: -x
IjiM . - , . vclt .savs he will not reply t >
Bryan's List it'lter , because it is a per
sonal .ita ( < k : tid In. " will not tt ign to
noli- * * iK'rsoasil attacks.
"A personal attack" forsooth. Since
\vhcn ilid lu g-'t so "touchy" about por-
Hiul attacks ? Tlx-ro lias never
beim a man in the White House \vlio
IMS rt ruthlessly jumped onto overy-
iKvly ainl everything , regard k'.Sh ' * f
facts awl i nlitiou * > as this same Tlieo-
dor Roosevelt , lie sentenced men to
th An.ini'i.s dub with as little ado
as y > u v/iiuhl take a chew of tobacco.
* He caJU'tl a man an "undesirable ciii
* ' zen" just the. same as he would imite
a. man to dinner. And now he is touched
t
ed because Bryan makes a personal : it-
( tuck on him.
But a.s.suming for the sake of argu-
* incut th.ir it is a personal attack , \vliy
, did ! i ' d > > itV Did not Roosevelt invite
* ' It ? Hid he not brag that when he got
\ to Washington he would put some giu-
' ; .ger in the campaign : and if Bryan has
f -yul A little i > f the ginger into Teddy's
cyo. > . JLJ- , lie any kick coining ? We
decid"flly think not.
5 Bui a * a matter of fact. Bryan did
aot in any way make .1 personal attack
ft oa Koo.-veveU. Far from it. he dis-
S ! the issueof the campaign and
< vl to him on Tmir-cljy by the people o
lop'ka and the surrounding count r.v
Mr Bryan has been in Topeka on scv
eral other occasions , but at no tim |
have so many people turned out to liea
him or have they cheered him so entlui
Mast it-ally. Topeka Journal.
As a proposed compromise the "Tuft
Stevenson Club" incorporated at Spring
field may be part of shrewd but futil
plan to hold in check the independen
Republican voters , whose protest :
against the Deiu'en administration nov
threaten Republicanism in Illinois will
the results of 1SH2.
Against any snrh attempt. Stevensm
is as squarely Democratic now ns In
was in 18or ! ) as when be presided ii
the Senate as Vice President of tin
Tnited States , from IS ! ) . " , to 1807. The
issues thus piescnted are as well dc
fined now as then. He has supported
Democracy without flinching or compro
mising from his beginnings in Illinois
politics to 1000 and since. When Illi
nois g.ive him its indorsement , will
many who had been Republicans votinj
for him. it was on the issues of nationa
control through Democr.itic principles
as be was known and as be is stil
known to represent them.
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- Detroit Times.
nothing el.se. Xo political letter could
Iiav been fair1or more to the pointer
or more free fr < m personal rancor and
abuse than this < amc letter of Bryan
to tlie President.
Uur. one thing , anybody can see with
Half an eye- and that is thai Bryan got
the best of Roo-evelt. He was too
zmich i"or him I i the end. At fir.st we
thought P.ryan was hurting his cause ,
we think he laid it all over
li. The cfiliVrence , too. is this :
Bryan wields a lawyer's pen while
IVddy writes a < ? n layman and we want
2o tell you that we know just enough
about it to be abl io tell you that the
lawyer gets the long end of the string
every time. Bryan tied Teddy into a
double bowknot. lie locked the door
wJtli Teddy on the inside and Bryan
Uirvw the key into the well.
We tin not pretend to know enough
to s.jy what the effect of the corre-
sp'Hitlcnco will be and we do not know
tli.it we care very much. It will not
zii.ike much ( inference in the tinal re
sult , we feel sure , but in the last analysis -
sis it must be admitted that Teddy
8Tt his nose punched in the last tilt
with Bryan. And what a pity that
T * 1 ly is so sensitive. Washington
{ Iv.va ) Democrat.
. " > Jr. JJryimV I iiiir < > \ cd Oratory.
