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ftlAYBB YOU OVERLOOKED' THESE "
PACTS:
Senator Fulton wont to Oregon, and
asked for re-election, and the- people
said: "WE WANT A CHANGE !"
Senator Hansbrough went to North
Dakota for re-election, and the people
said:
"WE WANT A CHANGE!"'
Senator Kittredge heard it In South
Dakota,' from tho people:
"WE WANT A CHANGE!"
Senator Long asked the peoplo- of
Kansas for re-election, and tho people
shouted:
"WE WANT. A CHANGE! "
Senator Hopkins went to Illinois and,
asked for re-election, and two-thirds of
the republicans of Illinois announced:
"WE WANT A CHANGE!"
Almost one-half of the republicans of
Iowa, even when asked by their dis
tinguished Senator Allison, replied:
"WE WANT A CHANGE!"
The voice of the people Is unmistak
able. Wherever they have had a chance
to speak, they have earnestly lifted theirs
voices, saying:
"WE WANT A CHANGE!"
That sentiment is sweeping the whole
country: .
"WE WANT A CHANGE!" ?".--s
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HERE'S A REPUBLICAN BOOMERANG
An editorial printed in the Fort Worth
'(Texas) Record of September 6, will give the
.republican standpatters something to think
about. -
The Record's editorial follows:
"Scattered over the editorial page of the
New York Herald the following line in Italics
appears several times: 'Mr. Bryan promises us
tariff reform. But can' he deliver the goods
with a republican house of representatives and
a republican senate?
. "The Herald lis openly fighting Mr. Bryan,
but the intended attack upon him in this query
is pretty much of a boomerang. Its logical
answer makes more for Mr. Bryan than against
him. The republican party is pledged to tariff
revision, yet the Herald asks, Can Bryan bring
tariff revision with the handicap of a republican
senate and house? Does that mean, that a body
of republican lawmakers means that there shall
be no tariff revision? Does it meanthat the
republican promise for tariff revision is mean
ingless? Very evidently the Herald so believes.
Nor is the Herald alone In that belief.
"And if Mr. Bryan, democrat, can not de
liver "Ihe goods of tariff revision In' spite of a
republican congress, how will Mr. Taft be able
to. accomplish the feat? The Herald's argu
ment is so loose and vulnerable as to be un
worthy any paper which aspires to the position
in politics and journalism which the Herald as
sumes to fill. 4
"But the answer to the question is that in
the gathering .together of the body of men who
will make the next congress there has been in
many cases a sacrifice of party affiliations for
the naming of the better man. Al8o, the men
who will form the next congress are in many
cases more patriotic than partisan. There are
republicans who will stand with the democrats
for tariff reyislomln spite of all powers against
it, because tariff revision is a matter greater
than party at this time. It is going to be a
pretty difficult job if Mr. Bryan is elected to
prevent tariff revision."
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- THAT LEATHER" BELTING PLACARD
. The following is a Pittsburg (Pa.) Post
editorial; . '
"Whoever in memory recalls tho Garfield
campaign can see those criminally coercive pla
cards on Ohio factories: 'This mill will shut
down if Hancock be elected.' Every manufac
turing state in the union in every campaign
since has. been disgraced by the same style of
placard. West .Virginia knows the felonious de
vice. Sometimes it is a promise, as It must bo
now, that mills will resume if Mr. Taft is elect
ed. In times when republican panics had not
thrown thousands into idleness and stopped the
wheels, it has been a threat to close; an assault
upon the American right to a free ballot. The
promise is an attempted bribe; the vshut-down
intimidation of more prosperous eras has boon
an outrage upon tho ballot.
"Mr. Kern has pilloried the porpotrators of
this criminal offense against tho freedom of
political choico, against tho use of God-given
intelligence by tho American workingman.
Former President Parry, of tho National Manu
facturers' Association, which does such yeoman
service in exposing the iniquities of Diugloyism,
furnishing the details otherwise procurable with
great difficulty by the layman, denounces un
fair tactics like these by employers. Ho frankly
confesses that tho election of Bryan and Kern
would entail no disaster, no damaging effect
upon business, nor would it at all interfere with
the economic conditions and tho phenomenal
wealth and resources of America, which are
bound soon to restore that prosperity driven
away by republican Insensate folly and pro
fligacy. "And now a contemporary affocts ignorance
of where these placards are hung. Every utter
ance of Mr. Taft Is a demagogic placard when
ho pepaches that Mr. Bryan's election would in
cite a now panic or bo an obstacle to prosperity's
return. Every false screech by his organs is
such a placard. The Leather Belting Company
of New York has started the placarding. Its
effect is now gone."
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THERE IS THE RECORD
Referring to tho democratic campaign text
book for 1908 the New York World says:
"Tho democrats have stout rods in pickle
for the republicans this year, as is proved by
their campaign book of three hundred pages,
but they apply none of them to the republican
president. They are ppposed to jingoism, mili
tarism and imperialism, and yet tho most war
like of presidents escapes criticism. .They de
nounce extravagance and waste at Washington
and yet the man who Is largely responsible for
this reckless expenditure finds no accuser. They
make war upon tho privileged plutocrats of the
tariff, the combines and tho trusts, and yet tho
only president who ever sent for a Harrlman
and arranged for the collection of a campaign
corruption 'fund is nowhere condemned. They
demand publicity In campaign expenditures, and
yet a president who neglected at a critical time
to insist upon that policy is held blameless. They
reproach the republican party for Its failure to
enforce the laws against the pirates of interstate
commerce, and yet the president, who holds
that the laws are too drastic and that - they
must bo modified, goes free of censure."
