The Holly chieftain., 1904-11-04


who aspires to Gust Depcw from LIS
comfortable seat in the Senate"
Banker vauderiip, the mouthpiece OF
the Standard Oil Trust, talks about ii
return of prosperity" as likely, ii
Oniy bankers and would-be specuIa-
tors will be careful not to '..uu
nmuck." Nanderlip should pay more
keed to his words. 1t is the claim oil
He Republican campaign managers
That prosperity" is here already, and
has been here ever since the Dingley
tariff went into effect. Why, then,
talk about a return" Of it!
Among the numerous reforms that
may be looked for in the event of the
election of Judge Parker is one Tor
the preservation of the lives Of trav-
elers by water. The steamboat inspec-
ton service, by practice of graft ana
Indulgence in fayOritism, has been aud
mitteuly rotten, like the bull. of the
life preservers aboard the Inflated
General SIocum. 1t was rottonest
when Chairman Cortelyou WAS Secre-
tary Of the department OF Commerce
and Labor, which has under IFS juris-
diction The steamboat inspection SER
vice.
The Panama chicken Is coming home
to roost before the coop is ready. II
was not intended TO he ready until af-
Ter the election.
The, Steel Trust takes from the pock-
cts Of our people and does not even
give its workmen Il fair share of its
swag. In fact, it robs them right
along with the rest of the people and
besides giving to Foreigners n better
bargain than to our own people.
All signs point to the election of
Democratic House of Representatives
Then will the time come when rot
ten Administration will not be per-
United to investigate itself and exclude
Congress from participation.
Announcement is made that during
the. New York campaign the Republi-
cans will keep Odel in the back.
ground. The Democrats, on the 9th
er hand, will keep Odell and Odellism
well to the front. They are worth thou
sands of votes.
Roosevelt boasts of his undying de.
Votion to civil service reform, yet not
In dozen years has the law been SO
extensively and fagrantly violated as
now. All over the country Government
employees are being forced to contrib
ute to the Roosevelt campaign fund.
The New York Press predicts that
Roosevelt will come down to the Har-
lem River with 10000 plurality. III
ne reaches that point with 75,OOO plu-
rality he will be doing very well, but
even the former figure will nots save
him, because Fudge Parker'ftlead be-
York. q i
we have often wondered just what |
was the matter with Tom Watson and |
now we know. The Nashville Ameri-
can let's the cat out Of the bag. "Tom
has had kind of viperish, gangrenish
hatred for the Democracy ever since
Judge Fuller, of Georgia, mopped up
the earth with him in two separate
races for Congress"
The Boston journal, the newspaper
that the Vermont Republicans regard
as only less sacred than the Bible, re-
ports that eleven men have subscribed
each $1,00O,0OO to the Democratic
campaign fund, and yet the journal Id
sure that Roosevelt Will win out. This
nice little wad of the long green" is
to be dumped into the doubtful
States. Next! 5.
Governer-C Chairman Odell says these
stories about "perversion of State
funds" are lies from start to finish
Son the contrary" he says, II have
saved the State over $6,000,0OO by my
vetoes." What an awful lot of graft
ers Odell's henchmen must be, If, in
addition to what they got away with,
the boss held them up and made them
disgorge to the tune of $6,00o,OOO! .
"You can see twenty acres of Philip
pine life at the worlds fair, but you
cannot see square rod of the Consti-
ed States Supreme Court. &
Respectfully referred to President
Roosevelt, with the suggestion that
sustNc DlGNGA UC plohplS tiIeu AOi
high treason.
The campaign for the perpetuation of
Odellism In the State Of New York is
progressing beautifully. NO net of
the Republican State Administration
could bring a blush of shame 10 the
face Of any Republican, exclaimed
State Senator Elsberg, one of Odells
henchmen, in closing an impassionel.
plea for fair treatment of the Govern
or-Chairman. Marvellous" comments
the Republican New York Sun, ''that
SO imma crlnte thing should diffusc
such an appalling stench"'
Colonel George Brumder. of Milwau
kee, who started out to help elect
Roosevelt. has decided that he made q
mistake, and is now advocating the
election of Judge Parker instead
Colonel Brumder owns the leading Ger
man-American newspaper in AIilwau
kee. He is also the proprietor of thu
Freie Presse. published i'll Lincoln
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