The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-03-26
WATTERSON ON ROOSEVELT
Brilliant Kentuckian RidicuIes Accidental Pres.
ident and Scores Republican PARTY.

MOHudy ulSnt there were present
Democrats OF national prominence and
A most OF the political leaders and Dem
ocratic members Of Congress from the
Il Old Dominion. Henry Watterson the
4 principal speaker, urged upon the
Democrats the general union of for
ces in oposition to imperialism in all
\ forms.
In the course of his speech he said:
I'VE are Democrats. We love our
country. Our hearts beat true to it's
institutions. We would rescue the gov
ernment from the hands of those who
- converting it into a government of
the trusts, for the trusts and by the
trusts, and restore it to the hands of
Those who will have some regard for
the rights of the people. The Repub-
lican party is syndicated party. Ar
bitrary power is its motive, the al
mighty dollar its trademark. If it be
not checked in the gait it is going it
republic
Once again in the White House we
have the man ON horseback. Affecting
the simplicity of the cowboy he con-
ceals beneath the self-confidence and
queer manners of the broneho- buster
the sentiments and ambitions, if not
the talents, of Diaz. To him, a lit
tie thing like treating an Admiral of
the navy, wearing the laurel leaves of
imperishable renown, as if he were
baby in arms, now to be dandled and
now to be spanked, is merely an un-
dress affair begun and ended during
of moments between breakfast and
luncheon.
ITO him the reprimanding of the
! Northumberland of the army grown !
kgray in the fighting of the battles of
! his country, becomes an amusing
horse-play mean to relax his muscles
and illustrate his high mightiness
whilst warning lesser officers of the
army to obey orders and say moth /
ing
las these things pertain somewhat I
npf the character of feats to divert and /
blind, to hoodwink public opinion, a
bill of army reorganization is pre-
pared and urged upon Congress, which
If 1t becomes a law, will make the
power of the President absolute, and
which it is not too much to say ought
to be entitled An act TO make the
President of the United States a mill
itary dictator
Because the reprimanded Lieuten-
ant-General, answering the summons
of a committee of Congress, as was his
duty, expresses an opinion adverse to
this bill, it IS proposed to retire him
from the service. Taken in connec-
ton with some other matters OF more
or less sinister suggestion, these are
menaces of most ominous import.
But turn from the White House
to the capitol and look at the he
publicans in Congress. The trail of
the trademark is over them all. Old
High Tariff dances the can-can in the
House, while old Ship Subsidy does
Ae regular cake-walk in the Senate.
Everything for the syndicates; moth
ing for the people. And, not content
with their arbitrary power in the
White House and their mercenary !,
power in Congress, the leaders OF this
party Of Federalism and false preten-
sion would rip open Pandoras box
to filch thence the black, piratical nag
of negro domination, the equally dis
reputable and bloody shirt OF Sec
tional agitation, and in order to make
sure of the House they are proposing
to Nring forward another force bill
to smite the South, to blight the North
and to convert a land teeming with
love and peace into land reeking
with nate and strife. Such is the ban
quet to which the exit Of b1e4Asnley /
the statesman, and theadyent OF Roos-
eyelt, the rough g.lel, nas invited us.
Il am sDmetning of jneo myself.
believe in the expeAaing greatness
and glory of my country. | never
seq the dag aoatng above the domes
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