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The Commoner
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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb
.Victory in the skirmish of 1906 presages vic-
-yVV'tory-in the battle of 1908.
Republican music since the Maine election
has been of the cemetery whistle, kind.
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The Boston & Maine railroad seems to have
J .run over . Winston Churchill at the : crossing. -
? ..For "Winston Churchill the crisis seems to
have come rather" early in' the political game!
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W trenched hordes of privilege all along the .line.
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,v"In Maine Before: 'The issue is, Roosevelt"
in!' Maine After: "The issues, were wholly ' local!"
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- '' Mr. Taf t said that Ropsevelt was the issue
in Maine. But that was before the Maine election.
Mr. Odell ' should have' opposed President
Roosevelt and come in for an endorsement a la
Foraker and Dick.
Defeated Candidate Perkins has made up his
toind that Editor Perkins can not support Gov-,
ernor Cummins.
During Secretary Loeb's hunting trip in the
west who is to do the vicarious sacrificing tor
the White House?
The nV r republicans get to democratic
principles the more they can boast of 'doing some
thing for the people.
The most active proselyters for government
ownership are the railroad magnates who ignore
the interests of the public.
Republican prospects in Kansas have grown
so dismal that the Kansas City Journal has resur
rected the "bloody shirt" issue.
Ohio republicans stood by Roosevelt by endorsing-the
two senators who were most active in
opposition to the Roosevelt policies.
If General Funston goes to Cuba it will no
longer be difficult to name the "logical candidate"
for the republican nomination for president in
Mr Littlefleld still claims that Mr. Gomners
none V Bllt lfc ls WSSt
SfZno me ot?ef rePubcan congressional can
d dates w 11 seek to have Mr. Gompers enter their
districts in opposition.
Pittsburg scandals have not been numerously
mentioned in the daily papers of late. They may
have become too numerous to be .classed as . real
news.
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Novelist Churchill lost out in his political
game, but he doubtless has plenty of material for
a political novel under the title of "The Cowcatcher."
In the multiplicity of endorsement given by
the Ohio republican convention, why was the erst
while lieutenant of Dick and Foraker, "Boss" Cox, .
overlooked? " "
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An exchange says that Mr. Rockefeller Is "try
ing to pat the public on the back." But how can
Mr. Rockefeller do it and keep both of his hands
in the public's pockets? .
The papers are talking, about a Philadelphia
man who has been asleep for eight days. What
excellent material for director of a Philadelphia
bank and trust company.
Senator Long complains that Senator LaFol
lette violated "senatorial courtesy" in Kansas.
Senatorial courtesy has been responsible for a
lot of senatorial corruption.
The republican managers are frightened.
They show Indications of revising their campaign
cry of "stand by Roosevelt" and making it "Re
member the Maine election!" ,
It seems that Senator LaFollette violated the
rules of senatorial courtesy by going down into
Kansas and telling the people how Senator Long
voted on a lot of important questions.
Ohio republicans performed the feat of en
dorsing the president and the two Ohio senators,
an acrobatic stunt that ought to draw a big
bunch, of money on the vaudeville circuit.
"Do we want to annex Cuba?" is a question
being discussed in various newspapers. The an
,swer depends oh whether the tobacco and sugar
trusts will profit more by annexation than by independence.
Republican "harmony" is illustrated' by the
refusal of the republican nominee for governor to
'imake the race in Colorado. The brilliancy' of
republican prospects in Colorado ls also evidenceld
by the -refusal.
With democratic majorities Increased in. dem
ocratic states and republican majorities decreased
in republican states, the outlook for the bene
ficiaries of the "stand pat" theory is not so bright
as it might be.
"It would be a sorry day if labor should be
entirely ignored by capital," says the Cedar
Rapids Gazette. Doubtless that is true, but not
nearly so sorry if capital should undertake to get
along without labor.
Between the returns from Maine and the
returns from Arkansas the g. o. p. leaders see the
necessity of dropping the "dollar fund" plan and
falling back on the well-tried and long established
campaign of "fat frying."
