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'P1C -. rwmv)t ' trT-jT" 1pgiWyyyUrfgS3r'-wiwCT' mvm'y$T?W,rfZPy' K? . - ' The Commoner. VOLUME 3, NUMBER 31. ' -vviw murntfwtittijm ww u tr t ' m. i Hastings (Mich.) Journal: A tariff that protects monopoly and trusts is a crime against free government Crawfordsvillo (Ind.) News-Review: Until there is a change of administra tion the people never will know how much was stolen hy the postal gang. Frankfort (Ind.) Standard: Senator v Fairbanics says Now York republicans are very fond of Grover. Evidently this not not a case of unrequited af fection. Mason (Mich.) Democrat: Ex-Governor Taylor formerly of Kentucky, cut now of Indiana, would make a good running mate for President Roodevelt He has had experience. . Gainesville (Fla.) Sun: It Is sug gested that.t'he J. Plerpont method of financing has passed in this country. That is a mistake. Mr. Morgan's meth od will prevail as long as the tariff does. Cumberland (Md.) Alleganian: Boosevelt is amusing himself chopping flown trees. The country would ap preciate it if ho would devote a little time to chopping off rotten limbs in the government service. Red Wing (Minn.) News: What's tho difference morally between a con gressman voting himself a slice of the tariff fat and taking for himself a fat government contract? But the latter in forbidden by law. Rockville (Ind.) Tribune: And now Governor Durbin writes to the sheriff of Vermillion county, commending him for stopping a prize fight This is the same governor who prevents the sheriff from Franklin county, Ken tucky, from arresting men accused of murder. Toledo (0.) Independent: There is row but ono danger confronting the democratic party, and that Ib an ef fort on tho part of a very few influ ential leaders to have the party aban don its principles, and become very much like the present trustridaen re publican party. Wollsburg (W. Va.) News: Our re publican friends have mado such, frantic efforts to have Cleveland nom inated by the democrats for prosidenfc in 1904, that we feel no heslstancy in suggesting Perry Heath as a running mate for Roosevelt They seem to run together in the postofllce investi gation. Jackson (0.) Herald: There were few if any "reorganizes" among tho delegates who attended the democratic county convention at Ironton last week and the Kansas City platform was reaffirmed amid great enthusiasm. If tho common people would only wake up to their real interests, there would bo something doing all ovGr this broad land of ours. Rod Wing (Minn.) News: "Demo . cratic leaders," says a hot weather dis patch, havo agreed to nominate Gor man for president. Radical democrats have no uso for him; he doesn't be long. No decent democrat of the old school could possibly support the man who led tho treachery against the Wilson bill. Tho remainder are no doubt enthusiastic for him. Olympla (Wail.) Capital: Some of the rbpubllcan papers which are "root ing" for Cleveland would reverse them selves mighty suddonly if he should re celvo tho presidential nomination. Having got the democrats to put up ,tboir weakest candidate they would Bland from undor somewhat sudden, unless circumstances in their own par ty caused them to prefer the duck shooter. Toledjj (0.) Independent: Reorgan izes are now very popular in repub lican machine circles, but it is doubt- kul if these men can be used again to split the democratic party, and by so doing insure republican success. Lima (0.) Times-Democrat: The Columbus Press asks, "Who owns lib erty bell?" We havo been under the impression for some time that it be longed, to Heath, Rathbone, Neeley, Machen and Beavers. Any answer that is nearer the truth will be published in these columns with pleasure. Kenton (O.) Press: You have a light to be for Grover Cleveland if you want to be and support him if you will. And you'll exercise your right, too. Tho only thing that we urge Is that the real democrats get as active and interested as-the Cleveland iepub. licaiiB. King City (Mo.) Democrat: Those democrats throughout the country who favored any policy in national politics that would be acceptable to the indus trial sharks, have been so thoroughly submerged by the great mass of stal wart and principle-loving democrats, that scarcely a croak Is audible any more. Pocahontas (la.) Democrat: It is re markably strange that the same men who so strenuously opposed tho free coinage of silver are now working in dustriously for the passage of a bill which will squeeze the water out of stocks when tho button is touched and put rubber into the currency at tho proper time. Penn Yan (N. Y.) Democrat: It is a great pity that neither house nor senate at Washington has a demo cratic majority. What is needed just now is an investigating committee with a majority of its membership not tolitlcally In sympathy with the party in power. Then the postal frauds would be probed with a vengeance. Clinton (111.) Register: Bourko Cockran says that if Cleveland can force his nomination' he can be re elected. It is strange that so able a politician as Cockran knows so little of how the democrats feel toward the man who has twice led the kickers' in bis party to accomplish its defeat. Cleveland could not carry one state unless the republicans had no candidate. Ava (111.) Citizen: How the mo nopoly aristocrats do leve and adoro "law and order," that is to say, the variety of the article which permits them to practice their cunning meth eds of robbing peaceably under the forms of law. Indianapolis (Ind.) Standard: If the control of the next national demo cratic campaign is taken out of the hands of the men who fought for Kan sas City platform principles, the republican- party will be happy, because then it will be up to them to furnish both the platform and candidate, and both will come from New York. Fulton (111.) Journal: The Chicago Chronicle has ranted and raved, fumed and frothed, vituperated and villified, exaggerated and misrepresented, howled and growled all because Will iam Jennings Bryan did not vote for Palmer and Buckner in 1896 like Gro ver Cleveland and his handful of bum bolters. The Chronicle should come out of the brush and try and fight square, if it believes In making a fight on the Bryan democrats. The Chron icle should haul down its false colors and get into lino with the other ene mies of democracy Instead of trying to make people believe that It has any democratic principles worth taking an inventory