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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
two out of the thirty-two democrats who voted
for Lorlmer for senator were re-nominated.
The New York Sun sayB that Theodore Roose
velt has "the modesty of Captain Bobadil, the
quiet dignity of Ancient Pistol, Jack Cade's con
tempt of demagogy, the candor of Mr. Peck
sniff and almost as loyal in friendship as Iago.",
Tho New York Sun is authority for the state
ment that the Maine election was largely a
rebuke to tho Roosevelt "heresy," and adds that
Wall Street welcomes the prospect of a dead
lock between President Taft and a democratic
congress,
George Gould, the railroad magnate, return
ing from Europe says that he is not surprised
at the Maine slump, that the whole country is
going democratic, and while ho is a republican,
he intends to vote the democratic ticket 'him
self. The New York Herald also glvos the credit of
the Maine results to Theodore Roosevelt. The
Herald Bays that stocks went down when "the
Roosevelt circus" went west and that the demo
cratic victory in Maine was the result.
DEMOCRATIC LANDSLIDE
Can't you hear it as it rumbles
'Cross tho old Green Mountain state?
They have felt it in New Hampshire;
. . It is coming sure as fate.
And when once it gets a-going ' ,
Its momentum none can Btay
The democratic landslide " v ','''
Which is surely on the way.
It always gives a warning
Just before it starts to slide,
And the path it leaves behind It
Is about as lqng and wide
As the whole United States is
If you measured it today
The democratic landslide
Which is getting under way.
The insurgents tried to stop it,
But they started in too late,
For the ground Is getting shaky ; ,'
Out in every western state, H
And no matter how they flght It
And no matter what they gay,
Tho democratic landslide
Is already on tke way.
Oh, goad-by to Mr. Aldrich
And good-by to "Undo Jqo.m
Good-by to trusts and bosses,
For they, too, have got to go,
'And tho G. -O. P. will R. L P.
When on election day
The democratic landslide
Sweeps axsross the U. S. A.
Richard Llnthicum, New York World.
at Lincoln, Nebraska,
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THE ROOSEVELT-BRYAN PLATFORM
Tho following "progressive republican" state
ments of tho "now nationalism" by Mr. Roose
velt aro set off against tho utterances of Mr.
Bryan and of tho Bryan platforms of 1900
and 1908:
BRYAN ROOSEVELT
Tho "Twilight Zone"
There is no twilight There must remain
zone between the na
tion and the states in
which exploiting inter
ests can take refuge
from both. Bryan
platform, 1908.
Conservation
We favor the
holding of such lands
for actual settlers.-
Bryan Platform 1900.
public doman as he
himself can cultivate.
Denver, August, 29,
1910.
Campaign Fund Publicity Beforo Elections
Wo plodgo the dem- ft is particularly im-
ocratic party to the en
actment of a law pre
venting any corpora
tion contributing to a
campaign fund and any
individual from con
tributing an amount
above a reasonable
minimum and provid
ing for the publication
before election of all
such, contributions
above a reasonable
minimum. Bryan
Platform, 1908.'
fi
' .' vanced than this that
you have unconscious
ly advanced. Reply to
F Bryan, Sept. 27, 1908.
Tho Income Tax
We favor an income Therefore I believe
tax as a part of our
revenue system. The
Bryan Platform, 1908.
Guilt of Corporation Heads
We therefore favor
tho vigorous ' enforce
ment of the criminal
law against guilty
trust magnates and
officials. -Bryan Plat
form, 1908.
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The New York Times
no neutral ground to
serve as a refuge for
law breakers. Osa
watomie, Kan., August
31, 1910.
Our consistent aim
is to favor the actual
settler tho man who
takes as much of the
portant that all mon
eys received or ex
pended 'for campaign
purposes should be
publicly accounted for
not only after election
but beforo election as
well. Osawatomie,
Kan., Aug. 31, 1910.
I emphatically ap
prove of the publica
tion of campaign ex
penses after the elec
tion. You have
shown by this letter of
yours that if Mr. HdY
rim'ari'fl contribution to
the campaign fund of
1904 had been known
before the election, you
Would have endeavored
to uso the fact of its
having been made as
an insincere and un
truthful argument.
