The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-07-07
A THRILLING wATCHwORD.

What the United States needs ant
must have after 1896, is a western MAJ
in the white house. The idea has beef
put into excellent shape by the st
Louis Republic, which says: "Nothine
is more certain than death and the in
come tax. A little taxation of wealth
and a little relief for the family are cor
related ideas which have come to stay
Tariff reform, a bi-metallic currency and
an income tax will satisfy the people
and nothing short of all three will salts.
fly them. Politicians, young and old,
take notice. To exemplify the trinity of
economic ideas the Republic repeats:
For president in 1896. a western man or
bust"
Now here is a r%allying point for all
men who believe in the American idea
as against foreign domination in our
financial and all other affairs. We are
powerful nation. possessing eve ~ re-
source of the world at our command,
and yet we dance to the music of a few
money lenders of Lombard street in
London and Wall street, New York.
This baneful influence must be shaken
off, and it can only be done by looking to
the great American west for an agent.
The men Of the east are too painfully
conservative, and too apt to follow a
European lead in all the affairs of life,
to be of much value in giving the re-
public a distinct character. For two
generations they have been sedulously
at work giving European form and color
to their society, their business methods.
their a~musements, fashions,
and even to their very modes of thought.
They ape the English in their social
etiquette, the Germans and French in
their eating and amusements, the gilt
edge of all societies in their morals, and
the devil in their finances. AS a conse-
quence Of this arrant disposition to ap-
propriate the old world, most of the lead
ing classes of the eastern section of this
republic, have virtually ceased to be
Americans.
Annually they spend millions in for
eign countries, while being almost as
as cattle Of their own. They
strive to make alliances with the broken
ar~istocracies of Europe, and to
organize similar institutions here. In
Iced they do all sorts of things that a
true American would not dream of do
.ng, and they leave undone the very
things which it is most necessary that
all true Americans should do.
AS a proof of this look at their politics
The machine rules with a rod of iron,
citizens with large interests declare
hat they have no time even to attend to
he duty Of casting their vote on election
lay. Out upon such Americans! They
iisgrace the name, and are sowing the
eeds Of decay in the vitals of the repub-
ic.
a western man coming to the presi-
in 1896 will mean a beneficent
in national affairs. 1t will
mean a man in this great office who will
re something more than a well trained
awyer, or a professional politician. 1t
viii mean a president who is familiar
rom actual contact and experience with
he needs and demands of the people
ne who has been through the struggle
or existence in the true American fash
On. Such a man was Abraham Lincoln.
no greater than he has ever been at
head of the republic. lie was a
'estern :han in the truest sense Of the
'ord, and the time is ripe for the cleo
ION or another man of his stamp if such
one can be found.
At all events let this be our war cry
ON now until the conventions of '96
leet: "A Western Man for President"