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w slsrj :!V;TrtW"'"'i.Tr-'(r51K( wvffr"ii'JHW The Commoner- 14 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1G. (( fmDnYIV iilllllil 5r 1 ) w 1) I ill 11 11 If :7 n Ramsey (111.) News-Journal: For tho roorganlzors to ask tho democracy to como out of tho party In order to got togcthor with them Is suicidal and Gonsoless. Clinton (111.) RoglsterJ If tho demo crats want to be suro that Cleveland & Co. will not bolt tho democratic prcs- idontlal ticket In 1904, they should nomlnato a republican. Pratt (Kas.) Union: If the reor ganizers In the democratic party would pull off tholr coats and work with tho splendid organization al ready formed thoro would bo some thing doing In tho democratic camp. Batavla (0.) Sun: Tho would-be re organlzors of tho democratic party aro expending almost as much energy In that effort as thoy did in 1896 when engaged in tho work of disorganiza tion. Bollairo (0.) Democrat: The good pooplo of Cleveland have given Mr. Hanna a practical' object lesson in carrying out his teachings in lotting well onough alone and "standing pat" by Tom Johnson. Columbia (Mo.) Herald: Since it turns out that of the four senators in dicted for boodling throe are repub licans, wo do not hoar tho Globe Democrat howling tor cleansing the Augean stables as heretofore. Keokuk (la.) Constitution-Democrat: The old-fashioned republican editor who believes that tho tariff is not a tax but Jf it is, it is paid by tho foreigners, is having some diffi culty in explaining tho necessity of tho Cuban reciprocity treaty. Marysvillo (0.) Journal: Tho near er some democrats resemble republi cans the more thoy advocate the re organization of the party and tho moro, too, do their utterances receive somplimentary mention in tho repub lican newspapers of tho country. Cadiz (Ky.) Record: We want har mony and want it bad. Every true uomocrat wants Harmony. But when tho follow comes along who refused to harmonize in '9G and 1900 and asks us to surrender our convictions now sim ply for tho sake of harmony, put us down "agin 'im." Waynesvillo (Mo.) Democrat: The only trouble with "carrying a big stick," in tho form of a navy, is the temptation to use it. It is tho man who carries a gun that is tempted to shoot and the boy with a now jack-knife who cannot resist whittling tho school furniture. IQrnont (Neb.) Leader: Wo cather sneechestW PresidGnt'a campaign might injure the good,8ffip Ji!" " publican idea of a "good trulfS that will gracefully vield un whon Mi man with tho frying pan comes around. Hurdland (Mo.) Times: Just why the seven million loyal democrats who refused to bolt in '96 and 1900 should now surrender the party machinery to this little handful of traitors is a mystery, for when the tariff issue .s excluded there Is very little difference between their platform and that of tho republican party. Boobo (Ark.) News: It-seems to us xl that old Unole Hank Watterson is having a dickens of a lot to say about .wtiat the -democratic party should or should not do, in viow of tho fact that he deserted the ranks under fire not so long ago. But these 1896 de serters seem to want to take chargo of tho whole works. Wo shall see. Harrlsburg (111.) Register: The na tional administration seems to be afraid that tho people will not hold still to take thejr dose of prosperity, so it has invented and proposes to distribute free to tho militia of the states a bullet which it declares will bo "very effective against mobs.' What mobs? Busch (Tex.) Roger Mills Demo crat: The reorganizers would have tho democratic party so nearly like the republican party that the "cap tains of industry" would havo no choice botween the two. Tho great mass of common people would have it so much unlike tho party of Hanna and Roosovelt that a blind man could see tho contrast Silver City (Idaho) Avalanche: Tho Injunction evil has grown so rapidly of lato years that It has now become a curse on tho body politic The im agination of some of our courts are drawn on to such an extent that un less there is legislation enacted curb ing the power the more rabid of thes9 courts have delegated to themselves, wo may yet, see tho day when men may be restrained from sleeping, eat .ing, or oven exercising their consti tutional right of suffrage. Rod Oak (la.) Sun: So it seems to tho Sun that this is a peculiarly hap py time for a fight with the "harmon izers" if they persist in their effort to capture party leadership and that tho warmer the fight made against thorn tho better for the party now and. hereafter. The motive for such a fight is not that of mere punishment for forsaking the party, but that of preserving the party from danger of another such betrayal of principles and pledges as the party suffered dur ing tho last administration of Grover Cleveland. Salinas City (Cal.) Journal: The Brooklyn Eagle says: "Tho Bryanite remnant will have to support the nom inee wfioover he is and take their chances under him or they will havo to get out." That is such nice, sweot tompered harmony talk! Yet if a true democrat objects to it and re sents that spirit, these fellows call him a destroyer of harmony. Fact is, most of this "harmony" talk, is simply a demand for unconditional surrender of all that's good in dem ocracy. And the demand comes from the financial masters. They need watching. A citizen who falls in with them simply commits civic suicide. Eureka (111.) Democrat-Journal: Concerning this panacea of "public ity," which is advertised as a cure all for the robbery ot corporations, we