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' Stanton (Nob.) Register: The ra
tio in favor of the Kansas City plat
form is about 400 to 1.
Contral City (Nob.) Democrat: The
(Parker band wagon lootts Mto an ice
vagon to western democrats.
York (Neb.) Democrat: Respect for
courts is boing put to tiie bayonet out
in Colorado, by order of a law defying
governor.
Mindon (Neb.) Courier: When a
safo blower or a horse thlof is caught
why not have the court issue a re
straining order and lot him go.
Fulton (111.) Journal: How would
. tho democrats like to see one David
Bonnett Hill tho ruling power in an
"administration? How would anyone
besides Hill like it?
Pratt (Kns.) Union: Because Hill
heads tho democratic delegation from
Now "York and is working for Parker
does not mean that Parker will bo
nominated. Wo have seen Hill In oth
er conventions.
"Pratt (Kas.) Union: Carnegie is
willing to put a million dollars into
Roosevelt's campaign. Why not?
Thbre is not a soul above the sod for
whom the trust laws have done so
much as for Carnegie.
Pokln (111.) Times: Our ropubll
'. can friends Insist that the scandals of
this, administration sliould have no
part in next fall's campaign and that
tho grafting,, boodlo-snatchlng ar
raignments, Indictments and convic
tions which havo filled oven conserva
tive newspapers, to overflowing, are
"ordinary Incidents." Why not seo
what people think about it?
York (Neb.) Democrat: Tho tempo
rary chairman of the Pennsylvania
democratic convention " said that
"Roosevelt wants to substitute San
Juan Hill for Bunker Hill." As far
as wo are concerned anyold Hill will
do except David B. Hill "and James J.
A man whose surname is Parker,
Is not very much a remarker,
Like his friend David Hill,
Ho keeps still, very still,
And his silence grows creeper and
darker.
York (Neb.) Democrat.
Palestine (Tex.) Herald: Parker
has unbosomed himself to Belmont;
no doubt of that. Bolmont never
backs a doubtful proposition. If Park
er is straightforward why has not the
rest of the voters, including tho demo
cratic voter, been taken into his con
fidence? Lewistown (111.) News: If Parker
ever had a ghost of a chanco to be
nominated for tho presidency', Cleve
land, Belmont and Hill squelched it
flatter than a flounder. Truly, In
Parker's case, the old adage that "our
friends destroy us when, they seek to
aid" has been more than verified.
Challis (Idaho) Messenger: If all
goes well in November and nobody'
has an attack of appendicitis, gout or
acute indigestion, Secretary Taft con
templates making a tour of the Phil
ippine islands next year, to see if the
Filipinos are good and obedient Ho
says they will bo fit for solf-gdvem-ment
whenever they mink that we
ought to govern them.
Frankfort (Ind.) standard: To the.
democrat who knows what real democ
racy means; the democrat who abhors
the rottenness and fraud of modern
republicanism, nothing can bo more
offensive and insulting than Grover
Cleveland's balderdash about "a re
turn to sanity and patriotic effort.!'
David City (Neb.) Press: One
more supreme judge like the three ap
pointed by Cleveland and the one ap
pointed by Roosevelt will give the
trusts a majority of tho supreme
court. With the supreme court owned
by the associated corporations, what
hope does the future hold out. A
biased court makes justice impossible.
Plattsmouth (Neb.) Journal: Half a
dozen "pestilent" labor agitators have
been driven out of Colorado by the au
thorities. "Major Hill, in command of
the militia at Trinidad, arrested the
persons, placed them on an east bound
train, and commanded them never to
return again." Martial law may stand
such rough usage, but civil govern
ment could not endure it
Albion (Mich.) Mirror: The re
publican papers are giving the Parker
boom all the encouragement possi
ble, while trying to De-little the
Hearst sentiment which is sweeping
tho country. Why? Because they
fear Hearst, and know that if he is
nominated he will sweep the country,
while they have no fear of Parker.
Parker or Roosevelt is all the same to
them.
Bridgeport (Conn.) Star: The test
of a man's 4 democracy Is his loyalty
to" the principles that are the life of
the democratic party, ir lie is not in
accord with those principles he is a
fool or a hypocrite 'to pretend to be 1
democrat. He catf hot servo democ
racy and republica'nis'm, for he will
either cleave" 'toy the one and desert
the other, or he' Will' betray them both
when self interest ana opportunity of-
Albion (Mich.). Mirror: Any con
scientious democrat could support
Parker, upon his own record; but it
is such men as 'Cleveland, Belmont and
Hill, who will'-make the Parker pill
a bitter one for every democrat who
has stood the test or the past eight
years to swallow. Of course it will
be. a sweot morsel for the reorganiz
es if Parker should be nominated at
St. Louis, but their hopes will hardly
be realized;
Lewistown (111.) News: Grover
Cleveland's advocacy of Judge Parker
makes the issue clear. All the bolters
of 1896 and 1900 have been for Parker
from the first, and It only needed tho
endorsement by Cleveland to mako
their plans so plain that no democrat
can be deceived as to the purpose. Let
the 6,500,000 democrats who fought
under the banners or true democracy
in the last two campaigns put the right
foot forward and crush this effort to
betray the democratic party into tho
hands of the enemy.
Rockville (Ind.) Tribune: In the list
of prominent 'democrats" who aro
supporting Judge Parker for the presi
dency issued in a circular letter, is
Hon. Thomas Taggart of Indiana la
close proximity to August Belmont,
tho Wall street magnate, and a num
ber of other Clevelandites. The Brook
lyn Eagle, which has so bitterly fought
William J. Bryan, from start to finish,
is one of the newspapers In the list
of "democratic" papers. When you
take in consideration the fact that all
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