Twelve year.s of campaigning have
.iftVcted the vigor of the Nebraska n
it lias been to increase it. He
H rtj.illyji more forceful orator to-day
than he wa > when be first entered the
li. ls for the presidency of the United
St-Jles. This is .s ( because his remarks !
and arguments are presented in far
nmr. ' conservative language th.in he
wji > ont to tse at t'ie ' Ivginning of his j
career. It is for * this reason. )
g other4- , perlia'p4. tJiat Mr. Bryan j
Js n stronger man with the people of j
tills 'ountry now than he has ever been j
fwi'yrt. That is admitted on all sides ,
end was nhiinly evidenced by the really
reception which was accord-
After having been an Illinois Vice
President of the United States he is not
running for ( loiernor of the Stale
nufiely against De.ne.cn. To run for
( lovornor merely to evict Deneen from
ollice ; to turn out the Deneen men with
whom the public institutions of Illinois
have been overloaded at the cost of the
taxpayers : to malcc a campaign merely
to get ollice and the spoils of ollice , is
not what any intelligent voter in Illi
nois , Republican or Demoeiat , expects
from Stevenson. No one needs to be
told that as a candidate for Governor
of Illinoishe is running in support oC
the principles lu has alwaj's represent
ed and that necessarily he is running
against Taft and Deneen , not against
Deneen only. Republicans e.-rnnot vote
for him intelligently on any other basis
lie will be ready to tell any honest Re
publican , if any honest Repuhlicu :
could need to be told , that he car repre
sent no one who \\isbes the pnblk- busi
ness of Illinois ami of the United StaVs
to be administered as it has been during
the last year , the last four years , the
last ten years. He is as much opposed
to Cannon as Jo Taft. to Taft as lo
Deneen. His candidacy squares issues
in IllinoisSt. . Louis Republic.
\Viimt KoM-r
When the Chicago plarf.orm declares
"once more -ind without reservation for
the onlorc. menl in letter and spirit of
the Thirteenth. Fourteenth and Fif
teenth Amendments to the Constitu
tion" it prefaces tbi.s by demanding
"equal justice for all men without re-
tird to race or color. "
The ni'.sl spu-c-hing ; question of the
cimpaiirn was put at Ilarrisbun : , 111. ,
v. ben it was asked \\lint equal justice
l < all men is to mean when the protect
ed income' of -.inirle stockholder from
his privileges in a giant corporation
amounts to 97. i.OJH > a day.
Te ! siver.ige income of the employes
of the- giant corporation system as it
controls what is left of our infant In
dustrle amounts , as officially reported t
to $10.0(5 ( a week , on which , without re
gard to race or color , as is now perti
nently remarked in Illinois , they find
no difficulty in dying poor.
As the Chicago platform states the
total wealth of the country at a hun
dred and ten thousand million dollars ,
the gospel ot wealth as it is proclaimed
from the basis of the protected income
of $70,000 a day makes dying poor a
test of patriotism in its beneficiaries ,
a proof of the gratitude they feel for
the unequaled opportunities they have
for living rich.
If they are to lune equal justice ,
without regard to race or color , an average
( ?
erage income of ? IO.OG a week iroin
i- government privileges , supported by
taxation on other incomes , would not
force them to die poor. It would leave
them all they have now of their giant
t- abilities , with all business income pos
sible from these , plus ? 10.00 weekly as
< the average on which each of 3.207,80
workers protected during sixty hours
of hard labor weekly now subsists un
der the system. If this would not be
satisfactory , the question on the Chica
go platform , as it was suggested from
Harrisbnrg , III. , is what equal justice
for all men without regard = to race or
color means when it is rv question of
beinjust to "
protected giants , "with
out reservation. " St. Louis Republic.
The Siiuaro r > e : l.
Nothing to parallel last week' ? out
break from President Roosevelt can be
s f < " . : nd in the : ini , ils of An orica'i poli-
rhat is a strong statement to
make , but one entirely warranted by
facts. It is undignified for the Presi
dent to actively participate in political
campaigning , but it is something infin
itely worse when the nation's Chief Ex
ecutive stoops to deliberate misrepre
sentation to give his partisan polemics
the requisite sting.
Since Mr. Roosevelt is not himself a
candidate for otlice the serious import
ance "of his unseemly exhibition lies iu
the significant fact that what he says
has The implied approval and In some
respects the direct indorsement of Mr.
Taft , who is a candidate. The judicial
temperament and the character of fair
ness which the Republican nominee for
Piosident admittedly possesses are not
proof against the influences that come
from his environment. lie cannot be
what his own instincts would make him.
but is compelled to become what his po
litical creator would have him.
This extraneous issue , thrust unex
pectedly into the presidential campaign ,
has become .it once the question of
parmount importance. It is a question
of the "square deal" for which Mr.
Rc i\se\elt has so frequently. > o obfru-
.shely , so blatanily appealed both in of-
licial and unofficial utterances. lie has
nade an isbue his party must meet. It
is not the question of the guilt or In
nocence of Ilaskcll. It is the greater
quest ion of fair play and about that
I lie American people are united and
unanimous in their sentiment. They
would have no man held guilty until he
i- : fairly convicted in court or before
the bar of public sentiment That is
what they understand by the square
deal and to that sort of square deal
i they are unalterably committed.si. .
