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The Commoner.
VOLUME 3, NUMBER 31.
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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.
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