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glanderous. I'irebrnnd Methods Agniu
Ctmtncr 'nti Vo-n-.
Baltimore A -wriv i
7 would seem to t i pers :i of a f -ir
degree of perspicacity that lht ,H
j ' by the incide:.. of I. (V.oig.. -tiiree
years ago was -.uiiieicntly forcetul
to have lifted lonaer than the present !
action of certain person ami publica
tions would lead us to believe it has last
ed. A hue and cry was raised against
Ires;.l:.t M -Kinley nloug the line of al
leged militarism. The absurdity of that
cry was" admitted by everybody even
before the great statesman had been in
augurated. But tho seeds of sedition lived
and throve in the poisonous soil ef an
archy. In the soul of Czolgosz and his
murderous advisers the harm was done.
The crop grew aud bore fruit. He had
read the papers which falsely and trai
torously declared that President McKin
ley was a mere puppet in the hands of
thoie'who would turn the republic into
an empire. He had listened to those who
fanatically professed to believe this pal
pable lie. Murder was born in his little
mind,. And tbe7 whose deliberate and
crafty lying had nerved him to the deed
were more guilty than he who did that
which would have been almost justifiable
bad their words been true. These people
who incited the murder were properly
.end thoroughly castigated at the time.
Btu the lesson has not lasted. Now,
that the heat of another campaign is
upon us the old slanderous, firebrand
method is again coming Into vogue. Cer
tain newspapers and certain periodicals
are picturing Theodore Roosevelt as an
emperor; as one who is itching for an
opportunity to exercise tyrannical power
and take away the dearly bought and
dearly held liberties of this people. They
who make these claims know far better
than many who are influenced by their
treason how false these representations
arc. They know that Theodore Roose
velt is the embodiment of patriotism and
loyalty to their government; they
know he has fought throughout his ca
reer to secure for the people broader and
fc.etter privileges and has stood between
them and those who would have robbed
them of the full enjoyment of those pre
rogatives that Americans hold sacred.
They know he has done this unselfishly
and bravely and regardless of the effect
they might have on his political pros
pects. They know, furthermore, that he
wiH coHtimie to do these things to the
end of the chapter and that he seeks to
have about him only such men as are
true to the cause of the great common
people as allied against the classes, po
litical tricksters and demagogues.
If some weak-minded individual should
Accept seriously their preaching and feel
himself called upon to prevent tire yoke
frem falling upon the neck of his fellow
beines should follow in the footsteps of
the ill-starred Czolgosz and take the life
of the President, either before or after
' his re-election those papers aud period
cate would hypocritically drape their
columns in mourning and fulsomely prate
if the marvel his virtues of the deceased
ftatesmen. They would tell to the world
the truth they not only concealed, but
braEenly denied, during the lifetime of
the man in whose murder they assisted.
They would heap anathema upon the
Load of their poor dupe, who knew no
better than to believe their traitorous
catch-penny mouthings, and insist that
he be given a speedy quietus.
Now is a good time to have a care.
It is a good time for such publications
to call a halt and think a moment of
That might be the results of someone's
accepting as truth the exaggei.'aJiOJis and
barefaced lies they are now eagerly and
ruthlessly promulgating.
Have a care, incendiaries, have a care.
UNWORTHY OF TRUST.
Gold Democrats Sluinnlnsr the llill-
Shechnn Combination.
' The Gold Democrats of Indiana are
unwilling to trust Judge Parker's spon
sors. They are willing to contribute $10,
009 to the campaign fund, but the money
wiH not be sent to the Hill-Sheehan
combination. They have asked Parker
Limself to take the money. If the Demo
crats are uuwilling to trust their leaders,
how can the mass of the people be ex
pected to take any stock in tho profes
sions and promises of the party? If the
Gold Democrats are correct in their esti
mate of Parker's managers, the latter
are no better than a gang of sand-baggers.
Sterling R. Holt, one of- the lead
ing Gold Democrats of Indiana, said a
few days ago: "The Gold Democrats
are not going to be coaxed behind a
barn and relieved of their money and
then driven to the polls and voted."
