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The Commoner.
VOLUME .4, NUMBER 23.
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Red Wing (Minn.) Nows: Tho re
publicans may have mado a full din
ner pall, but thoy did it by putting in
a false bottom.
Rochestor (Pa.) Commoner: Liber
ty, Lincoln maintained, is a natural
right of man. Roosevelt tells lis it is
a moro gift.
York (Nob.) Domocrat: Judgo Par
ikor would mako a model juryman. Ho
has nolthor formed nor oxpressed an
opinion and has no bias or prejudice
against either party.
Winona (Minn.) Leader: It seems
that Cleveland has a grudgo against
Judgo Parker and Ib now getting his
rovongo. Ho has again emphasized
tho fact that ho is for Parker.
Auburn (Neb.) Herald: Grover
Clovoland congratulates tho country
that ho was president. The country
congratulates itself upon the fact that
tho past tense applies to his case.
Boonsboro (Md.) Times: The plat
form adopted by tho democracy of Ne
braska last week Is a sensible, un
equivocal and withal a conservative
declaration of democratic principles.
Rochester (Minn.) Domocrat: Tho
only safo course for tho democratic
party is to nominate a man for presi
dent who has declared himself and by
his utterances is known to stand right
upon tho vital issues before tho people.
Falrbury (Nob.) Journal: The re
organizers toll us thoy don't want to
go into a campaign on a dead issue,
hut whon you ask them what their
issuo is going to bo, thoy dodgo. Bet
tor a dead issuo than no issue at all.
Urbana (0.) Democrat: How do re
publicans expect their famous ele
phant to advance in tho highway of
national prosperity whon, with Roose
volt on his back and Lodge trying tb
lead him, one of his hind logs io firmly
tied to tho "stand pat' post?
(.'Rod Wing (Minn.) Nows: There Is
no other graft that approaches tho
protective tariff in consequenco and
in demoralizing effect. Graft ceases
from the day tho people are deter
mined to root it out and not until
then.
Nobraska City (Nob.) Nows: Tho
country novor cried out louder for
govornmont along tho lino ot equal
rights than now, bocau&o today at the
hands of tho ropublican party equal
Tights are not enjoyed by the people.
Special privileges aro bestowed ad
libitum upon money monarchs, cap
tains of finance and plundering pluto
crats. Today men of millions aro giv
en privileges by tho republican party
and ropublican policies to crush tho
masses.
Central City (Nob.) Domocrat:
Whether you aro a sllvorlto, reorgan
ize scribe, Philistine or Pharisee,
this fact is as painfully evident to you
as a pobblo in a stick ot peanut candy:
democracy stands at a dividing road
in ono direction lies peace with those
harnacles that onpo clung to hor, and a
rt
Tobacco Heart
may be cured. Don't neglect your
iymptoms. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure
is 9. great heart and blood tonic about
which you will learn ft groat deal and also
about hoart troublo by sending postal for
free book on diseases of tho heart and norros.
Db. Uxum Mxdioal Oo,. Blkhart, lad.
return to tho fleshpots of plutocracy;
in tho other a continued fight for hu
manity, with that victory that will
ovontually como to the right as her
portion. ,
Fulton (111.) Journal: Those pesti
lent follows known as "anti-Imperialists"
predicted two or chreo years ago
that our national immorality in plun
dering the Filipinos and cheating the
Porto Ricans would react at homo upon
ourselves. Did tho reader of this para
graph over know a timo when there
was so much embezzlement, highway
robbery, and motley violation of tho
rights of others? Perhaps this is
tho purity of our administration
abroad reflected upon tho people at
homo, as Senator Beveridge predicted.
Albto. (la.) News: Tho fervent ad
miration of Hamilton and the dispar
agement of Jefferson by republican
newspapers and orators is a significant
sign. Hamilton was tho most pro
nounced monarchist of his generation.
