AC TU CARM P QPPQ and a?kinS support under false repre
AO I It El l iFiuifc.n OE.E.J 'mentations, and the farmer never favors
REASONS WHY HE BELIEVES IN
AND TRUSTS REPUBLICANS.
They Have Never Deceived Nor Be
trayed Hi Interest and Have Ajj
eressively Favored Legislation for
His Benefit.
Each national campaign emphasizes
the fact that the "fanner" vote must be
reckoned with and catered to, and all
parties put forth their best arguments
m hen addressing the fanner. Away from
- the madding crowd, untranimeled by the
prejudices and false cries of the politi
cian, the farmer calmly reads and thinks,
and thinks and reads, and decides the
Question with a discerning judgment that
leads, to ,a decision which is honest and
right. .
In ,1896 it was generally feared that
the farmer would be deceived by the
great promises made of the beneficent re
sults to be attained by voting for free
Bilver, but this was not so; the farmer
might be deceived when away from home,
but at his own fireside, with plenty of
time to weigh the question, he decided
for the gold standard, AND THE DEM
OCRATIC PARTY AND ITS CANDI
DATES ON TUE NATIONAL TICK
ET NOW SAY THAT THE FARM EH
' DECIDED RIGHT. In 1900 the cry
was imperialism, and with his love of
freedom it was said that the farmer
might be stampeded, but again he allow
ed common sense and calm consideration
to decide the question, and, seeing no
danger of militarism or overthrow of the
established government by the new order
of things, forced upon us by the war
with Spain, the farmer again cast hi
ballot for the Republican ticket, and
time has proved that his judgment was
good and his decision right.
Chaff Will Not Answer.
In the present campaign no new or
striking issue is presented. The Demo
crats arraign the Republican party, vilify
the President and hold forth glittering
generalities, but defiuiteness is lacking,
and what wouki be gained by the elec
tion of a Democratic President is not ap
parent. A general '"calamity howl" is
no argument, and to swnre the farmer
vote it is necessary to present more thau
chaff.
One term of a Democratic President,
two years only of absolute Democratic
administration, was sutficieut to prac
tically paralyse business throughout the
nation, deprive the worker of the chance
to earn an honest living, depress values
awl prices and make us the laughing
stock and subject of ridicule of the na
tions of the world.
McKkiley was elected, a Republican
Congress enacted a consistent protective
tariff, industry was revived, factories
started, unemployed given work at the
highest wages ever known, consumption
stimulated, values restored, Spain defeat
ed, Cuba freod, order established In the
Philippine Islands and the people given
civil liberty in its fullest sense and the
opportunity of becoming a creditable part
of the greatest nation on earth. The sta
bility of the currency has been assured
by le actioa of the Republican admin
istration; the public debt reduced and
interest charge? lowered; laws passed
that will bring the arid lands under cul
tivation, and that, too, without tax or
cost to any person except the one di
rectly benefited by the purchase of the
land from the government.
The securing of the'route for an isth
mian canal, the construction of which is
now assured, is a crowning triumph for
a Republican President and the party,
and no one class will receive a greater
benefit from the connection of the At-
Inn tic and Pacific by this great waterway
than will the farmer.
The opposition to the Cuban reci
procity bill, on account of the reduction
of the tariff on raw sugar, came largely
from a misconception of what the result
would be. Instead of retarding produc
tion and lowering the price of sugar
beets, the opposite has been the result,
end the production has been stimulated
and profits iucreased.
Benefits of Protection.
The policy of protection which guard
and develops the industries of our coun
try, cardinal with the Republican party,
is necessary to the prosperity of the
farmer. A tariff on agricultural products
may not increase the price if the de
mand does not equal the supply, but a
tariff which protects American labor and
home industries insures work at high
wages, plenty of money and increased
consumption. Insuring high prices for
farm products.
