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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
MISS DEMOCRACY
AND THE JUDGE.

Miss Democracy on summers day
Was raking the straws of years away;
Her hat, il the vintage of 81,
Was torn and her hair showed through
and through.
She sang, as she raked. mOurnful song
And watched the road the Judge came
along.
She looked and sighed and she said, "Ah,
me.
But that | the Judges wife might be!
He'd array me in all garbs superfne
And feed me on daintirs-we'd talk Of
wine!"
The Judge looked back as he climbed the
hill.
And saw Miss Democracy standing
still
81 fear thee, mine ancient DAME" quoth
he:
81 fear thee, yet must look at theel
fear thy sInewy, ribbed hand,
For thou art brown as the ribbed sea
sand
/ fear thy glittering, soulIess eye.
Thine eager clutch and thy cruel cry"
But she wigwagged him from her dusty
hill.
And he felt that the gods must have
their will,
So he wigwagged back. with his trusted
whip.
And rode away with trembling lip.
And the days went by, as days will go,
And the Judge was running-but mighty
slow,
And the weeks went by, as weeks will
fly,
And a tear welIed up in Miss DIS right
eye.
Alas for Miss D. and al IS for the Judge.
The autumn ended for them in smudge,
And all was lost for the maid aud the
man,
For the Judge was op'y an ''aIso ram"
Miss r. returned to her endless task,
The Judge resumed BIS weak, solemn
mask
Aud the world breathed freely once
again,
Muttering only: at might have BEEN"
1t might have been that her sinewy hand
Once more had clutched on a trembling
lard;
1t might have been that the weakling
group
Could even have made the old Eagle
stOOp.
1t might have been that the starved and
poor
Again were begging from door to door.
And the Judge went back to his courts
Of law.
And Miss D. went on with her raking
straw:
A1d the world brea thed freely orce again
And smiled as it thought: 1T could not
have BEEN"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07

CIV aShlngton Ilmes.)
Up to the present time President
Roosevelt has been described after the
following fashion by the opposition:
l. Mr.. Roosevelt is too Independent
of advice to be a safe man.
=. Mr.. Roosevelt has deferred to the
advice of the party leaders too com
pletely 10 be an honest man.
8. Mr.. Roosevelt CONTROLLED the CON
vention so completely that it was tame
and dull.
4. Mr.. Roosevelt caused the conven-
tion to make a noisy and undignified
racket
). Mr. Roosevelt has the party ma
chine under his thumb.
Is. Mr. Roosevelt'S popularity with the
people alone can win the election for
him.
:. Mr.. Roosevelt personally is the
party.
s. Mr.. Roosevelt has repudiated all
his former principles aud compromised
with the party.
8. The party leaders are growing be-
cause Mr.. Roosevelt will make no com
promise with them.
Now it is evident that II half the
things are so the other half cannot be,
since no man can possess two diametri-
cally opposite sets Of dominating duali-
ties
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
REPUBLICAN POLICY.
How 1t BENEFITS Laborer, Merchant
Manufacturer and Farmer.

HhHnutaGtuFeT anu II afueEs
There are some things that no political
party nor any government can do. They
cannot make crops grow nor establish
factories for the employment of work
men. But the Republican party has
done the next best thing by furnishing
home market for the farmers crops and
by encouraging capital to engage in man
ufacturing. whereby great numbers of
persons are given employment.
AS people we are dependent one on
the other. Whatever benefits the laborer
and the merchant benefits the farmer,
and whatever contributes to the pros
perity of the farmer benefits all other
classes. The surplus of the artisan sup
plies Il market for the farmer, and the
farmers profits make employment for the
mechanic. If there were no consumers
the produce would rot on the farm, and
without the agricultural class the pro-
ducts of skilled labor would accumulate
in the warehouse. Thus all classes are
interdependent.
The protective tariff, primarily intend
ed to encourage manufactures, has prov
en- of untold benefit to the workman by
furnishing him employment, and at the
same time has supplied consumers for
the products of the farm and increased
the price With a low tariff all manu-
featuring industries have languished, and
the farmer has shared in the general de-
preston. With a high tariff capital in
vests. manufactures flourish, la Dor is
employed, good wages are paid and put
into circulation, the farmer finds ready
market for his product and everybody
shares in the general prosperity.
Statistics show that the value of farm
products in the United States was ST..
100000 more in 1899 than in any year
of Democratic rule. Live stock increas-
ed in value S700, 100000 and crops $780,
100000. Agricultural real estate, that is,
farm lands and buildings, were worth
81, 220, 100000 more in 1899 than they
were in 1889. Such facts as these speak
volumes in favor of Republican policies
and Republican rule.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
Cogent Reasons Why They Should Vote
the Republican Ticket.

