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no ono In doubt as to his lntontlons. Ills routo
Is laid, his plans itro sot, his terms arc writ, his
very tlmo tables havo their exits and their en
trances fitted to tho pre-arranged lino of travel
and triumph. Ills companions do voyago aro
o'en PInchot and Garfield. Their objectivo
point? Well, If Toft does not get out of tho way
he'll havo to; though all of us aro agreed that
ho may sorvo out tho rest of his term.
Tho play is up to tho republicans, and only
tho republicans. What tho democrats may bo
ablo to do when tho tlmo comes is problematical.
This is decidedly not their funeral.
Tho politicians as a' rule aro a cowardly sot.
Without much regard either to tendencies or
consequences, they follow what seoras to bo tho
multitude. Wo may regard it as certain that
from now onward tho republican file-leaders
will begin to gather about Roosevelt. Wlth tho
returns of November, sure to show yet greater
republican losses than those- of last Tuesday, tho
cry for Roosevelt will swell Into a roar. Tho
argument will bo that he, and ho alono, can
save the party. Ho proposes to save It by Bryan
izing it. Can ho do that?
Men liko Barnes and Woodruff can not stop
him. They merely firing grist to his mill. Tho
nowspapors of New York will havo to adopt an
other lino of attack if they expect to stay tho
lido setting In at the west and flowing eastward.
RIdiculo and abuso equally fall from tho
colonel's back llko water from a duck's back.
All things that aro groat aro simple. Tho Roose
volt scheme first to Bryanlzo tho republican
party, and, under cover -of tho Issue of tho now
nationalism righteousness in public life and
tho setting of tho man above tho machine, tho
cleansing of tho Augean stables and tho mend
ing of tho lot of the lowly and tho poor to
Bweep the country, though a daring, is a good
scheme of practical politics concoivod and
brought forth by a' man of rare sagacity and
splondid executive ability. If it is to be headed
off tho real backbone and muccle of republi
canism, the protective tariff system, must take
the fiold, and who shall say that a man so fertile
of invention, so fruitful of resources, so expert
and so Intrepid in action, has not already given
the blood and brains of republican leadership
the aBBuranco that their Interests shall be duly
cared' for when "Teddy comes marching home!"
Let us have no more fustianlzing about kings
and scepters, kaisers and crowns, tho distinct
proposal submitted by tho immediate situation
to tho voters of tho United States, involves a
radical change an actual revolution of our
established systom of checks and balances, sub
stituting a pure democracy for tho present rep
resentative form, a centralized power at Wash
ington instead of a series of state sovereignties,
with a now Jefferson in the person of Theodoro
Roosevelt to administer it on lines of religion
and humanity, not on lines of political economy,
tho constitution and tho law.
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VICTORIES AND PANICS
A democratic victory in November would
bring a crash on the Now York stock exchange
just as surely as tho sun would rise on Wednes
day, November 9. This was true of tho past
and It would bo true In the present case. St.
Louis Globo-Democrat.
Did a democratic victory have anything to do
with tho Roosevelt panic of 1907? New York
World.
Did tho democratic victory of 1892 have
anything to do with tho republican panic which
began in 1890 and reached its highest stage
whilo a republics tariff law was in operation?
INFORMATION WANTED
Dr. D. L. Cowden, Klmbolton, Ohio. Would
llko to ask through The Commoner if any of
your readers can give me any information as to
the construction of an aeollan harp, or where
they can bo purchased. Any information con
cerning tho above will be appreciated.
WYOMING REPUBLICANS
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Wyoming republicans endorsed the Taft ad
ministration, the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and
Secretary Ballinger's official record. Then they
nominated W. E. Mullin of Sheridan to be
governor.
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ASK YOUR CONGRESSMAN
Frederick B. Howe, writing in Every
bodys Magazine, says:
"Some years ago I attended a political
meeting in Glasgow. A candidate for
parliament was speaking Prom time to
tlmo he was interrupted by what seemed
to me, an American, impertinent ques
tions. His auditors wanted to know how
ho would vote on this bill and that! The
candidate met the questions frankly. If
he thought them impertinent, he did not
show it. He seemed to think the people
had a right to know how he would servo
them at Westminster.
"I expressed some astonishment at this
procedure to a Scotchman standing near
me. He said: 'Oh, he has to answer.
We call this heckling. We want to
know, you know. That's the way we
get our reforms. We make the candi
dates pledge themselves. They do not
like to do it. Many of them have to
agree to vote against their own inter
ests and friends. But we know where
they stand before wo vote for them.
We know what they will 'do in parlia
ment.' "That's the point, then. Heckle. Ask
questions. If we can not have direct
government, let's make it so uncomfort
able for our delegated government that it
will have to represent us. Heckle.
"Heckle your congressman. Ask how
he voted on all critical questions, and
don't let him fool you; know how he
voted Ask him why. And not only the
old congressman, ask also the candidates
who want to succeed him.
"No matter about parties. Privilege
is bipartisan. Privilege works with both
parties; it pledges all candidates; it
heckles, heckles, heckles. And that's
why -most candidates for office serve
Privilege. Privilege heckles.
"It would be best if we could all ask
the same questions everywhere. It
.wouldn't matter for the present what the
questions were. The important thing is
to act together somehow; so we suggest
that everybody ask any question he
pleases about any question that interests
him; that he ask his questions in writing
on postcards addressed to candidates or
at meetings where they speak.
"You, or any association or organiza
tion to which ypu belong, can question
your candidates. You can question them,
in person, by mail or on the stump. Life
will not, be made as easy for the candi
date as it has been In the past. And he
may have some trouble in squaring his
pledges with his votes In congress. But
any one who insists that 'his omnlover
, should accept him on faith is not familiar
with the law of principal and agent."
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DEMOCRATIC BUT DON'T KNOW IT
Mr. I. O. Pickering of Olathe, Kan., writes
to Tho Commoner to say: "The speech yes
terday of Colonel Roosevelt at - Osawattomie,
Kan., so far aB it had to do with economic
conditions and political questions is simply a
restatement of democratic principles as written
in all democratic national platforms for the last
twenty years. His talk on the relative rights of
capital and the citizen was simply the old Jef
fersonian principle of "equal rights for all and
special privileges for none." The genuine ap
plause and appreciation of the people for what
he said simply demonstrates that the large
majority of the people of this country are demo
cratic and some of them don't' know it. As
for the standpat republicans who magnify mam
mon and minimizo man, they and their prgani
zation are just norw between his satanic majesty
and the unfathomable ocean. Their destination
is apparent; they will not get wet."
Uncle Joo says that he will be a candidate
for speaker, and he might have added that," in
view of the number of republican congressmen
whom his candidacy has killed off, ho may do
tho only member of the standpat caucus and
there is a chance that he may be defeated in
November.
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