Louis Republic.
ilo rwutor.
In the midst of the storm of protest
aroused all over the country by Con
gressman Longworth's assertion that
after eight years of Taft .Air. Roosevelt
proposed to become President again
come.s a bright smile from Omaha.
Some editors believe in adhering to
certain principles no matter by whom
those principles are laid down. Others
believe in adherence to party with a
blind fatuousness that sees nothing
but good in its own party and nothing
but bad in the others. p y some strange
fatality the tariff plank of the Rqmb-
lican platform strayed into the office of
ihe Omaha Bee under false pretenses.
Lnder the impression that it was a dic
tum of Mr. Bryan , Editor liosewater
handled it without gloves on the gen
eral principle that anything emanating
from Bryan was had.
When he discovered that his pains
taking controvcrsion had been directed
against the platform of his own party
the Omaha editor wa t surprised. Such
things are always likely to happen
where blind devotion to party takes the
place of reason , and 5 newspaper fol
lows the candidate without regard to
right or wrong.
, Congressman Loiigwcrth's statement
continues to evoke strong opposition ,
and is quite th" feature of the cam
paign. Republicans and Democrats
alike condemn any plnn to make the
presidency of the United States an as
set of the Roosevelt family. Long-
worth's bold statement will cost Taft
thousands of votes.
Republican leaders and Republican
newspapers are avoiding all mention of
it. but the Democratic national commit
tee will see that every voter in the
country is informed fully , and many
Republicans will vote for Bryan to put
a stop to the Roosevelt ambitious.
At the lowest official estimate the
expenditure involved in the purchase
and conquest of the Philippines was
.SI7. .000/HJO. The revenues of the isl
ands fall short by $ l . ( KU.OOO ) yearly of
pacing the co > l OL the military estab
lishment. As a business enterprise
the investment of public funds
in the Philippines has proved
a dismal failure. Xo one in
authority ventures to predict Avhen
the islands will be self-sustaining. We
have derived no appreciable benefit
from them as a "commercial outpost"
tor our commerce with the Orient. The
Philippines arc a luxury , and the tax-
pjryers of the United States foot thff
bills. Baltimore Sun.
I
FROM THE OOJVIMONBR
MR.
The First Voter.
Young uian. great responsibilit.v at
taches to jour first vote. As you begin ,
so you are likely to continue. The mo
mentum tliat carries you into a parry at
the beginning of your political life is
apt to keep you in that party unless some
convulsion shakes you out of it. Start
right , and in order that you may start
right , examine the principles of the par
ties and the policies which they advo
cate.
cate.There
There are two great party organiza
tions in the United States , one fifty years
old , and the other more than a century
old. Tihe Republican party has been in
power almost uninterruptedly for more
than half a century and under its reign
abuses have grown up which threaten the
perpetuity of the government and endan
ger our civilization. So great are these j
abuses that Republican reformers are
now pointing out that something must be
done and what can be done ? The first
thing is to undo the things tliat have
i been done , and the party to undo these
abuses is not the party -which has done
them , but the party which has protested
against these abuses and pointed out rem
edies.
The Republican party has turned the
taxing power over to private individuals ;
it has allowed monopolies to grow up
and assume control of the industries of
the country by granting privileges by law
and by giving immunity to the large violators
lators of the law ; the Republican party
has permitted the fortunes of the preda
tory rich to become so large that govern
ment is corrupted , politics debauched ant ]
business polluted.
The Democratic party proposes to
withdraw the taxing power from private
hands , to so legislate as to make a pri
vate monopoly impossible , and to enforce
the law without discrimination. It pro
poses to protect legitimate wealth and
punish those who attempt to plunder the
public for jivate j gain. On which side
do you stand , young man ? Are you with
th masses in their effort to restore the
government to its old foundation and
make it a government of the people , for
the people and by the people , or are you
with tihe Republican leaders in their ef-
publican managers hnve sought to recover
some lost ground. They print the iiamos
of two contributor ? , Andrew Carnegie
and Airs. Russell Sage , and they announce
that they will make other contributions
public AFTER TUB ELECTION.
An Associated Press dispatch tolls the
story in this waj :
"Xew York. Oct. 0. The fact that An
drew Carnegie has contributed ? 'JO. < XX >
to the campaign fund of the Republican
cause was announced to-day by State
Chairman Woodruff. Mr. Woodruff al.so
announced that Mrs. Russell Sage has
contributed SI,000 to the same fund.