u;ht remark that the illegal and rascal methods of tho Standard Oil company,nd the oll carrying mii roads, were arv fought out in a con gressional lnvesljfeon twenty-fivo years ago. But the roi anras cality went rjght on in theS,m elarfl of "publicity," and every rascaluJ." illegal business is now many times 'a millionaire, and thousands of their viotlms were reduced to poverty, right under the eyes of tho federal court Newcastle (Pa.) Tribune: Admin istration organs all over the country are going into ecstacles over that speech of President Roosevelt's at Fargo. Tho president says some iso lated cases of cruelty have occurred in the war against the Filipinos and tho republican papers aro echoing his romarks about them being trivial. Of course it is a trivial matter when one man out of the billion or so who in habit this earth of ours Is taken out of It But is it a trivial matter when American officers command American soldiers to shoot and torture defense less prisoners? Is it a trivial mat ter when American officers forbid the reading of tho Declaration of Inde pendence on the ground that it incites mutiny and rebellion? That is pre cisely the same reason which King George II. advanced against it in 1776. "Many a mickle makes a muckle," the old Scotch proverb says and It strikes us that these "trivial things" Presi dent Roosevelt speaks of are accumu lating pretty fast Marshall (Mo.) Index: While tho Index would "bury the hatchet" and unite, if possible; .with every man who is at heart and by example a demo crat, we would not sacrifice a principle to do so. More than 95 per cent of the men of this country who call themselves democrats went out to battle under our banner in 1900 and this mighty host will never disband in order to let those who remained at home or fought with the enemy come into camp; nor will tho very small minority be allowed to come back and dictate what line of battle shall be taken up. They may come with the understanding that a welcome is ex tended them, as well as a conciliatory spirit; but that the, party organiza tion does not, and will not place them in positions of trust until they have proven themselves worthy. They may como, too, with the understand ing that their wishes and principles will have full consideration, but with tho additional understanding that the old principle of democracy that "the will of tho majority is law' is still in force. Bellefonte (Pa.) Democratic Watch man: A "Mr. Archibald C. .Tnnns" who is advertised as "a former promi nent politician of New. York city," is said to bo in the anthracite coal re gion of this state "booming Grover Cleveland for the presidential nomi nation in 1904," and starting "a move ment to reorganize the party." While Mr. Archibald Jones, or any other of the Jones family, has a perfect right to boom whom he pleases for presi dential nominee and start all: tho movements ho has a mind to to reor ganize tho party, we have every rea son to believe that it will take a big ger Jones than Mr. Archibald, has ever shown himself to be, to accomplish the purposes he is said to have in view. Tho Pennsylvania democracy may be "down at the heel," to a very discouraging extent, but there are still over four hundred thousand of them left who believe they know their own minds, and who have an idea that they are abundantly able to take care oil their own affairs without interference or dictation from outside sources. Mr. Archibald Jones might better save his wind and his work for some other field. San Francisco Star: What is it that the reorganizers complain of? Is it free silver? Not by any means. With, the free silver plank practically elim inated from the party's declaration of principles the reorganizers, according to their own story, ought to be satis fied. But are they? Why tho other planks of the party's last two national platforms are just as repugnant They contain too much sound democracy to suit them. They see special privileges in every form endangered. They see opportunities for plundering the peo ple menaced and, most of all, they realize that an administration that would be courageous enough and sin cere enough to carry the Chicago and Kansas City platforms to their logi cal conclusion would ultimately mean' the enactment into law of that truly democratic principle, "Equal rights to all and special privileges to none," and thus giving living expression to the doctrine that all men havo a nat ural right to life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness. This would sound the death knell of graft and plunder, the plutocrat's chief method of draw ing unto themselves the earnings of the masses. And, above all, would emancipate the industrial slave and make men free. And it is this that the reorganizers and plutocrats fear The reorganizers have nothingiri tfom mon with the men who loVeT truth and justice. Thoy are in perfect harmony with that element of thd republican party of which Mark Hanna is a per fect type, and it is their aim to mako the democratic platform as similar to the republican platform as possible. This, of course, means the Hannaiza tlon of the democratic party. Three For One Prairie Farmer Combination. ! All three for $1.00 THE COMMONER .Si 00 Prairie Farmer, Weekly "f ' Prairie Farmer, Home Magazine, Monthly.'.! $ 1,00 THE PRAIRIE FARMER 1 flr0f.i- ... ...j u i ' It is carefully edited, haadsomely illustrated, and has complete Sre stock market reports of Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha. T"?.1!?1?. 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