The farmer is indebted to the Repub
lics party for the rural free delivery
system. First suggested by the editor
of a leading farm paper, himself a Re
publican, the idea was reported upon and
recommended by a Republican Postmas
ter General, adopted and enlarged upon
by the Republican party, appropriation
made by a Republican Congress for an
investigation and trial of the proposed
system. A Democratic Postmaster-General,
supported by a Democratic Presi
dent, refused to expend the appropria
tions and reported not only adversely to
the system, but that the scheme was
Impracticable. Not until the Republi
cans were again in full power was the
system given a fair trial, and its entire
practicability, as well as the great benefit
to be derived by the rural population,
fully demonstrated. From a $10,000 ap
propriation for the trial of the system
It has grown to an appropriation of over
$20,000,000 under the friandly encour
agement and aggressive business policy
of Republican administrations. No other
one thing could have been of such great
benefit to the farmer; it has placed him
in daily communication with the world,
and from the seclusion of farm life he
emerges and bectfmes a part and parcel
of this great nation and is not only able
to read of the doings throughout the
world, but the facilities afforded for
frequent and prompt communication en
able him to take part in its affairs. The
farmer is now recognized as a big, broad
minded business man, and the discovery
Is due to the rural free delivery system,
established and fostered by the Repub
lican party.
The Republican party has always been
aggressively In favor of legislation for
the benefit of farmers, and the record
will be considered and remembered when
the farmer casts his vote.
The platforms of the Republican and
Democratic parties are so similar on
important subjects that the conclusion is
inevitable that the latter followed the
former for vote-catching purposes, and
that the Democratic party is Insincere
or supports insincerity or fraud.
MUD-SLINGING.'
Democratle Newtpnren Are Horri
fied When Facta Are Stated.
New York Tribune.
To charge that the President of tke
United States is so reckless and -scrupulous
that he means, if elected, te
grasp Mexico, the West Indies, Central
America and South America, and con
solidate all in one huge American en-pire-that
is moderate and proper polit
ical discussion. "The candidate is the
issue."
To recite, with scrupulous moderation,
the historic facts concerning the entry
into, public life of the opposing candi
date facts that no man disputes or
dare dispute that is "mud-throwing!"
To mention that his first political
friends and creators were the ballot-box
stuffers of Stony Hollow and Jockey
Hill; that his debut as a political man
ager was, while a surrogate judge, as
the State chairman for and personal
representative of David B. Hill, who in
gratitude made him a Supreme Court
Justice; and that, when he needed a
close friend to intrust with his bid to
Bryanites for the Chief Judgeship of
the Court of Appeals on the ground that
he had voted for Bryan, he chose as
such confidential representative the elec
tion thief Danforth to mentien these
undisputed and indisputable facts, it
seems according to the horrified Demo
cratic organs, is "mud-slinging."
Well, shivering souls, if those facts
imply "mud," then that is the sort ef
"mud" your candidate lives in. You in
voke in vain a cast-off judicial robe to
hide It "The candidate is the issue."
ROOSEVELT GOOD ENOUGH.
The People Like tho President's Dem
ocratic Waya.
John S. Wise, of Virginia.
The people have seen more of Roose
velt now as youth and cowboy and
sportsman and naval secretary and po
lice commissioner and soldier and gov
ernor and President to think themselves
fair judges of his ingrain democratic and
republican personality. They believe he
would spring at and grapple with a
usurper or a monarchist as fiercely as
he would lasso a wild broncho or fight
a Spaniard. And they like his demo
cratic ways, more democratic far in ac
tion than the aristocratic and exclusive
ness of Parker, with his colorless demo
cratic platitudes.
Talk does not settle popular estimates
f public men. Thousands nay, hun
dreds of thousands of Democrats see
more real democracy in the vigorous, ag
eressive, wideawake Theodore Roosevelt
than in the colorless, secretive Alton B.
Parker. The platforms are mighty near
together. The men are ging to be a
more decisive feature of this campaign
than usual. And wkh my kuowlodge
of the American people and the things
which please their taste and fancy and
fill their ideals of wh:vt real American
manhood is I would, if I were a betting
man, stake all I had that Rooseve!t will
be an easy winner.
Chenp Barricades.
It is droll, the itude of the Demo
cratic party in the present campaign.