It is gratifying to learn that such a
maa as Mr. Holt entertains the same
view of Hill and Sheehan that Repub
licans do, but it is somewhat remarkable
that Mr. Holt does not realize that Par
ker is merely the creature of his man
agers, and that any money given to the
judge will find its way, through some
channel, to Democratic headquarters.
Parker's Neighbors Agrainst Him.
Congressman George J. Smith of the
SSvwity-fourth New xork District, in
t?ca is Judge Parker's home, told
President Roosevelt a few days ago
that he had made a tour of the district
ami found uo Republicans who would
ole for Parker. If the Democratic
candidate gains no votes among his Re
publican neighbors, he certainly should
pais none elsewhere. In other words,
if his popularity is not sufficiently great
9 draw votes from those he dally comes
la contact with, he need not expect to
scare the support of Republicans who
kaew him only-by what he has said and
done.
Parkerlte Alarmed.
There are a large number of Bryan
Democrats in Now York State, and
their present attitude is viewed with
alarm by the Hill-Belmont-Sheehan or
ganization. It is said every follower of
W. J- Bryan will vote the Populist Na
tional ticket. The Populists have put
a State ticket in the field, the first in
?-Hy years, and a Brvan Democrat has
wea placed at its head. The Parkorites
are charging Bryan with bad faith, as
king that the defection of tho Bryan
Wemocrats will cost Parker at least 25,
W0 votes.
Tbe Renl Qneation.
On the day of the issue of President
"oosevelt's letter of acceptance the day
- the Maine election, by the way the
Ps reports noted a loug visit to Judge
rwftr by David Bennett Hill.
Is probable, if not certain, that tho
friends who "have drunk from the
"e canteen" throughout naore than one
Paign, discussed, thoroughly, oae Im-
mnrttl saying r their well-beloved
1 nomas Jefferson, namelv:
?FE KTlOl RATION OF
f KU0E IS A MATTEIt OF RIGHT,
J w ar:: WA::ru: t' re
I'.i.LKDr TITOS BY l :. TH ARB
I -i.s is. i!- lecd. for t'..; Democrat.-;, "a
harj savin":"
THOROUGHLY EXPOSED.
The Weakness of Parker an:l Davis
Grows Plainer Knch Dny.
It appears that Judge Parker of
Esopus is going to New York City to
run his own campaign. The revelation
has come, but it has come more swiftly
than most of us expected. The revela
tion is simply this that the idea of the
country that the Democrats had nomi
nated a fine old judge whose character
led up to the standard of what a judge
should be is shivered into splinters. Two
years ago the country knew nothing of
Judge Alton B. Parker of New York,
uuu uuie or. iienry Gassaway Davis of
Went Virginia, two men picked up, for
a purpose, by the men who controlled the
Democratic national convention. How
clear to everybody now must be the sit
uation! Instead of this stately judge
who seut the stately telegram to St.
Louis, appears, and for all permanency,
merely a decent creature of tho famous
New York politician, David Bennett
Hill.
It is all queer. It appears so unsub
stantial and indifferent that Hill could
have nominated one of his creations for
the Presidency!
As the days pass in this autumn of
1904 the eyes of the American people
are opening as to the political situation.
There is no anguish following the open
ing. It is practically all over, saTe the
exhibition of a certain exuberance next
November.
It is impossible that such a people
as are the voters of the United States
could vote generally to place the gov
ernment in the hands of Tammany and a
weak but crafty Democratic leader,
whose aims and objects have seemed
ever to be for himself alone, one who
has never heard or thought of the ex
pression, "the greatest good for the
greatest number," and who, above all,
seems incompetent for the best manage
ment of the United States.
RAILWAY MAN'S VIEWS.
Country Is Prosperous, and Roosevelt
Will Be Elected.
E. H. Harriman, one of the best in
formed railway officials in the country,
says a continuation of national pros
perity is assured. Recently he said to
a New York Horald reporter:
"Conditions which in other years
caused panic and national distress do
not now exist. In all localities in Ne
braska and Kansas, in the East and the
Far West the local moneyed Interests
are conservative. It is possible to in
vestigate with accuracy any financial or
industrial question. The small money
centers as well as the large ones are
well supplied with funds, and this fact
Insures careful investment and mini
mixes risk. There has been a slow,
steady enhancement of values, and it is
still going on."
