Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-09-11
a YOUTH THAT OUGHT NEVER
TO BE MENTIONED.

Some very distinguished gentlemen
are engaged in preparing for the cele.
bratioD, next summer, Of the fiftieth
anniversary OF the founding Of the Re-
publican party, aunder the oaks at
Jackeon.
Committees have been appointed to
drum up sentiment all over the state
and President Roosevelt is to be invited
to be present.
All Of which sugges ts tie query,
why, in heavens name. should the
1ftieth, or any other anniversary OF the
founding Of the Republican party be
celebrated?'
And II it must be celebrated. why
should the common people be expected
to have anything to do with the cere-
moniesf
Is the semi-centennial OF the Repuh-
ican party to be celebrated because it
ia the party that gave Lincoln to the
nation at a critical time in our his.
toryP
IL that be the reason, the whole per-
tormance better be abanG oned. because
1t seems almost Like eacrilege to men,
ton in the same breath the first OF our
martyred Presidents and the party that
today resembles only in name, the party
that Lincoln loved.
Lincoln stood for the rights of all
men, as against the greed Of the
few.
He drenched with blood a thousand
bsttlefields, first, that the union might
be preserved; second, that the freedom
Of the negroes might be established. if
possible.
And though the signing OF the cman-
cipation proclamation was a war meas
ure nc one who knew the honest heart
OF Lincoln thought TINT any one net,
save the surrender OF Lee nt Appomat-
tox, gave him 60 much pleasure.
Taking his cue from the Lord, Lin.
coin loved the common people and it
was because OF his love for them that
in tho closing days Of his life he
said:
Sometimes when | think OF the rap.
id Accommodations Of great private for
tunes that have gone OF since the War
began, I fear for the future Of my conn
try
Look at Rockefeller, the Millionaire;
Carnegie, the half biIionairo; 5000 9TH
milionaires and multi. ~millionalres,
every mothers son OF them nursing Mt
the breast OF the bloated, disc rltcd old
Republican party, and then laiK about
holding n celebration aunder The oaks
at Jackson" to commemorate the found
ing of the party Of Lincoln
Bah! =.
Keep away from the oaks OF Jackson,
you muubIinR hypocrites who almost
soil the name OF Lincoln when you
speak it; turn inside your faces il I'M.
happy chance should over lead you near
the silent tomb by the Sangamun; and
II you must celebrate the s~emi.centen
NAL OF the founding OF the Republican
party, let the body OF the party he taken
where it's spirit is-to the gold-glutted
street called Wall.
Then cnll upon the great and glorious
Morgan, il You like, to fal m his knees
m the pavement that he could resurfacc
with gold, IL he pleased, and thank his
lucky stars that a Republican party was
founded that in the days Of its degener.
acy placed 30 high tariff on steel that
the various plants could afford to pa,
him goo, 900 900 for combining them in
q trust.
All wrung from the American peo
pie.
And when he is through, let John ID
Rockefeller tell how the kindness Of the
Republican administration in not send
ing him TO be penitentiary when no was
forming the criminal, plundering Stand
ard Oil company, and continued kind
ness OF The same sort during all the in
tervening year. e,have enabled him to al,
from a clerkship to a billionaire't
estate since 1873.
Gather, II You like, all the little plum,
derers that are pillaglnR under the pro,
lection Of the Republican party aud cal
upon them to sing paenne OF praise tC
the political harloi that brings the N
their money.
DO all Of these things aud more, il
you like; but in the name Of Lincoln, ia
tile name ct the common people whom
he would not stand idly by md SEQ yori
plumber II he were living. IN the name of
common decencJ. hold you celebration
II You muet have one. in Wall street and
not in Jackson.
Better still, drop the whole undertake.
ing. TIE Republican party, like Il
oDce.pure woman, Ind hes, DO client
about its past. Such contrasts nru for
the heart to feol-not for the tongue Ia
utter.-Dcitoii Times.