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Hamburg (la.) Democrat: A demo
'crat is a man who voted the democrat
ticket. See?
" Winfield (kas.) Tribune: Ohio has
gone republican. Repudiation of the
Kansas City platform assisted the op
position. Horton (Kas.) Commercial: The
.election returns from Tuesday show
that there are a good many demo
crats still in existence. And there will
be more next year.
Vevay (Ind.) Democrat: The repub
lican party in the south has swelled
by exactly" the number of democrats
who have been appointed to federal
positions, and no more.
Cameron (Mo.) Sun: "Don't" reduce
taxation or the treasury surplus; we
have schemes for spending lots of
money," is the sum and substance of
the talk of republican congressmen.
Fostoria (0.) Democrat: The Chris
tian church has never yet found it ad
visable to "let well enough alone."
-Is Mark Hanna's administration su
perior in standard to Christian civili
zation? ' Fairfield (111.) Sun: The republicans
will howl! themselves hoarse against
fusion in elections, and in the recent
election in New York city that party
fused with eight other organizations
to defeat the regular democratic ticket.
rKMaJdoh (Mo.) Times:. The grand
old party still flourishes, and is a
power in the land. Let us pull to
gether for a better and more harmon
ious organization and the standard of
the democratic party will be planted
on the White house in 1904.
, Hartville (Mo.) Democrat;. The
Hartville Democrat has not yet se
lected its choice, but it shall be our
policy to support no man for the nomi
nation unless he can produce a record
"whiter than snow," against trusts,
combines, corporations, and gold bugs.
Minden (Neb.) Courier: No one
contending for a principle should be
dismayed at defeat in elections. It is
.'" like our jury system, very uncertain.
Truth is often defeated, arrayed
against palpable error, in both courts
-and elections, Prejudice and spite are
potent factors in both.
Jacksonville (111.) Courier: The old
United States bank scheme that Jack
." son ' throttled so successfully .nearly
three score and ten years .ago, is
again bobbing up ts head serenely.
' The money power will never be satis
fied until it has complete and- undis-
. puted control of the government.
Anoka (Minn.) Free Press: Oh,
. yes; the republican party will attend
.to. proper v tariff reform all-right
7 '"enough. That.party has attendedto it
'- magnificentlyup to date, and may be
depended, uptfn to do so hereafter If
given a chance? The republican? 'tariff
' system is as compact and complete a
' system of "highway robbery as iti is
possible to conceive, and robbers,may
always be. depended upon to reform
themselves in a horn
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Alvarado (Tex.) Bulletin: Suppose
Mr. Bryan had been elected one year
ago and suppose cotton had gone down
below seven cents, as it has done under
McKinley rule! The McKinley pros
perity whoopers would almost have
had hydrophobia, and all would have
been charged to "Bryanism." As it is,
the whoopers say never a word.
Greenville (O.) Democratic Advo
cate: We trust the democracy of Ohio
now has about enough of John R. Mo
Lean and his gold bug lieutenants.
Oil and water won't mix, and the doses
they doled out to the party the past
few months wouldn't go down with
men who have for years advocated
higher and better things.
Crete (Neb.) Democrat: The treas
ury statement issued Nov. 1 shows
that Secretary Gage has bought ?40,
477,990 of government bonds on which
he paid $9,000,000 premium. Don't
you think this a rather expensive way
for the people to get their money into
circulation again after paying it into
the treasury as taxes and tariff?
Puxico (Mo.) Index: The gold
democrat (?) papers are ondeavoring
to quiet the discussion, now going on
by the democratic papers, in reference
to the nearly seven million democrats
who stayed with the party, giving way
to the political hobnobbing of the
bolters. Jt is folly for. them to con
tinue their endeavors, as the voters
know them by the brand.
Vancouver (Wash.) Register-Democrat:
The Wall street sharks realize
that it (the money question) is not
yet settled, and they do not intend that
it shall be settled until the money
p-wer shall become absolutely supreme
in this nation until it shall be un
questioned in its power as the mother
and head 'Of the giant trusts which
are strangling individual effort.
Dayton (Wash.) Courier-Press: So
long as manufacturers here can keep
their factories going by charging Am
ericans 100 per cent and more profit
on their wares, and send the surplus
to foreign countries and sell them at
a price which cuts off a profit to the
manufacturer there, and the workmen
there is still unstarved, just so long
the present unfair methods will con
tinue. Jackson (Mo.) Cash Book: The St.
Louis Republic descants on Tuesday's
elections in a double-leaded editorial.
In speaking of the result in the several
states it takes occasion to divide the
democratic iarty into two classes, the
"reorganizes" and the "disorganizes."
Of course his great democratic (?)
daily means by the "reorganizes"
that class to which it belongs, the
gold bugs who have twice defeated
the democratic party In national elec
tions. The "disorganizes" are the
democrats who believe in the prin
ciples of the Kansas City platform and
who would rather see the party go
down in defeat for a hundred years
than to suffer the gold bug traitors to
run it on republican principles.
