BRYAN1TE CHANGES COL. a C. 8ABIN COMES OUT SQUARELY FOR ROOSEVELT. Former Surer Knight Says the Hen | Now In Control of the Democratic | Party Were Its Enemies in the Cam* paigns of 1896 and 1909, Ool. Oliver C. Sabin, formerly of Colo rado, but now of Washington, who was one of W. J. Bryan’s most enthusiastic •upporters in the campaigns of 1896 and 1960, has abjured Democracy, and will vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Dur ing the campaigns named Col. Sabin was associated with Senator Stewart, of Ne vada, in conducting the “Silver Knight,” a free silver paper, and in organizing “The Silver Knights of America,” a free silver organization. He also assist ed in the writing of the book, “The Hand of Money,” circulated so extensively throughout the country in the first cam paign of Bryan. In a letter, recently published, Col. Sabin says: “How it is possible for a man who is honestly in favor of the remonetization of silver to support Judge Parker, who is the very pet, the idol, you might say, of those men who defeated Bryan, 1 cannot conceive. Ixx>k over the whole list, from ex-President Cleveland, ex Benator Hill, Richard Olney, and, with out naming them, the whole manage ment of the Parker movement now, and w« find that they were either the active or passive enemies of free silver and of Mr. Bryan, and, in fact, of everything that we, as silver men, held to be im portant in our campaign. They not only were against us in sentimeut, but they organized a third party, went in and tried to destroy Mr. Bryan and the Democratic party, and they succeeded. Now this same old gang, bought up by the trusts, heeled by the trusts, sup ported by monopolistic money, the grinders of the face of the poor, is go ing out asking for the votes of silver men to support a man and a party that has abused us and our people more than they ever have the Republican party. More Money in Circulation. “The Republican party, with what faults it may have, cannot be accused of being insincere, and, furthermore, the Republican party has come to where we wanted them. What we wanted in re gard to money was more of it, and the Republicans came to it in a different way. Of course none of us cared for the simple question of silver, only as it af fected the volume of currency. There was too small an amount of money in circulation to do the business of the country. , Now we have plenty of money. * * * “Look at the financial condition of our country now. Whoever saw such a coun try? Where in all history is there rec ord of a country as prosperous as we are to-day?* Look at our immense exporta tion of goods, billions of dollars being brought into our country from abroad more than we send out. The like was never seen before. Our farmers only a few years ago in the Western States were borrowing money at anywhere from 6 to 10 and in some States 12 per cent Look at them now. You cannot loan them money, and most of them have money to loan, and they are glad to get 5 or 6 per cent for it. God is on our side, and the very earth responds to good times. Look at our corn crop, bil lions of bushels; wheat by the hundreds of millions, and at prices seldom before equaled. Good Time to "Stand Pat.” “Taking It altogether, we find every body and everything prosperous, and as it stands now I am of the opinion, very much, of these Iowa fellows who believe in the doctrine of ‘standing pat.’ I beiieve it is well to let good enough alone. I, or any other person except politicians, do not care who is in power, for there is no political fa vors we ask, only this, we, want pros perity for our country—good times; we want pur laboring men to be furnished with plenty of work at good times wages, who are thereby enabled to educate their children, dress them selves respectably, give themselves good homes, and it makes them valuable and useful citizens. * * * “President Roosevelt has never left ns in doubt where he was on any ques tion, always straight, honest, true and square. He is an American from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, and nobody can have any doubt as to bis standing by the flag of our coun try and commanding honest respect. The Democrats would do well not to carry on their campaign expecting to obtain votes from the American people by abus ing the personality of Mr. Roosevelt. If they do, he will be elected by the largest majority any President has ever been since the days of Horace Greeley. Ev erybody knows Sir. Roosevelt is straight, and whether you are his political friend or enemy, you know he is a gentleman, honest, upright and sincere. “The attempt to show that he is wild and erratic has no force whatever, be cause be has already had charge of the government for nearly four years, end he has done nothing but what was right, aurrounding himself with the very best class of advisers, and if he has succeeded for the first four years of his admin istration, couldn't he do it four more? Can’t we trust him better than Mr. Par ker, led by Mr. Hill? Men hhimld Be Honest. "I think, furthermore, that In politic®, as well as in the affairs of life, a man should be honest and sincere. Now, the gentlemen who