There have been no other large contri
butions from individual4Mr. . Woodruff
said , but small sums are coming in from
\arious sources. George R. Sheldon ,
treasurer of the national committee , when
asked about the contributions , declined to
discuss them , saying that he would pub
lish a LIST OP ALL THE CONTRI
BUTIONS MADE TO THE REPUBLI
CAN COMMITTEE AFTER ELEC
TION. "
If the Republican managers are willing
.o make Carnegie's contribution public ,
why not give the names of other heavy
contributors ? The explanation is that
Mr. Carnegie has given away so many
libraries out of the money which he has
obtained through "undue favoritism"
the hands of the government thar the
Republican managers rely upon his ' 'pop
ularity' ' among the people to prevent the
fact of his contribution doing injury.
But let it be remembered that Andrew
Carnegie has good reason to contribute to
Republican campaign fund and we need
go uo farther than to a Republic.n news
paper for proof.
Several years ago it was reported ( hat
Andrew Carnegie had offered to piy : $ liO.-
000.000 for the Philippine Islands , pro
vided he was permitted to assure the Filipinos
pines that they would be given their in
dependence.
Commenting upon this story , the Chicago
cage Tribune said that the steel mag
nate "has tried the patience of his friend- *
severely in some of his late bids for no
toriety. ' * It expressed the opinion that
Mr. Carnegie is constantly posing , and
said "he scattered libraries throughout
"Afraid of the Light"
fort to perpetuate the party in power by
selling immunity in return for campaign
contributions ?
There are always two parties in the
country , and one is necessarily nearer to
the people than the other. In this coun
try the Democratic party is nearer to
the people than th Republican party.
It leaders bare moie faith in the people
and are more anxious to keep the go\ em
inent under the control of the people.
rake the election of United States Sena
tors by the people ns a test. The Demo-
crate want to give to the voters a chance
to elect and to control their representa
tives in the United States Senne. The
Democratic party in the House of Repre
sentatives passed the first resolution for
the submission of the necessary constitu
tional amendment. They did this eight
pears before any Republican Congress
lid it. The Democratic party has thrice
temanded this reform in its national
platform. Thr Republican party has not
3one so. Why do Democratic leaders
insist upon this reform and Republican
leaders oppose it ? There can be but one
inswer the Democratic party is nearer
to the people than the Republican party.
JToung nvin. will yon stand with the people
ple or against them ?
The answer to this question affects
7our country. If you are with the people
ple your influence , be it great or small ,
s-ill hasten their victory. If you are
igainst the people your influence may re-
ardhat victory. But while in the first
nstance it is your country that may gain
r lose bV your action , you must remem-
ier that in the long run your own posi-
ion in politics will depend upon your
ouduct. You can not fool the people al-
vays. You may lead them astray if you
lare , but they will punisli you when they
ind you out. You may work for the
eople without their recognizing it at
irst , but you can trust them to discover
he character of your work and to reward
on accordingly.
Afraid ot the
Anticipating the publication by the
Democrats of their campaign fund , Be-
the country , all of which are to be called ' cc
for him , and every one of them is * a con P.
tribution to the conscience fund. ' " nt
Then the Tribune said : " .Mr. Carnegie la
made his money in a magnificent way. sa
but he should ne\er forget that he made tit
it through the undue favoritism of the
sovernment of the United States. Owing cu
to the discrimination practiced in his- Pi
favor by the tariff , he as enabled to le
amass a fortune of § 200..000.000 or more. bn
most of which came out of the pockets of ye
his countrymen througii the operation of su
unequal laws. Much has been said of pr
the benefit arising to the workingmeu ur
from the establishment of the Carne-rie
works. The beneficent tariff system per pi
mitted the works to .survive and flourish. til
but there are some people who Lave not to >
forgotten the Homestead strike , nor tiie in
outrageous manner in which the workingmen - is
ispn
ingmen were treated at the time by em pn
ployers whose brutality has seldom been
exceeded in the history of labor agitations lui
tions/ '
The Republican party has , in every 1
presidential campaign and congressional die
campaign , been financed by the men to th
whom they have granted what the Chicago thi
cage Tribune calls "undue favoritism. " fo
Does any one imagine that the tariff me
barons and trust magnates will withhold th.
contributions from the Republican cam
paign fund this year ? Does any one be
lieve that the Republican party will ever
revise the tariff in the interest of the Li
consumers so long ns it obtains its cam ca
paign funds from the tariff barons ? lit
Is anyone surprised tiiat the Repub
lican managers are afraid of the light ?
no .
