The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 20, 1904, Page 9

SUPPLEMENT TO THE TIMES BUTLER, - - - - - - MISSOURI Thursday, October 20, 1904. |MOTHER WOMAN'S THRILLING APPEAL MRS. MARY BLACKBURN HAD MADE AN ——— —— CHATS BY THE WAY. Republicans are claiming al! the} credit for the rural free delivery sys- tem. The first step takeu for the es- tablishment of the system was by Democrats in the House of Represen- IDEAL OF ROOSEVELT. | Mam She Had Deemed -a Glorious Hero | She Now With Deep Disappointment Confesses is a Memace to Every ts Ss. The Republicans deserve chiefly discredit, for when the system Was fairly started they used it as a means of filching from the people. 7 & @ ' The only instance yet furnished in! Which the Administration bas yet shown itself reluctant to spend the peo- ple’s money is out of the fund of $500,- 000 appropriated by Congress for the prosecution of the trusts. There is stjl! $450,000 of the sum unexpended and available. One of President Roosevelt's attempt- ‘el justifications of the pension order is its popularity, as he supposes, No doubt, indeed, it is popular among its beneficiaries who control a great many Votes, but is it the part of a statesman to attempt to justify a questionable act by the measure of Its popularity? His defiance of the opposition on that ground is a reflection upon the Integ- rity of the whole American people. eee ' The New York Tribune says “there fwas no need for Mr, Roosevelt to write anything” on “the notorious denial of the rights of negroes and nullification of the Constitution in the Southern States,” because “his position is well known.” Yes, his position {is well known, so notoriously well known and so utterly indefensible that even he Was battled for words to square him- self, q ese “What has the Administration done to the trusts?" asks the Memphis Com- mercial, Address your communica- tion to Mr, G, C, Cortelyou, care Re- publican National Committee,” replies the Washington Post, se fon, Charles J, Faulkner, former Tnuited States Senator from West Vir- ginia: “There js no question in my mind that West Virginia will cast her electoral vote for Judge Alton B, Par- ker and Henry G, Davis. The cam- paign is a hot one on both sides, but all the indications point to Democratic success at the polls next month, I be- lieve our majority will be from 12,000 to 20,000," Ere the earth had covered the form of the martyred President whom he succeeded Mr, Roosevelt said that he would wish only to serve out the unex: pired term. .Now he not only wants election, but it is unmistakable that, if he wins in Nlovember, he will want re-election, The signs are lumin- ous that the trusts have bought him this time, but, O trusts, will he stay bought? eee * The New York Evening Sun pokes fun at your Uncle Henry Gassaway Davis for using large words, As *though the Sun were the only earthly mental entity familiar with the use of polysyllables, , eee It is common talk, a common joke, in Wall Street, how complete has been the surrender of the Administration to the corporations and the trusts. The late Secretary of Commerce and Labor, with its bureau of corporations to se- cure “publicity in the interest of the public,” has been busy delivering the goods, see Cortelyou used to be a “trust buster.” Now he is a trust truster. fe @ “We intend in the future to carry on the Government jn the same way that ave liave carried it on in the past,” says President Roosevelt in his acceptance letter, It is the same kind of defiance that is uttered by the footpad, armed with a bludgeon or “big. stick,” as he ftands over bis prostrate victim*whom be ias robbed. see Chairman Cortelyou, when Secretary of Commerce, had a bureau of public- ity under him, It was there that, com- ing into contact with the great corpor- ations, he seemed to be impressed with the value of secrecy, He is using it in this campaign in his fat frying pro- cesses, Congressman William R. Hearst, President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, has come back from the West and taken a firm grasp upon the helm of the organization. He has issued a stirring address to mem- bers urging them to “special activity and untiring energy from now until the closing of the polls.” eee Where was Henry Cabot Lodge when the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor is- sued its recent report of the result of certain investigations? Among the re- plies to questions sent out seventy- seven merchants agreed that the trusts had raised