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Crowley (La.) News: The slowness
of the Samar Islanders to believe In
their pacification is accounted for by
the limited circulation of republican
newspapers in that region.
Ironton (Mo.) Register: The reor
ganizes arc running everything in
Missouri with a high hand this year.
The democrats will take charge when
the conventions are held next year.
Onoka (Minn.) Free Press: The
bankers have a genuine friend in Sec
retary Gage of the national treasury.
He is forever devising financial sys
tems by which the banks may get the
best of it.
Detroit (Mich.) People: The dem
ocracy will never succeed, so long as
democrats stand ready and willing to
surrender the most essential principles
declared for in their national platforms
of 1896 and 1900.
Maryville (Mo.) Forum: The re
publican party is pursuing a policy
which contracts the metal money of
the nation. The democratic party will
favor the increase of our metal money
by bimetallism.
Salem (111.) Democrat: The "reor
ganizers" have made some headway,
but it is hardly probable that a few
thousand of them will be permitted
to dictate to the legions; but we must
be alert. . r
golden J (Mo.) Enterprise: A few
years ago'the republicans branded the
statement that they intended to re
deem the silver dollar in gold, as a
democratic lie. Now they openly ad
vocate it.
Wahpeton (N. D.) Times: Speaking
of his shipping bill, Senator Frye ex
claimed pathetically, "I have been
pushing it for twenty years." Yes,
and' the taxpayers of the country have
been resisting it as a deliberate steal
for the same length of time.
Shelbyville (Ind.) Democrat: Re
publican gall is almost limitless when
it comes to dealing with public money,
but the republican majority in con
gress will hardly dare to indorse Sec
retary Gage's plan of loaning the treas
ury surplus to the national banks.
Kosse "(Tex.) Cyclone: President
Roosevelt proposes to appoint some
democrats to office, but those of the
Bryan stamp are warned not to apply.
The warning is unnecessary, for demo
crats that follow Bryan and his teach
ings are not to be found around the
republican pie-counter.
Sabinal (Tex.) Sentinel: President
Roosevelt has not yet appointed a
genuine democrat to office in the south
or anywhere else. The drivelling rot
indulged in by the subsidized press
over the Alabama judgeship appoint
ment was nauseating.
Greencastle (Ind.) Star Press: This
republican administration has "been
-displaying its financial ability by buy
ing in government bonds at 36 per
cent premium, to retire them for each
dollar of indebtedness thus cancelled
the government pays $1.36. And the
nenrjle pay the bills.
Hastings (Mich.) Journal: The na
tional bankers convention at Milwau
kee was noted for two things. The
vehement demand for the retirement of
the greenbacks, and the redemption of
silver dollars in gold. Funny, isn't it,
that bankers are the only persons, who
are not satisfied with the government
Issue of money?
Pocatello (Id.) Advance: That con
tractor who purchased his iron at $10
a ton cheaper by pretending he wanted
to ship it to England, than he could
by letting it be known he wanted it
for use in this country, must be an
anarchist. Surely nobody but an an
archist would deliver such a blow to
a republican law as that.
Webb City (Mo.) Register: The
democratic party still stands for an
income tax. It still believes in the
Jeffersonlan doctrine of "equal rights
to all and special privileges to none"
and for that r.eason it wants the rich
to pay their just proportion of the
taxes. Trusts and corporations have
long enough escaped from assisting in
bearing the burdens of government.
Bellfontaine (0.) Examiner: The
republican party, by dint of unprece
dented government extravagance, sup
plemented by the conversion of the
public debt into currency, has flooded
the country, with, money. And',.this
passes for public "prosperity." And it
is a temporary sort of prosperity, to
be pure. But there will be born of It a
day of reckoning and disaster. Just
you wait.
Augusta (Me.) New Age: It is a
noticeable fact that whenever a re
publican president or governor ap
points a democrat to office the ap
pointee is generally the sort of man
the democratic party doesn't want.
The president has just selected George
E. Koester for collector of internal
revenue for the district of South Caro
lina. His principal recommendation
.is that he is a prominent gold demo
crat. Glasgow (Mo.) Missourian: Ac
cording to the republican press the
promoters of the ship subsidy bill
will force its passage at the next
session of congress if it is possible to
do so. Such a measure would be a
rank imposition upon the people, but
the republican promoters, who are
largely stockholders in steamship
lines, that would be benefitted, care
nothing for the interests of the people.
