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. . FALLS CITY TRIBUKE.
Friday , September 23 , 1904.
FALLS CITY - - NEBRASKA.
Odds in Wall street of 2 to 1 on
Roosevelt deliver no electoral votes , but
they are mighty : discouraging : to the silent
speculator of Ese ] > us.
Silence , has grown weary listening
for the reply that comes not from
Ese p us. . to Tom 'Vatson's query , " 1Vb ' : tt
is Judge Parker's position on the negro
question ? "
Confidence in tIle continuance ot the
present administration at Washington
for another four years is reflected in the
confident tone that pervades ill busi-
ness circles in the United States.
Comparison ot Republican and Demo-
. .
cratic platforms ot the last . forty years
emphasizes the difference between things
done and things ; promi"ed. ! " One is a
party ot 'grent achievements , the other
of great IH'omisl's.
The Democratic editors will hIve : fun
with themsch'es when they begin mak-
an/ / extravagance ot the national expen-
ditures and the Jefferonian parsimony
that bas plastered New York over with
n debt or more than $310,000,000
The Democratic platform denounces
protection us "robberj' oC the nJllIj' : to
enrich the few. " Yet experience has
.
proved that under protection prosperity
is diffused among all classes of people
while under free trade all classes suffer.
It i. said that Tammany will not e < m-
sidcr the money question irrevocably set-
tIed until the contract for the next $ j0- ;
t 000,000 subway : is awarded to a hacker
or Judge Parker , who will recognize ;
that n public subway is a political
trough.
There is one truth that seems beyond
' . . . the comprehension oJ the Democracy ,
that "the old < < 1 order change , yielding
place to the new. " Otherwise it would
not try to fit the Jeffersonian knickerbockers l -
' Lockers of ISO on the lusty ] ; American
giant of 1904.
Xo matter how Democratic platforms
may try to whitewash or sugnr-eoat the
position of the party on the tariff ques-
tiOll , its real ] object is always the destruction -
t Ftruction of the protective system , de-I
4 is the principal safeguard of American
industries , labor ] and waj.es.
The Democratic party never gets right
on National issues , except when it tries
to steal the Republican platform. After
. lecturing for many years that free silver
at 1G to 1 was the paramount issue , it
now drops the question and actually ad-
mits that the gold standard is irrevocably -
bly ] fixed.
Under the last Democratic adminis-
, tration business was paralyzed at home
and the United States had a doubtful
.
standing among : * . During the McKinley -
. . elt administrations
Kinley and Roe : > eclt
prosperity has been restored at home ! and
the prestige of the nation abroad has
advanced ns neveJPbefore.
.1 ; Under the present tariff Jaw nil indus-
tries have revived and prospered , labor
- has been fully employed and more work-
men have received good wages ! than
ever before in tlic ' ' tory ot the coun-
try. Why take t tt. dangerous risk ! " ot
putting a party in power that would reverse -
Terse this policy ot prosperity
The policy of protection has preserved
the American market for the products
ot American manufactures and American
manufacturers have made markets for
the products or American farmers , md
together they have established a high
standard ot American living and made
possible the high scale of American
wnges.
sow a character and , you reap : a des-
tiny" was one or the beautiful but
meaningless apothegms flung into the
lap of Judge Parker by Editor Knapp ,
ot the St. Louis Republic , in introducing
. this Democratic brethren of the shears
and paste pot to their candidate With
about equal relevancy and more wit he
might have said "Pant ] a corpse and
raise a tombstone. "
The Democratic campaign managers ;
openly tell the public they wish to con-
duct the campaign free from mud-slin/- /
inJ and personalities , but they seem to
have secretly given instructions to revile
allll abuse the Republican candidate in
every way possible Chairman Tajglrt's
newspaper , the Indianapolis Sentinel , is
cartooning the President as a dog.
. "Political cmpirics" well describes the
species ot constitutional hair-slJlitters
who see the constitution rent in tatter
every time a now condition demands the
e ercise of some government power not
reamed of in the philosophy of Thomas
.
