Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-10-06

The following from Governor Roose-
vclt's Ohio speech is good political dec
trine: 81 come to speak to you because
we recognize through the nation that
the contest this year in Oohio is not,
and cannot be anything but a national
contest. 1t is lille to say it is local
yes, and worse than idle-it is dishon-
est to make such an assertion where
the democratic platform lays it's espec-
ial stress upon national questions. If
a party raises an issue which it knows
is Il false issue, merely for the hope of
carrying an election, then that party
SHOWS in the most striking way that it
is the enemy of the country and unfit
to he entrusted with its government.
II the spokesman of Il party do not
and cannot believe what they say,
whether in the way of denunciation
or promise and especially if they prom
Use what they know they cannot per-
form, and what is palpably intended to
not result in performance but i'll vote
getting ut the moment, then they in
suit the conscience and the intelligence
Of every freeman fit to exercise a free
mans privilege.
This is just what the democratic
party in Ohio has done at this time.
and just what its leaders. national and
local, from the top down, are doing
when they speak of expansion, on trusts
and on free silver. 1t is the sincere be-
lief of all right minded men who have
the welfare of the nation close ut heart
that the position taken by the Ohio de-
mocracy, speaking in reality for the
national democracy in this campaign.
is one destructive or national prosper
ity at home and Of national honor
abroad. Moreover, it is impossible to
avoid the conviction that their lead
ers know that this is true, but are will
ing to plunge the country into any dis
aster. provided only they can persuade
a sufficient number of dupes to put
them where they can crafty their
greed for office, their thirst for power.
l should not use such language in an
ordinary political contest. l use it now
as l should have used it had 1 been
alive during the years Of the civil war.
The men whom we are now fighting
champion a cause which in its essen
tials is the same as that championed
by the Dough Faces and the Copper
heads thirty-seven years ago. They
vote the war a failure now, as they
voted it a failure then. They mouth
with hypocritical anxiety about a free
press as they did then. They attack
the nations credit and financial hon
esty now as they did then, and exactly
as in those days, when they struck at
an evil they struck at it insincerely, so
they strike %insincercly at any real
abuse of the present time, Offering no
remedy and standing ready to hamper
those who would really offer one; and
when they propose a remedy it is a
measure which would aggravate ten
times whatever of evil actually exists.
''They wish to discuss the question
Of trusts, an economic question, and of
expansion, which is really the question
of upholding abroad the honor of the
nag and the interest Of the nation, and
Of making us rise level to our duties
as a world power. They hope to avoid
much discussion Of the silver question
much discussion Of their advocacy OF
a dishonest dollar-trusttng that there
by they shall be enabled to say to the
believers in free silver that they are
heartily in favor OF it, and yet to fool
the men who stand for sound finances