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The Commoner.
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VOLUME 4. NUMBER 5,
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Jefferson City (Mo.) Democrat: Did
you over hear of a boodlor being sent
to the penitentiary on a technicality?
Manson (la.) Democrat: The anti
toxin trust is tho latest. It will
sooner or later havo some heavy
" stockholders in hell.
Frankfort (Ind.) Standard; Har
mony? Why, of course, harmony with
a big II, but tho tail shouldn't pre
sume to wag tlie dog.
Clinton (N. J.) Democrat: Stand
by tho solid rock of principle! Moot
- issues as they come. The American
people, as a mass, are not "quitters."
Paulding (0.) Domocrat: Unless
someono is actually punished soon in
tho postal frauds case tho people will
consider tho republican campaign a
farce.
Whatcom (Wash.) Blade: The re
publican party bolioves in advocating
anything that will lead to temporary
success, changing base as often as is
deemed expedient.
Jackson (Cal.) Dispatch: It begins
to look as though tho republicans are
producing more scandals and frauds
than they will bo able to hide from
tho peoplo during tho coming cam
paign. Sholbyvillo (111.) Leader: it begins
to look as If tho patriots who want to
nominnto a ticket "satisfactory to Wall
stroot" would havo to fall back upon
the grand old partyotto of Palmer and
Bucknor.
Alma (0.) Democrat: Down with the
gang of remorganizors and their bat
tlo cry of "anything to win.'' If we
are to bo dominated by the Wall
otreot gamblers and sharks, lot the
party of trusts keep tho Job.
Lima (0.) Times-Democrat: Machen
should bo given a place on the republi
can national committee. Perry Heath
says ho is a talented man, and that
Is what tho committee will need as
much, if not more, than mnnn h,j0
year. J
Itockvillo (Ind.) Tribune: Look out
for tho democrat who is opposed to
men and policies to which republicans
aro also most bitterly opposed. There
s something wrong wuh democracy
that is in harmony with republican
opinion.
N Woodsflold (0.) Spirit of Democ
racy: By a "gloiious diplomatic tri
umph we secured open ports at An
tung and Mukden, it turns out that
to reach them with vessels we must
dig canals. We aro great on canals.
Lot Russia beware.
Auburn (Nob.) Granger: If Presi
dent Roosovolt hadn't been a perfect
trust smasher we would have trusts
In our fair land at the present time.
lY mthankful th0 peonl sh0"ld bo
that Toddy brained tho trusts on the
spot. Nipped tho evil in tho bud.
Frankfort (Ind.) Standard: Let's
see: The tin plate trust was one to
which tho republicans "pointed with
prldo as a good trust. Query: Will
all good trusts cut wages 50 per cent
right In two in tho middlo as tho
tin plate bosses havo done?
Fostoria (0.) Times: County and
state officers, corporations, politicians,
grafters and cranks aro ail organized
into associations to promote legisla-
vwu lu respective Interests.
Next thing the taxpayers will take a
notion to organize; then look out.
Emmettsburg (la.) Domocrat: Why
should democrats think for a moment
of nominating a man for president
who is inclined to serve the corpora
tions instead of tho people? Demo
cratic triumph should mean far more
than the possession of tho offices.
Lamar (Mo.) Leader: The battle
is between the people on one side and
organized greed on the other. There
can be no compromise between these
two forces, not at least until the Gold
en Rule shall be observed by all men.
Better defeat than compromise with
dishonor. We believe the Kansas City
platform should be reafflrmea.
Yukon (0. T.) Sun: We don't be
lieve the democratic convention could
bo persuaded or forced into nominat
ing an extreme gold democrat for tho
presidency, nor bluffed into repudiat
ing the Kansas City platform. But
we do believe that a candiaate s ill
be nominated and a platform adopted
that will command the earnest sup
port of all democrats, and republicans
who are tired of the spasmodic Mr.
Roosevelt.
Jackson (0.) Herald: The reorgan
izes aro always going back to "sane"
democracy, but nobody has yet been
found who was capable of telling just
what or where that would bo. On the
other hand the real and loyal demo
crats aro facing the future. They
mean to hold on to all that was good
in tho past and grapple with tho new
questions that have arisen in recent
years. l
Sulphur Springs (Tex.) Democrat:
LrCftUrn t0 clovelanlism means more
trusts more bonds, asset currency and
the enthronement of a monied aristcc-
rfSUS ?,ce free renub"e and the
fastening on the limbs of a tree peo
ple the fetters of a galling despotism.
A continuance of the republican parly
flvorwnn3 llofBamP thing, for both
favor Wall street and the money trust
the father, promoter and protector of
Jill rlio nnrtilU. i .i
Wilmington (Del.) Jeffersonian:
Wages aro down; the cost of HvinR is
up; workingmon out of employment
have difficulty in finding jobs; the
trusts control the republican party
and that party "stands pat." Will not
TStelS? enOUh Intelligence
this fan to yoto the democratic ticket'
Why should a workingman, who has
formerly voted tho republican Ucke?
permit partisanship to lead him in
vote against his own interests in favo?
of the party coht.olled by the "rusts?