There are in the United States several
hundred thousands of naturalized Ameri-
can citizens who, by virtue of our liberal
laws, are entitled to vote for President,
and who in their native countries had
no political privileges. IN the light OF
facts how ought they to vote?
1t has always been the policy of the
United States to encourage foreign immi-
grafton, and the population of the coun-
try has been greatly increased by that
means. Both political parties have from
time to time declared in favor of eneour-
aging immigration of a desirable charac-
ter, and have approved of the liberal
naturalization laws under which aliens
may become citizens.
But this action of political parties has
had little or nothing to do in bringing
bout the immense immigration from for
eign countries to the United States. 1t
has been brought about by our liberal
land laws and by protective tariff legisla-
ton and other laws which have insured
steady employment and good wages to
workingmen and general prosperity to
the country. These are the conditions
that have attracted foreign immigrants
by hundreds of thousands, and but for
these conditions we would have invited
them in vain.
Statistics show that the tide of foreign
immigration has varied with business
conditions in this country. 1t has fallen
off in hard times and increased with good
times. It's hi hest point has been reach
ed during years of Republican prosperity
and its lowest during years of Demo
cratic depression. From 1878 to 1892 it
rose from 13S,000 in year to $4,000.
Then it fell off to 229, 900 and rose again
to 64S,OOO in 1892. The lowest immi-
grafton in any two years of the last TWEEN
IS was 2S5. 900 in 1894 and 25S,0O0 in
1895, two years of Democratic rule.
The homestead laws, under which mill
ions of acres Of land have been taken up
by Industrious poor men, including hun
dreds of thousands of foreign-born citi-
zeus, were originated and passed by the
Republican party. The protective tariff
laws, which have caused prosperity and
given employment and good wages to
workngmen, have been enacted by tho
Republican party over the determined OPP
position of the Democrats.
In the light of these facts it would
seem that gratitude as well as CONF On
sense should lead naturalized American
citizens to vote with and for the party
that has b, nehted them.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
THE CALAMITY HOWLERS.

'The Democrats TIl Make Calamity Gam
paign."
Hark! Harki the dogs do bark,
| The calamity howlers have come,
Some in rags and some with jays,
With bawling fakirs and flying flags,
With beating of cymbals and drum!
i1ark! Harkl the dogs do bark,
The calamity howlers have come!
" lat do they howl about? HOwlers
that howl?
Here they come arm in arm, cheek by
jowl,
Strikers and oilers, and oglers and
| beats.
Riffraff and roughscuff and spoil of the
streets,
Plunderous SNUG, Of the Woodworking
poor,
Mounting curb orators out on a town,
| Hark! Hank! the dogs do bark!
The calamity howlers have come!
Tammany lands on the dissoIute crew,
Loose mouthed, and grinning and crafty,
| too:
Hear the wild noise as the spellbln-
ders shrek.
While, fresh from the bar-rooms, the
listeners reek.
Everything going the speakers attack.
| Work, they decry, and of sense there's
lack.
Everything going, the earth and it's ways,
The size of the moon and the length OF
the days.
The price of potatoes, the taste Of fall
pears,
The fashion in coats and the pitch OF
the stairs.
There's nothing worth knowing, there's
nothing worth growing,
The farmer but mischief and misery's
sowing.
There's nothing worth making, there's
nothing worth taking
The whirling of spindles the whole world
is shaking.
Religion is dead and no honesty stays
In the land where we live in these evil
marked days.
~ schools are a failure, the teachers
al lie,
The books are all wrong, to be sure
there's a fly
In each and all hOney-pots, ever so neat,
Molasses is vinegar, nothing is sweet.
The workers a fool for his work, and
his pains,
The thinkers another, to think with his
brains.
The sun has gone wrong and there's
blood on the moon,
Mems teeth are on edge, they mus eat
with a spoonr'
Hark! Hark! the dogs do bark,
The calamity howlers have come,
Bawling fakirs. in doleful dumps.
MOurnful prophets in shocking slumps.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
WANT TO KEEP PROSPERITY
So the Drummers Are Hard at Work
for Roosevelt.
New York SUM-

