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Ithlca (N. Y.) Democrat: Consider
ing President Roosevelt's reputation
for strenuosity, his message does not
Bhow it.
Georgetown (Ky.) Times: There
(Will be two eclipses of the sun next
year and one of the republican party.
The latter event will occur in Novem
ber. Elizabeth City (N. C. News: Dur
ing the next campaign the republican
cry to the laborers will be "dinner at
the "White house" instead of "full din
ner pail."
Plattsmouth (Neb.) Journal: From
"subordinating" the tariff question to
''sinking" the boodle issue is a nat
ural and easy declension for the re
publican party.
Central City (Neb.) Democrat:
Cleveland has announced that he will
not bo a candidate for president next
year in the same tone of voice that
the little boy refuses a second piece of
pie when "company" is present.
Frankfort (Ind.) Standard: Knox
the trust buster, "our able, honest,
and fearless United States attorney
general," seems in his report to have
forgotten that there is any such thing
as trusts. Singular oversight for a
buster, wasn't it?
Nebraska City (Neb.) News: Sena
tor Hanna thinks that the course of
the United States in Panama means
that we are- filling "manifest destiny."
According to Mark Hanna, "manifest
destiny" means getting all you can,
at any time you can, in any way you
can.
Boone (la.) Democrat: The demo
cratic minority in the United States
senate may or may not succeed in pre
venting the ratification of the Panama
treaty, but in any event it will show
that the democratic party is unalter
ably opposed to the policy of imper
ialism. Democracy has nothing in
common with the theory that "might
makes right."
Middletown (Ol) Signal: More than
one president has come to grief by
personal ambition that overleaps itself,
and Roosevelt has that inclining.
Columbia (Mo.) Herald: Ex-President
Cleveland has again declined to
accept the presidential nomination on
the democratic ticket but who said
Cleveland?
Shelbina (Mo.) Torchlight: Presi
dent Roosevelt's strenuosity on the
trust question seems to have become
side-tracked or exhausted before he
got to the matter of writing his mes
sage. Frankfort (Ind.) Standard: We
cannot take Wall street's selection for
candidates nor take Wall street's
money to help elect a president with
out doing their bidding just as the re
publicans are now doing.
Middletown (0.) Signal: Senator
Hanna's friendship for Perry S. Heath,
who is involved in the postal scandals,
is as great as the president's friend
ship for Congressman Littauer, who Is
involved in the glove contract scandal.
Rockville (Ind.) Tribune: The
spectacle of Cleveland refusing the
presidential nomination of the demo
cratic party, when he could not get on
a democratic ticket for the office of
constable in any township in the
United States, is a sight for gods and
men.
Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger: Hav
ing declined the nomination, without
mentioning to what party he referred,
will Mr. Cleveland kindly announce
to a palpitating public whether he will
vote for the nominee of the party?
Let him take his time, however, for
the matter is not of the slightest im
portance. Vincennes (Ind.) Sun: The labor
of the president to balance himself
astride the capital and labor question
so as to curry favor with both and
lose no votes from either, is amusing,
Marion (0.) Mirror: Roosevelt may K WGre not disgusting. Whenever
never get into history as a political
genius of the first class, but his se
curing the indorsement of the various
republican conventions that met in
the spring was a stroke of some sort
of genius. But for those indorse
ments, .the nomination of Mark Hanna
next year could not be prevented.
Perhaps it cannot, anyhow.
San Francisco Weekly Star: This
draw-poker phrase, "stand pat," real
ly represents Mark Hanna's political
creed. It was the maxim of the Bour
hon kings, who "never learned any
thing, and never forgot anything,"
laissez faire let things alone. It is
the old maxim of the privileged
classes, of the conservatives who
sneer at and denounce every man
who aims to improve the condition of
the world.
Boone (la.) Democrat: This is pos
sibly a wise move on Mr. Cleveland's
part, but what is ho declining? Cer
tainly nothing that he had the least
ghost of a chance of securing. Aside
from the natural aversion to the third
term idea, Mr. Cleveland hasn't friends
enough In the democratic party in
any one state in the Union to secure
him the delegation of that state in
the national convention. So our dear
republican brethren will have to look
elsewhere for relief in their hour of
need.
he swats labor in the jaw, he swings
a gentle left hander on the neck of
capital, but not a knock-out blow.
When he frowns at capital, he makes
faces at labor, and manages to break
even all along the line.
Anoka (Minn.) Free Press: Almost
one-third of the 14-column document
is devoted to a justification of the ad
ministration's conduct in the Panama
deal something which no number of
words or columns can ever justify in
the eyes of the world in general. The
encouragement by one nation of rebel
lion and secession in another can nev
er be justified. And it is of this that
our present administration stands
guilty before the world manufactured
justifications to the contrary notwith
standing. Bellefonte (Pa.) Democrat: The ad
ministration at Washington is worse
than slow in prosecuting tho fellowB
that have stolen hundreds of thou
sands of dollars yea, millions in
fraudulent transactions in the post
ofilce department, the western land
thieves, the ravenous trusts or tho fel
lows that supplied our soldiers in tho
Spanish war with rotten and poisoned
beef, and a score of rascals that have
robbed the country in other lines. Yet
Roosevelt has loudly proclaimed how
he would have justice meeted out
promptly.