of. Malad (Idaho) Advocate: Tli6 Salt Lake Tribune claims tho credit for unravelling tho mystery surrounding the' murder of Ryan. Now if Perry Heath wishes to add to his fane, as a detective, ho might commence prob ing into the postal frauds. His past connection with that department places him in an admirable position to make a great .scoop, and winning for himself a place on the Pinkerton detective force. Shenandoah (la.) World: We used to think a good deal of Cleveland, but we don't even believe that he is now a low. tariff man. He has associated with the other fellows too long and is too much under obligations to the finan ciers who .have given him suggestions as to what stocks to buy, while they winked the other eye, for him to sym pathize in any great measure with tho "great mass of the common people, to whom this country must look for tho correct settlement of things of government. The Gorman Interview Bowling Green (0.) Democrat: The iottenness and rascality in the post office department, which has grown up under tho fostering hands of a re publican administration, affords evi dence that there ought to be a change in the management of affairs. Roose velt Is saving his personal friends from punishment, while a new administra tion would serve all alike. A change is an absolute necessity if the country expects to see tio rascals run out of the government departments. Titusville (Pa.) Courier: Let it be understood that we prefer defeat to a surrender of doctrines taught by the founder of tho party, Thomas Jeffer son. Imagine for a moment how Jef ferson would have viewed the policy of banking, on any and all kinds of stocks, and of giving to corporations the Issuing of papier money to be se cured by corporation stocks alone. Ihose democrats who betrayed their party and went over to the enemy in 1896 and 1900 are naturally clamoring for such a kind of currency. And these are the men who have talked so loud ly of sound money and honest money. Tbey aro beautiful democrats. An olastlc currency--based on the gam- bier's stocks in Wall atreet! To hades with such frauds! Washington. (Special.) The Bal timore Sun today contains an inter view of Senator Gorman with the Sun's correspondent at the senator's home in Maryland. The senator es chewed discussion of presidential can didates, but had this to say about na tional questions: "Tho policy," he Said, "of collecting from the earnings of the peopl9 some thing like $75,000,000 more than can be cpent even with the most reckless ex travagance is an iniquity and a wrong which the democratic party should en deavor to right Such a policy breeds not only extravagance, but corruption. The revision of the tariff should, therefore, be a great issue in the presi dential election. In order to win the democratic party must have the con fidence of the business interests of the country. The lack of that confidence caused the defeats of 1896 and 1900. To secure that confidence now thei3 must bo an explicit pledge that in the revision of the tariff it is not the pur pose of the parly to wreck Industrie!, many of which were established under the existing law. The pledge should be similar to the one upon which the democratic party elected Its ticket in 1884. "The platform of 1884 contained this clause: "'The demociatic party pledges !t solf to purify the administration from corruption, to rertore economy, to re vive respect for law and to reduce taxation to the lowest limit consistent with due regard to the preservation of tho faith of the nation to its cred itors and pensioners. Knowing full well; however, that legislation affect ing the operations of the peopso should be cautious and conservative in method. "'The democratic party Is pledged to revise the tariff in a spirit of fair- ress to all interests. But in making reductions in taxes it is not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their health" growth.' "That," said Mr. Gorman, "should bo about the party position in this next presidential campaign. With the solid south it is necessary to carry a number of northern states. With a platform which will satlsfv fho aiih. stentlal interests of tho country I do Jliere w can carry enoucrh nntthom and western states to elect our candi date. We should be able to carry New York and the adjacent states of New Jersey and Connecticut. Then we should carry the battle into the great business centers of the west That means a contest in Ohio which will keep the republicans fully occupied in that state. Indiana and Illinois also aro tiopeful fields. I think we can carry several of the mountain states Colorado, Idaho, Montana and possi bly others. Wo have a good fighting chance in California, and Oregon i3 close. I, therefore, regard the out look as exceedingly hopeful. "The southern people have gotten away from the issues of 1896 and 1900. Their natural conservatism has as serted itself, and they are now ready, to join with the conservative demo cratic people of the rest of the coun try. The gold and silver question has settled itself, and the north has as sented to the management of the n ' gro . problem by the south. The south has determined that intelligence and property must dominate and that its civilization must be preserved. To this the north assents. "At the coming session of congresa the joint resolution to affirm the Cu ban treaty will open up a good tariff debate. The resolution will, of course, be adopted. There will be an effort to have the tariff revenues of the gov ernment deposited In banks and kept in uso and circulation instead of be ing locked up in. the government vaults. When the bill for that purpose comes up tho democrats will insist Uupon requiring ample security from tne Danks of deposit There should also be some provision for a proper distribution of the funds, so that cit ies like Baltimore can have part of :t The treasury officials should not he Permitted to deposit it all In one bank in New York." Special Correspond ence Louisvilte Courier-Journal. Growth of London, During the nineteenth, century Lon don grew from a city of 800,000 peo ple to one of 6,600,000 that is, in creased eightfold. New York increased from 60,000 to 3,500,000, nearly sixty fold. London is now increasing 17 P cent in a decado and New York 35 per cent, or twice as fast If this rate should hold good for fifty years more New York would have over 15,000,000 ropulation antf be 1,000,000 ahead ol London. Chicago Chronicle. j ' -, ty(.& . Mn