t-NNN 4plh SUM-
The Commercial Travellers League OF
the United States has begun active work
to promote the election of Roosevelt and
Fairbanks and has established headquar-
tiers at 1865 Broadway. 1t has also
leased lie premises at sol Broadway
where, beginning September l, noon
meetings will be held daily on the lines
followed in 1896. President John l..
Shepherd said of the league:
First of all it is a business, and not
"a political, association; it is a national
not a local, body. Its members embrace
very many men who prior to 1896 voted
the Democratic ticket, but having lost
faith in their party because of its tnan-
cial and other heresies supported Nc
kinley in 1896 and 1900 and will sup
port Roosevelt in 1904. They do this
because they fear disturbed business
conditions in the event of Democratic
success and therefore place country
above party and will vote to continue an
administration which promises most to
continue the era of prosperity the coun-
try has 50 long enjoyed"
Vice President Mathewson, who was
greatly impresse,, with President Roose-
welt when he mea him recently, said on
his return from an extended trip: Il
am certain that President Roosevelt will
be elected. While away l talked with
hundreds of drummers, and know
what l am talking about when l say
that the commercial travellers will be
more potent factor in this election than
ever before. Business has been and is
good. and we want TO take no chances of
disturbing existing conditions This is no
question of politics with US. It is a BUSH
ness proposition pure and simple. The
West is enthusiastic for Roosevelt and
the claim Of Democrats of probable sue
cess in Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois
is all moons hine-a sample of the rain
bow chasing by Democrats who are
eager to get office. | have heard none
asssil Judge Parker, but the distrust of
his party is general among the agricul-
turists and business men"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
AS TO WAR LORDS.
Roosevelt Has Courage TO Do Things
that should Be Done.

From sheer want of political ammuni-
ton the Democrats, lacking other re-
course, are aluding to President Roose-
welt as "War Lord" and undoubtedly
will do so until the end of the campaign.
All right. We HAVE a "Wsr Lord"
from one point of view-that is, we have
man who takes the initiative and does
things.
Our WAR Lord" is going to built a
canal across the Isthmus OF Panama,
with the enormous machinery at his COM
mand now, and which we are going to re-
new to him again for four years after
| Nov. 8. He is going to dig ditch be-
tween the oceans and add so enormously
| to the welfare of the American public
that words may not well express it. They
call him a "War Lord" because he does
things. Through his initiative such leg
islation has been accomplished that with
| in the next four years vast regions, now
| deserts, will be great farms upon which
American people will be prosperous and
| happy. There is your "War Lordw
| By the way. speaking of WAR Lords"
who was it who had the keen perception
| of individuality which sent Dewey to the
| Orient when the Spanish war cloud be-
| gan to have q certain deuseness? Who
was it that exhibited the remarkable per-
ception, almost violating the orders of
his superiors, in directing that the swift
and strong cruiser Olympia should be re-
tanned where it could do the most good
We are under the belief that our WAR
| Lord is called WAR Lord simply
because he has tact and perception and
far-seeing good sense, and that when he
sees thing ought to he done he does it.
Quite aside from all this it has oc-
Cured to several million American citi-
zens that Theodore Roosevelt is, at bot
tom, a sound, conservative and thought
full American--perhaps at heart the most
conservative of all of our men of affairs,
but having the nerve and courage to do
at once what he thinks ought to be done
AS to his charge at San Juan Hill,
Republicans have no apology.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
HILLS UNTRUTHFgL CHARGE
Fabrication with Which He Opened
the New York Campaign.


