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The Commoner.
OCTOBER V, 1910
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of trado so far,, this year is against
the United States, but the opinion of
many students-of economics ia that
tho immense exports of foodstuffs
and manufactures which this coun
try will make this fall aro likely to
turn it in favor of the United States.
Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma,
and his co-defendants in tho Musko
geo town lot cases were discharged
by federal Judge Marshall sat Mc
Alester, Okla.
The story of the bribery of demo-
.cratlc members of tho Illinois legis
lature in connection with Senator
Lorimer's election is being retold
before the senate committee now in
session In Chicago.
A "Washington dispatch says: "In
1909 there were 2,854 homicides in
that portion of the United States cov
ered by death registry laws and in
tho same area 8,402 deaths due to
suicide. The figures aro supplied by
the census bureau's report on mor
tality and cover about 55 per cent
of the population There is an act
ual falling off of 149 in tho number
of homicides as compared with 1908,
while there is a decrease in the rate
of suicides as compared with popula
tion. The report also shows that ac
cidental deaths for 1909 resulting
from railroad injuries numbered
6,659 and those from drowning
4,558."
A Texas Platform
Poillot, tho aviator, was killed at
Charlas, France, while making a
flight with a passenger. Tho aero
plane in which the flight was made
dropped from a' height of ninety feet
when one of tho canvas wings collapsed.
Tho plant of the Genesseo Lum
ber company at Genessee, La., was
destroyed by fire. Tho loss is
$50,000.
Mrs. Frances Sankey, widow of the
late Ira D. Sankey, famous aB a sing
ing evangelist, died at her home In
Brooklyn at tho age of 71.
The Nashville American has been
bought by and consolidated with the
Nashville Tennessoan. A Nashvillo
dispatch says: "The Tennessean says
that it is democratic and always will
be, but will support B. W. 'Hooper,
republican and fusion candidate for
governor."
Senator LaFolletto went to Roch
, ester, Minnesota, to undergo an oper
ation. He has issued a statement in
which he denies that ,his physical
condition is serious.
Michael S. Link, another member
of the Illinois legislature, testified
before the senate Investigating com
mittee that he received $1,900 and
voted for Lorimer for senator.
Bolton, Texas, September 5, 1910.
Editor Tho Commoner: At, tho
request of a number of truo and
tried democrats I send you tho on
closed platform unanimously adopt
ed by tho TwentV-soventh senatorial
district convention, at Belton, August
27, 1910. If tho platform is not
truly democratic please point to tho
plank or the paragraph that Is not.
Yours for honesty in politics as well
as in all other things.
H. C. GHENT, M. D.
Following are tho resolutions
as adopted:
Your cojnmitteo on platform and
resolutions beg leave to submit the
following:
First As democrats of tho Twenty-seventh
senatorial district wo re
new our faith in and devotion to the
time-honored and eternal principles
of democracy as promulgated by
Thomas Jefferson, practiced by An
drew Jackson and expounded by the
greatest living democrat and states
man, William Jennings Bryan.
Second Wo condemn all officials
whoso consciences, after being hon
ored by tho people, become bigger
and wiser than tho mandates of their
masters, the sovereign volco of tho
people.
Third Wo most heartily endorse
our present national democratic plat
form adopted at Denver and especial
ly the tariff plank of the same.
Fourth Wo endorse and heartily
recommend tho adoption of the Ran
dell resolution, ntfw pending in con
gress, by our present legislature.
Fifth We oppose machine politics
and one-man power, in all conven
tions. Sixth We favor a law to prevent
public officials from accepting feeB,
gifts, loans, etc., from public service
corporations, and for a law to pre
vent office holders from acting as del
egates to any political convention
whqre party platforms are to bo mado
and candidates are to be endorsed.
Seventh We most sincerely com
mend Representative Henry and four
teen other democrats from Texas, for
their votes in concrrnsa nirnlnut f.hn
Aldrlch-Payno inlquitious protective
lariu measure, we also includo In
this commendation our senior sena
tor. Charles A. CulhfirHon whn vntnrl
in sustaining tho Denver national
platform.
Eighth Wo boliove in tho binding
force of platform demands as made
by tho chosen delegates of tho noo-
plo, and tho candidate whoso con
science will not permit him to ob
serve tho platform domands as mado
by tho people Is an embezzler of
power. Tho timo for tho candidate's
conscience to govern him as to plat
form demands is before ho accepts
the office, and if he can not in cnorl
conscience carry out tho demands of
tho platform upon which ho is nom
inated then ho should not accept tho
commission.
Ninth All political power being
inherent in the people, and all free
government being foundod. on the
authority of tho peoplo and "institut
ed for their benefit, tho democrats
of the Twenty-seventh senatorial dis
trict stand pledged to tho preserva
tion of a republican form of gov
ernment, and bclievo that the peoplo
of Texas havo tho Inalienablo right
to alter, reform or abolish their gov
ernment In such manner as they may
think expedient. Wo therefore in
struct our senator In obedienco to
tho expressed will of tho democrats
of Texas on tho 23rd of July to vote
in tho next senate for the submission
of a constitutional amendment pro
hibiting the sale and manufacture of
intoxicating liquors in Texas.
Resolved, That we most cordially
endorse the official acts of our stato
senator, E. B. Mayfleld as being dem
ocratic, and therefore In behalf of the
best Interest of tho people, not only
of tho Twenty-seventh senatorial dis
trict, but In behalf of every citizen
of Texas.
Resolved, That as a citizen, as a
democrat, as an upright, honorablo
high toned gentleman, the district
and the peoplo ho represents ore
proud of him.
