Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-11-02

bitter pill palatable to the Bryan1tes.
The sellout was too brazen, too sudden.
too complete. Nobody suspected an
earthquake like that. The ground
opened, and down into the yawn1ng
chasm fell all the principle of the demo-
cratic party. These leaders went to st.
Louis clothed from head to heel in good
Jeffersonian democracy. When Dave
Hill, Pat McCarren and August Belmont
finished their work, the democratic
bosses we're so nearly nude that, had IL
been personal mater rather than po-
litical, they could have been indiet.
for "a notorious az of public in
decency." Able statesmen had I'm.
dressed themselves in public. And
now they are furiously angry with me
because I am renewing the struggle
which they abandoned. They resent
the feet that some one else should try
to do that which the were not will
Ing to try to do.
The peoples party is helping the re-
publicans,' cry the democratic leaders.
II these leaders had not abandoned their
own platform and gave over to Wall
street. we could not have hurt anybody.
AS long as the democratic party pre-
tended to be populist in principle, the
popullst party could not do business.
10 many of our men were dupes of tho
fraud. The moment the democratic
leaders dropped our platform, we seized
upon 1t again, and we began to rehabi-
tate our own party. Sell out? Why.
we haze surrendered no convictions;
Oe nave not parted with single plank
IN our platform. What have we sold?
10 whom did we sell? If 1oe had shed
our political garments as the demo-
cratic hnccpc did at 1on
street had dictated every line of our
new creed and had put at the head Of
our ticket a man who cannot state
wherein he differs in principle from
Mr. Roosevelt, zoe would have hung
our heads every time we passed a mirror.
to keep from looking into the eyes Of
renegades to Jeffersonian democracy,
serv1le tools of northern corporations.
Standard Oil, Sugar Trust & Co.
They went to st. Louis with princi-
pies; they came back without them;
they we're clay in the ' ,ds of the Pat
McCarrens, of Standard Oil; Belmont, of
the Louisville & Nashville; German, of
the sugar trust. The very first speech
of the campaign was made in Brooklyn
by Senator Bailey, of Texas, under the
auspices of the Standard Oil company
lobbyist, Pat McCarren. The chosen
advisers of Mr.. Parker are the men who
led for the trusts and corporations when
the taxpayers were looted during Cleve-
lands second administration. From
German, who reeks with the foulest
trust legislation of the last 20 years. to
Carlisle. who wrote the sugar schedule
at the dictation of the sugar trust and
Belmont, of the secret midnight bond
DEAL down to Olney, who, in effect. adj
vised the too willing Cleveland to lend
the United States army to the Pullman
Palace Car company in Chicago the
notorious old band of boodlers are there
What may be expected of them if Par
ker is elected can be guessed by those
who remember the carnival of class
legislation which rendered forever in
famous the second administration of
Grover Cleveland.
The leopard has not changed his
spots, nor the Ethiopian his skin; that
Cleveland crowd is hungry; it has been
"out' long time; woe unto the people
when that predatory band gets their
clutches upon the government again.
What secret pledges have been made
to the Standard Oil? What is it's motive
for putting 100000 into Parker's
campaign fund? Are they afraid of
Roosevelt, and not afraid of Parker?
What is the ground of their preference
|, for Parker? The Standard Oil is not in
politics for health or pleasure. 1t always
has an ak to grind. What is the mo.
tiUe this time? The sugar trust put
$240, 900 in the New York campaign
,, alone, when Cleveland ran against Har-
!, rison; and all of US know the secret
pledges which were publicly redeemed.
: German, Carlisle and Sugar.
Arthur German and John G. Carlisle
saw to it that the tariff measure was so
!, framed that the trust got more out of
3 the people, by tens of millions, then
l they had gotten under that eliminating
} Kinley bill Their senatorial represent
2 tative, Arthur German has been placed
9 in open control of the Parker campaign;
, he has been the secret director from the
5 beginnlng-what will his clients the
a Sugar Trust. get out of this election. If
l Parker is successful?
g Wall street wants more bonds; the
= machinery for getting them is there, just
r where Cleveland left it; the same men
who worked Cleveland for bonds are
f steering Parker's campaign; what has
l been promised to Belmont and his con-
4. federated corporations? Is the "endless
e chain" to be put in motion again? Voters
who do not consider these questions do
themselves injustice.
, The Wall street organ, the Ne1o Yorh
| World, compelled Parker to speak out
, on the money question; why should he
) not be compelled by the Hearst papers,
and other really democratic papers. to
speak out upon other questions where
, the people have right to information7
What avails this cry about "extrava-
, gance"? That the government is run
; with reckless disregard of the middle
f and lower classes who pay most of the
: tariff taxes, is known of all men. But
who believes that either of these two
) great parties" is going to retrench ex-
, penditure? Appropriations for admins
trations are on the increase everywhere.
: With the federal government there II
} no such thing as going backward. Tho
, Billion Dollar Congress- of the republic
! cans was succeeded by Cleveland con-
> gress pledged to rigid economy" and
, it was not long before the democratic ap-
I preparations reached the billion dollar
, mark Harrison reduced the public ex-
: penditures by a quarter billion dollars,
and Cleveland was not long in adding
more than Harrison had taken away. It
was the democratic congress devoted to
rigid economy" which allowed the Chi
\ cago exposition to loot the treasury Of
n millions;-tim after time, and which
gave to each member of the house clerk
y at 500 per month.
Besides, who could put faith in the
n pledges Of the party which has SO little
p unity of conviction as the national demo-
+ cracy? What party ever made and broke