West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-02-26
PARTY PLEDGES.
IrreAtstfbiy Amusing Declarations
OF n Republican Organ Grinder.


An editorial headed "party Pledges
In tho Washington Post. independ.
ent, with Republican lcanings. goes art.
er the st. Louis Globe Democrat, Re
publican organ grinder IN tho follow
ing refreshing manner;
The country has the positive and graft
Tying assurance OF our intensely Repub-
lican contemporary. tho st. Louis Globe
Democrat. that whatever remedies can
be provided by congress for restraining
tho trust evil will be furnished" On that
point. says our contemporary. 'the coun-
try need have no doubt whatever"
Whence the posltiveness OF this assur-
ancef And wchy Is the country expected
TO accept II with full confidence and
feel that tho great work IL already as
good as accompiishedI II any profane
doubter has the temerity TO Inject n aues-
ton like either OF those Into this dis
cussion. let him be shamed. convinced
and snenoed by the Globe Democrats =
solemn declaration that "thc Republicans
have promised TO deal with tho trust
Question I'm tho light OF the best legal
knowledge OF the day and they will
redeem that pledge"
But IL there should happen, In face OF
all that. TO be a shade OF doubt or n tint
ot uncertainty still lingering In the out
skirts or tho mind OF some obdurate po-
iitical agnostio hts conversion must be
assured by our contemporary's assever-
alton that "one of the reasons why the
Republican party has won no many vio-
torios In that IL has always carried out It's
promises IL believes that pledges by par
ties are ms sacred as pledges by indi-
viduals and Il aims TO fuinli all OF them
In letter and spirit.i
1rresistibly amusing as that IL, I'm the
light OF facts. let no ono suspect it was
Intended 20 provoke exclamation. Bum
xUha hA
lnditing "Pilsrim's Progross." nor Bax-
ter when wrestling with saints Rest"
Mono OF these nor any other men Of
ancient or modern times were ever pos-
than that which saturated the soul OF tho
Giobc-Democrat when II gave utteranco
TO those remarks.
''Has always carried out it's promises 9'
For proof of that read the pledge OF state
hood for Oklahoma. New Mexico and Ari-
sona I'm tho Republican national platform
OF 1900. pledge put there at the dictation
OF the Identical statesmen who are now
resisting the passage by tho senate of the
house bill providing for the redemption of
that pledge. IL the Globe Democrat salts
Ned with that illustration OF the ndollty
Of It's party TO it's pledges or would it like
TO gaze on another fair average sample
III the latter turn again TO that platform
and read It's assurance that "the stability
or all our currency on "a gold basis has
oeVH hhHuicu. Aiter paying due tribute
10 that proud boast look into the cam
paign literature n few weeks later and see
tho men who dictated that plank confess
Ing that IL was false. Look at tho record
OF three sessions OF two Republican con-
crosses held since that humiliating con-
fesslon was made for evidence that the
false claim has been made good, and you
will look I'm vain.
IL Is seldom that n party organ lays IT.
self open 20 such discontinue by current
events and recent history an the Globe
Democrat experiences I'm this Instance.
broken promises bestrew the pathways OF
both parties. but II happens that only one
party has had much TO do with lawmnk-
Ing since the Republican organiza ton
hrSt came into power. Under Republican
control "the trust evil' has grown to
enormous proportions, and restraining leg
islation has been carefully avoided. The
country will wait with little faith for the
promised change In. the Republican policy
or servility to monopolistic combines. IL
may come. but its advent need not be
celebrated In advance.