SEPTEMBER 4, 1903.
est heart of Lincoln thought that any
one act, save the surrender of Leo at
Appomattox, gave him so much pleas
ure. Taking his cue from the Lord, Lin
coln loved the common people and It
was because of his love for them that
ii. the closing days of his life he said:
"Sometimes when I think of the rap
id accumulations of great privale for
tunes that have gone on since the war
began, I fear for the future of my
country."
T.ook at Rockefeller, the billion
aire; Carnegie, the half-billionaire;
5.000 other millionaires and multi
millionaires, every mother's son of
them nursing at the breast of the
tloated, dissipated old republican par
ty, and then talk about holding a cele
bration "under the oaks at Jackson,"
to commemorate the founding of the
"party of Lincoln."
Bah!
Keep away from the oaks, of Jack
son, you mumbling hypocrites who al
most soil the name of Lincoln when
5ou speak it; turn aside your faces if
unnappy cnance should ever lead yoi
i.ear the silent tomb by the Sanga
rion; and if you must celebrate the
semi-centennial of the founding of the
republican party, let the body of the
party be taken where its spirit is to
the gold-glutted street called Wall.
Then call upon the great and glor
ious Morgan, if you like, to fall on his
fcnees on the pavement that he could
resurface with gold, if he pleased, and
thank his lucky stars that a republican
party was founded that in the days of
its degeneracy placed so high a tariff
on steel that the various plants could
afford to pay him $200,000,000 fo com
bining them in a trust..
All wrung from the American people.
And when he is through, let John D:
Rockefeller tell how the kindness of
lepublican administrations in hot
Fending him to the penitentiary .when
he was forming the criminal, plunder
ing Standard Oil company, and con
tinued kindness of the same sort dur
ing all the intervening years, have
enabled him to advance from a clerk
chip to a billionaire's estate since
1873.
All at the expense of the American
people.
Gather, i you like, all the little
plunderers that are pillaging under
the protection of the republican party
and call upon them to sing paeans of
praise to the political harlot that
fciings them their money. t
Do all of these things, and more, if
you like; but in the name of Lincoln,
in the name of the common people
vhom he would not stand idly by and
see you plunder if he were living, in
the name of common decency, hold
your celebration, if you must have one,
in Wall street and not in Jackson..
Better still, drop the whole under
taking. The republican party, like a
ouce-pure woman, had best be silent
about its past. Such contrasts are for
tJie heart to feelnot for the tongue
to utter. Detroit Times.
Long Prairie (Minn.) Democrat: The
St. Cloud Times don't seem to like Hin
attitude of William J. Bryan in his
"ijpusiuon 10 me eastern wing of tno
party in trying to get control of the
organization, and adds: "We opine
that the democratic party, and not the
'reorganizers,' nor Mr. Bryan, either,
JJJH dominate the next convention."
well, Bro. Mac, If the democratic par
ty really does run the next conven
tion you won't hear any kicks from
Bryan or any other western democrat
o- the rank and file. What the real
democrats of the country are trying
to do is to keep the organization right
Jnere it is in the hands of democrats
that can be trusted.
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