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Clinton (111.) Reglator: Clovoland'a
presidential boom is bounded on all
Bides by his hat band.
Petty (Tex.) Enterprise: It is not
strange that Grovor Cleveland should
be so highly praised by tlfo Chicago
Inter-Ocean and other republican pa
pers. Jerseyvillo (111.) News: Can a stul
tified party win? It is very doubtful.
And the democratic party .will bo
stultified if it heeds tho advice of the
reorganizers.
Jerseyvillo (111.) News: If tho
democratic party holds to its prin
ciples it can't bo any more than de
feated; if it abandons them it will bo
both defeated and discredited.
Eureka (111.) Democrat-Journal : Tho
republican editors, having recovered
their wind, aro again making them
solvea red in tho face trying to inflate
tho collapsed Cleveland boom.
Grand Island (Nob.) Democrat: Un
til the republican assassin of William
Goebel is returned to Kentucky soil,
tho republican governor of Indiana
would do better in the background.
Indianapolis (Ind.) Standard: Tho
democrat who thinks that Grover
Cleveland is a Jefforsonian democrat
would make a companion to tho repub
lican who imagines that Mark Hanna
is a follower of Lincoln.
Emporia (Kas.) Times: No sooner
had tho people of tho country learned
that Cleveland might be persuaded to
make tho raco a fourth time for tho
iroaidency than they apparently lost
all interest in his candidacy.
Fremont (Nob.) Herald-Leader: Tho
trouble with Brlstow is that ho be
lieves that a republican thief is no bet
tor than any other kind of a thief.
Naturally enough this view is not ac
ceptable to tho average republican or
gan and boss.
Auburn (Neb.) Granger: when our
government sends prayers to tho czar
of Russia in bohalf of tho persecuted
Jews, then Russia with propriety
turns to quote, "Physician heal thy
self, " etc. Wo have. killed more in
offensive Filipinos while compelling
them to submit, twelve times over,
than tho Russians have killed of tho
Jews,
Red Wing (Minn.) Argus: La Fol
letto of Wisconsin says wo need a
new declaration of independence to
protest against taxation without rep
resentation. The trusts tax us, he
. says, and allow us no share in tho
government Governor La Follotto
should bo moro careful. Such talk
will land him in tho democratic party
if ho doesn't watch out
Malono (N. Y.) Forum: Tho Clove
land boom for president in 1904 will
xiover take root, for various reasons,
the chief ono being that the people
don't want him. In an active light for
tho nomination it may bo possible for
him to got tho delegations of a fow
eastern states, but to get enough votes
for a nomination is simply out of tho
question. His boom cornea from re
publican and gold bug papers only, but
.he has no backing whatever from tho
Jefferson democracy. Cleveland would
make a good president from a repub
lican and monopolistic standpoint and
if ho ovor wants tho nomination for
that office again ho will nave, to get it
from tho republicans.
Cumberland (Md.) Alleganian: Can
non says thero is no necessity for
financial legislation; Hanna says tho
tariff is just tho thing as it stands;
'Payne says tho postofllce scandals aro
"hot air;" Root says tho army scan
dals aro dreams; Roosevelt says tho
trusts are smashed. Therefore, ac
cording to republican officeholders, ev
erything is just lovely. There will bo
a different tune heard in the next
presidential election
Bellofonto (Pa.) Watchman: Sur
face indicationp show no signs of the
overworking of Mr. Roosevelt's stren
uosity in tho job of uncovering tho
postal scandals.
Fremont (Neb.) Herald-Leader: It
seems that ono of the easiest ways to
get a cheer in a republican conven
tion is to get mixed up in a brutal
murder with a prominent democrat as
the victim, fly to another state and
hide behind the coat-tails of a repub
lican governor.
Jackson (0.) Herald: How many
people reflect that the building up of a
powerful navy and a strong army
means the building up of a powerful
pro-war party? That thi3 is so is
obvious from tho fact that it means
the education of many men whoso solo
profession is war and who can attain
success in their careers only through
war.
Palmer and Mark Hanna to demoralize
and destroy tho democratic party. In
the opinion of the News, they aro less
democratic than Mark Hanna him
self, and tho attitudo of the party to
wards thom should bo more pro
nounced in its opposition than toward
republicans.
Mt Pleasant (Mich.) Democrat: The
Washington correspondent who claims
to have discovered that President
Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan
have become reconciled, cannot ex
pect much credit from his discovery
until he demonstrates that there was
over any difference between them.
Emmettsburg (la.) Democrat: Gro
ver Cleveland will address the com
mercial club of Chicago in October,
and it is predicted that he will take
advantage of the occasion to Inflate
his little boom for a third term. The
trusts are patting him on the back
only for tho purpose of making Teddy
walk straight Ho may yet find out
to his sorrow that the west has very
little love for him.
Watkins (N. Y.) Review: Accord
ing to tho Iowa republican platform, it
is perfectly proper to tax 80,000,000
people to help 250,000 men do busi
ness, or '80,000 people to help 250 men
get along in the world, or 320 people
to enrich ono man, with the under
standing, of course, express or im
plied, that theao individuals who are
thus helped by government subsidies
should contribute a proper percentage
of their subsidies every four years to
keep tho party upholding such a pol
icy perpetually in power.