Toledo (111.) Demoorit. a.,
Colonel lenry Person boa?
nounces that tho platform of 1806 and
1900 caused the overwhelming defeat
of democracy, if We recall f1 aeusat
correctly thS colonel boTt'iaXTnm
Cleveland, are always at the w
giving advice, but we hrtSU i? ont'
candidate shnii i, - 'uac. before
" w" "ummated he
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shall have received a two-thirds vote
of the entire delegation making up the
convention. Suppose, for argument's
sake, the reorganizes have a major-.
ity in tho convention: even then they
cannot nominate, and the nominee
will have to be acceptable to tho west
ern democracy before he receives a
two-thirds vote.
Rawlins (Wyo.) Journal: The
Cleveland wing of the democratic par
ty is a small one. It is composed of
men who sulk in their tents when a
candidate is nominated of whom they
do not approve, as well as some who
openly vote with the enemy. They
are not the men who are ready to do
and dare for the party, and 'while true
democrats will welcome them back to
the party if they come prepared to
fight for the principles of democracy,
they are very much mistaken if they
believe that the party will again be
surrendered into their keeping until
they have shown that they are once
more democrats.
Phillipsburg (Kas.) Post:- The re
publican party cannot elect any can
didate for president without a big
campaign fund. It never has. It
never will. Their resources in the
past has been in selling out to the
trusts and large manufacturing inter
ests, taking their money and promis
ing them immunity in legislation. Its
resources in the future will be the
same. While directly this money
comes from the trusts, indirectly and
in the end it is extracted from the
people who are compelled to pay ex
orbitant prices for all goods which
these monopolies control. Eliminate
the trusts and living will be easy,
Jackson (Tonn.) Dispatch: But we
deny that these bolters should now ask
the democratic party to truckle at
their feet and give them the best posi
tions at its command. No man who
refused to vote for the democratic
nominees in 1896 and 1900 should -be
nominated for the presidency. Nor
should any man be sent as a delegate
to the national democratic conven
tion who has not been loyal to his
party s nominees. Traitors to the party
nosf nfbtLma:V feel the heIno"s
should receive tho reward of con
stancy and zeal in their country's
guard. nne but demcrats on
Franklin (Tenn.) News: Mr 01
noy has taken himself out of the' run-
eve? ifnritPreAtnt' lndeed' he
ever m it. A man that has no more
polltlca sagacity than to try to revive
a Cleveland boom at a harmony ban-
that hea?ly V'nces two facts: FIx5
that he has not that broad concon
ion of public sentiment so necessarv
SfflSeTX TZT beCme K3
Partyt0 pleaseelluSkr
statdVavTUraCtrat: Under"
Posed to the isthmn ts ar, not P"
are in doubt s ?o Hnabut we
obtain It. We wl ? & to
We do not wantTn L ? dou m
to it becaW we lv$ly anybody '
do it. itTouTd be wng ?nouSk to
big ruffian to invadifl118 faIr for a
mvaae the promises of
a weak neighbor and take the choice
of his garden and then threaten him
with a beating- if he resented it
That's all there is in it. There is a'
legal way to obtain what you want
If a neighbor ton't want to sell a val
uable horse or piece of ground you
have no right to get up a combination
to jump it and take it away from
him whether he will or no. What bei
comes of law and equity if you do
this? Wherein aro the rights of na
tions? Rawlins (WyoO Journal: In an at
tempt to help along tho Roosevelt
boom an eastern writer says that peo
ple who are opposing him do so be
cause they fear him and do not know ,
what to expect next. The statement '
is true, but not ,in the Way in which
the writer intended it. It is true that
no one knows what to expect next
from a man who shouts loudly against
the trusts and retains in office an at
torney general whose .only indorsers
are the trust magnates a man who
instead of using the monoy appro
priated by congress for the prosecu
tion of criminal trusts is using it and
the power of his office to protect the
men he is supposed to prosecute. It
is also truo that the people fear aim
because of his own statement that
words not backed by deeds are mean
ingless, when he is himself addicted
to the habit of using, lots of words and
carefully avoiding fpllovring them up
with deeds. " ' .
Bryan Confirmed..
The American this morning repels
with indignation the statement made
by Mr. Bryan that the democratic
committee in New York and Indiana
spent $1,000,000 in those states m
3892 ,and that one trust contributed
$175,000 to the democratic campaign
fund. It quotes the emphatic denial
of Mr. Harrity, the chairman of the
national committee, in 1892, and as
sumes that this clears the election of
Cleveland from any taint of corrup
tion. The Washington Post points
out that Mr. Harrity, while denying
the correctness of the figures used by
Mr. Bryan, was careful toot to say
that nothing was contributed to the
campaign fund by the trusts, and it
adds:
'No well-informed democrat, and
certainly no democrat who took a
prominent part in tho management
of that campaign, has denied, or is go
ing to deny, that the money was
solicited from the sugar trust, and
was received by the management of
the second Cleveland "campaign. Mr.
Harrity says: 'Why, the' total cam
paign fund was not greatly in excess
of the amount he names. As for ono
trust giving $175,000, why that s too
extravagant a romark to discu&s.
There was no contribution to the
campaign fund that "came anywhere
near Mr. Bryan's figures.'
"Mr. Harrity- very carefully abstains
from denying. He simply says that
no trust gave so much as $175,000. in
telligent democrats have long, known
that their party's record on the trust
question contained this incident. And
they have known that tho incident
was further ombelljahed by ft ichedule
in the tariff of 1894Trectprocating that
contribution,"
This Is a confirmation of the general
truth of Mr. Bryan's statement, which
will far outweigh the prejudiced and
partial utterances of . tho NashviU
American. Nashville. .News.
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