It has nominated candidates of mod
erate talents as figure-heads for the ven
tures of the discredited party, and ex
pects the people to support them, while
the Democratic National Committee and
Tammany are expected to buy or steal
success.
The Democratic party, with, its un
sound views, fiinancial and economic, lies
hopefully behind Parker and those un
named expectancies voiced by Williams.
Bryan and other Democrats.
And Bryan promises to reorganize the
party after the election! How? Evi
dently on lines of socialism, government
and municipal ownership of telegraph
md railroad Knes, with all the sequence.
What a vagueness of thought and prom
ise! How may so-called leaders of any
party expect to got the votes of sensi
ble men upon a proposition so dim as
this! The fault with the Democratic
party, this year, is that it does not even
furnish a good dissolving view.
Take Yonr Choice.
David B. Hill, the sponsor of the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency,
said at St. Louis that he "did not know
now Parker stood on the money ques
tion." For thirty years Hill and Park
er have been intimately associated, so
cially and politically. If the statement
made by Hill is to be believed, then
Parker is too secretive a man to elect
to the Presidency; if false, then it was
evidently mnde for the purpose of mis
leading the people; and if the people are
to be deceived in one thing, why not in
all the acts of the Democratic leaders?
Would It Ke Wise?
It is conceded that the Democrats are
not on record on the tariff question. This
being the case, would it not be unwise
to trust tariff revision to the party op
posed to the principle of protection, the
result being practically free trade, bring
ing industrial depression, hard times and
the inevitable lowering of prices on farm
products?
Tom Watson acknowledges that the
condition of American workingmen is
now vastly improved, and that in their
homes they enjoy conveniences of life
which a king could not command some
hundred years ago. If the Democracy
had its way we would reverse the wheels
of progress so that the workingmen
might enjoy the privations of life that
were the common lot in the grand old
days of Jeffersonian scarcity of bath
tubs.
The helpfulness of the Oermans to
vrard each other ha boen one of tho
splendid lessons they have tanjrht.
Fidelity Is always an admirable trait.
The fidelity of Germans toward each
other has baen to me always ona of
their striking and admirable charac
teristic!. Senator Fairbanks at Indianapolis,
Sei teznber 3, 1SJ9.
Under tho Republican policy of pro
tection our home market affords our
manufacturers and producers the best
market in the world, oven If we did not
sell any of our products abroad. But
protection has also made us the greatest
exporting nation In the world.
China and India are "cheap" countries.
Human labor 13 held very low In these
lands and the result Is that the masses
are constantly steeped In poverty and
menaced by starvation. Is spite ef the
so-called cheapness the people d aot get
things.
THE PHILIPPINE ISSUE.
Marked Modification of Jadjte Parker's
Position.
Not Wag am the conduct ef the Demo
cratic parts' is more conducive to the
pusk'c weal thaa the ease with which
it abandons unteaabla issues after pledg
ing eternal fealty to them.
For oigfct years it waB Indissoluble
wedded te the free and uuliniited coin
age of silver at an arbitrary ratio only,
at the telegraphic behest of its candidate,
t accept the gold standard as "firmly
and irrevocably established" by the Re
publicaa party.
Prom time beyond the memory of the
oldest voter the Democracy has been ful
minating against "protectionism as a
robbery" only to have David" B. Hill
waive the tariff issue into the back yard
and abysm of time, "because It Is a ques
tion on which very few of us (Demo
crats) agree."
Notfaiug could have been "more beau
tiful to see" than the sham frenzy with
which Democrats and "anti-Imperialists"
denounced the prompt action by which
the United States seized the opportunity
and became possessed of the authority to
dig and control the Isthmian canal ex
cept the avidity with which the Demo
cratic convention swallowed all its vo
ciferous scruples and resolved that,
"when entrusted with power It will con
struct the Panama canal speedily, hon
estly aaJ economically." No wander the
mocking echo, "when entrusted with
power," reverberated through the repub
lic. And now comes Alton B. Parker and
draws the pen of ante-election expediency
through the Philippine plank of his par
ty. "We insist," reads that slbillant doc
ument, "that we ought to do for the Fili
pinos what we have done already for
the Cubans, and it is our duty to make
that promise NOW."