prices, amd the unsatisfac- tory condition of living was dué wholly or in part to “the existing tariff.” sees It has been more than a year and a half since the creation of the Depart- ment of Commerce and Labor, with its bureau .of corporations, was estab- lished to open the books of the trusts “in the interest of the public.” Chair- man Cortelyou was in charge more than a year. but the books have never Deen opened. The public has not seen @ page—not a line of them. se 8 bs Robert H. Stevenson, of New Jersey. @ays: “During the past three weeks I have traveled over the States of Illinois and Indiana, and it is my hon- est judgment that the electoral votes of both States will be cast for Judge Parker and Mr. Davis, I met bun- dreds of independents and Republicans who announced their intention of vot- {mg the Democratic ticket. I am an “Independent in politics myself. 1 ‘voted for Ne 1896 and 1900, ‘But this time I shall vote for the ticket Iwhich stands for oy ot Ca gev- -#rnwent—Parker and Davis.” Home—in—the Land: Some years ago Mr. Theodore Roose- Velt seemed to me one of those young men to whom mothers could point and say to their growing sons: There is a man, a man for you to take as your model. I confess I did so. He seemed to me to be the incarnation of a chival- rous knightly gentleman, with an am- bition to serve his country and by his example and his influence to promote in his fellow countrymen a love for all that is great and noble. Many of his acts as Police Commissioner which were quixotic I ascribed not se much to his lack of judgment as to his zealous- ness. When he resigned his post as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to en- ter active service my own nature was thrilled with love for my country and I applauded his act. It seemed to me then that the call to arms had acted upon him as it had upon me, that he wanted to give the country the best be had, his life, if need be; I, the best 1 had—my son. I feit that I understood him, I belleved that the almost cler routine of his work as Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy had become madden- ing when the drum and the bugle tired the patriotic soul. But 1 was not al- lowed to dream long that my Roose- velt was of the stuff from which heroes are made, It soon appeared that a new role on a Stage set with war had been seized upon by my ideal, The character of a dashing cavalry officer in the Buffalo Bill trappings of Western prairies had appealed to him as the best method of emerging from the comparative obseur- ity of a Washington department into the full glare of national publicity. Again he had become a characfer, a combination of Phil, Sheridan, Buffalo Bill and Don Quixote. His adventures on foot as described by himself or chronicled: by eye witnesses or criti- cised by military experts certainly will not pass into song and story. Watching him these many years and experiencing in myself a transition of emotions from perfect admiration for his seeming nobleness of character to calm contemplation of his masterful- ness as a spectacular politician, | now venture to say, that in my opinion President Roosevelt is the most dan- gerous personage who ever held the office of President, Theodore Roosevelt has one passion —ambition. Since he became President he has one thought—election. Senators and political leaders for three years have been made to feel their master was in the White House. [He held pa- tronage over them as a whip. When Senator Hanna passed away all that there was to the Republicanism of Me- Kinley and Hanna passed with them. Roasevelt has managed the party as his fears and his hopes of nomination stirred him. If elected he will want the pages of history to record his ad- ministration with an event. God help the mothers, the wives and_ sisters when Roosevelt sets out with “a mailed fist” to make history, President Roosevelt has been called “strenuous,” and then our law abiding. peaceful, home loving husbands and sons, who are called “cravens,” “weak- lings,” “cowards.” There is a frenzy about this that alarms, Like Napoleon he applauded large families. Is it be- cause they will yield soldiers to his re- public-empire? President Roosevelt is dangerous be- cause if elected he will be more than ever the master of Senate and House: more than ever the director of the for- eign policy of the nation; more than ever the commander-in-chief of army and navy. His feet will trample the Constitution. He is strenuous enough to be the law, having proven his