The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-26
A POLITICAL BUSk0

John Randolph Of Roanoke once
shocked the country and brought q
duel upon his head BY declaring the ap-
pointment Of Henry Clay 70 the ohee
o. secretary Of state By John Adams
TO be " q union Of the Puritan win
the blackIeg a combination Of Bill
and Black George" In the days when
everybody vas familiar with the PEI
scnages referred TO the charge was
looked upon as an aspersion that could
be refuted only by pistols and accord
ingly Clay called upon Randolph 70
come out and be shot a. Since that
time there has been many a worse
combination than that q the good
New EngIa8der with TIE genial Ken
tuekian. We have in fact become az
cuztomed 70 queer alliances Of tina:
kind and have adopted II as a pro-
verb that politics, ike poverty. makes
strange bedfenows. In the whole ex-
tent Of our history. however, there
has been no such alliance as that which
Is uow reported TO have been formed
between the yellow journals Of Sew
York and the stock gamblers Of Wall
street TO beat Roosevelt.
The scheme as outlined is an IN
genious me and unless the public be
o. guard against # it IS likely TO prove
dangerous. II consists Of a plot to ez-
cite the workingmen Of the country
against the president 70 such q degree
that the Wall street combine. acting In
COLLISION with the yellow Journalists.
cal swing the labor unions against
hin in the coming presidential cam
paign.
Il Is very well known that the
action Of the president In bringing
about an arbitration OF the issues in
VOWED in the coal strike won the favor
Of the great mass Of the American
people. including labor, capital and
middlemen alike. Holding the strong
position he does In his own party, his
nomination is virtually assured in ad-
vance Of the republican convention,
and with a harmonious people behind
him his election would be a foregone
conclusion. Two sets Of men, how
ever, have been gravely offended by
the presidents course-the yellow
journalists dislike him because his
action deprived them Of a chance to
precipitate a struggle of labor against
capital, out Of which the yellow edi-
tors would have gained both money
and notoriety, while the more reckless
Of the Wall street magnates are ag-
grieEed because he bafled their
schemes for establishing a monopoly
In some of the great articles of pub
lie necessity.
Out Of the situation there has deVel-
oped the curious fact that the organs
Of the INSCRIPTIONS trusts and the or
gan Of the yellow agitators are in
full cry against the president. We
have then a combination OF the dem
agogues who denounce capital with
the stock gamblers who denounce
labor. Making faces at one another
and. hurting d-enunciations against
one anothe- in public, they are work.
Ing cunningly together In secret to
defeat the president and thus make
way for a period Of strife out of which
both the gamblers and the yellows
hope to make profit.
A part Of the working Of the
scheme has been disclosed by the eff
forts TO mako campaign capital out
OF the reinstatement by the president
OF Foreman Miller in the government
printing office. The magnates of Wall
street who would not dare to attack
the president openly have found In