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Franklin (Tonn.) News: .To dosort
the Kansas 'City platform would bo a
conicsaioh' of weakness and dishonor.
,33atavi:a;(0;) Sun: Mr. Roosovolt's
devotion fo Gonoral Wood equate Sen
ator Hanria'p intorost in the wolfare
of Mr JltUhbono.
Chicago (111.) Dispatch: As the Dis
patch statod four wooks ago, plain
sugar has more influonco In congress
than iilain duty.
Stillwater (0. T.) Advance: It is
hard to distinguish tho 'Clovoland
brand of democracy from republican
ism puro and simple.
Fulton (111.) Journal: Mr.- Cleve
land is a great fisherman, but ho is
thoroughly convinced that the" Ashing
in Kansas and Nebraska is mighty
poor. "
Gonzales (Tex.) Inquirer: A great
many people now say tho silver ques
tion is dead, but it is vory noticeable
that some of them aro afraid of tho
corpse.
Harrodsburg (Ky.) Democrat: It Is
time tho country was waking up to
tho dangor-tondoncy of tho time, and,
before it is too late, put a stop to tho
rapid decline of the republic.
West Point (Nob.) Democrat: Re
organizationwell, wo guess not,-'
hardly. "Wo don't happen to need any
reorganization and what's more, there
will bo no disorganization either.
Bucyrus (0.) Forum: "Got to
gether" is a good democratic text for
1904. Tho wandering shoep of '96 and
1900 will bo welcomed back, if they
will return to tho party and to demo
cratic principles.
Stanborry (Mo.) Headlight: Cuba
has at last been set free, after years
of struggle for freedom. It is now a
republic. Tho next groat question for
tho democrats to settle is similar
freedom for tho Philippines.
tittle Falls (Minn.) Horald: When
the republican party repeals a tariff
that protects trusts like tho beef and
steel trustsi a little more faith will bo,
shown in republican promises to deal
properly with tho -trusts.
Monticollo (0.) Democrat: Secre
tary Root announces that it will bo
Impossible for his department to fur
nish a detailed statement of expendi
tures in Cuba beforo congress ad
journs. . Certainly!. Tho figures might
affect tho elections noxt fall.
Runge (Tox.) News: It does look
like tho public has a right to know
something about tho amount of money
and where It wont to expended by
this government ta its Phlllpplno ex
periment. Of course there is riothing
in tho fact that such information is
withhold by a "strict party vote."
Bolso (Idaho) News: Tho democrats
aro willing to have Mr. Cleveland and
Mr.. Hill act with them if they havo
experienced a chango of heart, but
they will accept no plan of reorgani
zatlOn that contemplates ' tho leader
ship of tho party passing into tholf
hands. i
Rockvillo (Ind.) Trlbuno: If our
revolutionary fathers had accepted
such terms as the administration .pro
poses to proclaim to tho Filipinos, on
tho Fourth of July1, there would bo no
Fourth of July.
Waynesburg (PaO Messenger: Wo
don't pload guilty to the charge of be
ing old, but wo can rqmoniber when
tho national constitution was hold in
high esteem, oven by tho supreme
court and tho president of tho United
States.
Bmmottsburg (la.) Democrat: While
domocrats aro not enthusiastic ad
mirers of Presldont Roosevelt or his
policies, they aro satisfied that ha
cannot do their party half tho harm
that Grover Cleveland did during his
second term.
Marlon (Ky.) Press: Ollio James'
reception by tho Nebraska democracy
was a greeting that any man might
woll bo proud of, and. his speech and
the impression ho made is something
that Ollio's district and state is proud
of.
Union County (0.) Journal: As be
tween themselves they (Cleveland and
Hill) may harmonize or disagree, tho
democratic party cares nothing, but
if they would over again harmonize
with tho democratic party they must
como to it.
Hickory (Miss.) Reporter-Index; All
those anything-to-wln democrats want
harmony bad enough to go over the
party lino to Cleveland in order to get
it. Why not try to persuade all Chris
tians to harmonize with the' dovil in
order to have peace.
Linn (Mo.) Unterrifled Democrat:
Old Grover is patiently at work re
organizing tho democratic party. The
real domocrats will not bo deceived vby
his . .manouvers. They want none of
his "old tlmo victories" by which the
people aro made tho victims of trusts
and monopolies. ""
Wilmington (0.) Democrat: ' Tho
democratic organization will remain
In the .hands of, domocrats who havo
been true to the principles of the par
ty during tho trying times when those
alleged democrats who aro now shout
ing for reorganization wero exerting
their onorgles to disrupt tho party.
Lowiston (111.) News: Mr. Hill in
writing to a friond some time ago
wrote in answer to an inquiry: "I
was a democrat before, tho Chicago
convention and am a democrat still
vory still." That is Just how we will
endeavor to keep him, "still," no mat
tor how ambitious ho becomes.
Bouldor (Colo.) Representative: Ev
ery time that Cleveland or Hill appear
before tho public announcing tho
course that the democracy Bhould pur
suo, all the republican leaders aro de
lighted. They well know that that la
what will lead to republican .success
and democratic defeat. Therefore they
pat Hill and Cleveland on the back
and tell us what great statesmen theso
reiica. aro.
