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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
Every John D. Rockcf oiler 1ms his Day.
Tho flrBt stop in tho revision of the tariff
will bo a very thorough revision of congress.
,i
Ico King Morso will now need a lot of his
cornered product to cool his heated indignation.
Mr. Stillings will have to secure an election
to congress before ho can got another leave to
print.
In tho meantime recruits for tho "army of a
million" will always find tho recruiting station
open.
Mark Twain has been in Bermuda, prob
ably on tho scent of some of that badly invested
money.
Tho way to win tho battle for 1908 is for
tho forces of democracy to begin now Organize!
A Michigan justice has decided that "a sau
bark nitB,luslieo-" Tlmt ,s th0 word, with the
1 ho report that tho republican party in
Florida is divided must, In tho very nature
or tilings, bo very much exaggerated.
vi "S0t ? M('SQ. cont f0nd." says the Now
York Evening Post. How much more gracoful
and polito that is than the usual expression
The Ananias clubs havo received a largo
number of editorial recruits since the prefi
Foulko February 10 to William Dudley
Tho latest announced International mar
riage Is declared to be a lovo match. Of com-se
dolVrT3 tU UU0 aUd h l0Ves th0 Aeu
A Now York paper gleefully mentions the
day in which tho Now York market reached to
mark? elJf "' f tU now year "ate?
sotted fflBnrffiS founVole?1-
expofir s wlnM.r izizr
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The Commoner.
Colonol John Temple Graves declares that
"women should- receivo men's wages." Wo
know one woman who receives a man's wages.
Tho election of George Ado as a delegate
to the Chicago convention must not bo taken as
tin indication that former republican platforms
were not fables.
The attempt to prove that the poet Long
follow was a plagiarist merely emphasizes tho
fact that wo would all feel better if a lot of
poets would not attempt to bo so original.
"Shall tho democratic party die?" plain
tively queries tho New York World. Having
survived the World's blackjack and poniard tho
evidences of longevity are very gratifying.
President Roosevelt's latest public uttor
ance recalled to mind and view tho name and
features of William Dudley Foulke. Mr. Foulke
still wears the same puff tie and minute goatee.
Every time a republican organ claims that
its party will carry Missouri this year, 75,000
Missouri democrats who forgot to vote four
years ago wink 75,000 left optics and snicker
audibly.
By holding down wages to the starvation
point the Pullman company Is enabled to make
such large profits that it can give its employes
a month's wages as a matter of "generosity"
and "charity."
Tho attention of the Paragraphers' Union
is called to section 13, article 23. Observance
of the rule therein laid down will put an imme
diate stop to this R. E. Morse gag concerning
the return of C. W. Morse.
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 6
President Roosevelt appointed Mr. Rossiter
as "acting public printer," and Secretary Cor
telyou refused to accept the Rossiter bond, thus
compelling tho naming of another man. The
Cortelyou big stick must be reckoned with, too.
The Japanese minister of finance is said to
have made a mistake of $20,000,000 in his
budget. This would seem to indicate that tho
Japanese minister of finance was a newspaper
roporter before he accepted a public office.
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A WORD OP CONGRATULATION
Mr. Louis F. Post of the Public, published
at Chicago, 1447 First National Bank Building,
announced a few weeks a.go that the publication
of the Public could not be continued unless ho
received assurances of a larger support. He has
just announced that the responses to the appeal
were so generous as to assure the continuance
of the paper, and The Commoner hastens to con
gratulate him and his readers, who deserve even
heartier congratulations. Mr. Post is one of tho
ablest as well as one of the most conscientious
editors in the country, and the Public stands in
the front rank as a molder of public opinion. It
would be a loss to journalism if he were com
pelled to abandon his newspaper enterprise, and
The Commoner rejoices that the readers of the
Public are to have the benefit of his observations
and logic for at least another year. The Com
moner is pleased to bring Mr. Post's paper to
the attention of the reading public, and it can
assure any of The Commoner readers who may
be inclined to subscribe for the Public, that they
will not be disappointed in Mr. Post's writings.
The Public occupies a unique place and deserves
such an increase in its number of readers as to
give it a permanent place in the newspaper field.
CHAMP CLARK IN THE HOU5E
Speaking in the house on February 13
Champ Clark of Missouri described Mr.