Shelbina' (Mo.) Democrat: Andrew
Carnegie has made between one and
two hundred million dollars, enough
to make 15 to 20 thousand families,
75,000 people, very comfortable, by
means of the protective tariff that
robs the many to enrich the few. He
knows exactly how it works, and hav
ing become enoromusly rich by this
legal robbery, and having retired from
business, he says, "The best policy is
to reduce protection duties." He is
right hi this. Every1 principle of jus
tice and fairness demands this.
Olympia (Wash.) Standard: Is any
better proof wanted of the perfidy of
"gold" democrats than that the admin
istration is recognizing the claims of
those traitors to the democratic party
by frequent appointment to Important
positions? This week tho president
appointed George E. Koester, of South
Carolina, collector of internal rev
enue for that state. That Mr. Roose
velt is following out the policy of his
predecessor in tho general award of
patronage to those bolters who made
republican success possible, is as ap
parent as tho sun at noon-day.
Florence (Tex.) Vidette: There are
a few big daily newspapers in Texas
who dislike democracy at heart, and
yet they dare not attack it openly un
der another flag, so they hoist the dem
ocratic flag at their mast-head and
fight every principle it represents.
Democracy has suffered more from tho
effect of these traitors than from any
other one cause, but we are glad to
see their influence is on the wane
and In future campaigns their utter
ances will cut but little ice, except as
amusements. Thinking people have
ceased to ever consider them serious.
Rolla (Mo.) Sharp-Shooter: You
may organize, reorganize and disor
ganize, and all that sort of things, but
the fact remains that tho money ques
tion will bo the all important and liv
ing Issue with the democracy, both in
our state and national campaigns, un
til the issuing of all our money, both
gold, silver and paper, is taken out
of the hands of the national bank cor
poration, and given back to tho United
States government where it belongs.
And tho democrat who undertakes to
relegate this question to the rear will
find himself relegated to the rear,
when he comes before the democracy
asking for office.
Lexington (N. C.) Dispatch: The
reorganizes are not doing a very sat
isfactory business of late. The Kan
sas City platform will be the demo
cratic platform until legally selected
delegates meet in national conven
tion and adopt a platform for the next
presidential election. Those democrats
who refused to support tho ticket in
the last election should not ask to dic
tate terms to that vast army of men
who stood loyal to their party and
against greed, selfishness, oppression
and combinations which hftve grown
powerful by virtue of unjust and dis
criminating laws enacted for their
benefit and at their request.
Chilllcotho (Mo.) Constitution: The
Kansas City platform is big enough
to hold- us all without pushing and
crowding and disputing about the color
of this man's hair or the cut of that
man's coat. It is all right and proper
to let those who have beeen faithful
and fought in the front ranks stand
at the head of the class. They ought
to stand there. They are entitled to
be recognized first. But It Isn't nec
essary to apply the branding Iron to
those who are slow about coming in.
Let us have peace. If wo must quar
rel let us quarrel with republicans.
Wo need tho hearty good will and tho
friendly co-operation of every man
who over wore tho name of democrat.
A club may do to bring about har
mony somotiraes, but not now.
Sycamoro (III.) Broadside: A re
publican paper says that tho demo
cratic party has repudiated its last na
tional platform. Beg your pardon,
"you're another!" The democratic
party has done no such thing. Tho
trouble is that tho republican press
would have the people boliovo that a
fow assistant republicans aro tho
democratic party. It may fool tho
ignorant readers of the republican pa
pers, but it isn't going to fool tho
rank and file of tho democratic party,
who happen to know why they aro
democrats. But, talk of repudiating
platforms, we daro any republican pa
per to publish such extracts as wo
may select from old-time republican
platforms, from tho utterances of
Abraham .Lincoln, Charles ' Sumner,
James G. Blaino or James A. Garfield,
or from the constitution or tho Declar
ation of Independence. Wo dared the
republican papers hereabouts to do
these things in tho last campaign and
not one of them dared to accept the
challenge.
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