abil- ity to step outside constitutiona! limi- tations, If we who saw our fever-stricken sons come back pale and wasted, some prematurely aged and others incapacl- |, tated from bread winning, could cast our votes; if we who are told that gen- tle woman’s chief function in life is to be “strenuous” in maternity, conld cast our votes; if we who believe that the peaceful, restful home, .ne love of husbands and sons and the companion- ship of kindly neighbors is man’s hap- piest lot on earth, could cast our votes, how many would be for Roosevelt? He is a menace to the home. He casts the red glow of war on the hearth; the sombre shadow of the grave on che cra- die. He is a man of fire, of blood, of dangerous ambition. MRS. MARY BLACKBURN. “DOUBTFUL TEDDY. “When we take up the great ques- tion of the tariff, we are at once con- fronted by the doubt as to whether our opponents do npt mean what they say.” Against that afore observation of President Rgdsevelt may be placed the declaration in the Democratic plat- form and that of John Sharp Williams, the leader of the Democrats in the House, on the subject about which Mr. Roosevelt arrogates supreme authority. Williams thus defined the Democratic idea on the tariff, which Judge Parker approved: “The Democratic tariff idea, like ev- erything else Democratic, is founded as nearly as possible upon the princi- ple 6f ‘equality of opportunities and equality of burdens.’ This same prin- ciple extended to other matters of an- ticipated legislation will give you what Democracy means, or ought to mean, with regard to them. It stands for equality of charges by railroads and transportation companies, with destruc- tion of the power of secret rebate or open discrimination, whether against corporations or loCalities. Neither Government nor Government created corporations ought to be permitted to encourage or continue in a course of favoritiem to any individual, azy in- terest or any locality.” | | committing an SELF-CONVICTION OF ODELL. tls Perversion of People's Money Very Like Republican Practice at Washiogton, Tu his attempts to make satisf. answer to the charges of perv rN of the public mone, made by the Democratic Attoruey-General of New York, Governor-Chairman Odell not only handicaps the man whom he has put up to be his successor, but con- victs himself, The New York Sun is not the only Republican newspaper to bear out this statement, The Pittsburg Dispateh, wy not a New York journal, it is true, but one of the most powerful of the Re- publican organs of Pennsylvani id a, is Are tii’ amazed at the weakness facedness of the Governor-C: answer, The controversy,” says the Dispatch, “has resulted in betraying the Gov ernor himself into the highest official endorsement of irregular methods in dealing with public funds ever made. It also includes the peculiar poli quality of an astute political man vetion which identities his leading State candidate with the agrant irregularity endorsed by the Governor, “The Governor-Cl ply to Mr. Cunneen's ¢ Canal Board, acting under the ¢ Airman’s direction, had pervert- 000 of the people’s money, by ed allo favored contractors for work falsely alleged to bave been done by them, makes no denial of the payment, but 8a) losses which had occurred by reason of the failure of the State to permit the contractor to continue his work. This is often done in business matters, and it certainly was not improper for the Canal Board to view it from this standpoint.’ ” Such a confessionas that has shocked even a Pennsylvania Republican or- gan. “The feature of this avowal, says the Dispatch, “that will im; Itself most forcibly on — the minds, is the kemarkable prin: serted by an eminent public man. con- cerning the transaction of public husi- hess, On account of indefinite, un- specified and unproved eluims on the pari of a contractor it is proper for a public board to vote him money on 9 separate claim proved to be ti ious aud fraudulent! And the pubis m declaring this method to be ‘not proper’ is the Governor of the mo: nopulous and wealthiest State of the Union!” BRYAN ANSWERS ROOSEVELT. | President's Charge Against Wilson} Tarift Act Proved Un‘tounded ana Absurd, William 7. Bryan, in the Commoner, quotes from Mr. Roosevelt's letter of accepiance 2s follows “It is aut ten years since the last at- tempt was made by meaus of lowering the tariff to prevent some people from prospering too much. The attempt was entirely successful. The tariff gf that year (1894) was among the causes which in that year