The Springfield herald., 1904-09-02
THE SACRAMENTO BEE.
California Democratic Newspa per's
Reasons for Supporting Roosevelt.

California Democratic Newspapers
Reasons for Supporting Roosevelt.
The Sacramento Daily Bee. hereto
fore the leading California Democratic
daily, has thrown up the Democratic
sponge and will support the Republican
ticket, giving the following reasons:
THE Bee can say for Theodore Roose-
welt 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 stn,ter 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 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 out
sneakingly like a Chatham street sec
ond-hand clothing dealer. appealing to
each voter: My opinions are just the
same az yours. Not are yours? Come
in and I'll show yon coat that will
perfectly fit you. l can fit any man of
any size
want, nor half they desire. They must
make a choice between what is set be-
fore them.
"And the Bee chooses Theodore Roose-
welt in preference to Alton Brooks
Parker
''It chooses Roosevelt because. with
all his faults, he stands self-reliant In
his American manhood. independent.
courageous, plucky. conscientious, un-
trammeled and unpurchasable. shackled
to no syndicate OF corporations; the
thrall of no criminal coterie waxing fat
upon illegal profits the automatic
nouthpiece of no predatory monetary
combination evadinG just laws now on
the statute books and numbering honest
measures in the womb of legislation.
'It opposes Alton Brooks Parker be-
cause he is not free agent; because
he is but as clay in the hands of the
potter, and that potter August Belmont:
because he is merely the graphophon.
of Wall street. and what little The Peo-
pie have heard through the machine has
unmistakably revealed the Voice of His
Master; because he is to-day but the
instrument which the Trusts hope to use
in disciplining Theodore Roosevelt for
daring to place the slightest barrier in
their way.
at chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause 1t considers the President should
be a man who can be dealt with directly.
ut opposes Alton Brooks Parker be-
cause it does not believe the people of
this great nation should select as Pres
ident a Man Friday TO Robinson
Crusoe.
1T chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause one great issue this time s the
man, and Roosevelt represents that in
all its courage and all its Americanism.
at opposes Alton Brooks Parker be-
cause he is merely the automatic repre-
sentative of the machine.
at chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause he stands for the rights of the
coored race, for justice to the DOWN
trodden, the oppressed, the disfranchised.
ut opposes Alton Brooks Parker be-
cause he is put forth on platform
which. cowardly evading the vital issue
in the South. not only silently approves
the rankest injustice to the negro-an
injustice that has the additional demerit
OF unconstitutionality-bu adds insult
to injury by denominating an effort to
do justice to the black man as AN at-
tempt to kindle anew radical and fac
tional strife
SIT chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause the one great and oversh Allowing
issue in this campaign will be whether
the trusts shall dominate this country,
snap their fingers at the laws of the
present, and strangle further needed leg
islation at its birth. or whether the peo-
pie shall hold these syndicated infamies
in check.
at was on that issue the trusts would
have defeated the nomination of Theo-
dore Roosevelt if they could.
"It 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 be-
cause he is n bondman-tied hand and
foot to Wall street and the trusts"