Jefferson. It the political empirics or
1861 had .had their way there would
have been no union left for their suc-
cessors to weep and groan over in 19 ( ) ! .
Car ] Scburz's appearance on the stump
in Southern Illinois is another straw on
the back : ot tIle double-winged Demo-
cratic mule. When he applauds Parker's
gold telegram the free silver Democrats
writhe ; whoa lIe calls for merit in the
Ipublic service there is a general ] exodus
to the nearest free lunch counter , and
when he talks about surrendering the
Philippines there are groans of disap-
'
proval.
The platform on which Theodore
Roosevelt ] stands reiterates the time-
honored Republican principle in favor
of fostering home industries in order
that American workmen may be steadily
' . The Demo-
employed and well paid. -
ratic platform is verbose and evasive ,
but , sifted of ah ] its platitudes ! it 'im-
ply reiterates the Democratic hostility
. to any tariff that will protect American
industries.
"Let us compare candidates : ' aid
Miss Democracy to a stalwart young
Hcpublican.
"Comparisons are odious , " he replied ,
"but since you insist ! " , what has your
candidate done that he should aspire to
the presidency ? "
"Xothing. He is a man of pcace.
Pray what : has yours done ? "
"He has done everything that came
Ns way with all : his mind and heart and
. strength. He has the soul for action
that would put life under the ribs ot
death : '
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CHARLES WI FAIRBANKS
Indiana Senator Well-Fitted for
the Vice Presidency.
HE HAS DIGNITY AND FORCE
And His Training and Experience Will ;
Enable Him to Preside Over the
Senate with Credit to the Na-
tion-McKinley's Friend.
Washinton : , D. C. , Sept. 10 , - Everyone
one here who is any way connected with
the government has a great amount of
personal interest in the nomination or
Senator Fairbanks : of Indiana for second
place 011 the Republican : ricket. The In-
diana Senator has a personality all his
owls , mHI his figure I ! merely from a physical -
cal point of view is so striking ; he bas
been a marked man 'Yashin/1.on / crier
since he came here. Straight as all arrow -
row , thin , unusually roll , with bright ;
re'l chce : , , with a becoming amount of
senatorial : dignity ; , and yet with 3 genu-
ine democracy which is seldom equaled
by public men , the Republican camli-
date for the vice presidency is more than
usually popular as public men ! ; o.
Aside j'rOJl this , however , the PMPII
who are on the inside of public affairs
in Washington ; know , as people ot the
rest of the country may not know , that
Senator Plirbmks : is one of the comparatively -
atively few men in public life who have
actually made their impress upon the
affairs of the government. In every
church , every club , every village debat-
ing society , in every Congress and every
Parliament , there arc always a select
few who do the great bulk or the work ,
who are men of action , who are selected
by their associates to perform the thing
which have to be done , who have tIle
executive gift which makes them wise in
council , and whose advice and assistance
are sought when great things are to be
done.
Courteous and l\rodcst.
Constantly courteous , invariably kindly -
lr , always reserved , consistently .JllodeSt ,
never seeking ! to put himself in the front
rank , Senator Fair lIlks is not usually
credited by ! the world at large with the
extraordinary influence he really pos-
scsses here in 1Vushington. His associates -
ciatcs in the Senate , the members or the
cabinet , and those whose duty it is to
execute the law have learned , however ,
the quiet force of the Senator from Indiana '
diana , and ever since he came here with
McKinley in 18)7 ! Senator Fairbanks has
been one of the inner circle. He has
grown stronger ! " day by day until his
nomination for the vice presidency was
absolutely forced upon hint because , in
the opinion ot his associates iu tile Sen-
ate and the party loaders generally ; , be
was the best equipped man for the posi-
tion , and was by his training : and by his
political ussocilltion of presidential size ,
so that he might he ready at any time
to exercise the duties of chief executive
if it should become - necessary.