and for some time afterwards effectually prevented any- body from prospering too much and labor froin prospering at all.” This statement is in line with the declaration in the Republican National platform for 1904 that “a Democratic tariff has always been followed by business adversity: 1 Republican tariff by business prosperity.” Mr. Bryan then proceeds to show that neither the statement of Mr. Roosevelt, nor the declaration in the Republican platform is justified by history. “As a matter of fact,” says Mr. Bryan, “ every panic during the last thirty years originated under Re- publican rule and developed under Re- publican legislation. “The gold panics which gave history ‘black Friday’ occurred duriig the month of September, 1869, whca the Republican party was in power, “The great panic marked by the fall- ure of Jay Cook & Co. ocerrred in Sep- tember, 1873. Then the Republican party was in power and eleven rionths prior to the time of that panie the Republican party had bee re-elected to power, “It is true the Wilsen bill was passed ten years ago. That was in 1894. But that panic did not originate in 1894; it did not originate in 1893; it begau long prior to the Presidential eloction of 1892. That panic originated and reached its worst under that famous tariff jaw known as the McKinley NO MAN IS GOGO ENOUGH TD GOVERN ANOTHER MAN WITHOUT THAT MAN'S CONSENT f eanen FRIEND ADDICKS. How Mr, Roosevelt Has Stopped Op- position to the Delaware Boodler, Thomas W. Ls Deon or ‘ Republicanism and a liberal contrib- utor to the boodle funds of bh y. nas always valed y number of| sat of Roose- into the Bi rated, The polit light that must bri soul of T An entir pation of the s of the and the aileg cor which he profited to ut 1,000, in a horn, is given to a nar- Company vis by xtent of $7,- e This man Add ne ot the most notvrious — polities corruptionists in the ¢ try relt, while Civil Service Com- jouer, Assistant S of the} and Govern York, weut out of his w and expressed con who would have political relations with him, During the first two years of his tn- the Presidential aed bh etunbeney of Roosevelt con influenee to bring 3 He joined with the hone decent Republicans of Dolaw helped them to “down” Add save the honor of thei Patiy. But how fs ft now? still support the reputable w pariy in De! are” Noi at 1and in glove with the « has turned over to Ue is int Ad. dhis e and sas a ul ad men ware, ng the 2s seld bis soul tu ihe de SHALL SEE THE DEVIL. If Peacsmakers Shall See Cod, What is to Become of Warr Tn a speech ¢ her 4th, introg the International Mayor Collins, of the if he were to pa ’ to suit the oc ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall see God; damned be the w makers, for they shall see the dey ‘This utterance from Mayor Collins in ihe presence ef the Secretary of Stato, while not directed at President Wooseveit, isat least an excoriation of the President when considered i cou- nection with a speech he riade befcre the Republican Club of New York, February 15th, 18¢9, when he said: “If we ever grow to regurd peace as a permanent condition, aud feel that we can affore to let ‘he keen, fearless, virile qualities of heart and mind and body cink into disuse, we will prepare the way for inevitable and shameful disaster in tho future, » « « The peace which breeds tirid- ity and sloth is a curse and not a blessing.” PRAISE FROM SIR EUBERT. Judge Parker's Pablle Character Floquently Extulicd Uy the New York Tribune. Judge Altea 5B. Parker's refusal to stand for the Presidency o2 a plat: form which ignores the money ques- tion and Icaves in binding force as Democratic coctrine the free silver coinag: planks of 1896 and i900 does signal credit to the firmness and cour- age cf his public character. Judge Parker is widely respected in this State for the conspicuous ability he has shown in politics and on the bench, and for the purity and integrity of his private life. hee tian who knows him csteems im, The Republicans of New York have nothing but good words to say about him in his private capacity and in bis judicial activities—New York Tribune, July 10, 1904, light of | went is devoted | to the | sttoy y to condemn him | mpt for any one oftice opposition to Addicks and Addieksism, and used his yout his everthrow, te and | the Does Roosevelt | traveler and his dog ig of his | ert. “| tlersent cf strife than to the making ence >> bh eh bb be hh bho hho bh bhihbb hah hanna baann en nno naan nana nnn all PROTECTION ARGUMENTS MET. ‘Trusts, Combined, Defeat