He wanted a senate elected for life,
and a permanent president and nobil
ity, and if he could have had his way
the states would have been extin
guished and subjected to a strong cen
tral power. If ho wore alive now
ho would hate the anti-imperialists as
the arch enemies of mankind.
Kosinsco (Miss.) Star Ledger: Is
it not just a little remarkable that
there is such a strong enlort on the
part of a few men in different parts
of tho country to nominate Judge Par
ker? And yet, to this good hour ho
has never given a public utterance on
any national question. Tho people are
kept in the dark as to where ho stands
on the tariff, tho trusts, imperialism
and every other question that the
democratic party stands for or against.
He is either a man of such decidedly
negative characteristics as to unfit
him for the exalted position of presi
dent, or he is trying to fool the people
as to where he stands.
Nebraska City (Neb.) News: Tho
steol trust has added ono dollar to
tho price of tho farmer's plow. The
wire trust has put up tho price of
fencing so that the farmer can hardly
afford to fence his fields. The lumber
trust has increased by bO per cent the
cost of the barn he builds. The twine
trust is taking toll rrom his wheat
crop. The tobacco trust is regulatinc
the price of his crop of tho weed. In
the face of all these well known facts
there aro people who when you sug
gest a presidential campaign against
tho trust, declare that you must not
disturb business interests. The busi
ness Interests of all such predatory
wealth ought not only be disturbed,
but thoy ought to be destroyed by law,
Hastings (Neb.) Democrat: Mr.
Cleveland's defense of his course dur
ing tho 1894 Chicago railroad strike
was very inopportune. During the
strike period John P. Altgeld was gov
ernor of Illinois; two years ago Alt-
imlfl lUnrl TIT. Plnvnlnn,! T. .. J l .. . t
years during Mr. Altgeld's lifetime to
mako his defenso, but ho had no de
fense that was worthy tho name while
Altgeld lived. With the latter dead.
Mr. Cleveland imagines that his per
fidy is so far forgotten that he can
malign tho dead and clear his own
skirts. But tho people have not for
gotten. Mr. Cleveland's course in that
strike was bad enough, and he only
makes it worse by attacking tho dead
Altgeld, when ho had such lunnin on.
I portunity to speak while Altgeld lived
and could have answered.
Franklin (Tenn.) News: Will tho
party at St. Louis indorse by its si
lence tho outrageous ropublican cur
rency bills now pending before con
gress, and which will be passed at the
short session if the plutocracy prevails
this fall? Will our party say, even by
its silence, that it favors coining up
our standard silver dollars, which are
full legal tender, into subsidiary coins
which are only a limited tender? Will
it say by its silence that it favors in
creasing the favoritism shown to na
tional banks, and to certain pet banks
at that, by repealing he law which
prohibits customs receipts from be
ing deposited in them, and thus in
crease their ability and their motive
to contribute to republican campaign
funds? Will it say by its silence that
it favors repealing tho law which for
bids tho retirement of more than $3,
000,000 of bank notes per month, thus
giving the banks unlimited power to
contract the currency to any extent
at their own sweet will? Will our
party bo silent on these enormous
wrongs at the behest and dictation of
Wall street?
Rochester (Ind.) Sentinel: A good
many newspapers and demociats who
originally favored the nomination of
Judge Parker for president are grow
ing impatient with his silence. They
see men who are supposed to have
questionable motives booming Parker.
They hear rumors that Parker is the
pliant tool of the New Yorkers who
play speculation and politics together.
They urge Parker to declare himself
before the party meets in convention
that democrats may Know where he
stands. And in the face of all this he
says nothing, and August Belmont,
David B. Hill, and Grover Cleveland
keep on boosting him and declaring
that he is all right. The presidency
of the United States is too important
to be trusted to an unimown quantity
and if Judge Parker, believed by many
democrats to be the man to nominate,
does not give some expression as to
whore he stands on the important is
sues of the day, he will be badly beat
en at the St. Louis convention. The
democrats of this country insist on
knowing, who they are nominating and
it is rignt mat tney should.
