Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-11-25

anna in this country. That means
that this firm of Captains of
finance" will finance the new re-
public and get the rake-off. That
accounts for the fact that the New
York Sun, which has been hitherto
bitterly antagonistic to Roosevelt,
has come out and endorsed the ac-
ton of the administration in gar
r0ting and robbing the republic of
Colombia. That paper is owned
and controlled by Mr.. Morgan. 1t
also shows that all the talk about
Wall Street and the Morgan inter-
ests being opposed to Roosevelt
will no longer go down the throats
of hitherto over-credulous public.
They are all together now in one
happy band of commercial free
hooters and Bashi Bazouks, and it
is singularly unfortunate that SEN
ator Germans leadership in the
Senate has failed completely to get
the democrats in that body to re-
fuse absolutely to have anything
to do with the new opera bouffe
republic and defeat any treaty that
may become before it for ratifica-
ton. The man who votes in the
Senate to ratify a treaty with this
Roosevelt-made republic will find
himself confronted with the charge
of endorsing a dishonorable action.
1t is generally conceded that the
democrats must carry the states of
New York and New Jersey in the
next presidential election in order
to win. Conceding that those two
states are absolutely necessary for
democratic success next year, it
may be interesting for the demo-
Gratis of the country to know the
kind of democracy that must con-
troll in the state of New Jersey
next year if we would win that
state.
An illustration drawn from the
last Congressional election in that
state last year will suffice TO give
them this information. In one of
the Congressional districts that
was democratic, the democrats
nominated a man named De Witt
Clinton Flanagan, a man of wealth,
refinement, culture and social dis
tinction. He represented only
those things that republicans like
and of which they are not afraid.
He was Endorsed by Grover Cleve-
land, who lives in his district, and
who made a speech for him, the
first he had made since his retire
ment from the presidency. Not
withstanding all this and the fur
Their fact that Mr.. Flanagan spent
large sums of money he was de-
feated.
On the other hand, in another
district that was normally republi-
can by about 1000 majority, and
in which the republicans nominat-
ed the millionaire thread manufac-
turer, Barbour, and in which the
democratic nomination went beg
ging, the democrats won splen-
did victory. After the nomination
In this district had been declined
by a numer of democrats, a young
democrat named William Hughes.
a lawyer without money, but with
character and brains and real
democracy, accepted the nomina-
ton as manner of party honor.
He announced from the beginning
of the campaign that he had no
money with which to buy votes,
and said he did not want vote
that had to be purchased. He also
said that if he were elected it would
mean real democratic triumph
and slap in the face of amonopo-
ly and trust domination and the
rule of the predatory rich. He
roundly denounced all those things
from start to finish of the cam
paign, and the result was that he
was elected by the honest men of
the district by 5000 majority, a
change of 5000 votes in the dis
trict.
That should teach the democrats
of the country that if they hope to
carry the state of New Jersey in
the next presidential election they
must nominate a man for president
who stands for the things and the
kind of democracy that Billy"
Hughes stands for or they may as
well hang their harp on a willow
tree. A look over the field of men
mentioned for the nomination on