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VOLUME 3, NUMBER 27.
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Ontario (Ore.) Democrat: Now is
the time for democracy to act if they
expect to defeat the reorganizes and
plutocrats.
Indianapolis (Ind.) Standard: Are
organizer hasfc no doubt . jabout the
"quantitative theory of money" for
campaign purposes.
Benton (Mo.) Record: What Post
master General Payne calls "closed
incidents" are not securely padlocked,
and are liable to bo pried open at any
old time.
Iowa City (la.) Democrat: Mark
Hanna says ho wishes he had power
to touch men's hearts. Still, there is
ono kind of "touch" at which Mt
has been very successful.
WayneBvillo (Mo.) Democrat: Mr.
Roosevelt is attempting the impossi
ble task of cleaning out the public
specter of persons. Myron used to say
"Come Boss," but now the boss says
"Come Myron." And he comes.
Daytona (Fla.) Gazette-News: It's
no use to tall: of nominating any man
who was even lukewarm in the, Bryan
campaigns, for he can't be elected.
Owensboro (Ky.), Messenger: The
postofllco department building at
Washington was decorated with dis
honor and the national colors on the
Fourth.
Johnstown (N. Y.) Democrat: There
have been pretty bad scandals in for
mer republican administrations, but
for strenuous rascality the Roosevelt
ian regime stands unrivalled as a
"business" proposition.
Spencer (la.) Herald: About the
only objection wo have to the Iowa
democratic platform is that it seems
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Athens(0.) Journal: Young Rocke
feller says he prays for light and gets
'it. That's lots easier than buying it
by the gallon, but all of us can't be
connoctetLwith the Standard Oil com
pany. Lamar (Mo.) Leader: Nobody
wants the democrats to nominate Gro
ver, Cleveland for president except the
republicans' and gold-bug democrats
whd are not democrats, simply galvan
ized republicans.
Mauch Chunk . (Pa.) Democrat:
Horeaftor trust promoters will have a
little more explaining to do than in
the past two or three years. People
are again returning to the good old
belief that money can't be coined from
wind.
Hastings (Neb.) Democrat: The
republican party has had many very
ugly scandals in its day, and has sur
vived them all.' The postofllco scandal
is perhaps the worst ever, judging
from the dodging of high public offi
cials. Lincoln (Neb.) Democrat: The Iowa
Idea, born a year ago, died mis week
of a broken heart. Its parents refused
to recognizo it this week at the state
convention of Hawkeyo republicans.
Poor old D. B. Henderson. He should
have waited.
Salem (Mo.) Monitor: The money
question will form a prominent part
in platforms next year, and it will be
gold and bank notes against silver and
gold (at 16 to 1) and treasury notes.
In other words the money trust'
against the people.
Carml (111.) Democrat: Governor
Durbln might send Fugitive Taylor
down to Evansville to direct the oper
ation of the militia. According to
credible reports ho conducted militia
affairs on another occasion, with satis
faction to himself, at least
can, Burlington Hawkeye and Sioux
City Tribune.
East St. Louis (111.) Gazette: Re
publicans are now busy predicting the
renomination of GroVer Cleveland on
the democratic ticket The" wish is
evidently "father of the thought" as a
nomination would mean four years
more of republican rule.
York (Neb.) Teller: There is no
difference between the reorganizes
and the republicans. You all know
that We quit the republicans because
they worship the corporations and we
are not going to work with the demo
cratic element that is in the same
boat
may bo temporarily obscured by the
dust of the conflict on one side and
the brilliant luster of the leadership
on the other, but when this is. past,
they stand rugged and immutable,
eternal as justice itself.
Sheridan (Ark.) Headlight; There
are some democratic leaders' who say
they do not believe in republican pol
icies, and yet desire to repudiate the
Kansas City platform. Where do they
expect to lodge? On such a journey
what kind of a hotel do they expect
to put up at?
Butte (Mont) Reveille: Postmas
ter General Payne does not seem a
very successful nouse-cieaner:. aui
then wo see the attorney general's de
partment at Washington trying to
catch the gigantic forest pirates of
Montana for five years and the thieves
are still at large and the profits of
their theft have gone to swell the
Rockefeller horde.
Richmond (Mo.) Missourian: Noth
ing that the man who works needs
should pay tariff. A luxury tariff
would break three-fourths of the
trusts and cripple the balance. The
country needs salvation and it will
be sweet the same no matter what
political party brings it
Antlers (I. T.5 News: Why should
not Mr. Hanna cry, "For God's sake,
hands off!" It is the iniquitous tariff
schedules which make men like him
millionaires at the expense of the
mass of the people. Of course he wants
"hands off' but what about the 'con
sumers who are plucked?
Monticello (la.) Times: Grover
Cleveland, when interviewed in regard
to. his candidacy for a third term, de
clined to give definite information in
regard to it If the gentleman or any
of his frlonds believe he can secure
the democratic nomination for the
presidency, time will dispel that de
lusion.
Sheridan (Ark.) Headlight: Some
of our democratic friends seem to things. How
think that the postofilce scandals at stand it?
wasnmgion win injure tne auramia-
Watertown (N. Y.) Re-Union: The
people will never know the extent of
rottenness in the postofilce depart
ment until there is a change in na
tional administration. A congres
sional investigation by a partisan re
publican majority will only smother
long will the people
Marshall (Mo.) Progress: The re
publican politicians are determined
that First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Robert J. Wynne shall be dis
missed. Naturally, it was Wynne who
uncovered the rottenness in the post
office department to the serious dis
comfiture of Charles Emory Smith,
Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Perry S. Heath
and other republican politicians.