Caruthersvllle (Mo.) Democrat:
"Loyalty to party," says the Cape Re
publican, "Is the cardinal principle of
the republican party." It is, for a fact;
the will of the fosses rules and the
common voter has little to say. Dem
ocrats are different,, every follow
thinks for himself and if they don't
all happen to think alike a row en
sues. Anybody can be a republican,
but it takes a man of spirit and action
to be a good democrat.
Colorado Springs (Colo.) Democrat:
The board of equalization of Cleveland,
O., has decided to tax the riparian
rights along the water front of Lake
Erie. One of the great steel works
there, objecting, said: "I think you
have just as much right to tax our
right to use air and light as you have
to tax our riparian rights." The at
torney for the board replied: "The
difference is that all of us have air
and light, but just a few of you have
Lake Brie." That is the whote ques
tion In a nutshell.
Nevada (Mo.) Democrat: The only
platform the democratic party has is
the one made at Kansas City, Mo.,
and any democrat running for United
States senator, who cannot stand
squarely on this platform, should not
be elected. The democratic platform
adopted then stands until another Is
made, and- if the party does not aee fit
to adopt another, all democrats who
are true blue and want to run for ofilco
will have to stand thereon. The ratio
may not cut much figure with some
politicians, but it does with those of
the party who are true democrats and
want to live up to the democratic plat
form and principles.
Monmouth (111.) Democrat: There
are none so blind as those who will
not see, and the Chronicle is the blind
est bat of them all. The man who
espouses the cause of all the people is
a populist; the man who attacks cor
porate interests which threaten to
overthrow popular government and en
slave a majority of mankind is an an
archist, according to the Chronicle.
That paper, like ail the other subsi
dized metropolitan sheets, "talks
crooked." Ever ready to see the mote
in its neighbor's eye, the Chronicle Is
utterly oblivious to the "beam" in its
own optic.
Pomeroy (O.) Democrat: If reports
are true, the Pomeroy branch of the
American Steel Hoop company is a
thing of the past. The mill here has
shut down indefinitely and the men
employed have been advised to look
for work elsewhere. This Is bad news
for the people of Pomeroy as well as
for the men who have located here
with their families. Thus our citi
zens have an object lesson in the
benefits of combinations known as
"trusts." Had Kilbourne been elected
It is, safe to presume that his election
would have been pointed to as the
cause of our loss. But did not Hanna
say "Let well enough alone,", and was
it not taken up and -repeated by his
political admirers as an epigram
fraught with wonderful wisdom?
Macon (Mo.) Times-Democrat: Tues
day's elections ought to open the eyes,
of any man who aspires to the sena
torship from Missouri, that no other
pass word but democracy as defined by
the Kansas City platform, will bo ac
cepted by the people who are the real
sentinel to the doors of congress.
Preston (Minn.) National Republi
can: To it (the republican party) is
chargeable all the crimes trusts have
committed. They are the operating
force of the party. They own the
courts and a majority or congress.
There is not a farmer or any other
toiler in America whose interests and
rights are not jeopardised by the
trusts. Why should any of them vote
a so-called republican party ticket?
A more suicidal act could not be com
mitted. Again read Mr. Washburn's
strong language and think yourself
out of bondage.
Rockville (Ind.) Tribune: With
very few exceptions, there is no longer
any individuality or citizenship con
nected with the great dailies. They
are corporations, and reflect corpora
tion views. They possess no warm
blooded humanity. It is the country
papes alone that speak as men speak,
and as men used to speak In all the
papers Whether it Js because they
must reflect the sentiment dominant
among the masses, or because of an
honest endeavor to disseminate the
democracy of the common people, It is
true that the country papers arc, and
for several yeas have been, the pa
tient privates who comprise the van
guard of democracy's grand army.
Potosi (Mo.) Independent: The man
of principle and the man of policy can
no longer live comfortably together
under the same political roof. The
earnest of one is the jest of the other.
One will not hear to a backward step
in the fight against monopoly; he will
not listen to any proposition of com
promise with the trusts; he will con
sent to no abatement of the war
against the national banks and their
control of the government; he will
not fellowship on any terms other
than complete surrender with the de
sertes'of 1896. He is willing to go up
to defeat after defeat for the prin
ciples he holds dear, confident in his
belief that the right will ultimately
prevail. The other regards these con
ditions as impossible; he cannot con
sent to the driving of large contribu
tors to the campaign fund from the
party; he cannot understand the man
who Is unwilling to make concessions
in the platform to wealthy gentleman
who, in consideration therefor, aro
willing to bear the expense of the cam
paign; he has an abiding faith In the
efficacy of buncomb to quiet the con
science of the people: he believes that
clap-trap will atone for any incon
sistency In a record. If he has lived
long In the atmosphere of Washington,
he is apt to sneer at' any effort to up
hold the constitution, or to restrain
the power of organized greed. One
element is apt in its zeal for principle,
to overlook party organization The
other in its zeal to hold fast to the
loaves and fishes, is apt to attack the
principles that cause its party to exist.
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