are managing this Parker boom are neither honest nor •iucere. Mr. Hill, 1 suppose to be the manager of the whole concern, as be nominated Mr. Parker in the convention; Mr. Parker is his creation. Mr. Hill at a Democratic convention in the State of New York openly advocated and passed a resolution to the effect of gov ernment ownership of all the coal miiies; at the same time he and his friends, under cover, were making fun of the idea, and thought it was a good scoop on the Republicans. They would no more think of carrying it into practice than they would of Hying. “Take it with the money question. They did not have honesty enough to come out and declare in favor of the gold standard, hoping to deceive some body into the belief that they could sup port and were believers in silver, as we used to be. There is no sincerity in the j whole party, no honesty in it, and I tell you that a party, community or man can- t not succeed where it practice* deceit, dis- , koneety and trickery. It cannot be done, j It is Just as wrong morally to carry out dishonesty in politics as it is in business or morals, and I am opposed to it. “So far as I am concerned, I am satis fied that the best man is in now, and propose to ‘stand pat.’ ” Among the many Democrats who have announced their intention of voting for Roosevelt is Nelson J. Bozarth, of Val paraiso, Ind. Mr. Bozarth was a leading candidate for Governor before the In diana Democratic State convention and fought in the ranks during the civil war. He has repudiated Barker because of the stand taken by him toward old sol diers in his letter of acceptance. Mr. Bozarth is not the only old soldier who has bolted the Democratic ticket. FORTY YEARS AGO. By tftnery Gassaway Davis. (In his letter of acceptance, Mr. Davis bewails the fact that the per capita cost of administering the government has in creased since the days of Buchanan, when it was $2.01.) I’ve wandered to the subject, John—that note you sent to me, Advising me that I have been put up for our V. P.— And O, I can’t (help thinking, John, how times are changing so, It costs us more to run tilings than some forty years ago. In honest old Buchanan's days, before the civil war. We didn’t have the money, nor se much to spend it for— Two dollars and a penny was the aver age, you know; Expenses have gone up a heap since forty years ago. They say the country’s grown in wealth and territory, too, But I have been so busy, John, these facts I never knew; When this was hut a little land, ex penses were quite low— Assessments were not very high, some forty years ago. In fact, it’s more than forty years, ns sure as you’re alive; Now, since I come to think of it, the lapse is forty-five: In '59 Buchanan was the boss of all the show— (I might have been a candidate, some forty years ago). It’s strange the country won’t stand still, that it will spread and spread— Why, I remember when it crossed the Mississippi’s bed, And when we quelled the red man with his arrow and his bow— Alas, but times have changed, dear John, since forty years ago! Sometimes, dear John, when I observe that soreness in my neck, And hear the frantic calls that ask an other heavy check, I wish I’d run for office in the olden, golden glow, For it was vastly cheaper, John, some forty years ago. To-day they say the railroads run to al most every town. They span the land from sea to sea, crosswise, and up and down, And where was once a wilderness the busy whistles blow— That’s why expenses have increased since forty years ago. They tell me we have islands now, all scattered through the sea— Ah, John, the times to-day ain’t like the times that used to be! They say that folks use sulky plows where once they used a hoe— These things make bills much higher, John, than forty years ago. We didn’t have no steamboats then— not like these nowadays, No steel and iron liners, nor no cruisers, anyways— I can't remember everything, but, John, I know The government costs more than It did forty years ago. They esy mat we have telephones, elec tric ligvts, and all. And trolley cars, and miles and miles of (harvest every fall. But notice the expenses, John! They worry me, and so, I wish that you had chosen me some forty years ago. DEMOCRATS AT WAR. Hearat’s Paper Makes Savage Attack on Kx-Secretary Olney. The wake on the Democratic ticket of 1904 has begun, although it is some days before the day set for the official funeral. Among the protesting mourners, Ilearst’s New York American attracts momentary nttenion by the following truculent howl. There is copied here only the opening notes of the performance: “According to the little-souled Olney. Attorney General in Cleveland’s cabinet, tlie war with Spain was a comical blun der, and the men that gave their lives for the freeing of Cuba were fools that . had much better have stayed at home. “Mr. Olney, by some unaccountable error of the Democratic managers in this campaign, has been making speeches in behalf of Judge Parker, and this noble sentiment is one of the things that he has been saying. “At Cooper Union last night, to a meeting called under the auspices of Democracy, he spoke with a nasty sneer »f ‘our needless scrimmage with Spain aver Cuba,” and again, later in his re marks, sneered at what he called in his pleasant way ‘that development of jingo ism and militarism which brought on the scrap with Spain.’ “IF MR. OLNEY HAD BEEN EN GAGED TO MAKE VOTES FOR MR. ' ROOSEVELT HE COULD NOT POS- ! 3IBLY HAVE HIT UPON A BET i'ER WAY.” This criticism might well be applied, 1 _»• the Democrats, to Mr. OIney’s entire 1 Hooper Union speech. In his comments 1 ipon the Republican foreign policy, the ] Philippine question and its financial lianagemcnt, Mr. Olney touched, with a 1 •ash hand, the nerves of national honor 1 ind pride. It was a sure way to pro luce a vast crop of voters for Roose velt. It is admitted that Olney spoke to i silent house. It is not surprisnig. “We believe In tbe gold standard ae Ixed by the usage and verdict of the insinesa world, and in n sound mone- I ary system ae matters not of mornen- I ery political expediency, but of per nauent organic policy.” — BpomvoIi’i l •Iter of Mosptaoo*. I HARMONY. f// * een like that of the donkey in the fable, vhich died of starvation while trying to lecide which to eat first, its oats or its lay. It was this way when Buchanan was President, and could not make up his uind whether or not to suppress by force he secession movement in the South, ind so postponed having anything done mtil Lincoln could become President. L'his dilatory policy was largely rcspon ,ible for the enormous cost in money and ives of suppressing the rebellion. When Cleveland was President the lountry suffered quite ns much from ag mizing uncertainty as to what the Demo rats were really going to do, as from the ictual evils that they did do. On neith r the tariff nor on the money question vas there any unity of opinion amongst he Democrats, and never was it poe.si ile to forecast just what would be done. The Democrats took one year and five nouths to work up and pass their Wil ou bill After the inauguration of Fraai- < dent Cleveland, ns against four months and twenty days that it took the Repub licans to pass the Dingley bill after the inauguration of President McKinley. No less than 034 amendments were made to the Wilson bill before it was passed—and then, despite this enormous number of patches to make the bill suit all Democrats, President Cleveland view ed it “with the utmost diaappodntment” and said that it was marked with places “where the deadly blight of treason has blasted the counsels of the brave in their hour of might.” The colossal fail ure of this bill to produce enough reve nue to run the government, as well us the general blow it inflicted on the industries of the country, thereby driving thousands of men out of employment, was in sharp contrast to the success of the Dingley bill in not only producing enough reve nue but in giving employment to thou sands of people out of work, and in re Storing irood finite tf» the fmmtpr To the Editor: I belong to an old Democratic family. Wby should I not follow the traditions of my kin, and vote as my father did?—John Dean. Answer: Because there is nothing left for you to vote for. Nothing but an ?nipty name. Democracy to-day is mere ly negation, criticism and idle complain ing. True Democracy—that is the doc trine of the equal rights and opportuni ties of man is ouly found in Republican ism. In a speech at Norfolk, Neb., Mr. Bry tn said: “On a number of questions Judge I’arker is too much like iloosevelt to suit us.” This raised a howl among the Parker “machine” managers, and Mr. Bryan hastened to deny that he had made such a statement. A recent dis patch from Norfolk says that 1,000 Re publicans and Democrats, who heard Mr. Bryan speak, are ready to take oath that he expressed himself as reported. Mr. Bryan is getting in hot water in his '(forts to smile after swallowing the bit ter gold telegram. Thomas E. Watson, People’s candidate for President, says: “The Democrats lave a meaningless platform and a THE QUESTIQN box. Answer* by William Bhagbark. To the Editor: Alton B. Parker says he will. If be Is elected President, revoke the age pension order, hut try to get Congress to nllow sol diers a service pension. Do you think Judge Parker would be able to get such a measure through Congress?—Old Soldier. Answer: The service pension bill failed to pass the last Congress, which was Re publican. It would hai e no chance, of course, in n Democratic Congress. The Disability Pension bill, as construed by President Roosevelt and the Secretary of the Interior, is all right. There is no danger of Parker's getting the chance he wants to cut off the old soldiers' little pension of $0 to $12 a month. VOTE AS YOU SHOT. To the Editor: When will the work of sanitation begin In the Panama Canal region? An American Mother. Answer: The first work of tho com mission was that improving the sanitary conditions uloing the canal route. The work is progressing steadily. The entire route is being overhauled, the buildings disinfected and cleaned, and plans are under way for providing a supply of pure drinking water. From the moment when President Roosevelt had power to take up the matter, everything about the Pan ama canal has been rushed, and the work is going on in a practical manner. To the Editor: How can the black men In the South please the Democrats? We have worked hard, and claimed little. Yet we can't seem to suit anyone.