At the first opportunity Judge Parker
was given to unburden his soul over the
wrong perpetrated in substituting Ameri
can justice, liberty and security for Span
ish cruelty, extortion and oppression In
the Philippines, he modified the "now"
in the above quotation with these Eso
pean words:
"The accident of war brought the Phil
ippines into our possession and we are
not at liberty to disregard the responsi
bility which thus came to us, but that
responsibility will be best subserved by
preparing the islanders as rapidly as pos
sible for self-government and giving to
them assurances that it will come as
soon as they are reasonably prepared
for it."
When interrogated by John G. Mil
burn ef Buffalo as to whether the Del
phic phrase, "self-government," in the
foregoing sentence was to he construed
as "identical with independence political
and territorial," he replied: "I am in
hearty accord with that plank in the
Democratic platform which advocates
treating the Filipinos precisely as we did
the Cubans; and I also favor making
the promise to them NOW to take such
action AS SOON AS IT CAN PRU
DENTLY BE DONE."
Aye, there's the rub! Give the prom
ise, and a Democratic promise at that,
now, and redeem It "as soon aa It can
prudently be done."
Was there ever a more flagrant case of
that juggling with words that gives the
word of promise to the ear, but puts its
fulfillment beyond the pale of living
hope? Why promise now what in the
expediency and wisdom of the future it
may never be prudent to fulfill?
No wonder the Democratic New York
Times scornfully declares that "the only
perceptible difference between the Demo
cratic position and the Republican posi
tion is that Judge Parker would tell the
Filipinos nowwhat Is in store for them,
and President Roosevelt would not.
There is nothing either in his speech or
in his letter to Mr. Milburn which would
in any other than a heedless anti-Imperialist
mind lead to the conclusions that
were he in the Whito House he would
pursue toward our possessions in the far
East a policy different from tkat pursued
by President Roosevelt."
The Times further expresses the opin
ion that "If the American people were
asked to vote to-day upon the question
of immediately granting independence to
tke Philippines, they would Tote the
proposition down ten to one, perhaps
twenty to one, certainly by aa exemplary
majority. They would vote it down be
cause they are not insane and because
they are not heartless. If they were
asked to vote upon the question whether
we should 'make the promise now' they
would laugh in tho faces of those who
asked them to take the trouble to express
their will upon a mere question of expe
diency." A premise now to do something which
it may be prudent to do fifty or two hun
dred years hence, possibly never, would
seem to almost reach the unscalable
heights of Democratic folly. Certainly
Judge Parker's promise now with its "as
soon aa it can prudently be done" condi
tion, eliminates the Philippine issue from
tha Democratic category of Republican
transgressions.
Imperialism of Steel.
When the great Iron and steel Indus
try of the United States thrives, other
American Industries thrive. The Dem
ocratic party could not legislate to de
stroy the protection to the iron and steel
Industry without legislating to destroy
the prosperity of the United States.
The millions of additional profit and
wages that have come to the iron and
steel industry under Republican rule
would have been earned, If at . all, by
foreign nations, had Democratic policies
prevailed during the last eight years.
Tho gigantic rise of this industry dur
ing the last eight years added enormous
ly to the wealth of the United States,
and every branch of American industry
and agriculture has been stimulated by
it. "Prosperity at home and prestige
abroad" has indeed been intimately con
nected with the increasing imperialism of
steel, which once was Pauper but now
is King.
Prosperity at Home, Prestige Abroad.
"Prosperity at Home and Prestige
Abroad" was a campaign phrase that
appealed with great force to the Amer
ican people in 1900. It ehould appeal
to them with still greater force in 1904,
for during the last four years of fur
ther Republican rula there have been
stfll further grent gains in the prosper
ity of the United States, and still fur
ther great increase in the respect enter
tained for the United States by all the
nations of the world.
Democratic Party Divided.
The Democratic campaign managers
are trying to hoodwink the mass f the
party by saying all Democrats are work
lag earnestly for the election of Parker.
