The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-04

ifornia, has announced that it will
not support the Democratic candidate
for President The reasons which it
gives for so doing are worth reading
because they are good reasons and
also because they illustrate how a
great many people in the west feel
about the two candidates and give
an idea of the possibilities of such
plain reasoning when used upon the
clear thinking westerners The Bee
speaks as follows:
1.-THE Bee can say of Theodore Roose-
welt that the Trusts do not want him,
while they do want Parker.
| "And it can say of the Republican
| platform that wherever there was
| anything to be said on any public is
sue, it said it. 1t did not hesitate,
and stammer and stutter and finally
put out long farrago of words, saying
much and meaning nothing; nor did
it smother the question altogether, on
the ground that there were no votes
to be got by injuring anybody's feel
ings on either side.
| LIE ploplOih ONo
| in the open and says: Here l am.
| You can either take me or leave me- ,
| "The Democratic platform darts
out sneakingly like a Chatham street
second hand clothing dealer, appeal
| ing to each voter: My opinions are
| Just the same as yours Vot are
! yours? Come in and ] II show you a
coat that will perfectly fit you l can
! fit any man of any size.
"In this world, men cannot get all
they want, nor half they desire. They
must make choice between what is
set before them.
land the Bee chooses Theodore
Roosevelt in preference to Alton
Brooks Parker.
"It chooses Roosevelt because, with
all his faults, he stands self.reliant
| in his American manhood, independ-
ent, courageous, plucky, consoient-
ious, untrammeled and unpurchase-
able shackled to no syndicate OF
corporations the thrall of no crimi-
nal coterie waxing fat upon illegal
profits; the automatic mouthpiece OF
no predatory monetary combination
evading Just laws now on the statute
books and numbering honest measures
in the womb of legislation.
st opposes Alton Brooks Parker
because he is not free agent; be-
cause he is but clay in the hands of
the potter, and that potter August
Belmont; because he is merely the
graphophone of Wall Street, and what
little The People have heard through
the machine has Enthusiastically revealed
the Voice of His Master; because he
is today but the instrument which the
Trusts hope to use in disoiplining
Theodore Roosevelt for daring to
place the slightest barrier in their
way.
'fIt chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause it considers the President should
be a man who can be dealt with
directly.
SIT opposes Alton Brooks Parker
because it dues not believe the people
of this great nation should select as
President Man Friday to any Rob-
inson Crusoe.
sit chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause one great issue this time is the
MAN, and Roosevelt represents that
in all its courage and all its Ameri-
canism.
sit opposes Alton Brooks Parker
because he is merely the automatic
representative of the MACHINE.
sit chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause he stands for the rights Of the
colored race, for justice to the down
trodden, the oppressed, the disfrsn-
chised.
ut opposes Alton Brooks Parker
because he is put forth on plat
form which, cowsrdly evading the
vital issue in the South, not only sill
emily approves the rankest injustice
to the negro--an injustice that has
the additional demerit of unconstitu-
tionality-but adds insult to injury by
denominating az effort to do justice
to the black man as an attempt to
kindIe anew radical and factional
strife.
sit chooses Theodore Roosevelt
because the one great and overshad-
owing issue in the coming campaign
will be whether the Trusts shall
dominate this country, snap their
fingers at the laws of the present, and
strangle further needed legislation at
| it's birth, or whether the people shall
! hold these syndicated infamles IN
/ check.
sit was on that issue the Trusts
would have defeated the nomination
of Theodore Roosevelt If they could.
cit is on that basis they will put
money in the fight for Alton Brooks
Parker, whom they nominated and
whom they control.
Finally, the Bee chooses Theodore
Roosevelt because he is FREE
MAN.
"It opposes Alton Brooks Parker
because he is BONDMAN-tied hand
and foot to Wall street ard the
Trusts. "