LET INCENDIARIES BEWARE
Slanderous, Firebrand Methods Again
Coming; Into Vogue.
[Baltimore American.]
It would seem to the person of a fair
degree of perspicacity that the lesson
taught by the incident of Leon Ozolgosz
three years ago was sufficiently forceful
to have lasted longer than the present
actions of cortain persons and publica
tions would lead us to believe it has last
ed. A hue and cry was raised against
President McKinley along the line of al
leged militarism. The absurdity of that
cry was admitted by everybody even
be lore the great statesman had been in
augurated. But the seeds of sedition lived
and throve in the poisonous soil of an
archy. In the soul of Ozolgosz and his
murderous advisers the harm was done.
The crop,grew and 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
those 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 they whose deliberate and
crany lying nail nerved nun to tue deed
were more guilty than he who dill that
which would have been almost justifiable
had their words been true. These people
who incited the murder were properly
and 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
are. 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
better 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
will continue 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 the yoke
from falling upon the neck of Ms fellow
. beings—should follow in the footsteps of
the ill-starred Ozolgosz and take the life
of the President, either before or after
his re-election—those papers and period
cals would hypocritically drape their
columns in mourning and fulsomely prate
of the marvelous virtues of the deceased
statesmen. They would tell to the world
the truth they not only concealed, but
brazenly denied, during the lifetime of
the man in whose murder they assisted.
They -would heap anathema upon the
head of their poor dupe, who knew no
better than to believe their traitorous
catch-penny mouthings, and insist that
be be given a speedy quietus,
i Now is a good time to have a care.
I* It is a good time for such publications
to call a halt and think a moment of
what might be the results of someone’s
accepting as truth the exaggerations and
barefaced lies they are now eagerly and
ruthlessly promulgating.
Have a care, incendiaries, have a care.
UNWORTHY OF TRUST.
Gold Democrats Shunning the Hill
Sheehan Combination.
, The Gold Democrats of Indiana are
unwilling to trust Judge Parker’s spon
sors. They are willing to contribute $10,
000 to the campaign fund, but the money
will not be sent to the Hill-Slieehan
combination. They have asked Parker
himself to take the money. If the Demo
crats are unwilling to trust their leaders,
how can the piass of the people be ex
pected to take any stock in the 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-bag
gers. Sterling It. 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
man 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 Against Him.
Congressman George J. Smith of the
Twenty-fourth New xork District, in
which is Judge Parker’s home, told
President Roosevelt a few days ago
that he lmd made a tour of the district
and found no Republicans who would
vote for Parker. If the Democratic
candidate gains no votes among his Re
publican neighbors, he certainly should
gain none elsewhere. In other words,
if his popularity is not sufficiently great
to draw votes from those he daily comes
in contact with, he need not expect to
secure the support of Republicans who
know him only by what he has said and
done.
Parkerltea Alarmed.
There are a large number of Bryan
' i Democrats in New 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
many years, and a Bryan Democrat has
been placed at its head. The Parkerites
are charging Bryan with bad faith, as
serting that the defection of the Bryan
Democrats will cost Parker at least 25,
000 votes.
The Real Question.
On the day of the issue of President
Roosevelt's letter of acceptance—the day
of the Maine election, by the way—the
press reports noted a long visit to Judge
Parker by David Bennett Hill.
It is probable, if not certain, that the
two friends who "have drunk from the
same canteen" throughout more than one
campaign, discussed, thoroughly, on* im
»
mortal saying of their well-beloved
Thomas Jefferson, namely:
“IF A DUE PARTICIPATION OF
OFFICE IS A MATTER OF RIGHT,
HOW ARE VACANCIES TO BE
FILLED? THOSE BY DEATH ARE
FBW; BY RESIGNATION, NONE.”
This is, indeed, for the Democrats, “a
hard saying!” -
THOROUGHLY EXPOSED.
The Weakness of Parker and Davie
Grows Plainer Kach Day.
It appears that Judge Parker of
Esopus is going to New York City to
run his own campaign. The revelation
has come, but it lias eome 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,
and little of Henry Gassaway Davis of
West Virginia, two men picked up, for
a purpose, by the men who controlled the
Democratic national convention. How
clear to everybody now must he the sit
uation! Instead of this stately judge
who sent the stately telegram to St.