When asked for his opinion on the
probable outcome of the election, he said:
It will be Roosevelt and Fairbanks,
Every one wants them. No one can af
ford to change."
Democrats Admire Roosevelt.
Radical Democratic newspapers are
forced to admit that President Roose
velt's letter of acceptance is a strenuous
presentation of the Issues from a Repub
lican standpoint. Even the New York
World and Denver Times commend the
President's "keynote." The fact is, there
is not a Democrat in the land who does
not admire Mr. Roosevelt's direct way of
going ot things, and all would vote for
him if they could at the same time re
tain their party organization. There
will be no real regret among Democrats
when Mr. Roosovelt Is elected. He is
ton times more popular with the mass
of' Democracy than Judge Parkor Is.
Retail Merchants Itusy.
Renorts from every city in the country
tell of great activity among the retail
merchants, who are laying In stocks and
nrnnarintr for a lively fall and winter
trade. When the retail merchnnts are
busv the country is Drosnennc for they
depend largely on the working people for
custom. Democrats who are howling
calamity and hard times should retire
to the Halls of Silence at Esopus and
imjTiiire themselves until the campaign
is over lest they be engulfed by the Re
publican wave of prosperity.
Parker's Political Conferences.
It is announced, with a flourish of
trumpets, that Richard OIney, who was
in President Cleveland's cabinet, has vis
ited Judge Parker, spending two hours
with him at Rosemount Nothing is
said about tho visits of "blue-eyed" Billy
Sheehan of Tammany fame, -who is a
near neighbor of Judge Parker, and who
can run in any time. It would take many
pounds of Olneyism to cure one ounce
of Shoehanism.
a r -n.,.ir.. TVm ncra tie nominee for
President, has ne'ver journeyed west of
Buffalo, N. Y. What does he know of
the groat West, Its people, their achieve
ments, their possibilities, their needs?
How can he reconcile the demands of
the different sections, and decide great
questions properly and for the good of
the whole country? Of limited expen-
Vinrirnn hA Is not COm-
parable with Theodore Roosavelt, who
has traveled the country over, lived east
and west, knows the people, the country,
and Is a President of the people, not con-
trolled by Wall street ana m
We are not nnmlndfnl of the 1m
... - .ihninn which oar
foreiu-n-born population has made to
the npbaiiainK
WOrk and influence have been felt
. i l. .nnntrT.and III II C Ol
i that u r'""h;S"
la the fruit or its K""""
try."- Senator rbanks la the Senate. Janu
ary 11, 1833- .
inima nt osrrrlnff New
Democratic - , .
York this fall do not appear to appeal to
ih class of men whose money talks m
h wtinir ring. J-ne vluUUUU . "
a Detuna i mfro.t broker to
fay tt waaltny ---- v .
waaer that Roosevelt carries New York
has scarcely received a ten pr cent nib
ble,
of value
It trould proper w
expression ot
light."
PROTECTION OF CITIZENS, i
No Discrimination in Treatment of
Native II rn and Naturalized.
Dispatchp . from St. Petersburg repre
sent the Ru-- :a; press as commenting in ;
a dazed maimer upon the efforts of the i
Lnited t:t-!t.s gownment to protect its '
Jewish citizens in foreign countries. The
Journal de St. Petersburg editorially
characterizes as "stupefying" an article
in a recent French paper which professed
to explain President Rooscvelt s desir
to gain more liberal troatment for Rus
sian Jews naturalized in the United
States and revisiting Russia with pass
ports as American citizens.