the New York Campaign.
TO line up to his own record and that
of his party associates, David Bennett
Hill opened the Democratic campaign at
the Agricultural Fair at Deposit, New
York, with I plain. common, or garden
falsna5od of the ''pusIey" variety. This
fabrication is to the effect that Theo-
d0re Roosevelt declared when he took
the oath, after President Mckinleys
assassination, that he would not look
for tue Presidential nomination from his
party.
This story is not true. At the time
when President Roosevelt was taking
upon his shoulders the heavy duties laid
upou him by McKinley's tragic death. he
was thinking only Of the immediate re-
sponsibilities Of the moment, aud. as all
observed who saw him. he was talking
not at all. Tue crafty old schemer of
WoIfert's Roost, looking. in vain, for
some weak spot in the Presidents career
has had to fall back upon a bald untruth
70 his first shot at the candidate whose
character for straightforward prnbity
all men admire.
Aud II the story were true, what CT it2
Nothing that has been said or done
marks SO clearly the weakness of the
Democratic assault upon Roosevelt as
this puerle charge of Hill 1t would
be too trivial for comment except for
the poverty Of material it indicates. A
popgun is not a dangerous weapon, ex-
cept TO the man who uses it, aud thus
reveals how ridiculousy inadequate are
his arms of defense and offcnse.
Hills speech, after he had fired his
popgnn at Roosevelt, was shutting and
hating enough. touching the tariff and
gold standard ISSUES, 10 form a tit con.
tinuanee of his opening shot When
he charged upon the Republican party
tendency toward socialism he reached the
climax of absurdity. With "A few maun-
behring's over the questions already set
tied by the Republican party, aud fran.
tic claiming OF credit for such Democrats
as have worked with the Republicans in
default of ability TO do anything in their
own party, the W0lfert's Roost nissan
thrope brought his speech to a close.
What the farmers and towuspeople of
New York who listened to HilFs speech
thought, and said, can I've imagined. How
they will vote will be shown early next
November IL anything eau weaken the
cause Of the Democrats it is such
speeches as the one with which Hill has
opened the campaign.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
A WORD TO RAILROAD MEN.
Republican Policies Brought Employ
ment and Good Wages.

hucht Nop,l "h&ous
On Oct. 20, 1898, in che second year OF
his administration, President Mckinley
delivered an address TO the allied organ
izations of railroad employees in Chicago,
in which he said:
What you want, what we all want, 10
business prosperity. When we have that
yOT have something to do. When we have
4 not, then you are idle. There are few
'empties' now on the side tracks; SO there
are few railroad men unemployed The
more you use the freight car the Oftener
you see the pay car.
The year preceding the election of Mr..
Mckinley was a period of the hardest
times ever experienced in this country.
Never was there a time when the peo-
pie of the United States were suffering
under greater financial, commercial and
industrial distress than during the period
named. This condition was the result
of a Democratic administration and
Democratic policies.
The railroad business suffered with
every other. Many roads went into the
hands of receivers. The transportation
business fell off as never before. The
side tracks were filed with empty cars
and the roads competed for the little
business there was at ruinous rates. More
railroad men were out of employment
than ever before.
The election of Mckinley and the pas
sage of the Dingley tariff law was fol-
lowed by wonderful revival of pros
perity in which the railroads shared. In
October, 1898, when President McKin-
ley delivered the speech in Chicago from
which the above quotation is made, rail-
road employees were more fully employed
and better paid than ever before. The
railroads were unable to carry the freighi
that was offering and were earning more
money than ever before. This is not an
unsupported statement. Here is what
Dun's Review of Dec. 81, 1893 said:
Gross earnings Of all railroads In the
United States reporting for the year to date
are 81. f0J 030. 595. or 40 per cent over
last year. Roads reporting Include all the
large systems for the greater part OF the
wear, aud embrace total Of 1872, 1913 miles,
more than fOur-fifths Of the mileage Of the
country. The last preceding big year was
1892, and then rates We're on much higher
scale than this year, and the same volume
volume Of tonnage Earnings this year are
nearly per cent over 1892
This prosperity, the result of Republi-
can policies and a Republican admins
tration. continued year after year. There
was not a railroad in the United States
that did not experience the benefits OF
It. What railroad man would bring
back the times that preceded Mckin-
,ey's election?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
vot.rs viii, Have TO Guess.