The truth is, there is bow more dis
affection in the Democratic party than
there was when Bryan was nominated
the first time. Neither Bryan Demo
crats nor friends of W. R. Hearst will
support Parker. In New York State the
Bryanites have put a State Popuust
ticket in the field and will vote for Wat
son, the Populist nominee for the Presi
dency. In New Jersey the Hearstites
have organized the "People's Demo
cratic party" and will fight the regular
organization. In Indiana and other
States the free 6ilver and Bryan Demo
crats are in arms and will worry the
Parker party.
THE WORKINGMAN'S FRIEND.
Hallway Firemen Pay a Notable Trib
ute to President Roosevelt.
No President ever received ft more
notable tribute from a labor organiza
tion than Theodore Roosevelt did at the
convention of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen held in Buffalo. A pub
lic meeting was held on the night of
Sept. 13. Fully 5,000 persons were in
attendance.
Grand Master Hannahan, in conclud
ing an address, called attention to the
fact that a New York newspaper had
criticised the President because he had
accepted an honorary membership in the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
"Let me say," said Mr. Hannahan, "that
if the President of the United States or
any other of its citizens does nothing
worse than accept membership in this
organization he will neither merit the ill
will nor deserve tha censure of any of
his fellow-men. (Cheers.)
"If the rest of the public, and particu
larly those who are intrusted with the
direction of our government and the
management of the nation's greatest en
terprises would do as the President and
meet us upon a common level, there
would be fewer strikes and less strife
and more of peace and good-will in the
industrial world."
"What has the President done for
you?" shouted an intoxicated man, wh
stood near the stage door on the right.
"What has the President done?" re
peated Grand Master Hannahan. "The
President has proven to the organized
workingmen of this country that he has
an interest in their welfare by accepting
an honorary membership in an organiza
tion of men whose faces are begrimed
by smoke nud dust, and who daily and
hourly face the gravest dangers."
The monster audieuce burst into
deafening chfers. The tumult rolled
from wall to wall and back again. Men
stood up on the benches, wildly waving
their hats and cheering for the Presi
dent. The demonstration was spon
taneous and was general all over the hall.
Finally it died down and some one in
the audience shouted:
"Hurrah for Theodore Roosevelt!"
And again the crowds burst into
cheers and when the second demonstra
tion died out the intoxicated man was
nowhere to be seen.
During the demonstration the men on
the stage sat silent and made no effort
either to check or urge on tho remark
able ovation which the President had re
ceived. The Brotherhood does not per
mit politics to influence its action, but
it" members, regardless of party, enter
tain a high opinion of President Roose
velt and will stand by him as firmly as
he stands by them.
MR. DAVIS' CONTRIBUTION
Democratic "Vice-Presidential Candi
date Draws the Line at 850,000.
A press telegram dated Cumberland,
Md Sept. 7, says:
"It is stated on reliable authority from
Elkins that the campaign contribution
of Henry G. Davis will not be anything
like the amount the Democratic manag
ers had expected. He has fixed the
amount for all purposes at 50,000 and
his brother. Col. Thomas B. Davis of
Keyser, W. Va., gave a similar amount.
"Mrs. Elkins and Mrs. Arthur Lee,
daughters of Mr. Davis, are known to
have objected to their father contribut
ing large sums, and his son, John T.
Davis, is said to have done likewise.
"Four years ago John T. Davis spent
a large sum in four counties whon his
Uncle Tom was a candidate for Con
gress, but no results were obtained. Col.
Davis being defeated by a large vote.
Since then the Davises have little faith
in politicians' Judiciously expending
money."
There's some sense In the Davis fam
ily, it appears. The ex-Senator himself
has always succeeded In hanging on to
his dollars.
How much better it will be to use
some of papa's money to buy pretty bon
nets and gowns with, than to throw them
to the mocking-birds of the Democratic
campaign committee!
And all for nothing, too!
Handicapped.
