Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
the action in an election of the great Office
of the Presidency.

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Our Democratic friends are much ex-
ercised just now upon the question of
great aggregatious of capital called trusts.
If there be one comedy 10 our political
history it is the relation of the Democrat
ic party to this question of trusts. The
three great managers of Mr. Bryan's cam
paign, North, West and South. are MIR.
Croker, of New York, the head of Tam
many Hall; Mr.. Jones, of Arkansas,
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, and Mr.. Tillman, the rising
young statesman of the South, who re-
ported the Democratic platform to the
convention at Kansas City. Now, fellow
citizens, isn't it little curiousP Mr..
Croker and Mr.. Jones are each at this
moment defendants in suits brought
against them for violating the laws of their
States against trusts; Mr.. Croker is one OF
the principal owners in the Ice Trust, and
Mr.. Jones in a trust of the nature of
which | am not sure, but / think for the
manufacture of cotton ties, lille Mr.. Till
man is the head of the greatest voting
monopoly and political trust ever known
in human history. The State Of South
Carolina is State whose population con-
sists by large majority of negroes.
There are more than three negroes to
every two white men.
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Mr.. Bryan and some of his supporters
in Boston are making special appeals just
now to the colored people. MIR. Tlllman,
who supported the platform, glories in the
fact that the Democrats of the South muir
dered and cheated them in the past, and
that they have got 30 that now they are
only to cheat them in the future. do
not think this Acknowledgement of TO- 000,-
600 Americans, the reducing 100000
men who have tasted the sweets of free
dom and citizenship to peonage again, is
likely to be such peaceful process. There
will be more men shot in the civil strlfes
which have come out of it than have fallen
in Cuba or in the Philippine Islands. Mr..
Boutwell, and Mr.. Higginson and Nh.
William Lloyd Garrison may not do the
shooting. But they are just now loading
the guns.
Why, the colored man who is asked to
vote the Democratic ticket, when he sees
my friend, Governor Boutwell,, smiling at
one end of the Democratic ranks, and
hears Governor Ifllman threatening at the
other, must, / think, be somewhat in the
condition of two runaway slaves ! once
heard of, They approached farmhouse
and were met by huge bull dog. They
shrank back a little. But one of them
saws to the other "Don't you see, he is
wagging his tail ?" EYES," said the other,
"but don't you hear him growlP don't
know which end OF him to trust"
do not think that Mr.. Bryan or Mr..
Richard Croker or the Democratic leaders
CT the solid South fit to be trusted with
the government Of the United States for
the next four years. do not wish to
transfer the settlement of this great Chin
ese question from President Mckinley and
Mr.. Hay to Mr. Bryan and Mr.. Croker.
Abraham Lincoln told US that it was not
good plan to swap horses when we were
crossing a stream. do not think it is
good time to change pilots when we are
crossing the tempestuous China Sea in
typhoon. l like what they are doing there,
and what they have done. want to see
the Chinese question settled along those
lines. 1t will be settled along those lines
long before any Democratic promise as to
the Philippines will ripen.