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Commoner.
Vol. a, No. aj.!
The Commoner,
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If Gomez was bribed somebody bribed liim.
Puzzle: Find the bribo-glvor.
, It appears that the republican party lias also
given a now doflnition to "reciprocity."
How do you like the sixteen-page Commoner?
If you aro pleased toll your noighbors about it,
Mr. Oxnard seems determined to do a little
reconcentrado business in Cuba on his own account.
The members of the president's official family
seem to heed a tremondous lot of presidential do
fending, " ,
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Alfred .Austin's coronation poonr 'sounds'.-just,,
like Alfred Austin. No diagram is needed with
this statement.
Friends of tho present" legal ratio will notice
with pleasure that The Commoner now has 3,6
pages to 1 Ibsuo.
Is It good democratic policy to unite on prin
ciples that meet with tho cordial indorsement of
republican organs?
Tho g. o. p. seems -to be suffering from a lot
of unasslmilated Cuban reciprocityxin its ap
pendix vormiformis.
It is statod that Mr. Rockefeller has lost all
his hair. But nowhere is it Btated that Mr. Rocke
feller has lost Ills grip.
That low, musical sound from the east is only
Attorney General Knox weaving a few more trust
shackles out of cobwebs.
Mr. Grosvenor is waving the "bloody shirt."
This is a sure sign that Mr. Grosvenor is badly
frightened at tho outlook.
Tho steel trust cleared a profit of $67,000,000
in six months. Has tho supply or presidential
"shackles" been exhausted?
Mr, Roosevelt will doubtless admit that tho
kind of shackles he placed upon the meat trust
would bo of no effect upon Mr. Oxnard.
Tho republican organs that arc so quick to ac
cuse Gomez of receiving a bribe should pauso and
reflect on tho identity of the bribe-givers.
Tho Ohio supremo court is so busy trying ,to
down Tom Johnson that it is likely to overlook
its duty towards Mr. Rockefeller's oil trust.
Interest four of your noighbors in The Com
moner and get their subscription and your ovn,
five in all, for the price of threo subscriptions.
Mr. Morgan Is having his nose treated with,
electricity. Ho might save money by connecting
the wires with his nervo Instead of a battery. 1
As lor Mr, 'Whitelaw Roid, he who upholsters
his underpinning without a chance for disjplay
shpuld strive to ro-upholster for. another day.
, , The Philadelphia North American complains
of a plaguo of burglars in that city. Perhaps tho
republican councilmen are working two grafts.
Tariff revision by the' friends of tho tariff
simply moans that tho tariff protected "infants"
will roviso it in such a way as to get a new grip.
"Joe Manley of Maine went td Washington tho
other day to offer Mr, Roosevelt the Maine dele
gation in 1904. Before accepting the offer tha
president should havo a little heart-to-heart "talk
with Thomas Brackott Reed.
A democratic platform promulgated by demo
crats and adhered to by candidates known to bo
staunch democrats will bring about harmony.
Tho Maine democratic convention. Indorsed
tho Kansas City platform and then applauded
Champ Clark's interpretation of it. With Maino
and. Missouri united there ought to have beau
no trouble In Illinois and Indiana. 7
Tho democracy of Minnesota is in the fight
to win. The Minnesota platform breathes demo
cratic principles, and upon that platform all demo
crats can unite.
There will always be considerable difficulty
attached to harmonizing the democracy upon prin
ciples that meet with tho approbation of the re
publican leaders and organs.
Mr. Hanna has given to the public his cele
brated recipe for making cornbeer hash. Mr.
Hanna should now come. to tho front with hie
recipe for getting the beef.'
Senator Mason is wearing a new belt with
great pride. But it is not tho one he received
from the administration for daring to vote for
what ho thought was right.
According to the press dispatches the amnesty,
proclamation was read at Manila, but no mention,
was -made of the Declaration of Independence.
Why? What has become of inalienable rights and
government by the consent of the governed?
.Captain Wild of the Thirteenth Infantry waa
reprimanded lor burning a Filipino cockpit.' Tho
captain made a mistake. He should havo killed
all Filipinos over ten years old and made tho
territory about -him' a howling wilderness.
Congress adjourned without any republican,
senator endeavoring to meet the arguments ad
vanced by SenatorHoar in his great speech. -Discretion
is becoming a marked characteristic of
g. o. p. senators who advocate imperialism.
The next democratic platform will not meet
with th-3 crprobation of the republican organs
that aro now so deeply interested in seeing the
democratic rarty reorganized.
In the Columbus Press tho democrats of Ohio
have a newspaper of which .they may well be
proud. The democracy of the Columbus Press is
the kind of democracy that stands for something
more than a mere desire to grasp the loaves and
fishes.