Theodore Roosevelt left for his
"southern trip October 6. It will be
another political tour.
In the swamping of a bargo that
was being towed to the battleship
New Hampshire at anchor in the
Hudson river twenty-nine of the New
Hampshire's crew were drowned.
N. B. Broward, former Governor
of Florida and United States senator
elect died on tho operating table at
Jacksonville. .
A New York dispatch carried by
the Associated Press says: "For the
first time in the history of railway
unions, members and delegates rep
resenting 308,000 men of the four
great divisions of railway employes
In the east voted unanimously at a
meeting hero to take concerted ac
tion In national and state politics."
BRYAN AND ROOSEVELT
When William Jennings Bryan a
few years ago was fulminating
against conditions as Theodore
Roosevelt has recently been doing,
and In much the same style, were
the conditions then analogous to con
ditions of the present day?
A moment's reflection answers this
question, and answers it decisively.
Then the railroads dominated legis
latures, engaged in corrupt politics
and practicing rebating on a large
and iniquitous scale. Today they
are ottt of politics, obeying tho law
against rebating, and asking only the
right to engage in legitimate railroad
business.
Then hleh financing was at its
height; great insurance companies
and other corporations wero in oaa
hands and flagrantly mismanaged,
and the evils thereof wero so plain
that he who ran could see. Today
high financing is Indulged In. only at
peril; the Insurance companies and
other great corporate Interests havo
been put on a sound basis, and the
evils formerly so obvious havo been
reduced to the minimum.
Then malefactors of wealth, over
riding the law and flourishing by dis
honest methods, boldly pursued their
course unpunished. Today they are
behind the bars, wearing stripes
some of them and others under in
dictment. Then law-makers traveled on rail
road passes and used telegraph" and
express franks. Today they are
estopped from doing these things by
law
Then both parties and most of the
states wero boss-ridden, and' bossism
was popular. Today both parties and
many states aro comparatively free
from bossism, and bossism is un
popular. There has been genuine progres
sion toward a better state of things
In party, stato and nation at least,
an observant peoplo felt that there
had been progress until Theodore
Roosevelt, to whom they gave high
credit for that progression brought
about by tho awakening which ho
produced, came upon the scene again
to toll thorn in effect that everything
is still awry, and tho country head
ing toward tho demnition bow-wows.
Aro wo to adopt this poaulmlHtlc
view and withdraw tho credit accord
ed him for tho achievements Incident
to tho seven memorable years of his
guidnuco of tho ship of state? If
not, aro wo to bo moro patient with
him in his tirades ngainst conditions
which no longer exist than wo wero
with Bryan I if - his fulniltiallons
against conditions that did oxist?
Tho unrest so widespread today is
duo almost wholly to tho high coat
of living, which tho masses, rightly
or wrongly, ascribe to an inequitably
adjusted and oppressive tariff, and
Thcodoro Roosovelt Is politically
capitalizing this unrest for his own
glory and aggrandlzomont. But it la
a no moro burdonsorne in fact, a
loss burdensome tariff than tho
plngloy tariff, which ho allowod to
go untouched during tho seven years
of his administration and handed
down as a costly heritago for his
chosen successor to deal with.
Gottlng back to William Jennings
Bryan, ij, Is refreshing, and to his
credit, to recall that In all his ap
peals to tho discontented he never
onco counseled tho making over of
this ropublic to euro existing ills,
but did steadfastly and continually
advocate a low tariff.
Thoro is another difference: Mr.
Bryan is not tho Man of Destiny.-
Washington (D. C.) Herald.
SAMUEL BOWLES
Samuel Bowles, Jr., son of Samuol
Bowles, tho publisher of tho Spring
field Republican, is tho democratic
candidato for congress in tho Second
Massachusetts district rgainst Con
gressman Gillett, who is serving hig
ninth term, and Is prominently men
tioned for the chairmanship of the
committee on appropriations in case
tho next houso is republican. Mr,
Bowles is a Harvard graduate, 25
years old, and an editorial writer on
a rival to his father's paper. His
father and Congressman Gillett aro
closo friends. South Bend Era.
"PLUMPING" FOR BROWNE '
Tho rcnoriiination of Leo O'Neill
Browne, the Illinois legislator recent
ly acquitted of bribery in the Lori
mer case, is explained by conditions
of universal experience plus tho pe
culiar system under which nomina
tions and elections aro conducted in
Illinois. Browne is the familiar typo
of political boss a "good fellow,"
a natural leader, able to command
financial support from tho interests,
and tho attorney for the Liquor Deal
ers' Association of his county, with
its seven hundred saloons. Kansas
City Times.
Df . Pierce's Favorite Prescription
la the best of all medicines for the cure of diseases,
k disorders and weaknesses peculiar to women. It is the
only preparation of its kind devised by a regularly gradu
ated physician an experienced and skilled specialist in
the diseases of women.
It Is a safe medicine In any condition of the system.
THE ONE REMEDY which contains no alcohol
smd no injurious habit-forming drags and which
creates no craving for such stimulants.
THE ONE REMEDY so good that its maker
are not afraid to print its every ingredient on
ech outsido bottle -wrapper and mttft to thm
truthfulness of the same under oath.
Itis sold by medicine dealers everywhere, and any dealer who hasn't it can
get it. Don't take a substitute of unknown composition for this medicine op
known composition. No counterfeit is as good as the genuine and the druggist
who says something else is "just as good as Dr. Pierce's" is either mistaken
or is trying to deceive you for bis own selfish benefit. Such a man is not to bo j
trusted. He is trifling with your most priceless possession your health .
say be your life itself. See that yu get what yeu ash for.
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