the Very | Odject of the Vrotection Pheery, reumwent for a id Colonel A. Hl. rooklyn, in his recent ravelers’ Club, “is the ultimate benetit to the consumer by means of lower prices through domes- {tie competition. The gigantic trusts have combined domestie plauts so as to defeat the very object of the tarift uder which they thrive. Prices are sed until a shipbuilder on the Clyde can buy American steel plate $10 a ton cheaper than a@ shipbuilder oa the Kennebec, who row asks the general Government for a subsidy } equal to $10 a ton to make up the dif- ference, “*But,’ says a Republican President, reduction of the tariff would de- the small manufacturers who are still infants and who b shadow of the giant trusts, ment is too simple for child ne tariff is to protect against foreign competitor, but the for competitor must first destroy the larg- est domestic manufacturer before he jean get at the infants. The battle must be waged between the giants, tor the foreign giant could not occupy the home tield without first defeating the domestic giaut; and, under this cent argument, any man by investing a thousand dollars in a steel plant, fifty 3 rs from now could defeat the reduciion of the tariff, even though the American Steel Trust was furnishing its product at every capital of the world, No, the moment one donestic firm becomes a t, its very life de- pends upon its tighting every forcign foe, and it thus protects every infant that coddles uuder its chelter, 2 in say the orators: ‘Amer- must not be reduced to of the pauper labor of We are reminded of the “The sole ceonomie protective tu ™ Bacon, of 1 speech to the | ‘a in the This ar- even, the 1} | iean | Europe,’ in the des- the Starvation stared them in The traveler cut off the de roasted it, ate the meat y back the bone to the d face, tail 1 Th | » | the share of labor in ihe it ” | FUSTER'S RANK TREASON, mane an Republican | Former Diploinat and Leader Agai > War Policy. n caunent Repub- plished diplou in an addvecs b Galion that the Sec nounced hin ot a navy } equal to the greatest ia the world. 1 trust he has been misquoted. Our Government should be ready to enter disarmament, and not one looking to further inereaso of the navy. This vovutry should hold itself to other and far more peaceful pursuits in the set- of implenents of death.” This is rank heresy; in fact, it is treason to Roosevelt. It is likewise evidence that Mr, Foster is not looking to the Administration for any more jobs ‘As arbitrator of iniernational dif- ferences or negotiator of treaties be- tween this and other countries. Of course Mr, Foster is well aware that the Secretary of the Navy bas not beea misquoted, He is on yecord as sayiay that he favors the constriction of a battleship of 20,000 tons displace- ment, one that will “knock the spots off” anything in this line yet lanuchied abread. The Secretary of the Navy is the President's “Me, Too,” so it is safe to predict that the gentleman with the “Big Stick” will not be satisfied with the size and destructive capacity of the battleship Connecticut just launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He wants a ship one-fifth larger than the Con- necticut. It is doubtful if he will be contented with the navy until he has a | battleship as large as the biggest Brit- ish and the biggest German battleship combined. A battleship powerful enough, without assistance from other ships, to make any South American re- public “behave itself with decency,” “be orderly” and “be prosperous.” destruction and Colored and White Republicans Row “Apathy” has been dispelled in Graut County, Indiana, and there the first blood of the campaign has been spilled. The trouble grew out of rival- ry between white and colored Repub- licaus at Landesville and ended in a riot. One man had his coilar bone broken and another was badly bruised about the legs and arms. Sev- eral arrests were made for rioting } and assault with intent to kill. into _au_cucagement-for_internationalt. i Cleveland, UNSURPASSED DOCUMENT JUDGE PARKER'S LETTER A NEW DEC LARATION OF INDEPENDcN-E | {mperialism is Struck the Hardest Blow It Ever R.ceived---Republican Jod- tery Wii Bred a Paaic. Worth, Texas, send Record the follow ment upon Judge Pa ceptance “Tam nearing the half ceni fore Lave been reading tet from Presidential for many years. “Lam frank to admit that only twe documents ever given to our public outrivals the letter of acceptance over the signature of Judge Alton B. Par ker, those two being the