Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-11-15
The Result: The Future.

The Result: The Future.
The president by accident is to be
president by grace of the American
voters. The election o + Mr.. Roosevelt
signifies more than popular confidence
in his personal virtue and official in
tegrity. 1t demonstrates the general
distrust of the influences back of the
democratic nominee. The character
of Judge Alton B. Parker is unassail-
able; his views of democracy as set
forth in his.speech of acceptance and
in the closing speeches of the
campaign, indicated to many minds
his unmistakable sympathy with true
democratic principles. But Mr.. Par
ker was unfortunately presented to
the people in da TX and mysterious
manner. Mr.. Roosevelt had incurred
the displeasure of powerful financial
influences because of his course in the
Northern Securities and coal strike
cases. These intlunces united in the
determination to defeat him; they re-
lied upon Hanna to effect the I'M
doing of Roosevelt, but with the death
OF Hanna, the opposition was dlscour-
aged and feared to lead an assault
against the president. These infu-
enceS then turned to the democratic
party; if they could not control the
choice of republican candidates, then
they would dictate the democratic
nomination. The Hearst boom was
looming large on the horizon then and
mention of Hearst struck fear and
terror to the hearts of these corporate
influences. They saw that opposition
must be offered to Hearst. Thus the
conservative" democracy was con-
fronted with the duty of securing
some one less radical than ii earst,
who would have more regard for the
so-called rights of capital than he,
and who could carry New York state
Parker was settled upon. He had the
virtue of being regular; his record on
the bench was good; he was strong
with the voters of the Empire state,
he was "Safe and sound"
AS the Parker campaign progressed,
the influence back of him were I'M
barred to view. First and foremost was
David B. Hill, bolter in 1895 and 1900,
corporation democrat who opposed
substantial reduction OF the tariff
cnhod,,lac on1 cpolro opd vntod a 0o{pct
the income tax on the floor of the
United States senate; August Belm ont
American agent of the Rothschilds,
principal in the infamous bond deals
Of the Cleveland administration and
director in dozen trusts; Senator Pat
McCarren, political agent of the Stan
dard Oil company at salary Of &c.
600 year, race track gambler, spells
man, sport and corporationist; Cord
Meyer, chairman of the New York
democratic state committee, spokes-
man of the sugar trust and half doz-
en- other trusts, "Blue-Eyed" Billy
Shehan, franchise monopolist and
friend of the trusts; Bourke Cochran,
who took the stump against Mr.. Bry-
an in 1895 and declined to stay bought
in 1900; John P. Hopkins, corporate
representative in the democracy Of
Illinois; Arthur Pua German, trust
representative in the senate; James
N. Guffey, Standard Oil magnate, and
score or more of other men who are
directly identified with and their for
tunes are dependent upon continued
legislative favors to the trusts.
The people learned the plan of the
reorgauizers and they withdrew their
confidence just the moment that Mr..
Parker was nominated; they became
satisfied that reorganization meant
trust dominance, and the consequence
& was that the cloud of distrust, origi-
mated by the influences back Of Mr..
Parker, never lifted sufficiently to
permit the people to believe the candi-
date or the party sincere.
The principles and policies of the
past was abandoned. The party got
as near to the republican position on
the tariff as 1T dared, declining to ad-
vocate large reduction in the shelf
ering tariff schedules lest some eastern
corporation who contemplated contri-
buting to the campaign fund should
be scared away. The party never de-
served to win because it truckled,
sought the dark places, trimmed, and
evaded.
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The reorganization of the party was
9 reorganization. The campaign be-
gan with foot race, 'as Mr.. Bryan
said 1t would, and ended with route
So must all campaigns based in an ef-
fort to cheat the people, end. The
democratic party s opportunity in this
nation is to stand for the masses of
the people, stand fairly, squarely and
honestly as their tribune, their party.
The voters know sham and pretense
and hypocrisy; they recognized it
throughout, but unwise campaign
managers, in true ostrich fashion,
thought their game undetected.
The result of of the election brings
Mr.. Bryan and the democracy he
stands for, to the front of the demo-
cratic party. 1t makes Mr.. Bryan the
restored leader, not of schemtng cor
porate tools seeking to bend both par
ties to their will, but of the hearts