Marshall P. Wilder's most successful
joke of the season has a political tang
to it that Is calculated to make even
a Democrat with any sense of its eternal
aptness laugh. He tells of a teacher whe
asks a class of boys whether they would
liko to be President of the United
Slates. Observing that amid the gen
eral enthusiasm of assent one boy was
silent and disconsolate, she said:
"What's the matter, Willie? Don't
you wish to be President?"
"Yes'm, but I can't," replied the boy.
"How do you know you can't?" she
asked.
"Because I'm a Democrat.
That let him out.
Republican vs. Democratic Policy.
Organization does much to maintain
the wages of labor, bat organization of
wage-earners does not provide consum
ers. Consumption of coal is always
greatest when mills and factories are run
ning full time. It is the policy of the
Repnbl'can party to protect all indus
tries by wise and beneficent laws, while
it has been the policy of tha Democratic
party, as evidenced by the last Cleveland
administration, to provide as much work
as pes3ible for the artisans of other coun
tries by removing the protection the tar
iff affords American workingmen.
The Democratic party has been fatally
wrong on every phase of the money ques
tion from the resumption of specie pay
ments after the war to the establish
ment of the gold standard, both of which
it opposed. It is constitutionally unfit
to deal with financial questions.
The story of the struggle on the edge
of the arid belts is a record of heart
breaking disappointments and of failure
for causes utterly beyond Individual con
trol. Under national irrigation these
will cnx happily no more.
NOTHING TO TAKE BACK.
How Will Bryan Explain His Hos
tility to Parker?
William Jennings Bryan has been offi
cially engaged by the Democratic Na
tional Committee to make speeches in
New York, Indiana and other places.
The former candidate for the presidency
has something of a reputation as an
agile political contortionist, but he will
have the. time of his life explaining his
record during the present campaign. Mr.
Bryan has been on a good many sides of
a good many different questions, and yet
he lives to tell the tale. But just how
he proposes to advocate the election of
Parker is a mystery.
Bryan was opposed to Parker before
the convention met at St. Louis. He was
opposed to Parker every day during the
sessions of that inharmonious gathering.
When Parker sent his telegram supple
menting the Democratic platform Mr.
Bryan rose from a bed of sickness to de
nounce the nominee as a traitor and a
dictator, and his dramatic appearance on
that Saturday night was one of the most
extraordinary episodes of an extraordi
nary convention. Bryan lashed Parker
and the dared the convention to send a
telegram to the nominee demanding his
honest opinion on other well-known Dem
ocratic principles.
Later on Mr. Bryan, in his own paper,
the Commoner, while the events in the
convention were fresh before him, openly
charged that Judge Parker was a party
to a corrupt attempt to deceive the con
vention and that his nomination had been
secured by improper means. It was then
that the former candidate for the presi
dency put himself on record by saying in
the Commoner of July 13, less than a
week after the nomination: "I have noth
ing to take back."
It seems a curious thing to find a man
who has "nothing to take back," appear
ing on the stump favoring the election of
Alton B. Parker for the presidency. If
Mr. Bryan has "nothing to take back,"
ho should in common honesty when he
appears on the stump in Indiana and
elsewhere, repeat to his audiences exactly
what he said in the Commoner of July
13, which was printed exactly one week
after the Democratic convention was
called to order and only four days after
Judge Parker was nominated for the
presidency and 'had sent his telegram
repudiating the Democratic platform.
In this issue of the Commoner Mr.
Bryan said:
"It was a plain and deliberate attempt
to deceive the party. The New York
platform was vague and purposely so,
because the advocates of Judge Parker
were trying to secure votes from among
the people who would have opposed his
views had they known them. The nom
ination was secured, therefore, by crook
ed and indefensible methods."
As an exhibition of political gymnas
tics Bryan's campaign speech for Par
ker ought to bo worth going miles to
hear. If, as he says, he has "nothing
to take back," how will he explain mat
ters to the people? What did he mean
whon he said in the Commoner: "The
nomination of Judge Parker virtually
nullifies the anti-trust plank?" Was it
true on July 13 that Parker's nomination
had been secured "by crooked means"?
If it was true then is it not true now?