D tion of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. I might ade that there never was a document wriiten in this country by any man, dead or Lit} ing, so nearly couforming to our Cone stitution he one under discus-iou, “It is a new declaration of independ. ence made by a wise, honest, wholes souled statesman for the party of the people, It is tirm, outspoken the point, arraigning the R machine before the public he its true colors, showing Its standard boar eras usurping his lofiy position by as» suming prerogatives not allowed by our Constitution, “itis not a leugthy document, but no cous f ace candle word is supertluous: each one counts with telling efYect. There are uo sibe terfuges, no sophistry, but clit oute shoulder blows for the people's rights under our Constitution, “Imperialism is) struck the hardest blow it ever received in this country, and if the Americ do not awaken to the note of warui yond. ed by our Presidential cane and continnes the Republicans er it will only be a matter of time until we shall have a one-man goveriuent un der our people's Constiiution, He will be called President of the United States, but iu reality will be ‘the mone arch of all he surveys.’ “The question now before the people shall ot this cor is, whether we have a Jeffersonian or a form of government, fe ean party is fast centry ermmental power in one nian ov ing its leader to be the suy regardless of the “There never w fory of our countr ship has so open foot, ‘The bid by. A. R.'s vote by his fam der proves thi sertion, “As there can be no ro financial condition, Jud; ‘ irrevocably a gold standard wan high time the D ts were in gove ernmental harness, turning the light of truth on the last four Republican ottice-holding rotte: “L emphatically say that the tions are that the Governmeu! ‘* ury is being daily looted by corrup practices, and another four years of Republican jobbery will thir this country into the test panic ever known in its history “It is apparent that every Republi+ can in the country who is swallowing Roosevelt, bag gage, We must rely on the it ent vote to sweep us into vi “Our living exper treme bigh tariff, are eve is no it under price on our necessities 2 hope to remedy this the sophistical prouises of the party im power, countrymen, T tell you that 1 r the people of the Upited s should rey relip, high tariff, looti hi ty and machine poli mid LT honestly helieve a D atic tidal wave will sweep over the land next November ' that will engulf the Republica ALLY, —bury it out of sig ~ PARTY PROMISES, Fair and Definite Are the Democratss Absurdly Vague the Republicans, Colonel Alexander S$. Bacon, the well-known Brooklyn lawyer, in closing his excellpnt speech to the Commercial Travelers’ Club, said in conelusion? “The Demoeeratic party says: “We promise, now, topassa resolution similar to that which granted ependence to the Cubans, who have thrived so much better under their own than under our military government.” We do this because it is admitted that the better class of Filipinos, who would do the ruling, dre fa perior to the Cubans,” “The Republicans say: *We do now solemnly promise that at some time in the future we will meditate seriously upon the propriety of meditating again.’ “Democracy says: ‘We believe in expansion, but not in imperialism. We believe that the Constitution should follow the flag, and that we should have no territory that we do not ex- pect at some time to adopt into the family of States.’ Expansion adopts children, Imperialism buys slaves, Re- publican imperialism would conquer, rule and bully the world, through brute force. Democratic expansion would take in only contiguous and homogene+ ous peoples. It would extend the Mon- roe Doctrine to republics everywhere until all peoples are homogeneous re- publics, despots remembered only as a faint memory, and all the world at peace, ruled by love, under the pro- tecting arm of the great republic.” Uncle Joe Cannon's Rare Humor. “Uncle” Joe Cannon, in all of his speech n localities where gold Dem- oerats are numerous, reminds his hears ers that Judge Parker voted for Bryan, and then asks, “Can you trust such a man to uphold the gold standard?” This is rich, “Uuele” Joe's silver ree- ord is as follows: In 1878 voted to pass the Bland free: silver Dill over the veto of a Republi- ean President. In 1890 voted voted for the Sherman. silver purchase law. _ Later he was one of a few Republi-- cans who voted against the repeal of: that law, which was urged by Grover th