In his letter of acceptance President
Roosevelt gave an authoritative account
of the ground taken by his own adminis
tration and that of President McKinley
as regards the protection of "American
citizens of foreign birth, or of particu
lar creed, who desire to travel abroad,"
the phrase ii quoted from the letter ot
acceptance. It is alone as an example
of condensed and accurate meaning, in
structive. Continuing, President Roose
velt says:
"Russia, for instance, refuses to admit
and protect Jews. Turkey refuses to ad
mit and protect certain sects of Chris
tians. This government has consistently
demanded equal protection abroad for all
American citizens, whether native or
naturalized. On March 27, 1899, Secre
tary Hay sent a letter of instructions to
all diplomatic and consular officers of
the United States, in which he said:
'This department doe3 not discriminate
between native born and naturalized citi
zens in according them protection while
they are abroad, equality of treatment
being required by the laws of the Unitad
States.
"These orders to our agents abroad
have been repeated again and again, and
are treated as the fundamental rule of
conduct laid down for them, proceeding
upon the theory 'that all naturalized citi
zens of the United States while in for
eign countries are entitled to and shall
receive from this government the same
protection of persons and property which
is accorded to native born citizens.' "
He further declares that in issuing
passports the State Department never
discriminates or alludes to any man's re
ligion, and that "in granting to every
American citizen, native or naturalized,
Christian or Jew, the same passport, so
far as it has power it insists that all
foreign governments shall accept the
passport as prima facie proof that the
person therein described is a citizen of
the United States and entitled to protec
tion as such. It is a standing order to
every American diplomatic and consular
officer to protoct every American citizen,
of whatever faith, from unjust molesta
tion; and our officers abroad have been
stringently required to comply with this
order."
This enunciation of a course of action
i? backed by the cause of justice. The
reception recently given the American
idea of religious liberty in certain quar
ters on the continent of Europe attaches
additional pertinence to the criticism
with which Mr. Roosevelt closed that
section of his letter which he devoted to
the discussion of the theme. "It is a
striking evidence," he says, "of our op
ponents' insincerity in this matter that
with their demand for radical action by
the State Department they couple a de
mand for a reduction in our small mili
tary establishment. Yet they must know
that the heed paid to our protests against
ill treatment of our citizens will be ex
actly proportionate to the belief In our
ability to make these protests effective
should the need arise."
PARKER'S DEFICIT SCARE.
It Is Eaiily Exploded by an Appeal
to Facts and Figures.
The Ulster County candidate, labor
ing hard over Judge Parker's speech to
the faithful Democratic editors, scissored
out some statistics with which to ham
mer the Republican administration. But
while the judge was toiling over his
empty sentences,
"His cogitative faculties Immersed
In coglbundlty of cogitation,"
hi3 aptitude for figures went on a vaca
tion and he prepared, or accepted, some
very queer conclusions, which he gave
to the admiring editors with mucn pomp
and circumstance.
The trouble is that the Ulster County
politician's deficit is not a deficit at
all, when it comes to realities. The Re
publicans delightedly accept the chal
lenge of the Democratic candidate, for it
gives them a chance to show a few sta
tistics themselves.
"Judge Parker asserts," says a Wash
ington dispatch to the Chicago Chron
icle, "that there is now a deficit of $42,
000,000, Instead of a surplus of $SO,000,
000, which Mr. Roosevelt found on be
coming President. Both statements are
reckless, as a careful examination of
the records of the treasury will show.
In regard to the deficit, the receipts and
expenditures for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1004, show an apparent deficit
of $40,000,000 in round numbers, but
during that time the United States paid
$50,000,000 for a Panama canal and ad
vanced $4,500,000 to the Louisiana pur
chase exposition, which latter amount is
to be returned to the government. If
Mr. Parker will deduct hi3 apparent defi
cit of $42,000,000 from the $54,500,000
paid for the purchase of the Panama
canal and the encouragement of an ex
position of world-wide scope and impor
tance, he would find a balance of $12,-
000,000 and upward on the other side of
the ledger."
"We Ilave Our Troubles.
This is the attitude of the Republican
party in the present campaign.-
It Is "spoilin for a fight;" it Is "blue
mouldy for want of a batin';" it is the
"Crested Jayhawk of the Mountain" and
can find no "Bald-headed Snipe of the
Valley." It wants to "take the bull by
the horns," and can't find the bull; It is
trailing its coat-tails on the ground and
can't find anybody to step on them. It
yearns for a Kilkenny Fair and has dis
covered only a "sociadio.
