The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-13
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3Ss Tells VII al s5ESs$ Ct iooSEs
SUPPORT THE RE-
PUBLIcANgTlck
u III us PLATFORM PRO
sNouMcEDS 1E.LL BROTH OF
DIsHNgATER ND Il DYNAMITE
coNcocTED q a PARTY
,s AFRAiD ToRENO,fNcE
rs cRIMfH!AL FOL-
I'll S.

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kss nltEtion aot a rude jolt to-day
I,ssi1 sffle or1s sun, came ont
1foated for Roosevelt and Fair
in, during the last few
years AS been perntciously independ-
Zen II 81 o1IticaI attitude, and has
been specially bitter toward Presi-
dent Roosevelt The reasons for it's
scourse were Farious, but chief among
them was NJ I. r ooseyelt's interven-
ton i'll 902 TO end the anthracite
coal strike For this 1t has denounced
II the President with atrocious ferocity.
Nor was TIL Sun anything like hap
spy oyer MI. Roosevelt's course with
the trust question and it has lost no
opportunity d fs.tt throw it into the adj
M mis- ton with vigor unparal-
5eIeds
But with al its idiosyncracies, and
Notwithstanding its captious and I'M
sprincipIed managemen the Sun is
most ably edited newspaper in the
Jnited States. Toward its columns
saIl WspaperSS men, politicians, sci
entfffc men, intelligent business men
and men Of affairs generally turn for
infoTmation, enlightenment, critical
and authentic discussion, This is why
I'M was the talk of the town
To-day and VIII y during the next week
wi II Be more widely quoted
fhrong hout the United States than
\ any other newspaper in the land
The editorial declaring for Roosevelt
and Fairbanks is as follows:
The Editorial.
The campaign is now on Both
parties and both candidates have
On the one side a conservative par
It'll radically inclined and erst-
while too strenuous candidate for
Vice Presidency, a man Of undoubted
capacity, sound opinions and mental
and physical promise of endurance.
On the other side radical party,
with an infinite capacity for mischief
and astupendo us record of mischief
actually accomplished, presenting for
a conservatively inclined
sSeandidate of irreproachable character
and attractive personal accomplish
ments; and for Vice President one
whose extreme age is the sole but
suf1icientS reason for apprehension in
y case of his succession to the Presi-
dency
Such is the choice before the in
Sdependent4:yote and it is the indie
pendent voter who will decide this
ELECTION.
III He cannot take Judge Parker on
the Republican platform and record.
He cannot reject Mr.. Roosevelt with
out reckoning ito the, distant Huns;
with ont helping to open the gates of
poWer8fto political forces of unmeas-
snred destructive potentiality. 1t
seems better to maintain unbroken
4 the wall Of defense which the first
election OF Mckinley established.
q Two 4 hings might have happened
TO make the%choice OF 1904 a choice
q between individuals rather than be-
4 tween parties standing on their re
SspectiVe records. Neither of the two
things has happened. The first op-
portunity was deliberately avoided
u by the compromising tricksters at ST.
Louis. The second was deliberately
thrown away at Rosenount yester-
a day. g,
AnSfEcho of the Convention.
SIIheTS S5Olu tGlS-
gram of A 904 ), offsetting in some de-
N gree his two silver votes for Bryan
N a 500 and 1900 and barring a polite
anti-second term pledge which might
"a have been made, perhaps, more grace
as an inaugural address after
ELECTION, nothing has come from
Judge Parker's lips or pen to indicate
ss3$st that he possesses a single political
idea marking him as a statesman of
Independent Initiative, of courage SUI
periOrs to the st Louis brand of stat
ure to command and lead With the
misconceptions noted, he is an echo of
the convention, and nausht beside.
He is yet the unknown quantity that
Ill he was throughout the preliminary
period of silence prescribed by judi-
E$cial dignity. Instead of rising above
4&th he Platform Judge Parker has crawl
led pretty ignominious1y beneath it. in
os1fs5&re reluctantly expressed opinion.
himself has decreed that the
ssS choice of the Independents shall be;
one 81 partiesEa dErecords and prin-
siples. rather tina. men. .s
"a tate the SUMS position and
Il lis reasons therefor re{tuires no mel