Eureka (I1L) Democrat-Journal:
Some editorial philosophers have been
Orangeburg (S. C.) Patriot: The
northern republican papers aro con
stantly trying to show the south that
Mr. Grover Cleveland Is tho best can
didate tho democrats can put out for
the presidency. Between Cleveland
i ;x"rrvi U"V '"V"""" ??" puzzling their brains to explain how
and the trusts and 'all such would do ff woob J: . T .. ",,,,
safe. They aro both servants of the grow a few years from an obscure
samo masters.
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Beardstown (III.) Enterprise: The
democracy of 1896 and 1900 have no
opologies to make for tho Issues that
were made paramount' by the Chica
go and Kansas City platforms. They
are proud of the glorious fight for
democratic principles that they made
in those campaigns, and any conven
tion that does not recognize this is
not representative of the genuine
democratic sentiment of the country.
Newklrk (O. T.) Democrat-Herald:
Wall street and t tho trust magnates
know their cake would soon bo dough
with tho democrats in power, for the
one thing they most dread is tariff
revision. The tariff protects them
and allows them to charge the high
prices which fill their pockets at the
expense of the people. Sinco Presi
dent Roosevelt began to talk like Han
na of "letting well enough alone" the
trust magnates are for him. to a man.
Monticello (la,) Times: Perry S.
Heath,1 formerly first assistant post
roaster general, says he is being at
tacked bv yellow journals for his con
r.ectloilth tho postofllco department
Whenever a newspaper exposes somo
rascality or writes up some law
breaker, the wrong-door and his next
friend become hostile and charges the
exposer of their villiany with being a
yellow journalist
Jerseyvillo (111.) Nows: As ita read
ers perhaps know, the News is neither
a compromiser or "reorganlzor." It
knows that not Mark Hanna, but the
traitors who call themselves demo
crats and supported Cleveland in his
treason, are tho men who defeated the
party when it had the most brilliant
chances to win. Therefore, it holds
to tho principle that forgiveness should
only be extended to these men who
Lave hurt tho party bo grievously,
upon open profession, of sincere re
pentance. It take a whole lot of
nervo for any man to call himself a
democrat who joined with Cleveland J
country lawyer and banker in Iowa
to secretary of the treasury. It might
help them to solve this puzzle to seo
why Pennsylvania keeps" Quay in the
United States senate when it might
have the honest and patriotic man,
John Wanamaker. It is because the
money power must have a man there
who will do anything it demands of
him, and Quay is that man. The same
power has made Shaw secretary of
the treasury and for tho same reason.
The bankers' trust and the others
knew their man, and his subserviency
to Wall street ever since his appoint
ment to the treasury shows this very
plainly.
Rockvlllo And.) Tribune: The gold
bug press is saying that four years
more of President Diaz does not nec
essarily mean four years more' of the
silver standard of Mexico: that the
"financiers" of that country have al
ready made their plans for the gold
standard, and that it will be adopted.
Thero can be no doubt about tho de
sire of the "financiers" of Mexico for a
gold standard; It would be fat pick
ing for them to compel the 'people to
pay debts in gold that were contracted
on a silver . basis, just as it was fat
picking for the scoundrels who held
this country up for a war debt con
tracted on a paper basis and finally
made payable in gold. But the Mex
icans may not be such easy marks as
we were when wo submitted to a
forged act of congress demonetizing
silver after it was made plain that
not one congressman in ten knew that
lie had voted for such an act
Paragould (Ark.) Soliphone: Tho
desires or wishes of Mr. Cleveland aro
selfish and tend to his own aggran
dizement Tho. future of democracy,
thank God! Iie3 not in his hands, or
in tho hands of his advocates. The
grand army of democracy has no lovo
tor Clevelandlsm. The speeches of
Cleveland may mean a great deal to
the mugwump of the east, but they
are meaningless to the western and
southern democrat. Jt it pleases the
old man from New Jersey to think
that he is a Moses, let the old fellow
indulge in the delusion. The sane
know that Grover Cleveland hath no
part in the future of the democratic
party :is its nominee for president.
Adrian (Mich.) Press: Now tho
democratic party, at its last two na
tional conventions, announced its po
sition on the money question. It pro
claimed to the world that it favored
bi-metallism, and that the sliver dol
lar that has been coined at a fixed
ratio for a hundred years should re
main the same size and have the same
value. From that position the demo
cratic party cannot now recede. No
man who supported the party prin
ciples for eight years sees any need of
abandoning that financial policy, or of
reorganizing. And the fight might
just as well bo begun first as last to
maintain a principle. If the bl-metal-ists
win, and nominate a candidate on
the old platform, not a reorganlzer
would vote tho ticket.
Mount Morris (111.) Democrat?
Nothing could be clearer than that
the chief strength of the reorganizers,
led by Grover Cleveland, lies in the
republican press. Every republican
newspaper favors the movement for
reorganization and attempts to lead
the public to believe that it is pop
ular among the people. Whenever a
reorganizer makes a speech at somo
commercial club it is published under
bold head-lines and commented upon
as a "wise," "statesmanlike," "con
servative" discourse, and it is made to
appear that he has the approval of tho
rank and file. But when at a gather
ing of real democrats, some leader
speaks for holding to the principles of
the party, tho republican papers either
fail to mention it or publish it whero
it is likely to be unobserved.
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