We have our troubles!
First Voters Clubs.
Roosevelt and Fairbanks First Vot
ers Clubs are being organized in every
State in the Union. If you are a first
voter and Intend to cast that vote for
Roosevelt and Fairbanks this fall, you
ought to join one of these clubs. For
detailed Information apply to the Chair
man of your State Central Committee.
Why?
The last four years of Democratic
rale that we had should ba a warning
to the people not to repeat the experi
ment, tht and of Mr. Cleveland'!
second administration the public credit J
had been lowered, the revenues were de
clining, the public debt was growing, la
bor was unemployed and business was
paralyzed. The election of McKinley
in 1S9G transformed this condition Into
one of universal prosperity which has
contiuued till the present time. Why
invite another period of business depres
sion? CONVENTION OF CLUBS.
Low Rote of Fare Secured by Leaguers
for Indianapolis Mestlng.
At the reauest of the offlceri of the
National Republican League, who are
working up interest in the convention of
Republican Clubs at Indianapolis, Oct.
5 and 0, the Central Pasaenger Associa
tion has conceded a rate from all pointa
in the territory of the association of one
fare plus 25 cents for tha round trip.
The aelling dates are Oct. 4, 5 and 6 and
the return limit Oct. 9, thus enabling a
isit to St. Louis. It was agreed that
these fares should be tendered other as
sociations east and west. No card or
ders or certificates aw required on the
dates mentioned.
President Moore of the National
League, after consulting with President
C. W. McGuire of the Indiana League,
and representatives of the Illinois organ-
iaation, returned to Philadelphia. H
said tha organization of Republican
clubs was being pushed with vigor and
that an attendance of at least 1,000 dele
gates from the various State and terri
torial leagues was expected at Indian
apolis. Headquarters will he opened at
the Denison Hotel in that city at once.
The League men are especially pleased
with the low rates of fare secured, and
anticipate large audiences to hear Secre
taries Shaw and Taft and Senators Fair
banks and Beveridge, and Hon. George
A. Knight of California.
DEMOCRAT'S ADMISSION.
Parker's Party Afraid to Stand on Its
Past Record.
John B. Stanchfield, one of the leaders
of the New York Democracy, said in a
speech at Schenectady:
"They (the Democrats) do not -stand on
their past, but they present a live Inter
pretation of live Issues."
Truly, the Democratic party does not
stand on its past. It dares not stand
on its past on its advocacy of free
coinage of silver, on its demand for the
hauling down of the flag in the Philip
pines, on the business paralysis that
marked the last period during which the
Democratic party was in control of the
government; on its declaration that tho
war for the preservation of the Union
was a failure; on all the blundering op
position of which its history is a con
tinuous record.
The Democratic party does not and
dares not stand upon its record, because
its record would discredit the most en
ticing promises that it could make.
As to Mrilne.
And did yon hoar the news from Maine?
From Maine, Maine. Maine!
She went hell bent for Governor Kent,
And Tippecanoe, and Tyler, too.
And so in this year 1904 she has gone
this Maine of ours on the side of the
Republican party, and oh, hasn't gone
half way yet! It is good to contemplate
tho manner In which she will conduct
herself in November,
Maine is peopled with Americans, with
the descendants of those who wrenched
the wilderness into civilization on this
continent. Very acute and sensible are
the great-grandchildren voters of Maine.
They have expressed tnemselves.
A Rear Guard Action.
Already in the presidential campaign
of this year the Democrats are fighting
a "rear-guard action." Th8 Russian
Gen. Kuropatkin has his troubles and
has been fighting rear-guard actions for
some time, but his condition is good as
compared with the condition of the pres
ent leaders of the Democratic party.
The Democracy Is fighting a "rear
guard action," and about the only trou
ble the Republicans have in the premises
is that there will not bo fun enough in
the campaign. Even the "rear-guard ac
tion" appears to be about over.
Flocking to the Populist Candidate.