Harsh words are not necessary. The dem
ocratic text book shows up the republican
record, and nothing could be gained by bitter
denunciation. The facts as to jingoism, mili
tarism, imperialism extravagance and waste at
Washington, tariff privileges enjoyed by com
bines and trusts, Harriman's contribution to the
republican campaign fund, the republican party's
failure to enforce the law, and tho republican
record generally these things are all pre
sented in compact form.
There Is the record. The people may apply
It and The Commoner believes they will apply
It, so as to defeat the political party that is
responsible for that record.
In the meantime anyone may obtain a copy
of the democratic campaign text book for 1908
for twenty-five cents. It will bo sent, postpaid,
for that sum. Address Text Book Department,
care Democratic National Committee, Audito
rium Annex Hotel, Chicago, 111.
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"THE SHADOW OF THE STARCH TRUST"
Tho Nebraska City starch factory was in
corporated in Nebraska City in June, 1891, with
paid up capital of $53,000. The factory oper
ated a few years and was reported prosperous
wlien, to the surprise of the stockholders who
were not connected with the management of
the company, an indebtedness accumulated until
it amounted to about -the sum of the paid up
capital.
The stockholders were given a choice of
an assessment amounting to tho sum of their
stock, or take ten cents on the dollar. About
one-third of the stockholders sold their interest
and in June, 1894, it was transferred to the
Argo Starch company. August, 1899, it was
transferred to the United Starch company and
August, 1900, fronTtho United Starch company
to the National Starch company.
Hon. C. J. Smyth a democratic at
torney general of Nebraska, brought suit to
keep it from 'being transferred to the trust.
Republicans called a meeting for a public pro-
tost, and a republican district Judgo presided.
Resolutions woro passed condemning; .tho action
of tho attornoy general.
Soon afterwards a dato was arranged whon
Mr. Bryan and Mr. Smyth would speak In Ne
braska City. Whon they arrived, a copy of tho
resolutions wore presented to thorn and threats
woro mado to do them bodily harm. Mr. Bryan,
in his opening sentence said that ho had "corno
to discuss tho trust question in the shadow of
tho starch, factory." Ho told them it would bo
managed in an offlco in Now York City and by.
people who had no Interest In their community:
Ho urged tho citizens to Aid tho attornoy general
in keeping tho factory from being swallowed
up by tho trtiBt under whoso management It'
would bo closed as soon as one of their othor
factories paid better dlvldonds.
After Mr. Bryan's defeat for president in
1900, Mr. Ilaywnrd, now secretary of tho re
publican national committee Bent Mr. Bryan a
postal card roferrlng to tho fact that Nebraska
went republican and suggesting that tho shadow
of tho starch factory seemed to cover tho wholo
state.
Tho trust operated tho factory but a few ,'
years. It was soon closed. In the spring of
1908 It was sold to. tho S. Krug Wrecking com
pany of Chicago. It has been dismantled, ono
section of tho building has been wrecked and a
crew of men are now at work wrecking 'the
entire building.-
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" DEMOCRATIC TEXT ROOK
Chicago News Dispatch: Mr. Bryan re
ceived his first official democratic text book -whon
he reached tho hotel this morning. IJo
had seen advanced sheets of it and had tho
following to say in regard to It:
"It is the bcBt campaign book that I havo
seen and every worker In tho party ought to
hav.o a copy of it. Every democratic editor
ought to have a copy on his table. There la
material enough in there for editorials until
election. I am anxious, too, that tho traveling
men shall carry it with' them. It gives In con
densed form so much information on all sub
jects that no one who talks politics can afford,
to be without it. I can not recommend it .too
strongly. It is so good that it will surprise'
thoso who obtain a copy of It. Mr. Lamb;1 Mr.v
Daniels and Mr. Metcalfe havo rendered the
party a very valuable service in preparing 1J.
I am glad It is out so early."
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DEMOCRATIC CLUBS , "
Gratifying progress Is being mado In'tho'
organization of democratic clubs, and tho naJ
tlonal committee's hopes of securing an organi
zation in practically every voting precinct bids
fair to bo realized. Every club organized Is
urged to get Into Immediate touch with tho na
tional committee. Those 'that have not yet re
ported their organization .should do so at once,
and thoso organized in future should report
immediately after organization is perfecte i. Ad
dress all communications to John W. Tomllnson,
chairman committee club organization, demo
cratic national committee, Auditorium Annex,
Chicago.
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SPEAKERS IN DEMAND
One of tho most gratifying evidences of -enthusiasm
among the democratic voters Is tho
Insistent demands from every section of the
country for speakers. So great is this demand,
and so insistent are tho local organizations that
the national committee keep them supplied, that
the committee Is experiencing difficulty In sup
plying tho speakers, although tho difficulty is
being rapidly overcome. Chairman John H. At-
wood of the speakers' bureau of the national
committee Is anxious to secure the names nnd
address of all who are willing to devoto their
time and ability, in whole or in part, to this
work. Every democrat who can and will make
speeches in behalf of tho democracy during the
remainder of the campaign is urged to com
municate with Mr. Atwood, addressing him care
speakers' bureau, democratic national commit
tee, Auditorium Annex, Chicago.
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A lot of republican papers are demanding
some action to prevent the destruction of forests -by
fire. At the same time they are strenuously
upholding a policy that puts a premium upon
the destruction of those same forests by an
other method.
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