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rency reform, a budget system of setting forth
expenditures and revenues of the government
and several equally desirable reforms. All the
democrats say, will be ignored. '
Following the election of Mr. McKinley in
1896 President Cleveland refrained from mak
ing any appointments to the federal service,
leaving these to the incoming president. Presi
dent Taft being unwilling to do as much it will
be incumbent as a duty upon the democrats in
the senate to refuse to ratify all appointments
and thus prevent them.
There is something more than the doctrine of
the spoils for the victors in this view of tho
matter. Suppose that the senate should ratify
the nomination of a republican for district at
torney for the northern district of Iowa and
he should take office for a period of four years.
Is it to be assumed that he would seek to
make such a record in his office a3 to reflect
credit upon, the democratic administration and
the democratic party? The contrary is to bo
supposed. We-can. not imagine- him investigat
ing trust operations: with a. view to prosecuting
. illegal trusts so. that the democratic party- might
be able- two. yearsr hence and four years- hence
to point to a record of- achievement and to proof
of faith kept.
The country has- voted to give the democrats
a. trial a fair and full trial. It has turned
over to them. the .machinery, of the federal gov
ernment. It is for them, charged with full re
sponsibility, to have full power. Let them then,
take every place of power and authority.
Dubuque (la.) Telegraph-Herald.
THE NEW DECLARATION
The Commoner seconds the following timely
motion made by the New York World: Now
that Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan has very generously
presented to the Congressional library a rare
volume containing autographs of all the signers
of the Declaration of Independence, we sug
gest, with all due humility, that he follow up
this splendid gift by presenting a companion
volume containing autographs of all the dis
tinguished signers of the Declaration of Depen
dence, the list of signatures, of course, to be
headed 'by1 his own. This inspiring gift would,
we imagine, run somewhat as follows:
DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE
"When, in the Course of human events, it
becomes necessary for certain great financiers
to dissolve the political bonds which have con
nected them with their fellow-citizens, and to
assume among the powers of tho earth, tho
separate and unequal station to which the Laws
of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a
decent respect for the opinion of gentlemankind
requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created unequal, that they are en
dowed by their Creator with certain alienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
the Pursuit of Happiness. That to obscure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their unjust powers from the consent
of tho Governors. And for the sup
port of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on
the protection of Divine Providence, We mu
tually pledge to each other our Lives, our For
tunes and our sacred Honor.
"J. PIERPONT MORGAN,
"JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER,
"ANDREW CARNEGIE,
"HENRY C FRICK,
"E. H. GARY,
" "GEORGE W. PERKINS,
"ETC., ETC., ETC."
HARD TO PLEASE
The New York Times is hard to please. Its
Washington correspondent wound up a long and
mournful account of Mr. Bryan's recent visit to
the national capital with the following note of
despair:
"But why is it that Mr. Bryan will not go
home and stay there?"
Another paper announced that Mr. Bryan had
gone to Florida to spend the winter and added
that it waa construed by some of tho leading
democrats at Washington as a declaration of
.war against congress.
The unfriendly papers are prepared to catch
Mr. Bryan "a comin' and a goin'."
Is there any law, statutory or moral, that
gives to friends of the plunderbund the exclu
sive privilege of being represented at Washing-
The Commoner.
3
Popular Vote for President
Shown By States of Union
nrpBMnCnMdl.TtCf l?.th0 CI"cinnati Enquirer: New York, Novombor 26. Tho popular voto for
nfl?vMe?ccl,on,?f,1ftD12 8h0WB Wilson Pd throughout tho country a total of
' m,'758 votes Roosevelt 3,928,140 and Taft 3,370,422.
seven statesall8t VOt DJbB amouuted to G73'783 ' tho socialist count still unfurnished in
fniwii!!?ryianV,opular vot. was 6-393.182 and that of Taft 7,037,676. Tho figures in tho
loiiowing tablo by states are divided between onicial and unolllcial returns, as indicated. No count
is at present available whero tho spaces are left blank.
STATE.
xAlabama
xArizona
xxArkansas
xxCalifornia
xxColorado
xxConnecticut . . ,
xDelaware
xxaFlorida
xGeorgia ,
xldaho
xxlllinois
xTndiana
xxblowa
xKansa3
xKentucky
xcLouisiana ....
xxMaine
xMaryland
xxMassachusetts
xxdMichigan
xxeMinnesota . . .
xMississippi ....
xMissouri
xMontana
xNebraska ".....
xNevada
xNew Hampshire
xNew Jersey
xxNew Mexico . .
xxNew York
xxNorth Carolina
xxNorth Dakota .
xxOhio
xxfOklahoma . . .
xxaOregon
xxPennsylvania .
xxRhode Island .
xSouth Carolina
xgSouth Dakota .
xxTennesseo
xxhTexas
xxUtah
xVermont
xxVirginia
xxWashington . . .
xxWest Virginia .
xxaWIsconsin
xxWyoming
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33983
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172231
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219584
59241
50987
11 2074
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10G42G
57227
330947
28023
109109
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6468
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145410
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444426
16488
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57630
5'4260
26740
23035
22073
21737
111797
76608
58661
7536
9671
2989
24900
2240
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67949
16222
4212
5151
32873
256625
151267
113902
74 844
115512
3774
26538
54 596
152255
62294
04 334
1595
207409
18404
54348
3190
32927
88835
15512
450466
29017
22892
273287
90784
31842
273305
27755
536
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28668
40694
23334
23277
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434
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147
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207
3996
12G50
27505
20G1
28148
10828
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15901
2024
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1950
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xOfllcial. xxUnofllcial. aOno county missing. bFour counties missing. cTwo parishes missing.
dFifty-six out of 83 counties. eTwenty-six counties still incomplete. Roosevelt electors not on
ballot. gTaft electors not on ballot. hThreo counties missing.
ton. Is a great Journal like The Commoner to
be denied the privilege of getting its news from
tho national's political center?
Mr. Bryan, while at Washington, carefully
avoided the one subject that is uppermost In
the mind of the newspaper men, namely, tho
personnel of the next cabinet. As Mr. Hearst,
the New York Sun and other papers of that
class presumably because of their malicious and
conscienceless attacks on Mr. Wilson before his
nomination, are now busily engaged In the con
genial task of selecting Mr. Wilson advisors for
him, Mr. Bryan thought it wise not to enter Into
speculation on the subject.
He still has opinions, however, on public
nuestlons and still feels an interest in the public
welfare but the fact that he has consistently
token the people's side without asking the aid or
consent of Wall street bars him, in the opinion
of the predatory press, from active participation
In DoliUcs. But as tho predatory press has al
wavs been against him he has not lost anything
J-3n fact, its criticism is an asset.
IIARRIMAN MERGER ILLEGAL
The United States suprome court has "decided
that tho think known as the Harrlman merger,
being the purchase of the Union Pacific of forty
six per cent of tho stock of tho Southern Pacific
Railway system, was illegal under the Sherman
anti-trust law.' Justlco Day delivered LJii
opinion, which was unanimous.
An Associated Press dispatch says: "Instead
of following tho reasoning of Justice Van De
vanter and Judges Sanborn and Adams tho
court, in substance approved the minority hold
ing of Judge Hook that the roado were com
petitors and that it was Just as much a viola
tion of the law for one road to buy the controll
ing stock of a competitor as It was for a holding
company, as in tho Northern Securities case, to
buy the controlling stock of two competing com
panies. As the Northern Securities company
plan failed nearly ten years ago, so the Harrl
man plan failed.. The circuit court was directed
to supervise the separation of the two roads."
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