The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-10-06


bribed ol influenced by the men who
have put up this money with the hope
OF e]ectinr President that they can
use IN their business" that of squeez-
ING more millions out of the American
people
The Democrats are having troubles
of their own now a-days and have less
10 say of the real OF fancied troubles OF
their opponents The Boston Herald
is shlieking itself hoarse i'll calling upon
Jndee Parker to come out in the open:
Int his mouth and lis person are alike
closely guarded. On the other hand
certain active and prominent Demo-
Gratis are talking too much. a consplc-
mons offender is the breezy editor of
the louisville COurier-.] ournal, Colo
mel Henry Watterson. On the occa-
sion of tile dinner to Democratic edl-
tors at the w aldorf-Astoria, in New
York. he lavished his large store OF in
yactiye on President Roosevelt-ln-
deed. was so reckless and unwise in his
use of language that even the Demo-
cratic press were compelled to sheer at
him as an oratoIical ''hoodoo,' and his
speech was rebuked by The Evening
Post and other local ''saviors of the
Constitution as an unfortunate piece
of shirts eeyes" orat0ry. The colonel
himself was denounced as 'swash-
huckler." and told that his rough-and-
ready handling Of the "usurpatlon is
sue'' might be all right enough for
darkest Kentucky but would never
do the work in the more tinical and
colder blooded doubtful States.
Colonel Watterson naturally seems be-
wildered. and not little aggreived, at
this unlocked for condemnation; and in
a recent issue of the Courier-J ournal
has this, among other things, to say in
his own defence:
The editor of The Courier-J ournal
had the misfortune to be in the East at
the time of the Waldorf Astoria din.
mel: he did not volunteer to 60 there;
he could not refuse to sit down at the
table with his professional and politi-
cal brethren and to speak when called
upon to do So He said nothing which
the independent press has not been say
ing over and over again; he pursued ex-
actly the line pursued by The Eagle
and The Times, yet is discredited by
each of them, both refusing to print his
very short speech entire, and abused
outright by The Evening Post, which
refused to print any part of it.
Another offender is Bourke Cochran.
One of his recent oratorcal efforts the
Brooklyn Eagle criticises under the
caption, "a Speech Unfit to Be Made"
1t says:
AS much of the speech as condemned
the conduct of the Governor of Colo
RADIO, against mobs, which claimed to
act as labor organizations, should not
have been delivered and should be
pointedly condemned by every law
abiding newspaper The mObS were
made up Of murderers, manners, ter
roriZers and outlaws. AS many as
tW enty-one murders, and twice as many
maimings were scored against them.
y rson and terrorism further decorated
the conduct of these 'organiZed' out
laws, They threw down law. They
sacrificed life. They wounded whom
they could not kill, and they followed
such performances. congenlal to them
with dynamite and the torch. What
they did was Infamous. The condition
which they brought about was intoler-
able. They made war, with its worst
atrocities, on government, on order, on
property and on life.
What was done against them by the
state government of Colorado, either in
its judicial or in its military capacity,
was rightly done, bravely done, laudably
done, sternly done, admirably well done.
We hope that the doing of it will be APP
proved by the people of Colorado. 1t
will be approved by them, if they love
liberty, respect human and natural
rights, and deserve to enjoy those rights.
1t will be approved, if the punishment
of murderers is to be preferred to muir
der as an industry, and if the vindica-
ton of law is to be preferred to the cor
onation of systematized crime.
In conclusion the Eagle thus forcibly
expresses itself: ''The things which
we have detailed, and denounced, were
immoral, incendiary, and scandalous
We can imagine nothing more hurtfu
than those things to the cause which
Bourke Cochran would, or would affect
to, favor AS that cause is sincerely
supported by the Eagle, this paper feels
bound to note and to denounce the in
jury to that cause which Bourke Cock
ran, Willingly or unwittingly, has
sought to inflict upon it. His was 9
speech, in the respects set forth, unf1
to be made"