Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-16


 and aspiring; in short, that the pride. intelligence and manhood of the st2se will not permit the land of Clay, Crit tenden' and Breckinridge, to be dragged by fetish-worshipers and juggling poli- ticians at the carts tail of Kansas, Col orado, the Rotten Boroughs of the Rockies and the Mining Camps of the Reservations.
 If Kentucky is to develop a new race of public men in line of succession to the Gentlemen and Statesmen of other and better days, then MT. Me Quown, and his engaging committee, and Gov. Beckham. and his ingenious companions, will need to study less the horn-books of peanut politics and more history and philosophy. They will need to learn that knock-down and drag-out methods, double-dealing and chicane, never prosper for long; that, turning sanity. effectively voiced and supported by the Courier-Journal, Ken- lucky would be a Republican state to- day. and that the era of successful jug gling and mouthing is over. Nay. fl may be doubted whether the Courier Journal could have saved the party ex- cept for the amazing fatuity of the Re. publicans.
 The intelligence of the Common wealth found itself literally between hawk and buzzard. It lowered in the balance. At the critical moment crime came to the rescue of folly and tipped the beam. Yet was Democracy so at sea, so at odds with itself, that nothing short of the mos: constant watching and care could recover the lost equi- boise. Directly under the leadership of the Courier-Journal, first in the city of Louisville and then in the state at large, the surface of things began to change. We pulled Weaver through by the hair of his head. We pulled Beckham through by the hair of his head. Once again on rising ground, the rest was easy. so that. in the last election, We boiled very nearly our old time majority.
 We shall sweep the state for Parker and Davis by a greater majority still. Thousands of Democrats who. disgust ed by the lowering tone and warned off by the sinister agencies. have held aloof, will. assured once more of great policies and living ideals, come again 10 the front. Once more shall we have campaign of enthusiasm based on realities and not on shams Once more 1t is Democracy versus Republicanism; Home Rule against Imperial Rule; Popular Rights against Centralized Despotism; Revenue Tariff against Protection Robbery; Integrity against Jobbing and Usurpation: the Public Credit and Order intact; the Constitu. ton as it is. the very arc of the Cove nant of Freedom and Freemen. against Arbitrary Power, against Roosevelt. the would-be Man on Horseback. against Rocseveltism, but another name for the destruction of all stand ards, political and moral. and ,he erection in place of our lair fabric c. Freedom and Law. ruling by force of corruption at home. abroad by tie claim of the Right Divine.
 These are the issues of the Cam palgn before us. They are not to be brushed out of the way. or beliriled either by any potwollopers at Washing ton, or any tempoTizing politicians in Kentucky. Upon them the Cour:e-- Journal proposes to make the figat ofl is life. It will do what it can to sup port the local organization; but Gov ernor Beckham and MT. McQuown must toe the line of the National or ganization, and require the;r file leaQ- CTS 70 do so. We want nothing; but We speak for the Unterrifel and Un- defiled Democrats of the whole coun- try, and We snail speak in no uncertain tones.
 Doubtless there are some of the fcl lowers of MT. Bryan who in their heart of hearts hope. with MT. Bryan him. self. that the ticket will lose. But it will not lose. It will win; never have We gone to battle more confidently. It will win; and it behooves Kentucky it behooves the existing Democratic organization in Kentucky-to set its house in order. and to keep it in order. Down with the ruinous memory of past contention-the putrid carcass of Free Silver-up with the standard of Parker and Davis, blazing in the sunshine, Gold, Gold and pure Gold-the Gold of Democracy, Unterrified and Unde- hled-now and forever, ,Amen,-Henry