St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-08-24
The Sum that shine. for All.

ne campaign IS now on. bOtn parties
and both candidates have spoken.
On one side conservative party with
a radically inclined and erstwhile too
strenuous candidate for President; and
behind him for Vice Presidency, a man of
undoubted capacity, sound opinions, and
mental and physical promise of endur-
ance.
On the other side radical party, with
an infinite capacity for mischief and
stupendous record of mischief actually
accomplished, presenting for President
conservatively inclined candidate of ir-
reproachable character and attractive
personal accomplishments; and for Vice
President one whose extreme age is the
sole but the sufficient reason for apphre-
hension in case Of his succession to the
Presidency.
Such is the choice before the indepen-
dent voter, and it is the independent
voter who will decide this election.
i, Barring Judge Parker's gold telegram
of 1904, offsetting in some degree his
two free silver votes for Bryan in 1896
and 1900, and barring polite anti
been made, perhaps more gracefully in
an.inaugural address after election, moth
ing has come from Judge Parker's
lips or pen to indicate that he possesses
a single political idea marking him as
statesman of independent initiative, of
courage superior to the St. Louis brand,
of stature to command and lead. With
the two exceptions noted, he is an echo
of the convention, and naught besides.
We shall therefore advocate the elect
ion of Roosevelt and Fairbanks and ad-
wise the defeat of Parker and Davis; pre-
serving our own absolute independence
of organic control, and our freedom of
judgment as to every specific question
occurring New York Sun.
why We Prefer Roosevelt.
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 plat
tor m that whenever there was anything
to. be said on any public issue, it saidit. It
did not hesitate, and stammer and slut
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 any
body'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 Chatham street second
hand clothing dealer, appealing to each
voter: i" My opinions are just the same
as yours. Vot are yours? Come in and
I'll show you coat that will 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 choice between what is set before
them.
And The Bee chooses Theodore Roose-
Welt in preference to Alton Brooks Parker.
It chooses Roosevelt because, with all
his faults, he stands se1freliant in his
American manhood, independent. cour-
ageous, plucky, Conscientious, untram-
meled, and unpurchaseable; shackled to
no syndicate of corporations; the thrall
of no criminal coterie waxing fat under
illegal profits; the automatic mouth
piece OF no predatory monetary combin-
alton evading just laws now on the stat
ute books and numbering honest meas
ures in the womb of legislation.
It opposes Alton Brooks Parker be-
cause he is not a free agent; because he is
but as clay in the hands of the potter,
and that potter August Belmont; because
he is merely the graphophone of Wall
Street, and what little the people have
heard through the machine has unmis-
takably revealed "the Voice of his Mas
ter" +; because he is today but the instru-
ment which the trusts hope to use in
desciplining Theodore Roosevelt for
daring to place the slightest barrier in
their way.
1t chooses Theodore Roosevelt because
it considers the President should be a
man who can be dealt with directly.
1t opposes Alton Brooks Parker be.
cause 1t does not believe the people oil
this great nation should select as presi
dent a Man Friday to any Robinson
Crusoe.
1t chooses Theodore Roosevelt because
the one great issue this time is the man
and Roosevelt represents that in all its
courage and all it's Americanism.
1t opposes Alton Brooks Parker be.
cause he is merely the automatic repre-
sentative of the machine.
1t chooses Theodore Roosevelt because
he stands for the rights of the colored
race, for justice to the down-trodden, the
oppressed, the disfranchised.
1t 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 in.
justice that has the additional demeril
of unconstitutionality- adds insult
to injury by denominati ting aneffort to dc
justice to the black man as IAN attempt
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