Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-12-30

| '~'o'h IA IA al thc couhtry- DiSTe-
gard of his oath of office, hypoc-
risy and fawning are all born of
fear. The man who has caused it
carries IN the hollow of his hand
the republican delegation to the
next republican national conven-
ton, and Roosevelt wants that
delegation. How do the people
like liz
The talk about democratic pres
idential possibilities is still one of
the popular themes of conversation
and discussion at the national cap
ital. Many of the politicians are
giving out interviews here TO the
local papers and to their big dailies
of the East, and telling how the
people of their respective States
feel about the matter in their opin-
ions. The concensus of this opin-
ion is about equally divided between
Messrs. German, Hearst and Par
ker- The chief note running
through all this interview matter
from the politicians of the party is
anybody, Q Lord in order to
win" 1t is perfectly natural that
politician who is an officeholder
should place the Offices to be OBJ
tanned by the election of n demo-
cratic president above principle
and everything else that demo-
Gratis hold sacred. They seem to
forget that there are millions of
people in this country who do not
hold Office or seek Office or want
office, and that those people must
be considered in this matter. These
millions of Notwithstanding peo-
pie have opinions, and they are
of as much consequence as are the
opinions of the politicians and the
officeholders, and they are going
to make those opinions known and
felt before the conventions are
held TO send delegates to the ma
tional convention. When they do
the politicians either will climb in
to the band wagon suggested 10y
the millions of Notwithstanding
voters or they will have 10 walk.
| had long talk the other day
with shrewd and far-seeing poll
tlcian who is not an officeholder.
and who recently has Travelled ex-
tensively all over the country.
especially in the East and the Cen
trail West. His business compels
him to come in contact with the
mass of the common people, who
are not after Office, and who look
at this thing of electing presi-
dent from the standpoint of prin-
ciple and not ofhce-holding graft.
He is not an enthusiast, and has
no particular choice for the demo
cratic presidential nomination.
What he said to me, therefore.
impressed me with its accuracy
from the standpoint of gatherings
correct idea of the feeling of these
people who must be consulted in
this matter. He says that the idea
that we must win with any old
thing in order to get the Office does
not appeal to the masses of the
democracy in the country. He
says there is a distinct feeling that
unless the democrats nominate a
man who stands for something that
is totally against the republican
idea of this government of, by and
for the trusts, that they will 90
fishing on eletion day and allow
the election to go by default. The
feeling among them, says the gen
tleman, is absolutely against the
nomination of any man who be-
lieves in dealing with the Wall
Street gang and the trusts and the
tariff in the same manner as the
republicans are now dealing with
them, and that to nominate such a
man he would have to 90 to the
trusts and the Wall Street gang
and get his campaign fund and
that means he would really have to
make promises TO them which
would be virtually a sell-out.
They can see no difference between
that kind of a democrat and re-
publican in the White House, ex-
cept in the distribution of the
Offices, and they do not want any
of the Offices. He says that this
feeling is growing all over the
middle west, and especially in Ilh-
nois, which will be battle ground
in the next campaign. Since this
is the case, he says they are point
ing out the fact that William Ran