Burnsido (Ky.) Item: If it is an
honorablo policy to withdraw from
Cuba and leave the" island to tho gov
ernment of its own people, why would
it be a "scuttlo" policy to withdraw
from tho Philippine archipelago arid
leave those islands to the government
of their own people? ..
Modford (Oro.) Enquirer: Grover
Cleveland may relieve himself of all
tho hot alrho chooses, but tho fact re
mains that tho rank and file of the
democratic party have no more use,
for him than they havefor Mark Han
na. In fact Boss Hanna is much moro
popular than the undemocratic would
be leader, Grover Cleveland.
Fostorla (0.) Times: Why should
Cleveland and Hill talk harmony In
tho interests of the democracy after
sitting supinely through two cam
paigns, calmly watching it struggling
for life against a powerful foe? There
Is nomething ludicrous as well as an
gering in their present attitude in com--parison
with the past
Monroe City (Mo.) Democrat: The
doctrine of imperialism has challenged
democracy to mortal combat on
American soil. How will we decide the
question? The fate of unborn mil-"
lions depends upon our decision. Lot
our decision ho for justice .and right
"and let us stand firm on the Declara
tion of Independence.
Fostorla (0.) ..Democrat: The Chi
cago Chronicle says the democratic
party makes a mistake when it. aban
dons its principles to follow the pre
cepts of a small class in or -out of
tho party. This being the case, it is
to be hoped that the Chronicle will
not urge the party to combine on the
Cleveland-Hill harmony idea. :
Marysvillo (Kas.) Advocate-Democrat:
That "full dinner pall" is not
such an absurd statement after all.
When tho worklngman dlyes into the
deepest recesses of his lunch basket
and finds nothing there ho should con
sole himself with tho remembrance
that "hot air" is one of the stocks in
trade of tho republican party. Per
haps, this is what their orators had
reforonce to when they spoke of tho
"full dinner pall,"
Lamar "(Mo.) Leaden We are look
ing for some now catch phrases for tho
noxt campaign. Hanna has the die in
which the ones are stamped that us
ually delude the poor creatures af
fected with partisan Insanity. How
familiar, yet how foolish, the slogans
of past campaigns seem, such as
"sound money," "money good in Eu
rope," "benevolent assimilation," and
"who'll haul 'down tho flag." In re
cent years tho average voter's judg
ment would not be worth much When
appraised in tho light of events. Con
sciously or unconsciously ho is made
to do tho blddingr of tho masters of
finance and is .told that the hand of
fate is shap,lng his destiny and that ho
should, therefore, "leave woll enough
alono." v
Macomb (111.) Eaglo: The presl
dont of the United States has made a
big stand play on the trusts, but ho -has
weakened on the proposition just r
as he has on all questions to stand
in with capital and greed for the pur-.;
pose of getting campaign funds to' .
help elect him in 1904, the people seo .
through It all.
Keyser (W. Va.)' Tribune: By the '
time one has cooked a meal bought
from the beef trust with fuel pur
chased from the coal trust on- a stove
secured from the steel trust, with,
sweetening supplied by the sugar
trust, it takes a good deal of faith tq
indorse Senator Hannahs statement
that trusts are a good thing.
Carrollton (Mo.) Democrat: In the
sixties, when the republican party
wanted two additional senators, they
added the state of Nevada to tho '
union; now they refuse to let inOkla
homa, Arizona, and New Mexico, each
of which will make a dozen ofNNe
vada. The republican party never looks
at these questions, oxcept from a po
litical point of view.
Vernon (Ind.) Journal: When Bry
an said, in effect, that he did not pro
pose to. surrender everything he fought
for in two campaigns in order to help "
Cleveland republlcanize tho democratic. '
party, ho spoke for several millions?;
of voters who believed in the prin
ciples they voted for in 1896 and 1900'
and who cannot bo led astray by "new
and gaudy Issues'
Canton (Mb.) Press: .Congress ad
journed Tuesday eve, with singing
"There's a Hole in the Bottom of tho.
Sea." As the total appropriations fig
ure up to something over $900,000,000,
the republicans do not feel as jubilant ...
as they appear, for they fear their
shortcomings may induce the people to- "
put some of them in the aforesaid holo ".
next November.
Lamoni (la.) Patriot: The advice
of Grover Cleveland to drop every- -thing
but tariff and trusts, is charac
teristic, but lacking in justice and .hu
manity. Moreover, it is dropping tho
principal thing, the major part, and
retaining the minor part. To drop
the question of political liberty and
retain tho question of industrial lib-
erty, is givjng up the basis and fool- .'
ishly trying to preserve the super
structure. . j,,
Malono (N. Y,) Forum: The Forum .'
stands for the new democracy of 1896 ,,
and 1900 and standing firmly oh the" V
bedrock of regularity cannot bedis-
lodged from its impregnable position; '
The "disorganizes" aro bolters, bolted:
in 1896 and by their action turned the
country over to tho tender mercies of
tho trusts. Today, they aro the agents
of the trusts who want to control both
parties so that whichever is in power,
they are safe. Either Hill or Cleve
land is safe for the trusts, which ac
counts for the World's campaign o
lying and hypocrisy to throw dirt iu
the eyes of the people.
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