Few people are aware of the unusual
degree to which William McKinley gave
his confidence to Senator Fairbanks. The
two men were old friends , they repre-
sented much the same element in the
party , and in the early months of 18\)7 \ )
fflllowing the bitter political ] battle of
the previous autumn McKinley and Fair-
banks were in constant touch and the
President-elect began to lean ] upon the
Senator - elect. This trust in the 'wisdom
of the statesman from Indiana was never
lessened , but as month after month went
by the Indiana Senator was more and
more drawn into the deepest confidences
of the President.
There were trying times in Washington -
ton during the latter part of 1897 and in
the early part of 1898. The United States
and Spain were drifting inevitably to-
ward war. The sentiment in this coun-
try was overwhelmingly ; ] in favor of interference -
terference in behalf ot the suffering pee
pe ] of Cuba. The pressure for action
grew daily stronger. In the public press ,
in Congress , in the churches , on the
streets , everywhere from the Atlantic
to the Pacific there was n constantly
growing sentiment that the United States
must put . an end to the shocking : condi-
tions in .Cuba.
McKinley Knew Public entlment.
When he was elected WiJliam lcKin-
ll'j' well knew what this public sentiment
was and where it was likely to lead. o
man ever lived who was more skilled in
feeling ! the pulse of the public than- the
President who laid down his life at
Buffalo. When he came to the White
House , nevertheless , he was determined
to exhaust : every device known to diplo-
macy , short or actual warfare , to bring
Spain to terms and to bring peace to
Cuha. Trained in' the arts ot war him-
self , William McKinley well knew that
war was not to be entered upon ] ! ; 'htly. I
lie was for peafrom : : the beginning.
During the first six months ot the McKinley -
Kinley administration the tension here
in \ was extraorlin:1tl"y. : ! Pub-
lic sentiment of itself might have forced
a war lwcause l ot the outrages ; : con tin.
tinily committed by the Spaniards upon
the poor people of Cuba. Then came
the explosion of the Maine , which
touched the spark in the magazine , and
within a few weeks the people of the
United States were raging with the Just
or blood.
Still William McKinley : stood stead-
fast. He knew war was nearly inevitable -
evitable , but lie was in a position to
know also that this country , rich though
it was ill men and resources , was not
ready for war. He was .in a position
to know that there were no rifles , no
cannon , no clothes , no tents , no pro-
visions ot war for even the most mod-
erate army. lIe had not exhausted . di-
plottracy , and even then he knew that
time wa ; ; ; necessary ! to prepare the coun-
try for w."Jr. The great public which
was ignorant ; of the real situation and
which did not realize that n. mistaken
public policy hall aIlowj'd our army to
run down to a point where we were not
fitted to fight ; even a little nation like
Spain , still thundered for war and be-
gan to suspect the good faith and the
bravery of a man like William lcK1n-
ley.
lcKlnley Consnlted Fnirbanks.
All ) ) this is history , which the world
knows and which need not be recapitulated -
cd in detnil. What the world does not
generally know is that in the small ) ) circle -
cle of men who were daily and cir-I
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and sometimes even hourly called ) ) into i
council by William ) ) McKinley to advise
him as to the best thing to be done
to preserve the honor and the dignity :
of the nation , Charles Warren Fair-
banks was always foremost in the list ,
He was summoned to the White House
night after night , and during a time
when the gravest matters were under
consideration the most important of all ) )
the conferences were held in the Fair-
hanks home on Massachusetts avenue.
There were gathered the senators and
the cabinet officers who represented tie :
inner council of the nation , the
who possessed the absolute confidence
of President )1cKinler. It was in the
upstairs library ot the Fairbanks home
that some ot the most important de
cisions of these trying times were first
formulated.
