Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-10
The Key Note of
 the Campaign
yesterday.
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 yesterday.
 The temporary chairman next boast ed that the Republican party had by a manipulation, which he described, oi the currency made it so difficult to get gold out of the treasury in exchange for other forms of money that practic- ally it can not be done at all Co any large extent and hence that all danger of an endless chain thereby produced has ended. The ex-secretary then boasts that the secretary of the treas ury can and does contract and expand the country's currency at his will. and illustrates by the occurrences which happened in 1902, which he quotes. Remember, he boasts that this is a fact. If so. what a magnificent one man power it is. It is almost as great as that lately wielded by the ex-secre- tary himself. when he was ex-sdficio emperor of the Philippine archipelago; when, as he himself subsequently said in public address. questions affecting the interests and lives of millions of people had to be decided by him. upon not much more than a moments notice and entirely within his own discretion. What do the men who believe that the government ought to go out of the banking business and the men who be- lieye that the banks ought to go out Of the government business think of this remarkable. this boastful asser- ton that one man in the United States can and does contract and expand the currency, which furnishes the life and blood of so many, at his sweet will?
 The temporary chairman told the country that the act to expedite the hearing of the trust cases. namely. the act of February II, 1903, was "Repub- lican legislation. He forgot to say that every democrat voted for it. and that is my recollection. have never known a more ingenious mind than that of eX-Secretary Root His in- genuity is never so marvellous as when it's power is illustrated by the things that he forgot to mention. Verify. he is the Root of all evil" when it comes to making the worse appear the better side of reason.
 Where Root Erred.
 The eX-secretary then tells us, i1 a burst of eloquence. the fatal 14th of September. 1901, marked no change of policy" that when the kindly. frater- nal soul of Mckinley wended it's way from the earth he left behind him no break-his policy was continued in spirit by his successor. Who is there in America of common sense who does not know better? The changed spirit of the policy of the administration with regard to reciprocity with foreign nations, with regard 70 local self-goT ernment in the south. and in twenty re- spects which il would take too much time to particularize. will suggest themselves 10 your mind at once.
 But to go on to the authoritative u;- terance of the Republican platform in convention assembled. The platform, like the temporary chairmanship, deals definitely in the boast that the Republi- can party is responsible for everything good which has happened. It also deals much in ancient history T. did well 70 go back fifty years. The pres ent Republican party needs a running start of fully fifty years to enable the imagination of the people 10 jump over it's present obstructiveness and it's eva sion of live issues which lie in the path way. The platform. in speaking of the accession of the Republican party to power after Mr. Cleveland's second administration had expired, uses this language.
 We then found the country. after four years of Democratic rule. in an evil plight. oppressed with misfor- tunes and doubtful of the future. Pub lie credit had been lowered. revenues were declining. the debt was growing. the administrator attitude toward Spain was feeble and mystifying. it's standard of values was threatened and uncertain Labor was unemployed Business was sunk in the depression which succeeded the panic Of 1893. Hope was faint and confidence was gone"
 Suppose I paraphrase that utterance by saying that when Mir. Cleveland succeeded 70 the presidency in March, 1893. after four years of Republican ad- ministration under Mir. Harrison. the Democratic party found the country, after a long period of Republican mis- rule and extravagance, in evil plight.