Seneca (Kas.) Courier-Democrat: In
1868 the republican party declared in
the third plank of its platform that
"it is due to the labor of .the nation
that taxation should be equalized and
reduced as rapidly as the national faith
will permit" In the light of thaj par
ty's high tariff, standing army and
navy building schemes this old plank
makes mighty interesting reading at
this day and age.
Preston (Minn.) Republican: The
plute organs now say Grover Cleve
land has uncovered liis desire to again
enter the presidential race. This in
dicates confidence among the imper
ialist "reorganizes" that they will be
able to control the next democratic
national convention. If they do true
Americanism will rapidly go to the
front supported by the awakened con
science of the masses.
Adrian (Mich.) Press: The demo
crats of Putnam county, Ohio, are true
blue. In convention lately they de
clared that "wo need ho reorganiza
tion, and to prevent misunderstandings
wa declare with emphasis that no man
known to have been disloyal to the
party shall ever lead us In any cam
paigns." That's the "stuff." There is
no mistaking that trumpet blast. It
is clear and plain. Good for Putnam
county.
And then the national bankers would
have us sure!
Rawlins (Wyo.) Journal: Tho
stench which arises from tho postal
investigation becomes more and more
unbearable as the probe sinks Into tho
mire. No wonder our republican
friends a're anxious to have us stop
talking about it But, like Banquo'a
ghost, it won't down, and each day
the disclosures are besmirching men
of high office.
Haskell (Tex.) Free Press: It is
the intention of the would-be reorgan
izes Of the democratic party, if they
get control of the situation, to make
it so nearly like the republican party
that the trust magnates and benefic
iaries of private grafts "would as read
ily accept one as the other. Put on
that basis, one party could be used as
a threat and buffer to the other by tho
raiders. While the peoplewhy, let
the people go to tho devil!
Watkins.(N. Y.) Review: A former
republican administration made a mis
erable bluff at prosecuting the men in
volved in the old whisky ring and the
star route frauds. May not the pres
ent postal inquiry also be a mere
play to the galleries for political ef
fect?' The people are not overstocked
with confidence in republican prom
ises, after a republican administration
denied to three territories tho state
hood that was promised in two suc
cessive national platforms!
Mount Holly (N. J.) Democrat?
What the democratic party wants to
do is to absolutely destroy the trusts
not the corporations; but thoso
great illegal and immoral organiza
tions banded together for the common
cause of rifling the purse of the people,
debauching legislative morals and
frustrating the will of the people. This
is what the democratic party is
pledged to do, if entrusted with pow
er. And this is what is bound to
come, when the democratic party no
longer occupies its present humble position.
tration. Don't fool yourself., If such
had been tho case tho republican party
would have been dead long ago.
Eaton (0.) Democrat: Report has
it that Myron T. Herrick, the repub
lican nominee for governor, earned his
first monoy by driving cows to pas
ture. Here is a good example of the
Stillwater (Okla.) Advance: Will
wo follow the leadership of gold-bug
leaders though they have the "sour
mash" brand blown In on the hottle,
and by so doing assist In crucifying la
bor on a cross of gold? Not much
Mary Ann. We proposo to stand by
the platforms of Jefferson. Jackson.
Tilden, and Bryan. ' Tho principles for
Mankato (Minn.) Journal: Charles
N. Fowler of New Jersey, the author
of the Fowler banking bill, one of the
most outrageous bills ever proposed,
was a speaker before the state asso
ciation of bankers which met in St
Paul this week. Among other things
he said In his address was: "Tho
bankers themselves, rather than the
professional politicians and theorists,
should draft banking laws." That's a
capital idea. Why not let the doctors
draft their own laws, the same as the
lawyers, publishers and every other
Interest? Fowler and his like would
make tho issuance of money a pri
vate function, and relieve Uncle Sam
fact that the irony of fate is no re-j which they stood are eternal;, they from all , responsibility in tho matter. J dom, and of imperialism.
Boone (la.) Democrat: For brazen
effrontery and wanton insult, the re
cent editorial in the Chicago Chronicle
under the caption, "Bryan's Impudence
Rebuked," takes the cake. For years
the Chronicle has persistently knifed
every democratic measure and every
democratic -candidate in state or na
tional campaigns. For such a sheet
as that to wantonly impugn the mo
tives and purposes of Mr. Bryan, is
more than any honest democrat can
tear with equanimity. It says "the
gentleman from Nebraska has insisted
upon and commanded perpetual reaf
firmation of the platforms on wnicn
he made his disgraceful campaigns in
1896 and 1900." We submit to tho
decent, intelligent citizen regardless
of party, if those were -disgraceful
campaigns. If they were not fought!
cut with the purest motives and on
the highest plane of the best interests
of humanity. Wo also submit that,
had it not been for such traitorous
vermin as the. Chronicle and others or
ifs ilk among the daily press of the
country, subsidized to and controlled
body and soul, by the gigantic and
corrupt corporate" interests of the
country, ho would have been triumph
antly elected, and the country would
have been saved from the twin cursea
of commercialism and industrial sen.
!! -ip'-atig.-