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THE COMMONER, Llaaela, Nafr.
Evansvillo and Kishineff seem to havb trotted
a dead heat"
"Reorganization" is the shibboleth of the
disintegrators.
Of course the Iowa idea about revising the
tariff is to revise it up.
The "Iowa idea" might try rusticating with
iho "Babcock idea" for company.
Mr. Heath evidently believes that his health
will bo benefited by "absent treatment."
Organize a democratic club in your precinct
and got ready for the battle of 1904. '-t
Postmaster General Payne's explanatory de
partment is running "hot in its journals."
Governor Pennypacker's silence indicates that
ho has sent a wh e flag to the cartoonists.
, Governor Cummins has used the "Iowa idea"
as a ground wire for his vice presidential boom.
Young Mr. Rockefeller says he prays for
light and gets it. But he charges us 20 cents a
gallon.
The Berlin professor who declares that alco
hol is the. source of life Bhould throw his reverse
lever. I
Attorney General Knox might endthe postal
scandal by getting out an injunction against the
"grafters."' ;
The shipbuilding trust made the mistake of
putting the water into its stock instead of undor
.its product. s
rhe Commoner.
' The democratic platfqrm that meets with the
approval of republican leaders and organs Is in
need of some extensive repairs. ;
Perhaps those postofflco officials made ef-
forts to secure an increase in salary merely .as
a means of distracting attention.
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It is. not surprising that most of the republi
can organs criticise Mr. Bryan for his remarks
upon the Iowa democratic platform.
Of course Russia is in Manchuria for the pur
pose of doing for the "Manchurians all consistent
with their welfare and Russia's duty.
,-Every time Governor Durbin expresses a h'igh
regard for law and justice ex-Governor Taylor
winks his eye, and snuggles up closer.
It develops that most of the negroes involved
in the Evansvillo riots were imported for voting
purposes by the republican managers.
The genuine "Iowa idea" seems to be to keep
in close connction with the gentleman who dis
tributes the fat secured by the fryingpan. ,
The "Subscribers' Advertising Department"
offers exceptional opportunities to Commoner
readers who want to offer or secure bargains.
Those Sulu slaves who have the blessed .priv
ilege of purchasing their freedom at "the usual
market price," might try forwarding a protest
Concerted attacks upon Mr. Bristow will not
draw public attention from the administration's
failure to act promptly upon Mr. Tulloch's charges.
Temporary defeat in a fight for 'the right is
preferable to a hollow victory on a meaningless
.platform.
Th.o pump ucod by the Brooklyn Eagle in in-v
flating the Cleveland boom seems to be working
with a reversed valve.
Mr. Hanna's campaign slogan of "Hands off"
is vociferously echoed by certain gentlemen in the
postofflco department.
"Turn the rascals out" is a pretty good cam
paign slogan, but it must not degenerate into
-'Turn the rascals loose."
It seems that the "negro question" has slopped
over, to the northward side of the once famous
Mason and Dixon line.
Of course ox-Governor Taylor from Kentucky
is filled with sorrow because of that Evansville
mob's disregard of law.
Mr. Cleveland still poses In the attitude of a
man who is quite willing if the people insist, but
is fearful lest they will not
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 27,
Governor Durbin of Indiana is rusticatinK in
Yellowstone park. In the meantime ex-Go
Taylor is sticking pretty close to Indiana soi
' , Everv time tho Chinnvm nv.-i- ... .
editorial telling what It conceives to be w
democracy," the editorial is printed with
-proval by the leading republican organs.
Is it possible that President Roosevelt's Rin
ness to act in the postoffice corruption case? la
due to his fear of the pillar pulling ability of tho
men who occupy the g. o. p. temple?
Does anybody expect prosecution of the noau
office rascals at the hands of an administration
that owes its existence to the ssheming abilitv oS
the men responsible for those rascals?
Charles Eliot Norton says the literary center
of the country has shifted from Boston to Phila
delphia. The statement is calculated to cause a
feeling of disgust in the shadow of Princeton.
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There is a big "guessing contest" on in Wash-.
ington. Those engaged are guessing whether they
will be jailed or permitted to go after making a
- few feints at the pillars of the republican temple.