Bryan's bitter denunciation of Par
ker is bearing fruit. Dispatches from
several States report that the Nobras-
kan's admirers are flocking to the Popu
list standard. Some of Judge Parker's
close friends are accusing Bryan of di
rectly inspiring the desertion of such
men as Melvin G. Palliser, the New
York leader of the Bryan forces.
The Astute Mr. "Watson.
Candidate Watson knows a thing or
two. He calls Roosevelt the "genuine
article" and Parker the "spurious sub
stitute." Rollicking Tom need not be
alarmed for the republic. The voters
will never be fooled by something "just
as good" from the pack of the Itinerant
statesman of Wolfert's Roost
Snre Sinn of Confidence.
The price of railway shares on the
New York Stock Exchange is steadily
advancing, which is a sure indication
that railway traffic is good. It also Is a
sign that holders of stocks are confident
there will be no change in the national
policies which have made good times
for the whole country.
A sound and stable currency, good at
par in all countries, is a badge of na
tional honor and a source of individual
profit. For this condition the American
people are indebted to the party that has
always stood for maintaining tho public
credit and a sound currency.
Under tha Republican policy of pro
tection onr manufactured products have
become oue-third of those of the civil
iced world, and American workmen se
cure almost double the pay for their
labor that similar labor receives in oth
er countries.
A young man about to cast his first
vote should Identify himself with the
party of progress. Why should he ally
himself with a party that has to go
back a hundred years to find something
to talk about?
Experience has shown that the public
credit and the national currency are
absolutely safe in the hands of the Re
publican party. Why risk entrusting
them to a party that has never shown
any capacity for managing them?
The record of the Repnblleaa party
Is one of things done and pledges ful
filled; that of the Democratic party Is
one of the things promised and pledges
broken.
BROKEN PROMISE CASES.
Ilave Net ths People Grounds for
Damages Against Democracy?
A DenTer man has sued a restaurant
for damaging his stomach. He says the
restaurant solicited patronage on the
ground that it served good food, but
that the promise was not fulfilled. The
food, he asserts, caused stomach trou
ble, from which he suffered greatly, and
he fixes h damages at several thou
sand dollars.
This case will be watched with inter
est, for it opens a new field in the dam
age suit line. It is usually easy to se
cure compensatory damages for losses
caused by broken promises, when the
plaintiff has a written contract to back
up his demand, or If he has witnesses to
a verbal contract, but it is not always
possible to secure redress when the
promise Is of such a nature as is alleged
to have been made by the Denver res
taurant. Suppose the Denver man had won his
case. An avalanche of damage suits
might follow. Business men who forget
engagements, girls who wait vainly for
lovers that fail to come, borrowers Tvho
neglect to repay small loans, politicians
who promise and forget, and political
parties which bid for vote-s and never
meet their obligations all those might
be liable for damages if the Denver
plaintiffs euk is sustained.
And what a mountain of cases might
be piled up against Democracy If the
statute of limitations did not prove to
be a barl Who will ever forget the
woe and misery, the distress and starva
tion that came with the Democratic days
of 1803 to 1897? Industries languished
and trade and commerce generally were
paralyzed. Millions of wage earners
were either rendered idle or put on short
time. The etreets of the cities swarmed
with unemployed, and soup-houses were
established to feed the hungry. Onco
happy homes were turned into places of
squalor, where hunger-pinched mothers
sat trying to still the cries of ill-nourished
babes, and where gaunt, sunken
eyed men brooded over their inability to
obtain work.
And what caused these distressing
conditions? In the campaign of 1S92
Democracy was lavish with promises.
The Republican policy of protection was
a great evil, the Democratic platform
said. The people were urged to try free
trade or a tariff for revenue only. Great
blessings would follow abolition of a
protective tariff. Democracy said. The
people were misled by these promises
and Grover Cleveland was elected. Then
came the Gorman-Wilson tariff bill and
with It general depre3s"op and panicky
conditions. These conditions prevailed
until the Dingley act went into effect,
and a huge wave of Republican pros
perity began to engulf the country.
If the Denver man has grounds for
redress, have not the millions who suf
fered by reason of Democracy's vision
ary and broken promises just grievance?
