The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-27
FOR ROOSEVELT
A California Democratic Newspaper
Bolts Parker.

The Daily Bee, the leading Demo
fornia, announces that it will not sup
port the Democratic candidate fol
President. 1t indorses the Republican
candidate and platform in the follow
ing editorial:
"The Bee can say of Theodore
Roosevelt that the Trusts do not want
him, while they do want Parker.
"And it can say of the Republican
platform that whenever there was any
thing to be said on any public issue, it
said it, 1t did not hesitate, and STAN
mer and stutter and finally put out a
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.
1.-The Republican platform stands out
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 sec
ond-hand clothing dealer, appealing to
each voter: My opinions are just the
same as yours. Vot are yours? Come
in and I'll show you coat that Will
perfectly Il you ! can fit any man
of any size
.'In this world, men cannot get all
they want, nor half they desire. They
must make a choice between what is
set before them.
Roosevelt in preference to Alton
Brooks Parker.
1T chooses Roosevelt because, with
all his faults. he stands self-reliant i'll
his American manhood. Independent,
courageous, plucly, conscientious, I'M
trammeled and unpurchasable: shack
led to no syndicate of corporations;
the thrall of no criminal coterie wax
ing fat upon illegal profits; the auto
combination evading just
laws now on the statute books and
numbering honest measures in the
womb OF Legislation.
1T opposes. Alton Brooks Parker
because he is not free agent: be-
cause he is but as clay in the hands |
Of the potter, and that potter August |
Belmont: because he is merely the /
of Wall Street. and what |
little the people have heard through |
the machine has Enthusiastically reveal |
I'd the voice OF his master; because |
he is today but the instrument which |
he trusts hope to use in disciplining
Theodore Roosevelt for daring to place
he slightest barrier in their way
ut chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
:ause it considers the President
should be a man who can be dealt
With directly.
1t opposes Alton Brooks Parker be-
:ause it does not believe the people
If this great nation should select as
President a Man Friday to any Rob
nson Crusoe.
1T chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
ause one great issue this time is the
IAN. and Roosevelt represents that
n all its courage and all its American
SIN.
ut opposes Alton Brooks Parker
ecause he is merely the automatic
representative of the MACHINE.
1T chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
ause he stands for the rights of the ! :
olored race, for justice to the down
rodden the oppressed, the disfran-
hised.
1T opposes Alton Brooks Parker be-
ause he is put forth on a platform
'hich. cowardly evading the vital is
lie in the South, not only silently ap-
roVes the rankest injustice to the
eSro-an injustice that has the addi- v
onal demerit of unconstitutionality-
ut adds insult to injury by denomi
ating an effort to do Justice, to the
ack man as AN attempt to kindle
lew radical and factional strife
1T chooses theodore Roosevelt be-