The border vidette., 1904-04-16
Communicated.
Nogales, Arizona, April l 4, 1904

The gentlemanly editor of the Oasis,
 last Saturday, after claiming for him
 self and the party which he misrepre-
 sents, all the patriotism, wisdom and
 bravery there is, or ever was, in the
 country, informs us that at the age of
 fifteen. he took the oath of allegiance
 and, to quote his own srandiloquent
 nursery rhymes, ''would have gladly
 given his young life had the god of
 battles called for it." As the county
 register gives his present age as 55, he
 would in 1861, have been only twelve,
 but then of course he might have taken
 the oath after the war was over, all though no doubt the 'god of battles" was equally delighted wether he was either l2 or l5, or took the oath either before or after the war,-so let that pass.
 Not satisfied, however, with thus oiling himself, and giving taffy to Re publicuns who know him only too well, he has not the generosity to alloy that there may be some redeeming points in those people who think Republican | policies are not always wise and Demo- cratic policies better, and who as citi- zens of free Republic, are at least as much entitled to their views as he to his, and might fairly be assumed to be as intelligent and patriotic as himself On the contrary, he becomes abusive aud talks of the ''anarchistIc and so- cialistic teachings of Jeffersonian Democracy"
 "Now wouldn't that jar you? Jefferson an anarchist Jefferson the man who wrote the "Declaration of Independence" on which the found ations of our Republic are laid; whose whole life was spent in defense of the liberty of the subject and the rights of man; who, though himself a slave holder, was opposed to slavery and who like Patrick Henry, ever said and thought, '.give me liberty or give me death
 The Oasis also says ''the Denocra- tic party has never stood for anything but distintegration and national pusil laniuity save when it battied to main tain slavery"
 All history shows such statements ia lse, from Bunker Hill to that recent instance, where the Democrats with their Republican sy:npathizers, forced most unwilling Republican admin istration to cast down the gage of bat tie to Spain, to avenge the Maine, and carry food and freedom to the starving concentrates of Cuba
 Jefferson. Jackson and Lincol alike stood for the rights and liberties of the people, but the Republicanism of Lin coin was not the Republica nism of the Oasis, of the trusts, of the money power, of concentrated capital and of shoddy aristocracy.
 AltnOuoh h the times caliau for TIn- | coin, the man of peace, to be for a while the man of war, yet ever his i sympathies were with the common | people. He saw and foretold clearly l the dangers that now threaten this Republic, and to use his own words, 'prayed that this government of the people, by the people, and for the peo- pie, should not perish from the earth"
 The battle Is now on as to whether man or money shall be master; as to whether concentrated capital shall control the people, or the people con- Ancient republican civilizations have perished in the past from the concen- tration of wealth, and the rule of or ganized plutocracy.
 Vicious forms of trust monopolies, IIc uOS 'saO ttOo, anu WOlI eat wolf systems of the day, that are mak- ing millionaires of few, and stru ggling paupers of the many. must be met and remedied or the foreboding of Lincoln be fulfilled.
 We need today another Jefferson, or a Jackson, to say as Jackson would: By the eternal, the people shall rule and the Declaration of independence, and the rights of man shall not be set aside"
 Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln alike ca me forth when needed, for when the hour comes, the man comes, and the hour and the man Is with us today. The name of the man of the hour is w LILLIAN RANDOLPH HEARST, the re presentative of Jeflersonian Demo cracy and the young and progressive : Democracy of today. :
 Hearst has ever shown his sympathies ! with the inasses; born in the golden , west, but an equally we'll known citi- zen ot the mighty east, where he was 5 to congress by an overwhelm- t ng majority; related to the Randolphs ( of the sunny south, he is an ideal man l % receive the presidential nomination. I L. Is said he is rich-a millionaire t hat is well, because he IS patriotic, as 2 we'll as rich, and 1t will not be necess- try for him to obligate himself to rust and money syndicates for cam