Their monetary losses were enormous
and their sufferings beyond financial
reparation.
And Democracy is again making prom
ises. Will the victims of 1S93-7 listen
to the political sirens who are singing
the song of ruin, In honeyed words and
begniling tones? Not if they stop and
consider the past.
Democracy has nothing but Its past
record to stand oa, and that record is
slreWa with heaps of broken promises,
blasted hopes, dismantled factories,
throttled industries of all kinds, bank
rupt stores and wrecks and ruins gener
ally. No candidate is greater than his party,
and ft is a certainty that If Parker
should, by any chance, be elected his
administration would be Democratic, and
Democracy never has conferred a real
benefit oc the people.
Many People "from Missouri."
It is now eald the Parker gold tele
gram is a myth, that Parker sent no
such message to St. Louis, and that it
was concocted by Sheehan and Hill in
the hop of winning the support of gold
Democrats. There are a great many
people "from Missouri" who will have
to be shown the original telegram before
they will believe It was genuine, but
they are mainly Bryanites. However,
if the telegram was not a myth, it cer
tainly was an afterthought.
The Policy of Silence.
A German proverb says "speech Is
silver, silence is gold." Tho Democratic
party certainly has come out for gold
if that means silence on the money ques
tion, and it certainly has gone back on
silver, if that means any speech positive
ly committing it to friendliness to any
sane system of finance.
Wrhen -we Increase our population we
Increase our national revenues in pro
portion. Unless we reduce the rate of
taxation we would double our national
revenues if we doubled our population.
As President Roosevelt said in his mes
sage: "The western half of the United
States would sustain a population greater
than that of our whole country to-day, if
the waters that now run to waste were
saved and used for irrigation."
The annual report on the coal industry
of Illinois, furnished by the Stata bu
reau of statistics, shows that miners were
never so prosperous as under the McKin
ley and Roosevelt administrations. The
coal output of the State now is nearly
twice what it was under Cleveland; 13,
000 more men are employed than six
veara ago, and wages are fully 00 per
ceat higher than in 1897.
"It may well bo that our opponents
have no real Intention of puttlntr their
promise Ito srlvo Filipinos independ
ence into effect. If this is the case, If,
In other words, they are insincere la
the promise they make, it is only nec
essary to aay a rain that it Is nnwiie to
trust nun who are false in one thinar
to deal with anythincr." Bootevslt'i lat
ter of acceptance.
When the industries of the country
prosper coal is in demand and miners
get their full share of the general pros
perity. When the mills and factories
close or work on short time for lack of
orders, railway traSc falls off and the
mining industry suffers. Miners are as
much interested in maintaining the Re
publican policy of protection as any other
class of workingmen.
The value of farm lands has been ma
terially enhanced by rural free dehvry.
This increase of value has been esti
mated as high as $5 per acre la some
States. A moderate estimate Is frora
$2 to $3 per acre. For the rapid de
velopment of rnral free delivery the
farmers are indebted to the Republican
party.
THE UNDERGROUND LINE.
Virtue reigns supreme to-day about
Esopus;
It is purged of all that jars the props
mind.
The thing that's most conspicuous 'roust
Bsopus
Is the absence of ths peanut eatinsj
kind;
And in all the air that circulates at Ros
mount
Not a plutocratic odor can be found;
But the public still suspects there's
something doing
la the subway to Esopus, undet
ground.
In ths cold and shady distance they're
remaining.
Wily Dave and wicked August all
alone.
Their base presence no more casts a dark
reflection
la the limelight that descends around
the throne;
Fr the candidate's declared he nere
knew them;
He repeats it while the white robed art
around;
Then he coyly turns one ear to earth ai
listens
To instruction from the subway unds
ground.
And August smiles serenely o'er at
Davy,
And Dave looks back and winks ths
other eye;
And all the while they keep right oa ar
ranging
The plac and style of each plum la
the pie.
"Yes, it is a trifle lonesome, this seclu
sion," Says August, "but you bet the plan Im
sound.