—Uncle Tom No. 2. Answer: According to the Tillman kind of Southern statesmen, the only thing a colored man could do to obtain peace is to die. But there are ten men to one in this matter, and where one American is hostile to the negro, ten are friendly. The republic still lives, and color, race or religion cannot shut out citizens from the benefits of American freedom. AN EMBARRASSING TRUTH. Zealous Parker Man Thlnke Bryan a Dan Bar to the Party. Ill the courseNof a political campaign the {ruth will ctfme out at moments and in quarters most unexpected. Some mem bers of the party more honest and can did than the rest will apeak out and utter truths that must be most embarrassing to the party, and which, like a flash of lightning, reveal objects and purposes tidfct before were shrouded in grateful darkness. Snell effects must have been produced by the utterances of the honest and able editor of the South Bend Times, one of the most influential Democratic newspapers in northern Indiana, nml these utterances are worthy of more than a passing notice because they re veal a condition of things within the ranks of the Democratic party sugges tive of its hopeless dissension and deca dence. Mr. J. B. Stoll, the editor of the Times, conies out openly in ndvooaey of the elec tion of Parker and Davis, not on the ground that they stand for principles or measures which are not also advocated by Roosevelt and Fairbanks, but for this one and dhief reason: that the election of Parker will effectually and permanent ly kill Bryan and all that Bryan repre sents in the pnst and will represent in the future. Among other things, Mr. Stoll says: Parker and Davis, triumphant In Novem ber, will put a quietus on the radical de parture foreshadowed by Mr. Bryan. • • • An engaging personality and persuasive elo quence may, under certain conditions, popu larize a project fraught with incalculable danger to our Institutions and lead to the destruction of the republic Itself. Thus it is plain 'how Mr. Bryan’s past and future Democracy is valued by the friends of Parker, yet Mr. Bryan was in vited to stump Indiana on the theory that he could induce his former followers to vote for the very camlidate whose election will put the stamp of condem nation on ail that he ever did and advo cated, and upon the good judgment, in telligence and patriotism of all his friends and supporters, telling them, in effect, that they have been nothing less than enemies of the republic. When we place the damning judgment of Parker’s friends against the opinions heretofore held by Mr. Bryan about Par ker we must come to the couclusiou that tile two great leaders of Democracy have formed a remarkably true estimate of each other’s virtues and methods. This is what Mr. Bryan said in his Chicago speech of April 23: I can prove to every unbiased mind that Judge Parker Is out a fit man for the Democratic party or any other pnrtv to nominate that stands for honesty nud "fair dealing in politics. And here is what Mr. Bryan said in the Commoner, on July 13, after the nomination of Tarker: I HAVE NOTHING TO TIKE BACK. I HAVE NOTHING TO WITHDRAW OF THE THINGS I HAVE SAID. In view of these unqualified statements it will be particularly interesting to watch how Mr. Bryan will be able to convince his many friends in former bat tles that he really wishes Mr. Parker's success, and especially after the Parker leaders have shown such an undisguised disposition to consign Mr. Bryan to po litical oblivion in case of sueh success. An Organized Appetite for Office. The Chicago Chronicle says: Four years ago the issue was the full din ner pall. Thin year the Issue at the South Is the Hooker Washington luncheon. In the course of time we may Iflevelop a pte-for breakfast party. And in the north the Democrats rep resent the Hungry Joe party now. First Voters f -r Roosevelt. The thirty days before election round up of voters reveals the fact that nearly every first voter is going to cast his bal lot for Roosevelt. It would be a dull young American, indeed, who should con sider a vote for the “has beens” as worth while. “To say tliot action against trusts • nd monopolies should be limited to the application of tho common law la equivalent to saying that the National Dovernment should take no action whatever to ragnlato them.”