No stronger argu
ment against your
proposition (1. e., for
publication before elec
tion) has yet; been ad-
In a graduated Income
tax on big fortunes.
Osawatomie, Aug. 31,
1910.
I believe that the
officers and especially
tho directors of corpor
ations should be held
personally responsible
when any corporation
breaks the law. Osa
watomie, Kan., Aug.
81, 1910.
Whether, as tho cases
'(Colorado Fuel and In
ternational Harvester)
develop, proceedings
against Individual offi
cers become necessary
must depend
Letter to Attorney
General Moody, June
12, H05.
Judge Harmon had
written, letter to Presi
dent, Cincinnati, June
5, 1905: "Guilt is al
ways personal. So long
as officials can hide be
hind their corpora
tions, no remedy can
Prints This Parallel
BRYAN
Watered
Existing laws against
trusts must bo enforced
requiring all cor
porations to show that
they have no water in
their stock. Bryan
Platform, 1900.
Tho
This reform (initia
tive, referendum, and
recall) will not abolish
representatives, but It
will enable the voters
to coerce the represent
atives into obedience
to the popular will.
Lincoln, Neb., June 17,
1907.
Tariff
We favor immediate
revision of the tariff by
the reduction of import
duties. Bryan Plat
form, 1908.
The Progressives
I am more radical
than I was in 1896
and have nothing to
withdraw. London,
July 12, 190G.
To my mind pro
gressive democracy
means taking up living
questions as they ap
pear and applying
democratic principles
to them. Progressive
democracy should be
between radicalism and
conservatism. Inter
view in " the World,
July 6, 1907.
.. THE NEW NATIONALISM
The Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial-Appeal
prints, under the headline, "The New Nation
alism," the following editorial:
"Roosevelt and the insurgents, Bryan and
the conservatives, Pinchot and the under dogs
are consorting from one end of the country to
the other. Mr. Roosevelt on the field where
John Brown had a fight announced eighteen
propositions for good government, all radical.
Ten years ago they would have been looked
upon as revolutionary, twenty years ago, indeed,
that would have been regarded as anarchistic.
"Up in Minnesota there have been state rights
and nationalism in the conservation convention.
It was a battle in politics waged by the reac
tionaries, the old-time republicans, the men who
got great land grants from the government, who
enjoy many contracts, who, under the form of
laws that ought never to have been put on tho
books, took away from the people millions of
acres of land covered with timber and boweled
with minerals, who rose up and preached tho
doctrine of state rights in a way that must have
pleased the soul of John C. Calhoun, if ho
heard it.
"The democrats, believing in a square deaL
those men thinking that to every man there
should be equal privilege under the law, were
for nationalism. Every 'plain person' was fo
nationalism.
"Every conservationist, reincarnated into
suffragette from a western state, might nave
cried out from her seat in the convention hall,
'Oh, state rights, how many crimes are commit
ted in thy name?'
"But it is a big change that is going on. The
old order is passing.
"Thero is more action in thi country in tho
business of government than was in the crowd
ed hours of France the year feefore the queen
and king were beheaded.,
"With na it is peaceful revelation. There 1
no bad bleed let, no heads roll lilt basfcet, o
old woman git and knit and count ttie gnillotia
ROOSEVELT
Stocks
Th e government
should oversee the is
suance of all stocks
and bonds. The Out
look, Sept. 3, 1910.
"Recall"
I believe that the
prompt removal of un
faithful or incompe
tent public servants
should be made asy
and sure in whatever
way experience shall
show to be most expe
dient in any given class
of cases. Osawato
mie, Kan., Aug. 31,
1910.
Revision
There must be an
expert tariff commis
sion. As fast as
Its recommendations
are made, I believe in
revising one schedule
at a time. Osawato
mie, Kan., Aug. 31,
1910.
I am a' radical demo
crat. Guildhall speech,
London, May 30, 1910.
I am a progressive.
I could not be any
thing else; Indeed, as
the years jgo ,byI be
come . more, 'and ' riot
less, radically progres
sive. To my mind' the
failure resolutely to
follow progressive poli
cies is the negation of
democracy. The Out
look, Sept. 3, 1910.
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