Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-04
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND ITS PLATFORM.

The man with the patent lock which he is willing to bet you canno' open, or the genial, smiling gentleman with the gold brick are not more SC ductive in their way than the Republi can party with its platforms during campaign year. On this very sub feet it is worth while noting thesi words in it's last effort at ''fooling tae people, "to-wit:
 We recognize the necessity and propriety of the honest cooperation of capital to meet new business con ditions, especially te extend our rapid. ly growing foreign trade; but We con demn all conspiracies and combina liens intended to restrict business, to create monopolies. to limit produc- ton. or to control prices, and favo. such legislation as will effectively restrain and control such abuses, pro tect and promote competition, and s', cure the rights of producers, laborefs. and all who are engaged in industry and commerce"
 These words sound like themelli. fluous words of the gold brick Iakir when we look the gold brick lair in the face Let us see what the Re- publican party has done with respec. 10 the suppression or regulation of the trusts. Bear in mind also that the Republican party is and has been in power in every department of the gov. ernment In the Houses of Congress it is in large majority. Nothing stood in it's way. And even more .nan that, the minority stood ready to help them in this very matter, had the Re publican party been honest in it's DOT pose.
 When the party swept the country in 1900, few there were who suppos ed that any attempt would be made 10 rid the country of the trust evil. .t was charged then and has never been denied, that the trusts had contribut- ed immense sums Of money to rhs aid of the party for its election ani campaign fund. It was believed, thea and it has never been shown other wise since then, that the Republican party drew its life and strength from the trusts. Without their aid the party would never have carried the country. Of course in the platform they had denounced them. It is true that relief had been promised. It is true that promises to execute ice law had been made. but few believ sd that it would be done, for the reason that the creature cannot control the creator
 It is humiliaiing though at best aat money is all powerful in our elections. Money is plentiful with the favored few, who stand ready to give it away to those who will serve them. Tho Republican party took the money. What they did with it, of course ihe Republican party knows well. The punishment of the man who sells his vote should be severe, but the pun ishment of the man who buys that vote should be still severer. There should be no punishment so sevel : as for the men who go up and down the country, raising great sums Of money to debauch the American voters.
 The party had used the money con tributed by the trusts, and It world be contrary to human nature to les islate it's slush fund out of existence. With the victory won in 1900 tle trusts felt that they were immune for the next four years al least. The trusts had found employment for the workingman and he WAS told tha. he must be content, thank God. and the Republican party, that soz.ething had been found for him to dc.
 His dinner pail was full. For four years he was to have something t. eat-a full stomach, and with this he must be satisfied.
 When Roosevelt succeeded M1kia' ley through the cruel hand of an as sassin, the trusts became uneasy. The Strenuous Theodore the First mad written much on the subject of trusts, that it was felt, the hour had come fer their everlasting and eondign pun ishment. While he was Governor of New York he had callei the trust peo- ple all kinds of names. and said that "the man who by swi1Giing, Q. by wrong doing. acquired wealth for tim self at the expense O. his: fellownan stands as low morally as any medic val nobleman, and Is a mote danger ous member of society,"" -,
 On occasions be had shown great anxiety to get at these law breakers.