There were scarcely half a dozen\J. f
the big men tAi the nation prcsen.t Z
those historic ' onrerences , and it is a
sutficient indication of the capacity for
public service which Senator Fairbanks
bas 11lanffested td refer to the fact that
although he had been in public life J.ss
than n year his varlue as a constant adviser -
viser of the 'Pre'srddntIn : the face or
an : inflamed public sentiment and on the
eve of almost inevitable war grew greater -
er day by day. Other men who partici-
pated in those conferences remember and
bear cheerful testimony to the extraordinary -
nary capacity ot the Indiana senator
for looking at all ) ) sides or a question of
public policy and for iving his opinion
dispassionately , without the slightest sus-
picion of , personal - and with some-
thing like a sacred deference to the best
interests of the nation.
The history ot those . momentous conferences -
ferences will nevet ? be written , as a mat-
ter ot course. McKinley has gone , Ho-
bart 'has gone , Hanna has gone , and
only a few are left of the men s'ho . actually -
tually shaped the destinies of the nation
in the early months ot 1898 , who per-
sisted in a wise conservatism when delay -
lay ] was necessary , and who provided the
means for carrying the ' war -to a suc-
cessful and a glorious conelusion. That I .
ho was even included in the brilliant list
of the confidential ] advisers of William : ,
lcKillley in the face of war is a sufi- ' ,
cient honor for any man.
An Honor for the Indlaniaa. .
It is an additional honor for the In- '
diana senator , who has : been chosen as
the Republican nominee for the vice-
presidency , that his associates .in public
life , in their private conversation , invariably -
variably refer to his - broad-g-.1uge ability
to grasp public questions , 'to his personal .
integrity , and to his deep study of constitutional - !
stitutional and international Jaw. !
It is n fortunate thing for the republic !
that n man ot this stamp : . should have' ;
been chosen for the nomination. The result -
re-I
suJt is that in the event ot the triumph'-
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of the Republic ticket , which now
seem absolutely secured , the President
inaugurated : next larch will have had
the benefit or more thad three years or
actual experience in the duties of his
office , while the Tiee-president who will
take the oath of office at the same time
will have behind him not only the benefit -
fit or more than seven years in the
United States senate , but also ot his
membership .in the inner circle of public
men who actually do things , and who in
times of trial determine the policy of the
nation.
UThe mass of the Jemocratlc party
feel outraged at the way la which
their leaders sold them to Walt Street.
r : do not believe that the eIz and a half
million men who followed Bryan with
cheers on their lips and warm convictions -
victions In their hearts , cnn now be
delivered like cattle to the Cl. 'clnn.-
Itea who knifed the ticket or bolted It
In 1896. I believe that the great :
majority of the men who Toted for
Bryan arc men ! of conviction can bat !
hope that they will realize that .l am
fighting their battle now. " rhomas E.
Watson's speech accepting PopuIst : nominstion.
President Roosevelt said in his speech
ot acceptance , uA party is of worth only
so far as it promotes the national inter-
est. " Judged by that standard , the Dem-
ocratic party is worthless.
A NOTABLE EXCEPTION.
Richard OlneY' Has Not Joined : the
Democratic Pesdmists
Since Judge Parker and the Demo-
cratic party have chosen to make an
issue ot the aggressive and progressive
activities ot the Republican party which
in the span ot one generation have pIned -
ed the United States in the van of the
world's civilization , it may be well to
recall that there is at least one Demo- !
ernt who has not joined . in his party's !
pessimistic wails.
Richard Olney , the choice ot the .
Massachusetts Democracy for President
at St. Louis , Attorney General amid Sec-
retary of State during Cleveland's sec-
end term , and author ot the ringing
phrase in support ot the Monroe doctrine
-"To-day the United States is practically -
ly sovereign on this continent , and its
fiat is Jaw upon the subjects to which
it confines its interposition , " is a Demo-
crat who has something stronger than
diluted ass's milk in his veins.