Mr. Bryan in the Commoner said: "1
shall not appeal for votes for the ticket
on false grounds." How can he appear
on the stump, therefore, and seriously
ask the workingmen of the country to
vote for the Democratic nominee after
the Commoner had declared that "The
labor plank as prepared by Judge Par
ker'3 friends on the subcommittee was
a straddling, meaningless plank?"
Was Mr. Bryan lying when he said in
his paper, "A Democratic victory will
mean very little, if any, progress so long
as the party is under control of the Wall
street element?"
If the party was under the control of
the Wall street element when Mr. Bryan
wrote that editorial, is it not just as
much under the same control while he is
on the stump?
Perhaps Mr. Bryan can explain away
these things. Perhaps he can answer
these questions.
Perhaps not.
TAMMANY "TAR WATER. "
Will It Prove an Acceptable Heverage
to Respectable Democrats?
Judge Parker's "admonition," ad
dressed to his waning supporters, in his
speech to the visiting editors, has in it,
for all its rhodomontade, a shadow of
the pathetic.
It fs little wonder that there are dis
sensions in the Democratic camp, as
staid gentlemen from the South, East
and West, men who have certain tradi
tions of respectability to reckon with,
fiud that their candidate is and always
has been cheek by jowl with David
Bennett Hill and hand in glove with
Tammany.
Judge Parker, recognizing the dangers
of his position, but unable to shake off
the political associates and methods by
which he has risen, pleads fervently for
"the elimination of personal, factional
and unimportant differences involving no
surrender of principle." Such elimina
tion, he declares, "is essential to suc
cess." But will the Democrats drink the
Tammany "tar water?"
There is something to be said or
there WAS In favor, even, of "tar
water." Bishop Berkeley In his famous
eulogy upon that old-fashioned bat un
pleasant mixture declared: "IT IS OF
A NATURE SO MILD AND BENIGN
AND PROPORTIONED TO THE
HUMAN CONSTITUTION AS TO
WARM WITHOUT HEATING, TO
CHEER BUT NOT INEBRIATE."
Still, tar water went out of fashion!
A maa who Is weak enough to pnt his
candidacy la their (Hill's and Ilel
moat's) hands before the convention
wonldnotba strong enough to resist
their Influence after election, if he
wers by any possibility successful.
William J. Bryan.
Forty years of practical control of the
government by the Republican party
covers the whole period of modern prog
ress. The only intervals of reac
tion or failure to progress were when
the Democratic party was In power.
History shows that & Democratic
tariff has always been followed by busi
ness adversity and a Republican tariff
by business prosperity. Why not ac
cept the Terdict of history?
The Democratic party is like the man
who was in favor of prohibition bnt
"agin" the enforcement. It favors a
Panama Canel, bnt opposes the measnres
necessary to obtain it.
"AS MAINE GOES
In each campaign .J
They look to Maine J
To make the future outcome plain. )
For each one knows
That as Maine goes
The tide of public judgment flows.
One time Maine "went
bent for Kent,"
And every one knew what that nutaj,
This year the State
Has struck a gait
That sets Republicans elate.
f
At Esopus
There is a fuss.
Because the votes are going thus;
And Gassaway,
So blithe and gay,
Must write checks till election day.
The Texans shout
And jeer and flout
Because their State is not in doubt;
But D. B. Hill
Has had a chill
And thinks that he had best keep tUk
Much pain is felt
Beneath the belt
Of those opposed to Roosevelt;
They have the blues
At this great news
They know that Roosevelt can't lose.
I
The record shows
That as Maine goes
The tide of public judgment flows
The fight is vain,
For all explain
That they will have to vote wltS
Maine.
PENSION ORDER, NO. 78.
President Roosevelt's Action Is la
Line with Law and Precedent.
The groundless character of the charge
that President Roosevelt has exceeded
his constitutional powers is 3hown clear
ly by examination of tha facts and the
laws concerned in the executive action
known as the "age pension order" issued
last March by direction of the President.
