Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1904-11-25

| Men of great opulence, having inter
est In railroads, banks and other cor
porations will extend their friendly
guardianship to Judge Parker TIL,
Democratic candidate gave up an ofic,
and q salary Of $4,000 year to run fol
President He is not rich and will
look for employment when the cam
paign is over. It is reported in New
York that he will remove to that cit,
and practice law. Deficit will not CAS-,
him down. Mr.. Bryan is more joyoul
than ever. MI. Cleveland came bach
to Washington in 1893 : rich man.
A nomination to be President In
these days of benevolent instincts and
emotion, of Bsrbaric competition and
frenzied promotion. is Of value aside
from its personal pleasure and distinc
tion. After his calamity in 1883 Mr.
Cleveland was taken into law part
nership in New York a. advisory
counsel His name was worth thou
sands of dollars every year to his pro
fessional associates. Judges hastened
to appoint him referee in large cases
Friends in Wall street, Benedict, the
broker and William G. Whitney. saw
opportunities for him in speculation. A
golden edge was put oil around biz
disappointment and mammon gave
solace as only msmmon can. Today
he can write short magazine articles Of
no literary value or historical interest
and get 81 900 apiece for them.
The ''enemy's country" however
was not open to Mr.. Bryan, go he
turned to the west. edited weekly
paper and prosperity sat down with
thrift and made him Independent. The
altruistic spirit grows with the increase
Of wealth. Civilization is not always
selfish. Luxury even. opens Its ears 70
genuine worth and the main chance.
James Monroe, eight years in the presi.
Dental Office, returned to his sterile
plantation in Virginia. Poverty drove
him thence to New York where he
tried but failed to wiring . livelihood
from the law. He battled for six years
his relatives giving him the aid they
could. and died in penury. No such
adversity would overtake man like
him in these days, when names are
capital In books, on the lecture plat.
form and in all the offices Of Wall
street.
Hardly without exception. the men
who have been candidates for Presi-
dent have accepted the chance with
fortitude and have gone down in
courage and with philosophy. There
is . theory that Aaron Burr was wreck.
ed by disappointment and became q
voluntary exile to human society be-
cause of the loss of political power and
personal influence. But he was hide
ous moral monster and mon who knew
him loathed him. Banished he was
from all decent relationship. not be.
cause he was made bitter over his de.
feat for the presidency. but by reason
of his horrible misdeeds. Thurlow
Weed. the eminent journalist and poll.
tilion. who nominated three or four
Presidents and who led parties, said
that Burr disgraced many honest and
honored families and dying left all the
letters Of passion he had ever received
to his executor. These letters had
not been signed. but Burr put the
names of the writer's upon all of them.
He had even willed them to his dsugh.
ter, but she was lost at sea and was
spared the shame that her own father
had purposed to put upon her. Weed
saw the letters and helped to destroy
them.
In his last miserable days Burr. un.
clean, bent with age, lived upon q
mother and her daughter, both Of
whom had suffered through his vjllsiny
and who kept boarding house in New
York to support him. The mother had
been the wife Of q des,inguishud pro.
fessor of Oxford. in England. Burr
had visited at her husbands house.
The daughter was but II years old
when she fell under his evil spell. This
damned reptile, as he was called by
those who were acquainted with his
moral crimes, was beaten for President
by one vote. He went to his grave
hated and despised. Modification over
the loss of the presidency could not
have made him any worse than he was,
nor could it have increased his malig-
nifty. The nation was saved the dis
grace by his defeat.
TOOK DEFEAT BITTERLY.
Disgusted and angry over the ingrati.
tude Of his countrymen who had re-
fused to elect him the second time he
ran, John Adams, as is we'll known, de.
cliped to welcome his successor into
the presidential Office, but took q stage
coach and hastened away to New Eng.
land His son was beaten also for
second term, but there is no historical
proof that his defeat was taken to
heart. John Quincy Adams returned
to Massachusetts, and built q monu-
ment to the memory Of his patriotic
father and very remarkable mother.
He had hoped to give the remaining
yeare of his life to literature. but his
elected him to Congress. He