "gold" democrats than that the admin istration is recognizing the claims of those traitors to the democratic party by frequent appointment to Important positions? This week tho president appointed George E. Koester, of South Carolina, collector of internal rev enue for that state. That Mr. Roose velt is following out the policy of his predecessor in tho general award of patronage to those bolters who made republican success possible, is as ap parent as tho sun at noon-day. Florence (Tex.) Vidette: There are a few big daily newspapers in Texas who dislike democracy at heart, and yet they dare not attack it openly un der another flag, so they hoist the dem ocratic flag at their mast-head and fight every principle it represents. Democracy has suffered more from tho effect of these traitors than from any other one cause, but we are glad to see their influence is on the wane and In future campaigns their utter ances will cut but little ice, except as amusements. Thinking people have ceased to ever consider them serious. Rolla (Mo.) Sharp-Shooter: You may organize, reorganize and disor ganize, and all that sort of things, but the fact remains that tho money ques tion will bo the all important and liv ing Issue with the democracy, both in our state and national campaigns, un til the issuing of all our money, both gold, silver and paper, is taken out of the hands of the national bank cor poration, and given back to tho United States government where it belongs. And tho democrat who undertakes to relegate this question to the rear will find himself relegated to the rear, when he comes before the democracy asking for office. Lexington (N. C.) Dispatch: The reorganizes are not doing a very sat isfactory business of late. The Kan sas City platform will be the demo cratic platform until legally selected delegates meet in national conven tion and adopt a platform for the next presidential election. Those democrats who refused to support tho ticket in the last election should not ask to dic tate terms to that vast army of men who stood loyal to their party and against greed, selfishness, oppression and combinations which hftve grown powerful by virtue of unjust and dis criminating laws enacted for their benefit and at their request. Chilllcotho (Mo.) Constitution: The Kansas City platform is big enough to hold- us all without pushing and crowding and disputing about the color of this man's hair or the cut of that man's coat. It is all right and proper to let those who have beeen faithful and fought in the front ranks stand at the head of the class. They ought to stand there. They are entitled to be recognized first. But It Isn't nec essary to apply the branding Iron to those who are slow about coming in. Let us have peace. If wo must quar rel let us quarrel with republicans. Wo need tho hearty good will and tho friendly co-operation of every man who over wore tho name of democrat. A club may do to bring about har mony somotiraes, but not now. Sycamoro (III.) Broadside: A re publican paper says that tho demo cratic party has repudiated its last na tional platform. Beg your pardon, "you're another!" The democratic party has done no such thing. Tho trouble is that tho republican press would have the people boliovo that a fow assistant republicans aro tho democratic party. It may fool tho ignorant readers of the republican pa pers, but it isn't going to fool tho rank and file of tho democratic party, who happen to know why they aro democrats. But, talk of repudiating platforms, we daro any republican pa per to publish such extracts as wo may select from old-time republican platforms, from tho utterances of Abraham .Lincoln, Charles ' Sumner, James G. Blaino or James A. Garfield, or from the constitution or tho Declar ation of Independence. 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