The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-11-03
CHATS BY The WAY.

Amuck. tunuerllp snOulu pay InVEt
heed to his words. II Is the claim OF
the Republican campaign managers
that prosperity" is here already. and
has been here ever since the Dingley
tariff went into effect. Why, then,
talk about return" Of 1t?
Among the numerous reforms that
may be looked for in the event of the
election of Judge Parker is one for
the preservation of the lives Of tray.
elers by water. The steamboat inspec-
ton service, by practice OF graft and
Indulgence In favoritism, has been ad-
mittedly rotten, like the bulk OF the
life preservers aboard the Inflated
General Slocum. 1t was rottenest
when Chairman Cortelyou was Secre-
tary of the Department Of Commerce
and Labor, which has under its jurls-
dictlon the steamboat inspection SER
vice.
The Panama chicken is coming home
to roost before the coop is ready. II
was not intended 10 be ready until ar
Ter the election.
The Steel Trust takes from the peck
cts of our people and does not even
give its workmen fair share OF Its
. swag. In fact, 1t robs them right
along with the rest of the people and
besides giving to foreigners a better
bargain than to our own people.
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All signs point to the election of a
Democratic House of Representatives
Then will the time come when rot.
ten Administration will not be per
mltted to investigate itself and exclude
Congress from participation.
Announcement is made that during
the New York campaign the Republi
cans will keep Odell in the back
ground. The Democrats, on the 9th
er hand, will keep Odell and Odellisn
well to the front. They are worth thou
sands Of votes.
Roosevelt boasts Of his undying dc
votion to civil service reform, yet no
in q dozen years has the law been 81
extensively and fagrantly violated a
now. All over the country Government
employees are being forced to contrib
ute to the Roosevelt campaign fund.
The New York Press predicts tina
Roosevelt will come down to the Har
lem River with 100000 plurality. |
he reaches that point with $1,000 plu
rality lie will be doing very well, bu
even the former figure will not say
him, because Judge Parker's lead be
low the Harlem will be at least 125,0O(
This is q Democratic year in Ney
York. III.
we have often wondered just wha
was the matter with Tom Watson an
now we know. The Nashville Amer
can lets the cat out of the bag. "Tol
has had kind of yipersh. ganSrenls
hatred for the Democracy ever sine
Judge Fuller, of Georgia, moppcd Il
the earth with him in two separat
races for Congress-
The Boston Journal, the newspapt
that the Vermont Republicans regar
as only less sacred than the Bible, r.
ports that eleven men have subscribe
each S1,O0O,O00 to the Democrat
campaign fund, and yet the Journal
sure that Roosevelt will win out. Th
nice little wad of the long green
e-be .ilnmpelo into the d0ubtf'
States. Next!
Governor Chairman Odell says the
stories about "perversion OF Sta
funds" are lies from start to fms
ION the contrary" he says, II ha'
saved the State over SG,000.00O by II
yetoes." What an awful lot of graf
ers Odell's henchmen must be. II,
addition to what they got away wit
the boss held them up and made the
tiisgorge to the tune Of $6,00O,OO0!
"You can see twenty acres Of Phil
pine life at the worlds fair, but y
cannot see a square rod of the Cons
tution."-Justice Brewer, OF the I'm
ed. States Supreme Court
Respectfully referred to Preside
Roosevelt, with the suggestion tn
Justice Brewer be promptly tried
high treason.
The campaign for the perpetuation
Odellism in the State of New York
progressing beautifully. NO act
the Republican State Administrati
could bring blush Of shame 10
face of any Republican" exclalm
State Senator Elaberg, one of Odel
henchmen, in cic3lng an impasslon
plea for fair treatment Of the GOvel
or-Chairman. Marvellous" CONNER
the Republican New York Sun, "a
30 immaculate thing should d!ft
such an appalling stench.'
Colonel George Brumder, of Mllw'
kee, who started out to help ell
Roosevelt, has decided that he mad
mistake, and is now advocating
election of Judge Parker inste
Colonel Brumder owns the leading G
man-American newspaper In Milw
kee. He is also the proprietor of
Freie Presse, published in Linct
Eeb., and a German-American wee
OF large circulation In Chicago. Colo
Brumder is recruit worth having.
Is n fact of considerable significa
that n majority Of the newspapers
the Western States that are pr
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