In an article printed in the Atlantic
Monthly for March , -1900 , on the
"Growth of Our Foreign ; Policy , " .Rich-
ard Olney anticipated { and confuted al-
most every pitiful plea for national stag-
nation and dishonor ! : uttered by Judge
Parker in the two instances when he has
ventured to open his mouth. Where
the Democratic candidate counsels that
the United States : shall live for and
within itself ] alone , Mr. Olney boldly
proclaimed that such a policy had "tend-
ed to belittle the national charact.r"
and has "led to a species of provineial-
isni i , ; and to narrow views of our duties
and functions as a nation "
Where Judge Parker in his unfamil-
iarity with the meaning ot the phrase ,
due to his seclusion ] from the world at
Esopus , proclaims l that the United
States "becamQ a world power over a
century ago , " \Ir. Olney , with broader
knowledge of the world , says that "His- !
torians will probably assign the aban-
donment of the isolation policy to the
time when this country and Spain went
to war over Cuba. "
Nor can there be any serious question
but )1r. Olney is right
And in this connection lit was that
Cleveland's virile Secretary of State
said , "The United States has come out
of its shell and ceased to .be a hermit
among nations , naturally ana properly. "
He also emphasized the necessity for
preparation : to cope with larger respon-
sibilities in these terms :
"It goes without saying that the United
States cannot play the part In the world"s
affairs It has just assumed without r.qulp-
ping Itself for the part with nil the Instrumentalities -
strumentalities necessary to make Its will
felt , whether through : pacific Intercourse
and negotiation ; or through force. 'Ye cannot -
not assert ourselves :1S a power whose
Interests and sympathies are as wide as
civilization without assuming obligations
corresposding to the claim
"The equipment requIred for our new
International role must not be discussed :
at any length. 'We must have It-the
need will be forced upon us by facts the
logic or which wlll lJe IrresistIble-lDd
however slow to more or Indisposed to face
the , facts , the national government must
sooner or later provide for It. "
There was much more to the same
effect , every word ringing with sterling
and enlightened appreciation of the
American determination to meet the obligations -
ligations of our expanding national .op-
portunities. Without failing to recog-
nhe that the triumphs ot peace are the
true objective of a republic , \1r. Olney
rasped the eternal truth that peace and
liberty and progress can only be insured
by full provision to maintain them bj'
force.
The nation which goes about with
nothing but an olive branch in i its mouth
-in other words , without increasing its
expenditures for coast defenses , for ships
and guns , for men and rms-eannot ex-
pect its voice will be heeded , in the
councils of nations. Every dollar the
United States is i spending eOn its army
and navy today is an insurance against
war and national dishonor.
Parker Has Trimmed His Sails.
( Philadelphia Inquirer. )
When Judge Parker .oted for silver ,
in 1SD6 and 1900 , -he did not know the
gold standard was going to be so popu-
lar in 19G , .
WHAT IT MEANS.
The Significance of the Vermont
Victory.
While it would be the sheerest folly
for Republican managers to accept the
Yermont victory as a certain augury of
lioose.elt's election next November , or ,
to relax in their efforts to insure that
result , it cannot be denied that the 32-
000 plurality is a most reassuring and
significant fact. That this is so is not
because a succession of statistical coin-
cidences where a shrinkage : ot the Republican -
publican plurality in Vermont in Sep-
tember has presaged a national Demo-
cratic victory JD November , but because
the influences affecting the individual
units in one State in this election are
national in their nature and are effective
throughout the republic.
H the issue in the November election
were confined to the tariff question it
would be impossible to inter from Ver-
mont's 32,000 Republican plurality
what would be the drift in New York ,
Connecticut Gr Indiana , because the vo-
ters of these three States study the
tariff question , through very different
spectacles from those of the farmers oC
Yermont. From the day in 1861 when
her late Senator Justin S. Merrill introduced -
troduced the war revenue tariff measure ,
which bore his name in the House ot
Representatives , Vermont has never wav-
ered in her support of the Republican
policy of protection. Other States have
wobbled , as the politicians have played
upon the credulity of their industrial
classes , but Vermont has stood as firm '
as her own everlasting hills.