-Kocse ■iafiiMiNftaMHMi .S PROTECTION A ROBBERY? Ik protection a robbery, in view of the fact that our savings banks—not national banks nor trust companies—hold mora than $3,300,000,000 ou deposit, against $1,748,000,000 in 1894, an increase of $1,552,000,000 in ten years, of which seven have been protective tariff years? Is protection a robbery, in view of the fact that the savings banks of New York and New Rngland alone, the banks of the working people, have more money on deposit than had all the savings banks of our country iu 1894? Is protection a robbery, in view of the fact that the 1903 figures showed 7,305, 000 savings bank depositors, an increase of 2,240.000 since 1890? Is protection a robbery, in view of the fact that the total deposits (exclusive of government bonds) iu omr banking insti tutions generally in 1903 amounted to $9,073,000,000, an increase of $4,757, 000,000 over 1896? Is protection a robbery, iu view of tbe fact that our export of domestic man ufactures increased from $277,000,000 in 1897 (last low-tariff fiscal year), to $452, 000,000 iu 1904 (last complete protective tariff fiscal year), an increase of $175, 000,000? Is protection a robbery, in view of the fact that our home consumption of wheat in 1904 fiscal year, was 517,000,000 bush els. or 49.000,000 bushels in excess of 1903 fiscal year, in spite of the fact that our 1!H>4 wheat crop was 33,000,000 bush els short of that of 1!K)3? J gggj Is protection a robbery, in view of the fact that our production of pig iron in creased from 7,000,000 tons iu 1894 to 18,000,000 tons in 1903? Is protection a robbery, in view of the fact that our coal production increased from 152,000,000 tons in 1894 to 319,000, 000 tons in 1903? Is protection a robbery, in view of the fact that our cotton mills used up 3,924, 000 bales of raw cotton in 1903, an in crease of 2,945,000 bales over 1800, and 1,419,(XX) bales over 18907 Is protection a robbery, in view of tho fact that in 1903 the cotton mills of North Carcjlnn, South Carolina and Georgia showed the following increase over 1807, the last low-tar iff fiscal year? Mills . 186 Spindles.3,444.323 Bales consumed . 705.402 Is protection a robbery, in view of tile fact that our public debt decreased from $2,331,000,000 in 1800 to $895,000,000 in 1004, a decrease of $1,430,000,000? Is protection a robbery, in view of t.be fact that our manufacturing and wage earning interests show the following in creases in 1003 over 1890? Factories. 240,000 Factory workers. 3,uuO.OOO Factory pay rolls, yearly.$3,000,000,000 Factory output, yecrly_$5,000,000,000 Is protection a robbery, in view of the fact that our importation of tin plate decreased from 385,000,000 pounds in 1896 to 110,000,000 pounds in 1908, while our manufacture of tin plate increased from 359,000,000 to 820,000,000 pounds, an increase of 410.000,000 pounds, in only six years of protection? Is protection a robbery, in view of the fact that since Abraham Lincoln’s first election, in 1800, we show the follow ing increases? Increased exports, 1904 ..$1,127,000,000 Increased imports, 1904. .. 038,(XX),000 National wealth.84,000,iXK).(XX) Money circulation . 2,080,000,oOO Farms and farm property. 12,500,000,000 Farm products, increase 1004 . 2,700,000,000 Farm animals, excess 1003 . 3,102,000,000 Government revenue, ex cess 1004 . 485,000,000 Increased petroleum prod ucts, gals... 2,640,000,000 Increased copper produc tion, tons. 263,388 Increased com crop, bush els . 1,500,000,000 Increased wheat crop, bushels. 464,000,000 Increased gold and silver production. 101,000,000 Increased cotton picked, bales. 5,806,000 Increase steam railway mileage. 190,000 Newspapers, etc., increase. 16.434 Patents granted, increase. 26,821 Sinult Ste. Marie tonnage, yearly increase. 27,333,000 American shipping, domes tic, increase, tons .... 2,391,000 And all the foregoing la only part of what might be credited to the protective tariff. WALTER J. BALLARD. Rot Fit to Govern* When Grover Cleveland was elected President the second time the first thing he did was to withdraw from the Senate the treaty for the annexation of Hawaii and order the American Hag there to be hauled down. The Democratic party ap proved this action as brave and patri otic. He prevented annexation as long as he could and the Democratic party applauded every step he took. Finally, in the seeoud year of McKin ley’s administration annexation was com pleted and the islands entered on a new career of prosperity. Now no Demo cratic speaker would dare to advocate the surrender or evacuation of Hawaii. A few years hence it will be the same with the Philippines. A party that opposes extending the area of liberty and that advocates haul ing down the American flag where it has been legally and rightfully raised is not fit to be entrusted with the administra tion of the government. Poverty in Pree-Trade England. It was stated in the Manchester City Council a few days ago that 40,000 to 50.000 people in that city were on the verge of starvation and that similar con litions prevailed in London and other large cities of the United Kingd ■ n. Jo seph Chamberlain has just stati i in a speech that there are 1.000,000 fewer la borers in the United Kingdom now than In 1851, and that the capital of the farm ers has fallen $1,000,000,000, that 13, 500.000 people are underfed, while Amer ica, Germany and other foreign countries are prospering. Neither the present in dustrial condition of free trade England, nor the condition of the United States when it got a dose of free trade during the last Democratic administration in 1893-1897, offers any promise of good that could be wrought by Democratic vio tory in 1904. All Ready for. the Blow. Now William Jennings Bryan IIss dipped his pen in woe. And has his leader written— riaiiMM