Louis, appears, and for all permanency,
merely a decent creature of the 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
tlie 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, save 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,
yeems incompetent for the best manage
ment of the United States.
RAILWAY MAN’S VIEWS.
Country Is Prosperous, and Rossevelt
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 Herald 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
mizes risk. There has been a slow,
steady enhancement of values, and it if
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 at 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. Roosevelt is elected. He is
ten times more popular with the mass
of Democracy than Judge Parker is.
Retail Merchant* Busy.
Reports from every city in the country
tell of great activity among the retail
merchants, who are laying in stocks and
preparing for a lively fall and winter
trade. When the retail merchants arc
busy the country is prospering, for they
depend largely on the working people foi
custom. Democrats who are howling
calamity and hard times should retire
to the Halls of Silence at Esopus and
immure 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 oi
trumpets, that Richard Olney, who was
in President Cleveland’s cabinet, has vis
ited Judge Parker, spending two hours
with him at Rosemount. Nothing is
said about the 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 Sheehanism.
Mr. Parker, Democratic nominee foi
President, has never journeyed west ol
Buffalo, N. Y. What does he know ol
-the great West, its people, their achieve
ments, their possibilities, their needs \
How can he reconcile the demands oi
the different sections, and decide great
questions properly and for the good ol
the whole country? Of limited experi
ence, a narrowed horizon, he is not com
parable with Theodore Roosevelt, 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 and its influences.
“We are not unmindful- of the im
measurable contribution which our
foreign-born population has made to
the upbuilding of the Republic. Its
work and influence kare been fell
throughout the country, and much oi
all that la great and splendid about us
is the fruit of its genius and Indus
try.”— Senator Fairbanks in the Senate, Janu
ary 11, 1898.
Democratic claims of carrying New
York this fall do not appear to appeal t«
the class of men whose money talks in
-he betting ring. The $100,000 hung up
by a wealthy Broad street broker to
wager that Roosevelt carries New York
has scarcely received a ten per cent nib
ble. _
If Democratic promises were of value
it would be proper to insist upon lest
expression of “woe” and a little more
“light.”
PROTECTION OF CITIZENS.
No Discrimination In Treatment of
Native Born and Naturalized.
Dispatches from St. Petersburg repre
sent the Russian press as commenting in
a dazed manner upon the efforts of the
United States government 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 Roosevelt’s desire
to gain more liberal treatment 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
oitizehs of foreign birth, or of particu
lar creed, who desire to travel abroad,”
the phrase is quoted from the letter of
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 does 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 United
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 priina facie proof that the
person therein described is a citizen of
the United States and entitled to protec
tion as such. It is n standing order to
every American diplomatic and consular
officer to protect 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
is 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 Basil? Exploded b? an Appeal
to Facts and Fignres.
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,”
his 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 much 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 earner 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 $80,000,
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, 1904, 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
vanoed $4,500,000 to the Louisiana pur
chase exposition, which latter amount is
to be returned to the government. If
Mr. Parker will deduct his 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 Have Our Trouble*.
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 “sociable.”
We have our troubles!
First Voter*’ Club*.
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 east 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
rule that we had should be a warning
to the people not to repeat the expnri
mwt At tbs end it Mr. Cleveland’!
second administration the public credit
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 1896 transformed this condition into
one of universal prosperity which has
continued till the present time. Why
invite another period of business depres
sion ?
CONVENTION OF CLUBS.
Low Rate of Fare Secured by Leaguers
for Indianapolis Meeting.
At the request of the officers of the
National Republican League, who are
working up interest in the convention of
Republican Clubs at Indianapolis, Oct.
5 and 6, the Central Passenger Associa
tion has conceded a rate from all points
in the territory of the association of one
fare plus 25 cents for the round trip.
Tlie selling dates are Oct. 4, 5 and 6 and
the return limit Oet. 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 are required on the
dates mentioned.
President Moore of the National
League, after consulting with President
C. VV. McGuire of the Indiana League,
and representatives of the Illinois organ
ization, returned to Philadelphia. He
said the 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 be opened at
the Denison Hotel iu 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 ^fraid to Stand on Ita
Put Record.
John B. Stanehfield, 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 the
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.