Judge Parker's letter of acceptance Is
promised on or about September IL
some seven weeks before election day.
The American voters will. therefore,
have less than two months in which to
make up their opinion as to a presiden-
tial candidate "plucked from the worm
hole of obscurity," by David &. Hill,
and then only from a statement of views
whose authorship they can only guess.
Nothing he has ever done. said or writ
ten affords the slightest mixing of his
ca pacity to write a State paper. choose
a cabinet or steer p canal-boat, much
less the ship OF state OF the greatest
republic on earth.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07

tories and throwing hundreds Of thou
sands of men out of work
Now the Democrats are trying to play
the old game. They want the Presidency
to begin with. If they get it, there will
be an inharmonious administration with
divided responsibility. Then the Demo
cats will plead for full control, and if
they get it there will be another dis
astrous interference with the policies I'M
der which the country has prospered,
and another industrial panic. We can
judge of the future only by the past,
and the past shows that it is unsafe to
trust the Democratic party.
The American people have good
memories. They gave the Democracy
full swing, made an experiment, and
paid an awful price. They are not GO
ing to do it again.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
REPUBLICAN, RECRUITS.
Democrats DESERVING Their Party Be-
cause of Its Managers.
-.


New accessions TO the Republican
newspaper ranks are always welcome.
and they are coming this year thick and
fast, notable among them being some of
the oldest Democrat papers in the land.
1t is another of the omens that bode i'll
TO Judge Parker and his party, not be-
cause he is personally incapable, but be-
cause his managers who muzzled him
before nomination and emasc,.ated his
speech of acceptance later. are men
whose records reek with incidents they
dare net openly avow aud could not
themselves carry if made the nominees.
Millions of the nobiest men in Ameri-
ca are Democrats. patriots good and
true. who respond to their country's call
50 emergencies anG hasten to its defense
These men place principle before party
and back up with their voices and votes
the newspapers protesting against dan
gerous conditions when in any party
they appear. Such Democrats aided in
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
ONCE is ENOUGH.
Country Wants No More Disastrous In
reference with Beneficent Policies.

Rochester IN. " P2st Expressly
"We can't do any harm because there
is Republican Senate" pleads Judge
Parker
The sam, plea was made by the Demo
Gratis in 1884 and very unwsely the
country made a favorable response.
There was then Democratic President.
a Democratic House, and a Republican
Senate; consequently divided RESPONSE
biity and an unsatisfactory administra-
ton. In 1855 Cleveland was beaten be-
cause of his free trade message. In 1892
he made another appeal to the country
He didn't have a fair chance before: the
Senate was Republican, and blocked
these glorious measures for the relief of
the common people which Democratic
craftsmanship had planned; IL the
electors would only put the Democrats
into full control of the Federal govern
ment reign OF unparalleled prosperity
would be inaugurated. Again the people
responded, and Democratic President
Democratic House, ard Democratic
senate were elected. For the first time
since the Civil war the Democrats had
the opportunity to do as they pleased
What was the result? Blunders in every
direction, the greatest OF which were
increases in the public debt, issues Of
bonds to pay running expenses. and
such a crazy revision OF the tariff as
plunged the country into tremendous
industrial panic, closing shops and fac
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07

the elect of William Mckinley. They
naturally support Theodore Roosevelt,
the man who was McKinley's associate
in that campaign and who has carried
out his policy with honest fidelity. More
Democrat newspapers are coming and
with them host of men who have the
courage of their convictions and follow
the flag,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
Neither Safe Nor Sound.
(Philadelnhia Inquirer.l

HiAdutipuld Ah4uAANA'f
But even granting that Parker tags
along behind Roosevelt on the gold issue,
how safe is he on that great question OF
the tariff? He is neither safe nor
sound. He might not turn the country
upside down on the money standard, but
he would tear it from end to end when
it came to revising the tariff.
Cleveland was perfectly sound on gold,
but he was unsafe and insane on ''tarif
reform"
Cleveland stood for the free soup
house Oh every corner to keep the work.
ingman from starvation.
Parker stands for precisely the same
condition.
What is there in the closed mill and
the shattered factory that should SC ap-
neal to the people as to send manufac-
turing States ike Connecticut and New
Jersey over to the Democracy and render
Illinois and Indiana debatable?
The evidences of an insane stampede
10 Parker are not visible.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-07
Combines All that Is Great and Good.

Honor, truth, courage. purity of life,
domestic virtue, love of country, loyalty
to high ideal, all these combined with
active intelligence, with learning with
experience in affairs, with the conclusive
proof of competency afforded by wise
and conservative things already done
and great results already achieved-all
these we bring to the people with an
other candidate, Theodore Roosevelt"