But in the present campaign the
Democracy has chosen to thrust its traditional -
ditional clamor for tree trade into the
background and has arrayed itself
against , the American spirit or aggres-
sire , progressive expansion , ot which
Theodore Roosevelt is the living em-
bo iment.
To-day the Republicans stand for na-
tiona ] action , advancement and lire ; the
Democrats for national inaction , retro-
ression and death. The issue is between
DOING and DO 'T.
Such an issue appeals to voters in
Vermont precisely as it appeals to those
oC Oregon or Arkansas. The restricted
local ] ] view and interest is swallowed up
in the broader prospect , and men vote
as Americans and not as citizens of this
01" that State.
To this issue Oregon last June responded -
sponded "Go ahead ! " and Vermont mere-
ly echoes back across the continent "Go
ahead ! "
Even Arkansas shows signs ot waking :
from the otns-eating ] dream ot Demo-
cracy that a nation can advance with-
out exertion and force by markin -time
in front of the marble effigies ot Jefferson -
son and Jackson , who it they were alive
would be marching in the ranks of action
and progress.
This , then , is the significance of the
Vermont election , that on the issue con-
tnined in the word "Forward ! " personified -
fied , if i our opponents will have it so ,
-in Theodore Roosevelt , represented in
every line of financial , industrial and
diplomatic achievement , demanding increased -
creased expenditures for the army , the
navy , the postal service and every department -
partment ot government care of the
people's interests Vermont represents
the onward trend of American thought
This , and not the mere fact that Yer-
mOM went Republican by 32,000 votes ,
gives an assurance ot a great Republican -
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can victory next Xo\"emQer.
"On the whole , our people earn more
and live bettor than ever before aDd
the progress of which we are so proud
could not have taken place had it Dot
been for the 'IIp-bnlldins of industrial
centers , such aa this In which I nm
speaklns-From P.ooe\"elt' speech at
Providence , R. L , August 23rd , 1902.
First Voter Campaign BDttons.
The National Republican Committee ,
Auditorium , Chicago , is distributing ;
thousands of artistic Roosevelt and
Fairbanks First Voters' buttons. They
a.e tree for the askin ; ; . Apply to the
Chairman of your state Committee.
Shaw your colors.
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BLUNDER BY DEMOCRATS
They Nominated Candidates
Who Voted for Free Silver.
PEOPLE CAN FORGIVE ERROR
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Which Is Now Practically Admitted ,
but Will Not Trust the Party with
Power Because of the
Blunder.
When an individual makes and reit-
erates startling statements which later
on are proved to be absolutely fAlse ,
his further utterances on any subject
whatsoever are liable not to be taken .
seriously , and this is putting the case .
mildb- .Even though the statements
were uttered in honest belief as to their
curacy : , the fact that they were later
on proven to be wrong , furnished evidence -
deuce ot mental capacity to make further -
ther gross blunders from time to time.
In this respect the record of the Dem-
ol'ratic party ] on the silver issue has for
that party the same sinister significance
that falsifications from an individual ,
who is found out , would have for that
in ividual.
We may all he willing to charitably
.admit .that in its advocacy or the great
free sHyer error in 189 'and 1DOO the
Democratic party was honestly wrong.
There is no patriotic American who .
would like to think , hint , or suggest ,
that Bryan was not actuated by hon-
est and sincere 'bolie ' in his cause when
he uttered his famous "Cross of Gold"
and "Crown of Thorns" speech in 1SDG ,
nor is there any American with opti-
mistic faith in the honesty and patriotism -
ism ot the leading ; public men ot the
United States who would want to think
for a moment that Alton B. Parker , the
candidate of a great political party for
President or the United States , voted
, against' his honest convictions as to 'what
was for the good ot his country when
ate voted for free silver in lSDG , and
then again voted for free silver in 1900.
.
Cannot Da Trusted.
