Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05
CAMPAIGN coMMENr.
1t is easy to "score' man like
Roosevelt, but who can answer him?

CAMPAIGN COMAllINt.
1t is easy to sscore' man like
Roosevelt, but who can answer him?
The following answer, made by an
Iowa German who was asked if his
countrymen would vote for Bryan this
fall. seems to be conclusive:
SWELL. oats is goot price, corn and
hogs and horses are goot price; cattle
is mighty goot price. dink not many
Germans will make fool from him
self"
MIR. Bryan and his party have tried
to make comparison between the
Philippines and Cuba. They have
persistently given encouragement to
Aguinaldo by asserting that the Philip
pines ought to be treated the same as
Cuba. Senator Davis made Il sufficient
reply to this bit of false logic when he
said in his Hamilton club speech:
The conditions and situations as
10 NuU6 anu tllS L PliN' NV
not the same We never had SOW
ereignty over Cuba We have SOW
ereignty over the Philippines.
When we invaded the Philippines
the natives were not in arms. We
never promised to give independ-
ence to them. and they did not de
mand it at that time. Before we
invaded Cuba this government did
promise to give independence to
that island We made no such
promise as to Puerto Rico. Our
title to Puerto Rico and the Phil
ippines rests upon the same incon-
testable basis, and yet | have not
heard that even the Democracy
purposes or wishes to erect Puerto
Rico into an independent state.
The hit bird nutters every time. The
Sioux Falls organ of fusion says:
The Republican state committee,
true to the Republican instinct,
seeks to create dissatisfaction i'll
the ranks of the Populists by send
ing out circular denunciatory of
Charles A. Towne and A. r. Stew
enson. 1t is sought to make it APP
pear that this circular emanated
from Populist sourses, whereas it
came from the Republican COM
mittee rooms in Sioux Falls.
The document in question was sim
ply made up of quotations from Pop
ulist sources, including Nationa
Chairman Butler, Vice Chairman Ed
miston and ex-Congressman Kelly
speaking for Pettigrew, and the orga
will have to settle with them if the
have proved that Towne betrayed tn
Pops.
One may be little surprised at th
confidence displayed by intelligeu
men everywhere regarding the proht
BILE success of the Republicans this fal
It is to be regretted that this cont
dence tends to apathy, but intelliger
people cannot conceive how bushes
men, laboring men, farmers, mechanics
and in fact all citizens who are enjoy
ing such full measure of prosperit
can vote to overturn that prosperit!
And while this is conceivable, it car
not be impressed too often upon til
minds of those very persons who al
enjoying the prosperity which is th
fruit of Republican rule, that the
must see to it in the November ele
tions that their votes are cast an
counted in order to continue the bless
ings which are now being enjoyed.
"What denounce," said William
Bryan when congressman, "is pr
tective tariff; it is false economy ar
the most vicious political principl
that has ever cursed this country
Since then the gold standard was Il
most vicious, and now Imperialism
the most vicious principle that ev
cursed this country.
X n
If, as the Democrats affirm, the Din
ley bill is the mother of trusts, it mu
be admitted that quite large fami
of children was born before the
mother.
Never before in the history of pre-
Dental campaigns have the supporte
of IA candidate been asked to belle
that the platform means tho reverse
what it says. The Democrats arg
that Bryan will not do anything to a
vance the cause of silver. as he b