Roosevelt as "such a belligerent personage that
his lightest word is a challenge to combat." Ac
cording to the Associated Press report Mr. Clark
said that Mr. Roosevelt could not express his
views upon any question under heaven, "even
upon a subject so prosaic and threadbare as
the passing of the state of the weather" without
precipitating a row, his extreme adherents
swearing that there never had been "such a
weather prophet on earth since Adam and Eve
were driven from the Garden of Eden with
flaming swords and his extreme enemies vocifer
ating that he knows no more about tho weather
than does a ground hog." The president's whole
public life, said Mr. Clark, had been one session
of spectacular fights. No man had been more
viciously assailed by men of his own party, "and
none was ever, while still in the flesh, so lavishly
lauded by some of the opposing party." "But "
ho said, "tho truth is that this extraordinary
man has waxed stronger and stronger by waging
his battles." Even defeat, he declared, had
made him a larger and more commanding figure
"So," he said, "amid the swirl of things the
dohige of words, the shouting of the captains
tho beating of tom-toms, the groans of crippled
republicans, the yells of friend and foe " one
who was a personal friend of Theodore Roose
volt, the man, but political opponent of Roose
velt, the politician or statesman, had "but little
chance perhaps of being heard in-this babel of
voices." Mr Clark, however, insisted that he
would have his say. He spoke of his personal
1 king or tho president, and said thut, although
after the manner of strong men, the president
had pronounced virtues and glaring faults of
character, he had never abused him nor had
ho grown hysterical in admiration of him but
ho had supported him when he was right ami
fought him "tooth and nail," when l l e 1
wrong He believes that was the way the presi
dent should be treated. "We must indeed "said
Mr Clark, "entertain contempt for the invei te
brate sycophants who grovel before him or all
occasions and who, no matter what he does
or says throw high their sweaty caps in tho
air and shout Io, triumphe, Io, triumphal' "
Mr. Clark spoke of the claim tw r
dent Roosevelt was botte? th i , fc Pref1"
"which fact," he estimated SSlyhliuidP&
established without running aiiv fmi? ?
danger of being translated after til Eminent
Elijah in a chariot c fir Thy eLnf?11 ,f
Ks iWlmt,Ver th l-oslSs0 v Suegsod;
laults, he Is not a democrat." Occasionally he
said, the president very much to the delight of
democrats and confusion of republicans, "ap
propriates or absorbs, borrows or seizes a demo
cratic idea'V and from his high coigne of van
tage urges it with tremendous force, for, ho
said, the president obeyed to the letter at least
one scriptural injunction: "Whatsoever thy hand
findeth to do, do iwith thy might." It was tho
heavy hand, or "big stick" of the president, he
declared that had driven so many republicans
"pell mell into the cave of Addulam where
there is weeping and Wailing and gnashing of
teeth and much profane swearing," and, he
added, "so far as he has advocated democratic
ideas, so far as ho has mauled wicked republi
cans with his mailed fist or thumped them with
his big stick, he has deserved the unstinted
praise of all lovers of our country." No one
knew, continued Mr. Clark, whether or not the
president was a great man. He quoted from
an old saying, "Count no man happy till he is
dead," and said it was a safe and sane rule to
pronounce no man great until he was in his
grave. "We have not enough perspective neces
sary to fix his status in history," he said, "and
it is sheer folly to attempt it." Individually
he wished the president well until March 4,
1909, when he hoped the president would quit
forever, "for no president will ever be elected
to a third term till the republic is on its last
legs." Everyone could be honest, he main
tained, even if he could not be great, "and," ho
added, "if you republican big wigs would bo
candid you would confess that you are not half
so much enamored of the president as you seem
to be. The republicans, he declared, grew red
in the face lauding the president to the skies,
for he s still the dispenser-in-chief of pie."
A republican statesman bereft of pie, said he,
was a spectacle to make the angels weep," but
ne said, when ho saw republicans trying to
apotheosize him by "mere lip service," it seemed
i , th, lady doth Protest too much. In con
S?n. r Clark said: "In the impending
connict I summon every democrat in all this
oroad land to service under the democratic ban
Sri? . democtic principles principles
which the immortal Jefferson enunciated, which
the heroic Jackson upheld and which are as dear
n !ief S of tlle peoille thls day as they were
nej5 a&?- lighting under that banner and
t?ni Z, princiPles we won fourteen presiden
anrt nl01n,Ut of thlrty and ca win again
e?erv Sfn? "? WG drlvo the publicans from
ernmonl tn ?,' PTr' therel)y restoring the gov
otic niSmthf0f?afe WlsG wholesome and patri-voutlblshei''1161,8-11
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