Union (W. Va.) Watchman: It was
tho bogie of free silver and 16 to 1
which was Invariably plead as the ex
cuse for democrats throwing them
selves into tho arms ot tho Cleveland
Hill reorganizors this spring and shak
ing with tho horrors every timo Bry
an's namo was mentioned. Now we
have the Nebraska platform which
Bryan himself wrote, and it does not
mention free silver nor 16 to 1. The
Nebraska platform is a piece of plain
understandable writing, opposing all
private monopolies ana corrupt cor
porate rule, condemning imperialism
and declaring for ultimate indepen
dence to the Philippines as to Cuba
favoring a tariff for revenue only and
an income tax secured by a constitu
tional amendment Atii i,- i h
plank on tho money question: "Dem-
vv,j TTuuw uuunmsier tne treasurv
in behalf of the public, not as now, in
the interests of Wall street; it would
prevent tho recoinage of legal tender
a Ivor dollars into limited tender sub
sidiary coin; it would secure to the
!3?? ? 70lVme of standard money
sufficient to keep pace with tho de
mand for money; it would favor paper
money issued by -tho government wini.
out the intervention of national
banks; it would resist the attempt to
establish an asset currency and branch
banks, and it would oppose the loaning
of government money to favored
banks a scheme by which the people's
money is employed to lay a foundation
for a campaign fund and to bribe the
financial interests to oppose any reduc
tion of taxation. Tho present admin
istration of the treasury is progres
sively beneficial to tho capitalistic
class and progressively harmful to
to tho producers of wealth." Does that
sound like the voice ot a man anxious
and determined, to bolt? The truth is
tho corporationists never cared seri
ously for free silver, but have always
used it as a spook to frighten tho
timid and the unthinking into desert
ing the whole democratic position.
Crete (Neb.) Democrat: Roosevelt
said he was pleased to see Knox in
tho senate, as he would be of great
service to the people in curbing the
rapacity of the trusts. Does the presi
dent take the people for fools, or is ho
honest? Cassatt, president of the
Pennsylvania railroad company; H. C.
Frick, head of the steel trust, and oth
er trust managers selected Knox to
represent the trusts in the senate and
Teddy knows they did.
Montrose (Pa.) Democrat: Judgo
Gray is an able man, in his way. But
he was one of the democrats who left
his party in 1896 and helped elect Mc
Kinley. And afterwards McKinley ap
pointed him to a judgeship. The dem
ocrat hasn't the least idea that the
democratic party will be looking for
that kind of a candidate for president.
And you may tell Judge Gray's friends
so, "with our compliments. .
Colby (Kas.) Free Press: The Nash
ville American is one of the leading
democratic papers that delights in
fighting Bryan. It has been recently
discovered that the stockholders in
the company that owns and controls
the American are leading republicans.
White Hall (111.) Register: Wouldn't
the administration papers have set up
a howl if the Nebraska democrats had
acted like the republicans of Wiscon
sin and Illinois, in the recent state
conventions? .
Bolivar (Mo.) Herald: The demo
cratic party must adopt a platform
that says what it means and means
what it says. There must be no equiv
ocation about it.
Significant
Archbishop Riordan, of San Fran
cisco, called on President Roosevelt
recently, says the New York Tribune.
Afterward, in talking about calls gen
erally, tho archbishop said:
"A friend of mine in San Francisco
called with his wife one afternoon at
the house of an estimable lady. The
lady's little daughter answered the
bell, and my friend said to her:
" 'Won't you please tell jour mother
that Mr. and Mrs. Smith are hero?'
"'Coitainly,' saidthe little girl, and
she departed. In a moment she re
turned. '"Well, did you tell your mother?'
said my friend. . .
" 'Yes,' the child answered.
"'And what did your .mother say?
" 'Why said, the- little girl, sbe
said, ."Oh, dear! " "ft V '
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