The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-06-05
Carson Letter.

is a man who stands by the interests
which guided Grover Cleveland's adj
ministrations, i. e., the use of the
army and the injunction to assist the
money powers to settle their disputes
with their employees, and who stands
by the interests of the National Banks,
and the contraction of the currency in
the interests of money lenders. A
"Hill Democrat is any old thing. A
"Democrat' does not mean man
who will knowingly hatch out any old
cuckoo's egg laid in his National Con-
vention, but means a man who will
stand firmly for government of the
people, by the people and for the peo-
pie. If the privileged classes manage
to make the Democratic nomination,
it is the duty of all good Democrats to
vote against such nominee. Of course,
those who care for nothing but office
and the official crib, will never agree
with the foregoing. But will they
answer this: Why should those who
filled McKinley's campaign sack twice
now trot out Grover Cleveland as the
Democratic candidate in preference to
Roosevelt as the Republican nominee?
If the favored classes who are respon-
sible for all that is bad in Republican
ism abandon that party to continue
their legalized robberies through the
Democratic party, why should the
people help them to accomplish their
object?
That Mr.. Roosevelt is making his
own fight, and attempting to force his
nomination in spite of those who fill
the Republican campaign sack, can be
plainly read between the lines. AT
Butte, Montana, he was the guest OF
the wage workers and Independent
tradesmen generally. He said in part:
"Ours is a government of liberty, true,
and under the law. No man is above
it and no man is below it. The crime
of cunning, the crime of greed, the
crime of violence, are all equally
crimes, and against them all alike the
law must set its face. (Applause) This
is not and never shall be government
of the plutocracy or the mob. 1t is, as
it has been, and it will be a govern
ment of the people, including alike
the people of great wealth, of moder-
ate wealth, the people who employ
others, the people who are employed,
the wage workers, the lawyer, the me-
chanic, the banker, the farmer, in
Guiding them all, protecting each and
every one if he acts decently and
squarely, and discriminating against
any one, no matter from what class he
comes, if he does not act squarely and
fairly, if he does not obey the law"
(Applause) 1t is believed that Mr..
Roosevelt means just what he says,
and that it is the height of his ambi-
ton to have just such a government
as he pictures. If so, why should
those who have become immensely
wealthy by buying votes, perjury,
bribing judges and legislatures, fill his
campaign sack? They don't want any
such government; they want gov
eminent of the classes, for the classes
and by the classes.
When Mr.. Roosevelt said mo man
is above the law and no man below it,
he spoke in the abstract; he meant
that under the Constitution mot under
the Acts of Congress and State statutes)
every one was equal before the law.
AS a matter of fact, our National,
State and Territorial laws are lousy
with acts that give classes opportunity
to make money at the expense of their
neighbors. The poor mans rights are
exceedingly hard to fish out of the law.
However, believe there is some i'm
provement since Shakespeare wrote:
'sHelpl helpl here is fish that hangs
in the net like poor mans rights. in
the law
l stand firmly by the introduction
Governor Sparks gave Mr.. Roosevelt
to the people at Carson. Politicians
who are continually looking for politi-
cal advantage and sticking new feath-
ers around their nest, no doubt would
have preferred if Mr.. Sparks had sim
ply said: "Ladies and gentlemen, it
affords me great pleasure to introduce
to you Theodore Roosevelt, President
of the United States, who will now adj
dress YOU" But it so happened that
it afforded Mr.. Sparks more pleasure
than that, and, not being a politician,
he expressed his feeling, and express
ing just what he felt, there was no
danger of forgetting his speech. He
compared Roosevelt to Andrew Jack
son, and it was most felicitous COM
parison, so far as Mr.. Roosevelt has
revealed his character to the people.
Governor Sparks created most favor
able impression with the President,