Ohio democrats should avoid tho mistake made
in their own stato last year and in Indiana and
Illinois this year. The Kansas City platform is
.not a thing to be run from.
Tho Des Moines Leador claimed to be demo
cratic, but when it merged with the republican
Des Moines Register the Register's republicanism
was not diluted even a little bit
The Filipinos enjoy all tho rights and priv
ileges of American citizens with the exception of
relief by habeas corpus, trial by jury, representa
tion, right to keep arms, right of petition, fran
chise, citizenship, and other minor things too
numerous to mention. -
Tho difference between Jeffersoniah expan
sion and republican imperialism is the difference
between right and wrong, justice, and injustice,
patriotism, ana commercialism, i ,
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The administration organs that with one ac
cord declared Admiral Dewey's decision in tho
Schley case to be unworthy of consideration de
mand that Dewey's estimate of Aguinaldo be ac-'
. cepted without question. The logic of administra
tion organs always appears cut bias. -
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The Sioux City Journal says: "'Let well
enough alone' will not answer as a party shib
boleth." When the Journal hears from Mr. Hanna
it will find itself guilty of lese majeste.
Tho president spent the Fourth in Pittsburg.
Pittsburg is the home of the steel industry that
tho president threatens to shackle. The reports
from Pittsburg indicate that the steel trust en
joyed it.
- . Wo have spent $200,000,000 and sacrificed tho
lives of upwards of 5,000 "Americans in order to
advance commercialism in the Philippines. Since
the beginning of the trouble In tho Philippines our
trade with those islands have amounted to less,,
than $20,000,000. Do the books balance?
Mr. Roosevelt strenuously denounces those
who have "attacked" his official family. He should
now perform a few strenuous vociferations on
those who have attacked Dewey, Schley and Miles.
Whenever a democratic senator fails to note
the insults of a republican senator the republican
organs accuse him of cowardice, and when he
does resent the insult he is accused of brutality.
It is unwise for a democratic senator to waste
time trying to please the republican organs.
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Thousands havo taken advantage of tho "Lots
of Five" subscription offer, and thousands of
others interested in tho preservation and growth
of democratic principles should do the same thing.
The Philippine peace proclamation was doubt
less Issued on July Fourth for the purpose of
further convincing the Filipinos that they have no
part nor parcel in the Declaration of Independence.
Senator Beverldge is said to believe that it is
his destiny to become presidont of this republic.
Destiny has oeen blamed for some queer capers
during the last few years, and we are prepared
for tho worst,
When democratic principles triumph in Penn
sylvania -as triumph they will some day-the
Johnstown Democrat will be entitled to a great
share of tho honor given-those who brought
about; the result.
The Philippine bill as passed provides for
government without consent and taxation with
out representation. George III. has been a long
time dead, but a belated claim for vindication
Bhould be filed.
The Pennsylvania railroad has issued an order
forbidding kissing in its depots. The Pennsylvania
railroad may issue orders to congress and legis
latures and have them obeyed, but when it col-
lides with Dan Cupid the Pennsylvania railroad is
going to come out of the trouble second best.
Democrats who stand firmly by democratic
principles never fail to note that republican organs
always commend democratic platforms that meet
with the favor of the reorganizers. And demo
cratic platforms that are commended oy republi
can organs aro lacking in the essentials of dem
ocracy. j
The St Cloud (Minn.) Times criticises the
Minnesota democrats for indorsing tho Kansas
City platform and tho Minneapolis Journal (re
publican) flatters the Times by declaring that ti
"talks very sensibly to its party." Strang that
the republican papers should give such unselfish:
advice; and how pleased the Times must be to.
know that -it and tho republican papers are in
perfect agreement as to what Is best for tho demo
cratic party. .
The Commoner began with eight pages, it now
contains sixteen; it began with about seventeen
thousand subscribers, it now prints a-little more
than one hundred thousand copies each week,
and this growth is due to the paper's friends who
sing Its praises and extend its influence because
it stands up for democratic principles and defends
the rights and interests of the common people."
Mr. Bryan takes pleasure In making a cor
rection. It was stated in a recent Issue of this
paper that he had not received' an invitajtiori to
tho Tildon dinner. Wnen an officer of that so-
ciety stated that one had boon sent Mr.-Bryau
caused a search to be'made and found that dum
ing his absence an Invitation and ticket of adi
mission had been received at the office, but by an"
oversight of the clerk had not been brought to
his attention. A letter explaining delay has been:
addressed to the club. If the club sees fit to give
the letter to the public it -will be reproduced la
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