The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-19
DEMOCRATS TO
MAKE FIGHT

MAKE FlUH
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rise to The dignity of distinct and
vital issue Of the campaign
Drop Cry Against Trusts.
Then-another most astonishing
c.Iang e-.tIle Democracy is no longer
to pose as the ''trust-busti ting party.
While the st. Louis convention may
not accept the advice recently tender
ell it by leading New York paper
and frame it's trust plank op the dis
ocratic justices OF the Supreme Court
in the famous Northern Securities
case, it certainly will not go to ex-
trerles, should the Parker element
have its way on the trust question.
Trusts will be condemned, OF course,
but the plank viii be bare of agony
and adjectives. Neither will drastic
rem edies Ee advocated and demanded.
In its, new role of conserva tism. the
y
sane and conservative" methods. 1t
will no more run amucl with the
trusts than will Attorney General
Knox, On the contrary, the Republi-
can party will be pointed at as the
enemy of vested interests and cor.
porate enterprise No longer are
William J. Bryan and the Democratic
party to be held up as the foes OF
financial. corporate and business inter
ests. but Theodore Roosevelt and the
Republican party.
It is the latter who, by the legisla
ton at the last session Of the Fifty
seventh Congress-; their successful
prosecution of the Northern Secllri-
ties case, and, last but not least, the
Presidents course in The anthracite
coal strike, have brought disaster to
Legitimate" business interests, de-
pressed the stock markets and pre-
vented many people from getting rich
right away by speculation. There is
10 be a Democratic cave Of AGailam
to which all who are dissatisfied
and all who are in debt may repair
and thence sally forth at the election
10 deal defeat to Republicanisu1 and
Roosevelt.
Nor is this all-sl1pposing. of course,
that Judge Parker is the nominee.
Not content with merely trying TO ap-
propriatc to itself the position neld
by the Republican party with regard
to financial and business interests il
1896 and 1900, the Democracy is to try
to reverse the positions OF the respect
i've Presidential candidates.
Judge Parker IS to he the William
Mckinley OF this campaign, and Pres
dert Roosevelt the William J. Bryan.
On one hand the calm, digniied Judge,
taking no part in the campaign, stay
ing quietly at home-unless, indeed,
DELEGATIONS nocll tc the rural solicit
tutles OF Esopus. Ulster county, n Y.
and, finding the Judge, like Maud Mhl-
Ter, ''rallinG hay feeding his Red
Pollel COWS or extracting the toainin2
CIDER from his apples, induce him to
indulge in platitudes warranted not
to offend the eye or the ear of the most
fastidious.
On the other hand Theodore Roose-
welt. the Trough Rider the cowboy,
the .'broncho buster, as Well as
trust buster" taking some part in
the campaign. perhaps, saying just
what he believes, and not caring much
for the result.
This last picture offends the refined
taste of the Parker people. Let us
have no more campaigns such as 1886
and 1907 they say. No more OF
this careering over the country, talk
ing from the rear end of special trains.
Especially 1et.us have no more cam
paigns like that of 1900, when Bryan
and Roosevelt went about like rival
wine: mills It is not dignifled. It does