Anyone who will take the trouble to
read the act of June 27, 1890, as amend
ed May 9, 1900, will find a clear basis
to begin with. It directs who shall have
pensions, and how the amount of the
pension, in each case, snail be determin
ed, as follows:
All persons who served SO days or more
In the military or naval service of the
United States during the late war of the
rebellion and who have been honorably dis
charged therefrom, and who are now or
who may hereafter be suffering from a
mental or physical disability of a perma
nent character, not the result of their own
vicious habits, which Incapacitates them
from the performance of manual labor ia
such a degree as to render them nnable t
earn a support, shall, upon making due
proof of the fact according to such rules
and regulations as the Secretary of the
Interior may provide, be placed upon the
list of Invalid pensioners of the United
States and be entitled to receive a pen
sion not exceeding S12 per month, and not
less than ?C per month, proportioned to the
degree of Inability to earn a support, and
In determining such Inability each and ev
ery disability shall be duly considered, and
the aggregate of the disabilities shown shall
be rated.
Thus, as plain as words can make it.
is authority given to the Secretary of the
Interior to determine what pension shall
be paid to any applicant for pension wh
served ninety days in the War of Re
bellion, was honorably discharged, and
who is disabled for the performance of
manual labor by any cause other than
the results of his own vicious habits.
The Supreme Court has decided thai
upon the point of establishing the rate ol
pension to be paid, within the limits pre
scribed by the law tha Secretary of thi
Interior has entire control. The only
check or supervision upon him is from
the President of the United States, whoa
the general laws specifically direct shall
have control of the Commissioner of Pen
sions and the administration of the pen
sion system.
Therefore, it was directly in line with
the duties imposed upon him according
to section 471, U. S. Revised Statutes,
that President Roosevelt gave the cele
brated order which has been called an
evidence of "usurpation," "imperialism,'
"a desire to override the constitution."
a "looting of the treasury," and other
bard names, by excitable Democrats. The
section of the Revised Statutes referred
to reads as follows:
"The Commissioner of Pensions shall
perform, under the direction of the Sec
retary of the Interior, such duties in the
execution of the various pension and
bounty-land laws as may be prescribed
by the President."
President Roosevelt, in his pension or
der, did no more than his plain duty, act
ing strictly within the powers conferred
upon him by the Congress of the United
States.
Parker's Election Would Unsettle
Huslnesa.
Eugene A. Merrill, president of the
Minnesota Loan and Trust Company of
Minneapolis, in an interview in the Com
mercial West of Minneapolis says:
"Much has been said concerning the Ja
slgnlflcance of the coming election so far
as It relates to business. It has bp n urged
that the maintenance of the gold stand
ard Is assured, etc., but, while the theory
of the case is excellent, yet as a matter
of fact the man with money to Invest does
not want to he monetarily Involved la
unsettling of conditions through a change
of administration. The policy of the party
In power Is pretty well known and its coar
tlnuance in office wlU precipitate no diffi
culties. The policy ef the opposition may
be ever to clearly conjectured, bnt Its ac
cession to control would. I think, cause
some contraction in business and financial
enterprises, at least temporarily until the
safety and conservatism now talked fit
should be more substantially demonstrat
ed." Tacsrart Is Fascinated.
Tom Taggart is so fascinated by the
Inscrutable mystery behind Judge PJ
ker's speech of acceptance that he can
not lay it aside long enough to take his
meal 3. Ha pores over it from morn till
dewy eve. He reads it in his bath at
French Lick Springs and drops to sleej
reading it in bed. He declares that th
elusive mystery of what it all means
becomes clearer with every perusal, and
that by the close of the campaign he con
fidently expects that it will be as rlir
as the water of his own Pluto spring.
A Sure Ssxn.
Now we know that David B. Hill rsr
tends to quit politics next January, fo
he has disclaimed calling President
Roosevelt "a fraud." That a little in
nocuous fiinr like that when he has ex
hausted tie vocabulary of vituperatioa
npa the Republican half of the Ameri
can people for "nigh on 40 years" h
surely a sign that David is setting ail
house ia erder and wants to depart fe
litical life at peace with til mea.