But while the American people will
never impute dishonorable motives to
the leaders or the silver cause in lSDG
and 1900 , yet nevertheless it will hesi-
tate in the future to place implicit trust
in .those who sought to lead them into
a disastrous error .in those years. Had
the majority ot the voters ot the coun-
try ill lSDG and moo not been of bet-
ter judgment than Judge Parker was
during those two years the United States
would have bad the silver standard ; nil
the currency of the country would have
been debased to the bullion value of sil-
"er ; jus . debts would have been scaled
off overifty per cent. ; the laborer ,
whom the Bible says is worthy of his
hIre , " would have been paid Ws wages
in cheap dollars ) ] of not haIr the value of
the 'honest. , dollars based on the gold
standard ; the country would have su-
tered unparalleled ) ] hard times ; its credit
would have sunk as low ] as that of Turc
key , V ela , and of other nation (
which r udiate their just obligations.
It was for such calamity ] as this that
the Democratic free silver error stood
in 1896 and again in 1900 , and Parker
and Davis both times stood with this
error , contributed money to further it
along , and voted for it.
Now the error is practically ) ] admitted.
Both Parker and Davis , while reusing
to say that they now believe in the gold
standard , nevertheless say that it is
" a.w"-that ]
"irrevocaby ] established by -
is when on December 18 , 1899 , the gold ]
standard was established by a vote of
1m Republican yeas and only 11 Dem-
ocratic yeas , against 142 Democratic
nays and no Republican nays , in the
House of Representatives , and by a vote
of 44 Republican anSI 2 Gold Democratic
yeas against 23 Democratic and only one
Republican nay in the Senate , IT WAS
SO WELL ESTABLISHED THAT
PARKER AID DAVIS NOW CONSIDER -
SIDER IT "IRREvOCABLY ESTAB-
LISHED. "
"line.ce Is Confes.lon. "
The American people will ) be willing ]
to forgive the Democratic record on the
silver question. They will not demand
humiliating verbal ] confessions from
Democratic leaders of the fact that they
were terribly wrong in 1896 and 1000.
As Daniel ] Webster once said-"Silence
h confession"-and the fact that the
Democrats now want silence on the
"paramount" issue ot 189G and the "tan-
t:1mount" : issue ot 1900 ! ( , is sufficient con-
fession ot past error.
But while the American people in , receiving -
ceiving Democracy's silent confession of
past error , can forgive , yet it cnnnot tor-
! : et. It will not be in haste to put into
the White House the representative ot a
party whose free silver principles
put in jeopardy the business stability ot
the nntry. IT WILL NOT VOTE TO
HONOR " 1TH THE HIGHEST
OFFICE IX THE LAND A CANDIDATE -
DATE WHO IX 1896 AND AGADi
IX 1900 VOTED FOR A POLICY
THAT WOULD HAVE FINANCIALLY -
LY DISHONORED THIS COUNTRY
AND MADE IT LOWER THAN TUR-
KEY AND VENEZUELA IN INTERNATIONAL -
NATIONAL OPIXLOX AS TO ITS
CREDIT.
Show the Trath.
Republicans , forecasting events from
the September election in Vermont
should not allow themselves to be over-
confident of results of the presidential .
election in Kovember.
There is no doubt as to the tact that
Roosevelt will win , but he ought to 00
given ; a great vote or confidence , an omit'
pouring of national affection and trust.
aside from a mere majority of electoral
votes. .
A rebuke is deserved for the men who
so falsify ! facts and sentiments , so distort
prevaricate and : invent , as to make it ap-
pear that Theodore Roosevelt is any-
thing but the strong , thoughtful : , loyal
American citizen that he is.
The silly bosh about "Imperialism"
and Iiliurism , " the groundless flubdnb
as to fancied personal dictation by their
executive to the American people should
be rebuked by the people in such man-
ner as can never be forgotten
Let Republicans appear en masse nt
the polls in November to show what they
think of Theodore Roosenlt.