The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-07-16
GETTING ABOARD
THE BAND WAGON
Tn. Official Organ Of the Sill
yer Part, OF the
West
DfClARIS FOR ROOSEVELT
What the Sacramento Bee Ha.
to Say Abo.t the Cam
die ates

past eight years has been a, earnest sin
cere and powerful advocate of Bryan and
Bryanism, has announced that it will
not support Parker. but will advocate
the election of Theodore Roosevelt. the
reason for it's course are given in the fol-
lowing remarkable editorial which de-
serves to be read by every citizen of I'M.
state.
after the memorable Mckinley con-
vention held at St. Louis in 1886. the Sac
ramento Bee openly anouced itself 10.
William J. Bryan for President of tEe
United States. declaring 1t would not fol
low those who had stolen the livery OF
the party to serve Wall street: 1t wouio
not forsake the principles of a lifetime
to become an idolater at the shrine OF
Gold.
III Aift NAihpniSh titio paper DAeNNA -
the doctrine which II had always advo-
Gated, which the Republican party, Han
naized at st. Louis. had contemptuousls
cast aside. and which the Democracy,
under the leadership of Bryan. h q
adopted. The Bee marched behind tne
same flag In 1900. II would be willing TO
follow that banner today did II repre-
sent those same principles. and were II
held aloft by a trustworthy and a sin.
cere leader
"The Bee cannot approve much tina
Roosevelt has done. It has criticized n
executive acts on more than one occa
sion In the severest terms TIE Repubi
can platform Is not In several places III
line with the Bees ideas.
But the Bee can say Of Thecdor,
Roosevelt that the trusts do not want
him. while they do want Parker.
And IL can say of-the Republican plat
form that whenever there was anything
TO be said on any public issue, 1t said IL.
1t did not hesitate. and sta.nmer. ano
stutter and finally put cut long farra
go of words. saying much and meaning
nothing: nor did II smother the question
altogether. on the ground that there were
no votes TO be got by iniurng anybody $
feelings on either side.
THE Republican platform stands out In
the open and says: Here | am. You can
either take me or leave me-
"The Democratic platform darts cut
sneakingly like Chatham street second
hand clothing dealer, appealing to each
voter: My opinions aie just the same as
yours. vot are yours? Come In and III
show you coat that viii perfectly fit
you. I 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.
And the Bee chooses Theodore Roose-
welt n preference TO Alton Brooks Par
ker.
ut chooses Roosevelt because. with al
his faults, he stands self-reliant in his
American manhood independent cour-
ageous. plucky. conscientious, untran-
meled and unpurchasab.e: shackled to no
syndicate of corporations: the thrall OF
no criminal coterie waxing fat upon ilie-
gal profits. the automat,r moulhpiece OF
no predatory monetary combination
evading lust laws now on the statut,
books and numbering l,onest measu es in
the womb OF legislation
1T opposes Alton Brooks Parker be-
cause he Is not free agent. because n,
Is but as clay in the hands of the potter
and that potter August Belmont; because
he is merely the graphophone of wal
street. and what little the people have
heard through the machine has unms
takably revealed the voice OF his master
because he is today but the instrument
which the trusts hope to use in disciplin-
ing Theodore Roosevelt for daring tC