The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-14

Transparent Trick to Raise Money
With Which to Corrupt Voters.
Judge Brewer on Government by
ment About Trusts-SOme Pertinent
Questions Anent the Subject-The
Republican Boss Fully Answered.
Especial Washington letter.
So the soulful and voluble Beverage
has had his comb cut! The Republic
an campaign managers may not have
any conscience themselves, but they
occasionally demonstrate that they
fear those who have consciences.
When Senator Beveridge delivered
himself of his maiden speech" in the
senate, which he had been incubating
for months, which was in type in every
daily newspaper office in America
weeks before it was spoken, about the
exploitation Of which Beverage spent
sleepless nights and for delivering
which the veteran senators gave the
young Hoosier the marble heart, some
simple folk thought it would be
great campaign document, an open ses-
anne to the American heart. Beverage
thought so himself. The Republican
campaign committee also thought so,
for it had it printed in large. very
large, quantities and started in to SOW
1t broadcast over the land, and that's
precisely the point at which the Re
publican campaign committee dropped
its watermelon. Beveridge'S speech is
an eloquent grafton in favor of grand
larceny on a mammoth scale. Conse-
quently it suited the Republican man.
ayers to ct" but "there are others
men who have consciences, who do not
believe in highway robbery, who re-
volted at the idea of taking away from
a feeble people their lands simply be-
cause the lands are said to be rich in
gold There are such old fashioned
people left in this country, thank God!
and some of them are Republicans,
and from these the Republican man.
ayers began to hear in such numbers
and in such vigorous protests concern
ing the immortality of Beveridge's
speech that gooseflesh covered the Gu
ticles Of tie Republican managers
aforesaid. They hastily laid their
heads together and concluded that if
Beyeridge's proposition to despoil the
Filipinos of their lands because they
are auriferous, argentiferous and car
boniferous was CIRCULATED any more
Mckinley was gone fawnskin. So
they sorrowfully committed to the
flames remaining copies Of Beyeridge's
maiden effort There never was but
one place fit to circulate that speech
in and that is the penitentiary. But,
since / come to think of it, it ought
not to be circulated even there. for
the pen may have certain inmates who
are making an honest effort to reform
and to walk in newness of life. and
Beveridge's proposition to plumber TO-
100000 people Of their homes might
demoralize the convicts.
Then and Now.
A change has come over the dream
of the Republicans strange change,
vast change. When the Atlantic
money bill was under discussion in
the house. | heard at least a score of
Republican statesmen rejoice and
boast that at last, after 81 years Of
ceaseless endeavor, they were about
to establish the single gold standard.
! and to put it beyond the power of a
wicked president. such as Bryan. for
instance, to Interfere with the gold
standard basis until the president, SEN
ate and house were all three stimuli
taneOuSly in favor of the bimetallic
standard SO that q new law favoring
bimetallism could be passed. Repub-
lican leaders so asserted over and over
and over again, and they asserted the
truth, for Il president. whether Bryan
or some other man. would have 10
more power, without a house and sen
ate. in harmony with hi.1i. 10 change
the present financial status than would
the man III the moon or the ahkoond
of Swat. Every intelligent man,
whether Democrat or Republican,
knows that statement to be the truth.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding, ~
man ]. Gage, McKinley's secretary of
the treasury, lately issued q pronun-
ciamento to the effect that if Bryan
is elected he can, by a simple eXecu-
tive order, place the country on a sill.
yer basis. Lymans interview is pre-
posterous, and nobody Knows it better
than Mr.. Gage himself. Why. then.
did he issue it? Simply to scare the
national bankers into coming down
with the dust-that is. to contribute to
Mark Hanna's campaign fund. If the
national bankers are simple enough to
be scared by such silly cock and bull
story as that, they are bigger fools
THAN 2hnmpson's addle pated colt,
which swan the Mississippi river to
ret drink. The Republican campaign
managers must be in bad row OF
Stumps when they resort to such trans
parent tricks to raise money with
which to corrupt the voters.
A Great Jurist's Logic.
I would not think of quoting the evil
dence or opinions of Democrat In or
der to convince or convert Republic
an. know too much of human pref
udice and human perversity for that;
but certainly a Republican ought to be-