For Dave and I ain't longin' to ba hoo
doos." Then they hit the trail for Rosemount
under ground.
Garret Smith In New York Tribune.
SUGGESTIONS TO DEMOCRATS
Great Thoughts of Graat Democrats
Should Be Widely Circulated.
The Democratic party Is boasting of",
the fact that in this campaign it Is
sending out a great nnmbor of tons of
literature, though why literature should
be sent out by the Democratic party no
one can understand. Upon second
thought, though, it must be admitted,
as a matter of fairness in speaking ot
people who vote the Democratic ticket,
that quite a number of them can read-.
However, this is merely a suggestioa
to the men whose business it is to handle
tha Democratic campaign of education.
To be consistent they must keep up
the campaign lies. In their tons of lit
erature they must first reiterate tha
falsehood of Senator Bailey of Tesas,
when he declared in a recent speeci
that the President advocated lynching
as a punishment for stealing.
They should issue a few million
pamphlets advocating the attitude of
Democracy's great representative.
Champ Clark, In assuming that whea
some one in the audience disagrees with
the speaker on the platform it is the
prerogative of the speaker, after his
speech is over, to cut the throat of ths
objector from ear to ear.
There Is an old saying that a lie weS
stuck to is as good as the truth. It
is not a sound proposition, but there la
in it a suggestion as to what tha Demo
crats might do with their money in cli
culating campalga literature.
It Is to he hoped that they will b-e
grateful for these suggestions, but the
chances are ten to one that they won't.
catholic Paper bolts.
Sunday Democrat, of New York, Pre
fers Roosevelt te Parker.
The Sunday Democrat of New York
one of the oldest Irish-American and
Catholic journals of the United Stateai
has declared for Roosevelt. It svs
torially:
"For more than thirty years, in political
storm and sunshine, the Sunday Democrat
has supported tht Democratic party, advo
cated Its principles and sustained Its can
didates. During all that period It hae
icu.icuu tmuauie scrrice 10 ine party.
"To-day, believing that couraee to carry
out the constitution and laws of this coua
try in a fearless and jost manner shonld
be realized and appreciated, acd feeling
confident from his actions in the past that
the Interests of our people will be beat
served by his election, this journal has
concluded to lend Its support to Theodore
Roosevelt for President of the United
States."
The Party for Tonne Men.
Edward Hoch, Republican nominee fe
Governor of Kansas, in an address ad
Marlon, in that State, said:
"But now these vociferous gentlemea
have suddenly discovered that the gold
standard i3 all right, and their candi
date for President blandly announce
that that question Is 'irrevocably set
tled.' Young men should join a party
that espouses good principles and poli
cies at tho beginning, and not a party
that opposas every good thing until it is
'Irrevocably settled against it, and the
tags along with a belated approval of all
that it had stubbornly opposed."
The Issue in a Sylloclatic Nutshell.
In one crisp sentence of eight words
of his letter of acceptance President
Roosovelt has given the first premise for
a conclusive syllogism:
First Premise "A PARTY FIT TO
GOVERN MUST HAVE CONVIC
TIONS." Second Premise The Democratic
party from Judge Parker dowa to Toss
Taggart has no convictions.
CONCLUSION Therefore the Demo
cratic party is not fit to govern.
And there yeu have the process ef
reasoning that will decide this electlea.
Trust Stagnates for Parker.
A billionaire club will raise a Parker
and Davis silk campaign banner at
Great Neck, N. Y. The club is
posed ef .Wall street aad trust magnates
Cord Meyer, chairman ef the New York
Democratic State Committee, is a resi
dent ef Little Neck.
Ha Hasa't Leafed.
The American Secretary ef State has
accomplished about all that has been at
tained by the great diplomats of the
world within the last four or five years.
In other words, John Hay hasn't dos
any "loafin 'rouad the Throae."
Democrats Believe Soesavelt.
Daring the last session ef Congress a
Democratic Seaator arose ia his plae
aid said: "Whea the Presideat aflrasai
that this goTexnraeat had as part ia eh
remit of Panama, that settles it, we tut
as he Is coBceraed. I beSere aim."
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