Speaker Cannon's new campaign cry, "put
nothing but home-made cake in the pantry, re
calls the reply of the French queen who, when
told that the people -were crying for bread, said:
"Why don't they eat cake?"
Workingmen who have built homes during the
last few years have contributed more than their
Share towards financing the g. o. p. campaigns,
by feeding fat the tariff trusts that depend upon
the republican party for their existence.
The trust attorneys and subsidized editors
who rushed to Mr. Bryan as a refuge from the
"radicalism" of- Roosevelt are now looking for
new cover. Why don't they bring out one of their
own kind and make an open fight in favor of pre
datory wealth?
The treasury department is buying silver and
the purchase Is causing the price to go up. This
is calculated to make trouble for those organs
that always insisted that the law of supply and
demand always ceased to operate when it struck
the white metal,
The announcement of the news from Maine
was followed by the announcement that a repre
sentative of the republican congressional com
mittee would visit the departments' at Washing
ton and take up a "voluntary contribution for
the campaign fund."
The man' elected governor in Colorado this
fall will be seated and serve out. his term if ho
lives. Democrats would not turn a trick like the
republicans turned on Governor Adams two years
ago, and democrats will not stand for a second
turning of that trick.
The New York Times is so anxious to make
the tariff the issue now that it spends its time
denying that government ownership -Vk&U
Hiate remedy. And 'it is so anxi&us toat fpugfirp
party that it fills its columns with abuse and mis
representation of all who differ from it.
- The New York Times will help the demo
cratic party more by Its opposition than it could
by its support, because it could not make an argu
ment to justify its support of the party without
setting forth reasons which would alienate more
voters than its influence could draw to the party.
A careful reading of the editorials of thoso
who think the mere suggestion of government
ownership a bar to democratic success will dis
close the fact that they are written largely by
editors who promised the party success two years
ago on condition that it would retreat from its
position of 1896 and 1900.
"Put nothing but home-made cake in the
pantry," says Speaker Cannon in a weak at
tempt to get up a fetching campaign cry. He
doesn't say so, but Speaker Cannon means to
have all the preserves, jellies, jams, fruit, etc.,
stored, in the cellars of the corporationists he so
deftly and willingly serves.
A Sidney, la., man was recently sentenced
to the penitentiary for a year for stealing two
-cherry pies. Men who have stolen railroads, coal
lands, timber lands and millions of money are
still "captains of finance" and "defenders of na
tional honor." If there is any moral to this it
Ib, "don't be so foolish as to steal mere pies."
Some of the admirers of the late Senator
George F. Hoar who point with pride to the
republican- party's policy in the Orient may be
interested in a letter which Senator Hoar wrote
to Mr. W. S, Ryan of Indianapolis, February
26, 1900. In that letter Senator Hoar said: "I
have your letter of February 24, for which I am
much obliged to you. The thought had already
occurred to me that Aaron Burr is probably the
only statesman of our earlier days who would
haye tolerated for a moment this policy of con
quest and Imperialism in which we are now embarked."
The day has gone by when political platform
makers can trifle with the intelligence of the
people. The Chicago Record-Herald, (Rep.) re
ferring to the platform adopted-by the Ohio re
publicans says:- "The platform, if it means any
thing, means this that it is dangerous tb elect
democrats because they are presumptively op
posed to the president's policies, but that it is
not at all dangerous or paradoxical to encourage,
praise and elect republicans who are actually and
notoriously out of sympathy with the president.
This 'idea' will hardly 'take' in Ohio."
As this copy of The Commoner may be read
by some one not familiar with the details of the
primary pledge plan, it is necessary to say that
according to the terms of this plan every demo
crat is asked to pledge himself to attend all of
the primaries, of his party to be held between
now and the next democratic national convention,
unless unavoidably prevented, and to secure a
clear, honest and straight-forward declaration of
the party's position on every question upon which
"the voters of the party desire to speak. Those
desiring to be enrolled can either write to The
Commoner approving the object of the organiza
tion and asking to have their names entered on
the roll, or they can fill out and mail the blank
pledge, which: is printed on page 12.
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