Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-08-17
RESPONSE BY DAVIS MUCH
MORE MANLY AND SENSIBLE
Aged Candidate Expresses Determination to be Elected
Re.echoes Parkers Statements and Makes
Bid for the Labor Vote,

times for not making them--as in
the Panama republic, for instance.
st will be your duty as part Of
the executive branch of the govern.
ment to look down with contempt
upon the legislative branch. You will
soon learn that the cattle, who in.
habit the senate chamber and the
other wing of the capitol--the lower
house (Which has been getting con
stantly lower and lower every day for
many years. are but little. IL any
better than the other cattle who sent
them there-the farmers and meehan-
les and doctors and preachers and
merchants Of the United States In.
fluence the president to feel as YOU do.
He will be told, perhaps, that an ex-
ecutive officer can go too far and
finally outrage the feelings Of these
cattle. He may be told that any
man who has such profound contempt
for the legislative branch of this gov
ernment is unfit to be the head Of
its executive branch. What stuff!
And yet this last sentence is an ac-
tual quotation from member of con-
gress. Tell your chief that the man
who uttered this sentiment was only
a southerner and not even southern
Ell Of the right sort not an image Of
God in ebony--but just white man
of that coarse and brutal strain
which turned loose upon the world
George Washington, Thomas Jeffer.
son, John Marshall. Robert f. Lee,
Abraham Lincoln, General George ID.
Thomas, Admiral Farragut, Sidney
Lanier and Thomas Nelson Page.
"As to the common herd, who send
these cattle to Washington, all you
need with them Is to talk platitudes
about Civic Righteousness and the
'strenuousness of life. What they
want to do Is to sit In the galleries
and witness the play. Make yourself
| the star performer. according to your
opportunities.
Remember especially that all pros,
perity among the people Is due to gov.
ernment; that government In taking
with the hand OF taxation from one
nan in order to hothouse the pros.
perity Of another, has, In some way
or other, benefited and enriched
both. DO not stop to explain how
this is possible. II would take too
much time. Il might besides that
be embarrassing. II anybody is i'm
pudent enough TO insist upon know
ing how il could possibly come about
tell him that YOU are not teaching d
kindergarten and tell him, moreover
that il is your duty 70 do things
and not TO be bothered with any con
sideration of whether you are doinl
them right or wrong.
I'm conclusion, Sir, pray for war
nobody can tell what great things
war will end in when once began
Il might result In making Of youl
chief the first Emperor and Lord Pro
tector Of the Western Hemisphere.
Yon would Of course. in that event
as heir apparent. share bis glory
Your legal title might become Prince
d'Outre Mere know you would
run some little risk OF having him des
ignate his secretary OF war as hii
successor, but believe woult
chance II. Besides, peace Is tam
and unstrenuous thing. and smother
out some Of the finest instincts q
manhood Shakespeare said: I'll
thy right hand carry gentle peace u
silence envlous tongues Our fore
! fathers, even down through the time
Of Lincoln and Grant, thought thii
sentiment sound morality am
sound policy, for nations, as vel
as for individuals. We know nov
! that the right policy is TO trea'
softly and carry big stick
"who was the fool who said: wa