Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-08-24
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1t is said that the rich men OF New
erously to the Republican campaign.
Very likely. It was those same rich
men. which include the great trusts.
banks and combines. who found
Judge Parker, and who first raised
the cry that President Roosevelt was
q dangerous candidate and that a con
servatiye candidate was needed. They
wanted Grover the good, but they
were afraid. After that the people
still had memories OF what happened
when they before by fraud and money
secured him the place, and so they
selected a man against whom nothing
of wrong in all his past can be urged.
Having fixed up him, they SEN their
agents, the Hills, the Belmonts and
Guifeys TO st. Louis to secure for
their candidate the nomination. A
platform was prepared, before they
left home, to be adopted and the on
ly injunction given was If anything in
it proved to be offensive to any part
Of the convention. TO strike il out,
but not to permit anything TO be add
ed which would be distasteful 10 the
men in New York City who are to
supply the campaign corruption
funds. Hence the income tax plank
was split into kindling wood; the
tariff plank was bored full of holes;
the finance plank was set on fire by
Bryan's invective and consumed: the
plank calling for the prosecution of
unlawful trusts. combines and monOp-
olies was attached for buncombe by
order of those same trust combines
and m~onopolies, just as was done
twelve years ago; a p,umise OF free
dom to the Fflipinos some time in the
dim future was given; a reckless and
utterly unsubstantiated charge of cor.
ruption in office was hurled at Re-
publican Office holders. the usurpa-
lions of the Republican president
were set up, men of straw, and then
knocked down; then the selected
Judge of Esopus was nominated and
for a running mate called out a man
who of his own volitiGu retired from
active work ten years ago, who has
been a trust magnate, and oil mag.
nate, a railroad magnate for half a
century, and who has managed so
well that his millions number half
as many as do the long years of his
long life.
That is the platform and the tick.
ct which those same rich men of New
York prepared for the free voters Of
the nation to support and it Is quite
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very generously to a fund intended
TO defeat their schemes. Their hos.
tility to President Roosevelt began
when he as governor declared that
everyone of them should pay honest
taxes on his property The same as the
men of moderate means have to and
signed the bill to compel such pay
ment.
They could neither coax nor bull
doze him, hence their wrath. hence
their determination TO down him.
hence the reckless, intense and un.
scrupulous charges that they hurl at
him.
But We shall see. The people of
this country mean to be honest; they
are determined to be just. and every
one of them believes in fair play.
More, when they select a business
agent, they do not take the word OF
a few that a certain man, though in
experienced and so constituted that
he never gives an idea of what he
thinks is all right, but rather n who
has been tried.
Now President Roosevelt has been
tried. The men Of New York know
the stock from which he sprang and
know that they were thoroughbreds
all; they have seen the president from
the time he held his FIRST office: they
watched him in war and peace. saw
him as cowboy aud author, marked
his bearing as governor and watched
him more closely when the bloody
mantle of a slain president fell upon
him; they saw b0" b." accepted that
trust and how be BIAS fulfilled II; they
believe that be- H. honest and brave
and true, and may lo no great amount
of money will be- needed to cause
them TO record thuif ballots where
they will count most Tor the dignity
and the integrity and the glory Of his
native land ElYIHiU'S Weekly.