The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-16

With which TO corrupt sOters
Judge Brewer on Government by
~Force-MarIk Recent State
ment About Trusts-Some Pertinent
Questions Anent the Subject-The
Republican Boss Fully Answered.
Especial Washington letter.
SO the soulful and voluble Beverage
has a his comb cut! The Republic
an campaign managers may not have
any conscience themselves, but they
occasionally demonstrate that they
fear those who nave consciences.
When Senator Beveridge delivered
himself Of his maiden speech" in the
senate, which he had been ~incubatlng
for months, which was in type in every
daily newspaper office in America
weeks before it was spoken. about the
exploitation of which Beveridge spent
sleepless nights and for delivering
which the veteran senators gave the
young HOoSier the marble heart, some
simple folk thought it would be a
great campaign document. an open ses-
anne to the American heart. Beverldge
thought so himself. The Republican
campaign committee also thought so,
for it had it printed in large, very
large, quantities and started i'll to SOW
it 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 Il mammoth scale. ConSe-
Quently it suited the Republican man
ayers to a ''T." 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 B~everidGe'S
speech that goOse1esh covered the Gu
ticles Of the Republican managers
aforesaid. They hastily laid their
heads together and concluded that if
B~everidge's proposition to despoil the
Filipinos of their lands because they
are auriferous. argentiferous and car
bOniferOuS was circulated any more
Mckinley was Il gone fawnSkin. So
they sorrowfully committed to the
flames remaining copies of Beveridge's
maiden effort There never was u
II place fit to circulate that speech
in and that is the p~enitentiary. But,
since | come to think of it. it ought
not to be circulated ever there. for
the pen may have certain inmates who
are making an honest effort to reform
and to walk in neWness Of life, and
B~everidSe's proposition to plumber TO-
OO.OG people Of their homes might
demoraliZe the convicts.
Then and Now.
y change has come over the dream
Of the Republicans strange change,
a vast change. When the Atlantic
money bill was under discussion in
the house, l heard at least a score Of
Republican statesmen rejoice and
boast that at last, after 81 years Of
ceaseleSS endeayor. 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 il house We're all three stimuli
t~aneOusly in favor of the bimetalIic
standard SO that q new law fayoring
bimetallism could be passed. Repub-
lican leaders so asserted over and over
and owe again, and they asserted the
frI1th fnr :, nnOr;l,~+ x1xJ T--z-
or some other man. would have no
more power, without q house and sen
ate in harmony with hi;n, IS change
the present financial status than would
the man in the moon or the ahl1oond
of Swat. Every intelligent man.
whether Democrat or Republican,
knows that statement to be the truth.
nevertheless Notwithstanding, I.y-
man j. Gage, McKinley's secretary Of
the treasury, lately issued a pronun-
clamento to the effect that if Bryan
is elected he can, by a simple execu-
tive order, place the country on a sill.
yer basis. Lyman,s interview is pre-
posterous, and nobody knows it better
than Mr.. Gage himself. Why, then.
dld 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
Aa scared by such a silly cock and bull
story as that, they are bigger fools
Utah ThnmpsOn's addle pated colt,
which swan the Mississippi river to
get a drink. The Republican campaign
managers must DO in q had row Of
,tumps when they resort to such trans
parent tricks to raise money with
which to corrupt the voters.
A Great Jurist's Logic.
| would not think Of quoting the evil
dence or opinions of a Democrat in or
der to or convert 4 Republic
an. | know too much Of human pref
udice and human pervcrsity for that;
bnt certainly a Republican ought to be-