London (0.) Democrat: Who is run
ning this country, anyway? Well, we
will know just as soon as it is settled
whether President Roosevelt or Sena
tor Hanna's proteges are declared the
immaculate ones,
Chdrlestown (Ind.) Citizen: Be
tween General Wood's alleged mis
deeds and the known misdeeds of the
postofflce department, the republican
party is having as much excitement
as though engaged in a sure-enough
campaign.
Tarkio (Mo.) Independent: Grover
Cleveland has announced that he posi
tively will not be a candidate for the
presidential nomination. A very large
majority of the democrats of the coun
try heartily agree with Grover on this
proposition.
Chicago Public: Dun's Review is
pleased to report that "labor organi
zations are accepting reductions in
wages without controversy." They are
like the deceased wife of the old Ger
man who, when asked if she was
"reconciled to die," replied: "Mein
Gott, she het to be!"
Troy (O.) Democrat: A number of
republican newspapers appear anxious
about the welfare of the democratic
party and seem to think that it can
not stand constant defeat. This is a
mistaken idea. It was its last victory.
that iTHnrnrt tVin rlpmnnrnHn nnrfv mnrfl
i than all of its defeats.
Chillicothe (O.) News-Advertiser:
Roosevelt writes about bribery as if
he were the original discoverer of cor
ruption in the public service. A whole
lot of the frauds in the postal de
partment were notorious before he be
came president, but then there was
such harmony in the party that no one
would peach.
Frrt Dodge (la.), Post: An Indian
out in one of the Dakotas robbed a
postofflce of a few hundred dollars and
now they have him in jail. Down in
Washington the gang robbed the pos
tal department of hundreds of thou
sands, but none of them are in jail.
In one instance it was robbery, and
in the other it was "high finance."
Meadville (Pa.) Farmer: The pres
ident's discussion pf the Panama
episode contains practically nothing
new on tho subject that has not al
ready been spread before the public.
That which occurred between the Pa
nama junta and the agents of the
Roosevelt party, in secret conclave, of
course, does not appear in the records
intended for the public and is there
fore carefully avoided.
Rockville (Ind.) Tribune: The man
is blind, indeed, who cannot see that
the campaign of 1896 was the first
movement in a mighty conflict be
tween the people and plutocracy. Free
silver was a mere incident. It hap
pened to be the thing that arrayed
these two distinct forces for the first
time into great contending armies.
LThe trusts, with Wall street and all
the other capitalistic class, masquer
ading under tho guise of "business in
terests" moved heaven and earth to
turn back the advancing hosts of the
common people. They did it, but for
how long? Is there a man so blind
that he cannot see that this was the
beginning of an "irrepressible conflict"
that must go on until this country is
all for the plutocrat or all for the
people?
Troy (O.) Democrat: He seems to
be bidding for the support of the peo
ple on the trust problem just as Han
na tried to win the workingmen. A
low species of demagogy that ought
to disgust Intelligence throughout tho
entire land.
Sandusky (0.) Journal: The wis
dom of conquering the Philippines
cannot be doubted now. It is the most
convenient locality possible to send
officials who are likely to have to un
dergo an investigation at home. Away
off there they are not likely to be dis
turbed and scandal raised on their
account.
Kenton (O.) Press: Grover Cleve
land has grabbed his boot straps and
lifted himself out of the presidential
game. He says: "My determination
not to be a candidate is unalterable
and conclusive".'" That's all right, only
the democracy beat Grover to that de
termination and conclusion by several
lengths.
Spencer (la,) Herald: "Words are
good when backed up by deeds, and
only so." President Roosevelt. The
president has talked considerably on
various subjects the past couple of
years. For instance, the trusts, and
official grafters. He is shy on the
deeds proposition, however.
Buffalo (Wyo.) Voice: Some day
when democracy shall have won its
great cause, when the office of chief
executive shall be presided over by a
democrat, when the national congress
shall be controlled by those whose
hands and hearts are in sympathy
with the people and to whom the trust
pirates may knock in vain, then, and
not till then, will the multitude get its
just desert all this slobbering anent
the trust-busting propensities of the
republican party to the contrary not
withstanding. Lamar (Colo.) Sparks: A Pullman
car attached to train No. 8, which
passed through here on Tuesday, con
tained eighteen insane soldiers who
were brought from the Philippines to
be placed in the military insane asy-
i..wr. 17tt.t fotiirnlnir tranSUOrt
brings a consignment of dead bodies
as well as a number who are suffer
ing the living death of insanity. It is
a question whether those far-off isl
ands which the United States is try
ing to steal from their rightful own
ers are worth the sacrifice of so many
promising young men.
Houston (Mo.) Star: It is announced
that David B. Hill has withdrawn in
cratic presidential nomination, inai
is amusing indeed. Last week we haa
Grover's declination; this week it w
Hill's withdrawal! The fact of tne
matter is, they have not done any
thing of the kind; they couldn t If tncy
were to try, for the simple reason thai
neither of them has the remotest
chance of securing the nomination ior
president on the democratic Uck
next year. The democratic nommefl
will be a democrat, and not a demo-
crat of the uieveianu-nm m.
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