A* to Maine.
And did you hear the news from Matue?
From Maine, Maine, Malnel
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
the 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 themselves.
A Rear Guard Action.
Already in the presidential campaign
of this year the Democrats are fighting
a “rear-guard action.’’ The Russian
Gen. Kuropatkin has his troubles aud
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 be fun enough in
the campaign. Even the “rear-guard ac
tion” appears to be about over.
Flocking to tbe Populist Candidate.
Bryan’s bitter denunciation of Par
ker is bearing fruit. Dispatches from
several States report that the Nebras
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.
Sure Sign 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 the public
credit aud a sound currency.
Under the Republican policy of pro
tection our manufactured products have
become oiie-third of those of the civil
ized world, and Am^ican 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 lias 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 Republican 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.
Mare Net the People Grounds for
Damages Against Democracy?
A Denver 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 his damages at several thou
sand dollars.
This case will Ire 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 bis 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
ease. An avalanche of damage suits
might follow. Husiuess men who forget
engagements, girls who wait vaiul.v for
lovers that fail to come, borrowers who
neglect to repay small loans, politicians
who promise and forget, and political
parties which bid for votes and never
meet their obligations—ail these might
be liable for damages if the Denver
plaintiff’s suit is sustained.
And what u mountain of eases might
he piled up against Democracy if the
statute of limitations did not prove to
be a bar! Who will ever forget the
woe and misery, the distress and starva
tion that came with the Democratic days
of 1893 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 streets of the cities swarmed
with unemployed, and soup-houses wpro.
established to feed the hungry. Once
happy homes were turned into places of
squalor, where hunger-pinched mothers
sat trying to still the cries of ill-nour
ished babes, and where gaunt, sunken
eyed men brooded over their inability to
obtain work.
«»*u vtuiii ruusm lucsr uisiretnuuji
conditions? In the campaign of 1892
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
cable the Gorman-Wilson tariff bill and
with it general depression 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 cotmtry.
If the Denver man lias 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 1893-7 listen
to the political sirens who are singing
the song of ruin, in honeyed words and
beguiling tones? Not if they stop and
consider the past.
Democracy has nothing but its past
record to stand on, and that record is
strewn with heaps of broken promises,
blasted hopes, dismantled factories,
throttled industries of all kinds, bank
rupt stores and wrecks and ruins gene-r
ally.
No candidate is greater than his pnrty,
and it is a certainty that if Parker
should, by any chance, be elected his
administration would be Democratic, and
Democracy never lias conferred a real
benefit on the people.
Many People “from Missouri.”
It is now said 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 hope 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 Bryanitcs. 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.” The Democratic
party certain!* has come out for gold
if that means silence 011 the money ques
tion, and it certainly has gone back on
silver, if that means any speeeh positive
ly committing it to friendliness to any'
sane system of 6nnnce.
When 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 rnn to waste were
saved and used for irrigation.”
The annual report on the coal industry
of Illinois, furnished by the State 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; 15,
000 more men are employed than six
years ago, and wages are fully 50 per
cent, higher than in 1897.
“It may wall be that oar opponents
have no realintentloa of patting their
promise Ito give Ftliplnoe Independ
ence] Into effect. If this ia the case, If,
In other words, they aro inaincare In
the promise they make, it la oaly nec
essary to say again that it ia unwise to
trust men who are false in one thing
to deal with anything. Roosevelt’s let
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 traffic falls off and the
mining industry suffers. Miners are as
much interested in maintaining the Ifc*
publicau policy of protection as any other
class of workingmen.
The value of farm lands has been ma
terially enhanced by rural free delivery.
This increase of value has been esti
mated as high as $5 per acre in some
States. A moderate estimate is from
$2 to $3 per acre. For the rapid de
velopment of rural free delivery the
farmers are indebted to the Republican
i
THE UNDERGROUND LINE.
Virtu* reign* supreme to-day about
Esopus:
It is purged of ail that Jars the prop*)
mind.
The thing that's most conspicuous ’round
/ Esopus
Is the abeenee of the peanut eating
kind;
And in all the air that circulates at Ros*
mount
Not a plutocratic odor can be found:
But the public still suspects tliere'i !
something doing
In the subway to Esopus, undel
ground.
