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r .- 'S. ir The Commoner. 14 VOLUME 3, NUMBER 48. fe. to" ft u If It. r r . m i r l: N-in i Mansfield (0.) Shield: Bristow fur nishes the words and Roosovolt should furnish the doeds. Iron ton (0.) Irontonlan: Even the mills and furnaces have taken Han na's advice and are "standing pat." Steubenvillo (0.) Gazette: The adulation of Cleveland by professed democrats shows that they are as false as ho is. Middlotown (0.) Signal: The re publicans claim the credit for our past prosperity, but they say that tho present business depression has noth ing to do with politics. ' St. Clairsvillo (0.) Gazette: Mr. Hanna's boom is not assuming the proportions his friends hoped. Teddy was smart enough to put Mark on rec ord before the Ohio election. Manson (la.) Democrat: Chicago bids $50,000 for the next republican convention, with good chances of get ting it. What would be more appro priate .than the Windy City for a re publican gathering? "Wilmington (Del.) Jeffersonian: It was no fault of the democratic party that Gkover Cleveland made a fool of them in' 1892. But it will be their fault if they permit him to make a fool of them in 1904. Chillicothe (O.) News-Advertiser: Ecnator Hanna's attacks on General Wood recalls to mind that when a democrat made the least, mention of an American army officer's shortcom ings Hanna called it firing from the rear. Fostoria (O.) Times: The disposi tion of our republican friends to give all the glory of the late victory to Senator Hanna must Jar on the ego tism of a few' disaffected democrats Who claim they did it with their little. hatchets. ' Carrolton (111.) Gazette: There Is yellow journalism and there is white livered journalism. Tho former syin pathizea with the plain people and tho latter advocates the interests of the highly respectable (?) rich. You pay your money and you .tdko your choice. Aurora (Nob.) Register: The farm er is getting less for stock, the ex penses of living are not decreasing. The public was wheedled into voting that 'confidence," not money, was all that the country needed and they are now learning ' how close the resem blance between, "confidence" and "trust." ElkaderIa.) Democrat: All this talk "about the trusts being opposed to President Roosevelt is perhaps manu factured for effect, mere pretense, to throw the great body of tho people off their guard. Hanna, Piatt, Quay, Elk ins, Gas Addicks, and scores of other trust magnates,' including Morgan Rockefeller etv al., Intend to support him." , Portsmouth (N. H.) Times: If Han na Is to continue as chairman there Is every reason why Heath should con tinue as secretary and absolutely no reason why he should get out. More over, tho chances are that he will thus continue or Hanna himself will refuse to hold tho rudder and guide tho re publican hulk over the breakers that threaten its safety. Madison (Mich.) Gazette: President Roosevolt is as two-sided on the tar iff question as tho late President Mc Kinley was on the financial question, 'lhere is nothing that pleases the re publican party so much as leaders who are able to ride two horses at the same time. It is a regular circus for them and all in one ring for the same price of admission. Gloustor (0.) Press: It is said that President Roosevolt will appoint John Mitchell, president of the Mine Work ers, to a place in his next cabinet. If this rumor Is founded on tho truth, it seems nothing more than a case of the president counting his chickens before they are hatched. Some other man may have the choos ing of the next cabinet. Anoka (Minn.) Free Press: Grover Cleveland does not want to be presi dent any more. He says his determi nation to that effect is "unalterable and conclusive." This determination on his part will save Mr. Cleveland a great deal of unnecessary worry, for the democratic party would as soon think of electing Mark Hanna as Gro ver Cleveland for president. Jefferson City (Mo.) Democrat: Un der no conditions or circumstances could Grover Cleveland bo prevailed upon to beepme a candidate for the presidency; and und'er no possible con dition could he be nominated were he desirous of-' such honor. In other words, Mr. Cleveland's boom has sub sided into a state of innocuous desue tude. Thou harmless boom, sleep thou a quiet sleep. Crete (Neb.) Democrat: The Twentieth regiment left San Francis co, December 1, for Manila. Tho trans port oumner arrived JNOvemper Zl in New York with .162 bodies of dead soldiers. We send .them out and bring them back for the cemetery br the pension roll. This Is a good sam ple of the fruit the empire tree bears and it is conclusive proof to the plunge ers that wo are a world power. Mt. Gilead (0.) Register: Men wio vote to sustain Mark Hanna, the head and heart of trusts and monopolies, must not now complain when hard times strike them, as the Ohio Pa triot suggests. Idleness and want stare thousands of laboring men in the face. TruBt magnates must have their dividends. They cut wages and thoy squeeze the consumers. Between the two the "captains of industry" wax rich. Upper Sandusky (0.) Chief: A Co lumbus republican paper in its tele graphic news columns states that 72, 000 mill operatives in the New En gland states were cut 10 per cent in wages this week, and that the Inter national Harvester company, with headquarters at Chicago, had decided to lay off 7,500 of its 19,000 employes, thus affecting a saving to the trust of $5,000,000 a year in wages. This is what is called prosperity. Cameron (Mo.) Sun: In a letter to tho Brooklyn Eagle, Grover Cleveland announces that his determination not to be a presidential candidate is "un alterably and conclusive," It may be a consolation to the great Grover to know that the determination of the democrats of this country is equally as "unalterably and conclusive" that ho shall not be a candidate. This is the first instance on record where Grover has been in perfect harmony with the democratic sentiment of the United States. Tiffin (O.) News: Some one should whisper in the ear of Arthur P. Gor man thta if he expects the vote of any considerable number of the Ohio dole gates in the next democratic national convention, his Ohio campaign should be placed in other hands than those who have become recreant to tho cause of democracy. Men who have been honored by the democratic par ty and afterward have turned and rended the hand which has caressed them, have no place in the democratic councils and precious little influence with democratic electors. Emmettsburg (la.) Democrat: Gro ver Cleveland has jit last announced that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for the democratic nomination 'for president in 1904. Though' he has had his ear to the ground for a long time to make up his mind about the advisability of de clining. He was never seriously in the race. He lost his' standing with democracy in 1896 when he sold the party out to the money lords of. Wall street. People respect a frank, manly opponent, but they - have Jittle use for a political trader or traitor. Comments on the Message. Joplin Globe: From beginning to end the document makes apparent the fact that Mr. Roosevelt is quite pleased with" Mr. Roosevlt's administration. indefinite promises of the future, it will not appear an especially brilliant illumination beside other messages that have been filed for future inspec tion. Birmingham News: Tho effort ia that of an academician rather than that of a statesman. Detroit Times: We frankly confess that we cannot conceive of a more miserable "flunk" on the part of a president from whom so much was ex pected in this particular. Given tho additional anti-trust legislation for which he asked and 500,000 with which to enforce it, Mr. Roosevelt has not bogun a suit of any kind against any of these corporate robbers, gives no explanation of his failure to act, asks for no more legislation and then has tho gall to ask the permission of congress to divert from Its original purpose the $500,000 that was appro priated last year for the prosecution of the trusts. Buffalo Courier: not an interesting The message is state doruimnnf-. -F apart from the special plea to the peo ple in behalf of the Roosevelt doctrine as enunciated in the Panama affair. Plainly, Mr. Roosevelt has learned the apprehensive feeling of the public ex cited by his strange new policy, and would like to allay it; but it will in crease rather than subside when tho whole subject matter Is ventilated in the course of the discussion of tho proposed treaty by the senate. Milwaukee News: The "busier" has been curbed and shackled and cun ning and greed roam at large. Kansas City World: The message lacks much of being a "ringing one." It is wanting in the forceful initiative which usually distinguishes the ut terances of Roosevolt. The-president is put in the attitude of a- defender, rather than an augur, ofc policies. Houston Post: The president's mes sage is a sort of' hit or miss docu ment. It strikes tho governmental earth in tho high places, enlarges up on favorite themes with characteristic cock-sureness, and between the lines sings a song of rejoicing that'the coun try is so fortunate iri its presidential equipment. i i Mobile Item: The president's mes sage was but little more than a rehash of what has been often said before. It is an imperfect review of the' acts o the administration, with explana tions that dtf not explain, "and some The Negro in Revelation. Thisisa book that needed to ho written. It is bound to have wide circulation It will do good wherever it is read. It is a capital book for the negro himself to have. It is eminent ly fitted to inspire rational self-respect, and above all, hope. For never was a truer word uttered than that paying of Paul, "We are saved by hope." This is as true of the colored man as of any other -man. Wbatsc- ever tends to build up hope makes for the salvation of his manhood. The first great epoch-making book ever put forth by any southern man was that by Dr., afterwards Bishop, A. G. Havgcod, some thirty years ago, en titled, "Our Brother in Black." Since then the best book of the- kind is this one by Ttev. J. J. Pipkin, "Tho Negro in Revelation, in History and in Citi zenship." Chicago Record-Herald. . Must See Hanna, The reference to Perry Heath in tho president's memorandum accompany ing tho Briatow.renort was taken to be an invitation for Heath to resign his position as secretary of the re publican national committee. Before Heath is removed, Senator Hanna will have to be consulted and Hanna has never yet abandoned one of his thieves, He will stand by Heath just as he has by Rathbono. There are constant tilts between the president and Hanna, but "Brer Hanna he lay low and say nuffltn'," Nebraska in dependent. r Tobacco Heart may be cured, Don't neglect your symptoms. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure is a great heart and blood tonic about which vou will learn ohnnf. inot. trnnble ttB book on dlfeguM of h rt "Indi k. Da. Mimes. Mxdhul Co,. Eiun" a groat deal and ! V i
