The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-27

the man who loans money to the
banks without interest, thus
defying the law of the land.
There was some talk in the press OF
the East before the last stroke, and
Grosvenor rushed into print and de-
MED the whole thing and said he bad
never written a letaer to any one ask
ing them to subscribe to his book,
and that he had placed the whole
thing in the hands Of an agent who
vas to pay him a roytlity on his sales.
1t was then that the newspaper came
out with abe fas smile letter and
checks, and it squelched Grosvenor
and silenced his batteries. He has
not opened his head since. He has
nothing to say. He has been caught
with the goods on him.
The trusts magnates of thecountry
either have worked a film fam game
on the President of the United States
and no one accuses him of being a
fool, or else he is in league with the
trust magnates to fool the people
anent the recent ~so-called ANTITRUST
legislation.
The inside history of the kilograms
sent to the republican senators by
trust magnates, peremptorily ordering
them to stop all antitrust legislation,
shows a queer condition of affairs In
the higher councils of the republican
party. When the republican leaders
found that the democrats looked with
disdain upon the so-called antitrust
legislation that the republican leaders
and trust magnates had concocted, and
would not say a word against it, they
feared the result of this silence on the
minds of the voters. Something had
to be done to make it appear that
the trusts were being curbed, and the
job was put up that Rockefeller should
telegraph orders to stop all antitrust
legislation, and one of these tele
grams was shown to the president. He
made public the fact that these tele
grams were being sent. In fact, he
sent for the representative of the AS
ISOLATED Press to tell him about then
and Immediately it was announced by
the administration press that here was
evidence of the trust-busting nature
of the legislation.
AS l said in a former letter, the
trusts now are jubilant because they
are aware of the utter worthlessness
Of the legislation so far as trust curb
ing is concerned. The people will have
IN opportunity to witness the work
ing of the antitrust legislation enact
ed at this session by the republicans
before the election in 1904, and if they
like that kind of antitrust legislation
then they will vote to retain the repub
lican party in power and continue tc
pay tribute to the trusts.
The leaders of the democratic party
in Washington are beginning to ex
hibit some interest in the differen,
booms for the presidential nomination
on tho Ior,oorof; Ia +;a1-of- +1o4 500 10
ing turned loose in several sections
of the country. There is the Dine,
boom which was started in Memphis
Tenn, and is being nursed to keep il
warm by Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Bos
ton. Mr.. Olney was in the last Cleve
land cabinet. He was attorney-gen
eral and then secretary of state. He
is an able man, as every one viii
admit, but he is about seventy years
old. He has always kept his dem
ocracy on straight, but he did not teal
his clothes for the ticket in SO.
There is the Parker boom. Judge
Parker is chief judge of the New Yorl
State Court of Appeals, and I'm
d%oubtedly is a good man and ;
good democrat, but his only claim
to recognition is the fact tina
he ~was elected to his presen'
position by about 10000 majority tn.
year following the big Mckinley ma
iority in New York.
There is the German boom. Sena
tor German is looked upon here a.
one of the best political leaders ant
s~trategists in the country, but he ha.
not been very strenuous for the ticke
during the last two campaigns. H,
has done much service for the party
however, and he has many friend.
among the leaders Of the party.
The latest boom to be cut loose wa.
that which former Governor Budd, o
California, let go in Columbus, Ohio, I.
few days ago at the big Je~fferson-Jack
son-Lincoln barbecue, when he named
William Randolph Hearst as hi:
choice. The people of the country know