In the cold and shady distance they'r*
remaining.
Wily Dave and wicked- August all
alone.
Their base presence no more casts a dark
reflection
In the limelight that desceud* around
the throne:
I-’or the candidate's declared he uevei ;
knew them;
He repents it while the white rotted are
around;
Then he coyly turns one ear to earth and
listens
To instruction from the subway under
ground.
And August smiles serenely o’er at
Davy,
And Dnve looks back and winks the j
other eye:
And all the while they keep right on ar
ranging
The place and style of each plum in
the pie.
“Yes, it is a trifle lonesome, this seclu
sion,"
Says August, “but you bet the plan is
sound.
For Dave and I ain't longin’ to be hoo«
doos."
Then they hit the trail for Rosemonnt
under ground.
—(Jarret. Smith in New York Tribune.
oUbUtbl IUNS 10 DEMOCRATS
Great Thoaschta 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 number 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,
11s a matter of fairness in speaking of
people who vote the Democratic ticket,
that quite a number of them can read.
However, this is merely a suggestion /
to the men whose business it is to handle
the Democratic campaign of education.
To be consistent they must keep up
♦he campaign lies. In their tons of lit
erature they must first reiterate tha
falsehood of Senator Bailey of Texas,
when he declared in a recent speech
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, iu assuming that when
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 the
objector from ear to ear.
There is an old saying that a lie well
stuck to is as good as the truth. It j
is not a sound proposition, but there is i
in it a suggestion as to what the Demo
crats might do with their money in cir
culating campaign literature.
It is to be hoped that they will be
grateful for these suggestions, but the
chances are ten to one that they won't.
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CATHOLIC PAPER BOLTS.
Sunday Democrat, of New York, Pre
fers Roosevelt to Parker.
The Sunday Democrat of New York,
one of the oldest Irish-American and
Catholic journals of the United States,
has declared for Roosevelt. It says edi
torially:
"For more than thirty years, in polIUer.I
storm and sunshine, the Sunday Democrat
has supported the Democratic party, advo
cated its principles and sustained Its can
didates. During all that period It has
rendered valuable service to the party.
"To day, believing that courage to carry
out the constitution and laws of this coun
try In a fearless and just manner should
be realized and appreciated, and feeling
confident from his actions In the past that
the Interests of our people will be best
served by his election, this Journal has
concluded to lend its support to Theodore
Roosevelt for President of the United
States.” _ §
Ths Party far Young Mes,
Edward Hoch, Republican nominee for |
Governor of Kansas, in an address at * *
Marion, in that State, said:
“But now these vociferous gentlemen
have suddenly discovered that the gold
standard is all right, and theu: candi
date for President blandly announces
that that question is ‘irrevocably set
tled.’ YouRg men should join a party
that espouses good principles and poli
cies at the beginning, and not a party
that opposes every good thing until it is
‘irrevocably settled’ against it, and then
tags along with a belated approval of all j
that it had stubbornly opposed.”
The Issue In a Syllogistic Nutshell.
In one crisp sentence of eight words
of his letter of acceptance President
Roosevelt has given the first premise for
a conclusive syllogism:
First Premise—“A PARTY FIT TO
GOVERN MUST HAVE CONVIC- <1
TIONS.” V !|
Second Premise—The Democrat!* f
party from Judge Parker down to Tom
Taggart has no convictions.
CONCLUSION—Therefore the Demo
cratic party is not fit to govern.
And there you have the process of
reasoning that will decide this election.
~ " ■ J;
Trust Magnates for Parksr.
A billionaire club will raise a Parker
and Davis silk campaign banner at
Great Neck, N. Y. The club is com- ,
posed of Wall street and trust magnates.
Cord Meyer, chairman of the New York
Democratic State Committee, is a resi
dent of Little Neck.
He Hasn’t Loafed.
The American Secretary of State has
accomplished about all that has been at
tained by the great diplomats of the
world within the last four or five years.
Ill other words, John Hay hasn’t done
any “loafin’ ’round the Throne.”
Democrats Believe Roosevelt.
During the last session of Congress a
, Democrats; Senator arose in his place |
and saidU.9 "When the President affirms
that this government had no part in the 1
revolt of Panama, that settles it, so far
as ht Is concerned. I believe him.’’