If there is not a working democratic club in
your precinct, go to work and organize one. A
little work on the part of each loyal democrat will
result in frustrating the plans the reorganizes
have for 1904.
The organs .hat pretend not to know Judge
Walter Clark are not belittling Judge Clark they
are merely exposing their own fatuous ignorance.
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Governor Durbin of Indiana has his . hands
full these days protecting Taylor and Finley from
justice and Evansville criminals Irom mob law.
The Wall Street Journal complains because?
Speaker-to-be Cannon declares that no financial
legislation is needed. Is it possible that the Wall
Street Journal has not heard that the mones
question is a dead issue?
President Roosevelt's cablegram to Manila
was sent in four minutes, but the time was ample
for all he had to say concerning the Philippine
problem.
Doubtless Perry Heath will recover his h'ealth
simultaneously with the successful smothering of
the charges of corruption in the postal department
Andrew D. White wants the colleges to train
young men for cfficeholding. This would bo all
right if the colleges could devise some method
of keeping the office-seekers' out of the way ofi
their trained young men.
The rumor that Mr. Hanna was to retire from
business in order to devote his entire time to
politics is unfounded. Mr. Hanna finds it diffi
cult business to handle his politics since Tom
Johnson camped on his trail.
Postmaster Ceneral Payne tries to make the
postal scandal appear as third-class matter, but
it is proving a first-class bunch of trouble for
the administration.
Of course the republican managers believe in
reciprocity they favor giving the trusts anything
they want providing the trusts will put up the
sinews of war.
Joseph Chamberlain is slowly coming to a
realization of the fact that ho has an up-hill job
of it trying to convince the BritiBh consumer that
the foreigner pays the tax.
There should be -enough difference between
democratic and republican platforms to render
unnecessary plans and specifications for the
proper designation of each.
Editor Charles Emory Smith has succeeded
in giving ex-Postmaster General Charles Emory
Smith a clean bill of health. This may be satis
factory to the editor and ex-postmaster general,
but the people want something more.
The San Francisco Star has just celebrated its
twentieth anniversary. The Star lives because it
has a mission Jo perform, and it is performing
it valiantly. As a champion- of democracy the
Star stands well up at the head of the list.
t President Roosevelt is reported as believing
that it is not now necessary to send that protest
to Russia, its agitation having been- sufficient
Let's see; what states have selected their delegates
to the 1904 republican national convention?
The address delivered by Hon. Howard S.
Taylor at the Fourth of July celebration under the
auspices of the Fairview Jefferson club is printed
in full in this Issue. It is worthy the careful con
sideration of every thoughtful " and patriot!!
citizen.
Of course Emperor William could not restrain
his cheers when he discovered that the American
navy was not just what Lieutenant Potts ap
peared to represent it
A proniinent army physician declares that
the American officers who remain on duty in tho
Philippines for a year are subject to mental and
physical deterioration. And this republic suffers
from moral deterioration while it keeps them
over there.
Suppose we allow the national convention to
nominate a vice president," suggests the urbano
Mr. Piatt of New York. To be sure, out in tho
meantime the proper g. o. p. authorities will see
to it that the proper selection is made for tho
convention.
If tho Nashville American has had tho cour
age to. give the names of its principal stockholders
and the party affiliations of its editors, the copy
of tho American containing the same failed to
arrive at The Commoner office. Is tho Nashville
American afraid to speak out?
If Secretary Moody is so awfully insistent
upon investigations he might investigate that lit
tle, matter of the tons of smokeless powder dumped
into tho ocean from an American warsuip. If
this will not keep him busy ho might put in the
rest of his time investigating the army transport
purchases during tho lato scrimmage with Spain.
It is reported from the east that woodpeck
ers are deceived by tho humming wires and are
attacking the telephone" poles. They mistaketho
buzzing of the wires for tho buzzing of insects.
Those woodpecicers remind one of those repub
licans who believe in tariff revision and cling to
the notion that the men who control the republic
can party will allow the tariff to be re-vised.
Tho "whisky ring,' tho "star Toute" scan
dais and tho postofflco rascality Tecently uncov
ered all occured under republican administrations.
The first two were not exposed and the perpetrat
ors punished until a democratic congress toolc
hold. There is a lesson in this for those who
would have the present postoffice scandal probed
to the bottom and all" the guilty participant
punished.
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