Tlio Tiix Is Still There.
pa
There's a tender reminiscence that Is foi
surging through my soul iss
As I gaze upon the doughnut with a thin
ring 'round the hole :
"Jus a memory abiding of the halcyon
tie >
of
days yore
" " and demanded tie
When I hollered for "protection"
manded "four years more , " cai
And kept up a campaign singing in a very na
icstv tone do ;
That just what the countrj needed wa *
"let well enough alone. '
Now the captains have departed , hushed
the loud , tumultuous dm
' but the
And the dinner pali _ * empty
tax is on the tin.
is empty , but the
Yes , the dinner pail
tax is on the tin :
clothing , and cne
And a tax upon my
clothing v.-enriug thin.
' the cradle of the babe
There's a tax upon
of which I'm proud :
' table-there 11 bone
There's a tax upon ray
one upon my shroud.
" " till my
Ye > , I cried out for "protection"
throat was raw and lioarser _
And I got it , O I got itbut 'twas in th *
neck , of cour-e.
Yes , the promise was as empty as tn
argaincnt was thin.
An-I the dinner pail is empty but the tax
is on the tin.
" shouted i
"Four years more" we gaily
"we'll let well enough alone !
was gobbled by the
Tint the tariff soup
bone.
trusts we get the
"Workingmen must have protection , vraa
our rousing battlecry ,
And the tariff barons cheered us as wo
marched so proudly by.
Now the barons have departed to gay
scenes in Paris. France.
And the badge of our' protection is tha
patch upon our pants ,
And \\e lift the lid and ponder a * TVS
sadly gaze within.
That although the pail is empty , still the
tax is on the tin.
Rockefeller has his millions that he
grabbed through tariff graft ;
Carnegie has just as many , and they're
x - both of them for Taft.
Morgan. Ilaemvert Dnpont , and tha
whole protection bunch
Li\e in fntness while yours truly only
gets hot air for lunch.
Once a pail filled to repletion , now a.
dc " h'iut with a hole ,
And "in -iion" that's as scanty as a
tariff giafter's soul.
O. they fooled us good and plenty just aa
> eon as they got in ,
For the dinner pail i empty but the tar
is 0:1 the tin. W. M. M.
Th % . < imcuKciit : ot Prosperity. . * *
inir is an extract from the As-
Press report concerning Mr.
Bryan's Strratov. III. , speech :
"Addressing . / cheering crowd at the
bar.qrot here to-day , where he spoke for
an hour. W. .1. P.rjan declared that at >
\ A'M tf
\ v osroi
/ * * * l " * Jr i vJ *
/ fK f
'
s r *
ic to the lode of the Republican
arty his election this year can be de-
uuiderl. Lie was discussing the panic oft
! -t fall. 'According to their logic , ' he
iid. 'it is n Republican panic and I am
ic advance agent of prosperity. My
ectioTi can be demanded as tie only
lie for the haul times from which the
uiple are sufiVriuiT. ' lie quoted some
cent statistics showintr the number of
isiue'.s failures during the nast few
\-irs and declared that the number of
ich failurein tlie nine months of the
esont 3ear was greater than the fail-
: e- for fheanv period in 1S93. 'It is
ss than n week. " be said , 'that the Re-
ihlican ! papers of Chicago were telling
int fifteen thousand children were going
school hunjrry every morning , and that ,
y ; frieuds is not a past condition. It
ihnt condition which , according to Re-
iblicnn papery exists today. Tftie R&-
iblican party. ' he asserted , 'was abso-
tely helpless to proiw e a remedy. ' He
minded business men that they were to
governed 'not by prophesies and pre-
etions of interested parties , whether
ey be Democrats or Republicans , bat
at they are to work the question out
r : themselves , and not to accept on argu-
ent unless that argument appeals to
eir . common sense. " "
"I speak for myself , as well as for
ittle Willie , " said 3Ir. Sherman , at Chi-
; ; ro. But why doesn't "Willie" do t
tie more speaking for himself , Tames ?
It seems that the cabinet officers are
.t given much opportunity to males cam-
.ign speeches. They must be on hami
r consultation before the Preaidsat can
ue campaign letters.
If all the men guilty of trust csmnee-
ns are retired from active pariicipa-
m in the management of the g. o. p.
mpaign , the rooms of the Reirablican
.tional committee would resemble * n air
me resort in Januarv.
