The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-09
QUESTIONS FOR T

~ ~ "a 34F nance OF
Democratic success.
BY that message. The World saw light
come out of darkness and declared ina.
Judge Parker had done what the con.
vention had failed 20 do. that is give
assurances 20 the business interests of
the country that the money question
was not an issue and that The gold
standard was i~rrevocahiy fixed.
Since then The Word has carried q,
an energetEc campaign FOR Parker. II
has high hopes that he Will be the next
President OF the United States and /,
Is welding its influence To that end.
Recently that paper presented ten
clear cut questions to the people of the
country concerning the issues that are
before them in the campaign.
A study OF the questions and i con
scientious answer will insure Demo
cratic success. These questions were
as follows:
Tough Rider or Judge?
Shall the people OF the United states
have for the next four years a per-
sonal or a constitutional governments
the sovereignty OF a party dictator or
he SONSTSEkl1f OF the 1CNptETA lkOukh
Rider or a judge for chief magistrateg
H.-Reform the Tariff.
Shall monopolies like the beef trust.
cept with the consent and under the
direction OF its beneficiaries-by Tho
friends OF It's abuses. its extortIons.
and its observation-disclosures shall 10 be
revised in a judicial spirit by the
frend of the masses and for the COM
mon weai?"
IH.-Curb tho Trusts.
Shall monopolies like the beed trust.
controlling universal necessaries OF life.
continue 10 receive the protection of a
sheltering tariff. and enjoy still longer
indulgence in the non-enforcment OF
antitrust laws by reason OF their enor-
nous contributions TO party campaign
funds and their potential influence with
party leaders?
IV.-The Abuse of Power.
Shall the action OF the President In
Kidding himself OF the one successful
trust prospecute in order please the
corporations-in making his former
private secretary and head of the De-
partment OF a campaign
fund solicitor from the very corpora
tons he was appointing TO diligently
investigate"-in appointing a railroad
corporation official Secretary OF the :
Navy, and a political agent OF the
eN@-h> ~ At AAaAA
OF the department TO supervise and
curb corporations (all To aid his own
campaign)-shall this surrender OF
the Rough Rider be approved by the
people?
V.-No Corporation Rule.
Shall the rule of corrupt corpora
tons in politics and their cont bling
influence in government De further en-
larged and confirmed BY continuing In
mower "A ma rtv closely allied .stGh than,
by the granting OF special privileges In
the tariff, by the election OF corpora
ton agents to Congress and 10 State
offices. and through the reconstruction
of the Cabinet TO meet their views?
VI-Stop the Extrayagancc.
Shall We continue a policy of reck-
less extravaganza. as evidenced by the
expenditure OF more than $2.5o0. 600, 600
during the last four years. or shall we
return to u reasonable economy?
VH.-Check the Corruption.
Shall corruption bred OF too long a
lease OF power, as instanced in the
half-disclosed postal frauds. in the land
office scandals. in the pension abuses.
in the sale of Offices and negotiation or
corrupt public contracts by Senators
Dietrich and Burton in the purchase OF
a seat in the Senate by the Democrat.
w. A. Clark. ratified by Republican
1fa 80 ~ aiNl
executive recognition OF notorious cor
ruptions and professional spoilsmen, be
condoned and continued.
VIH.-No big Stick" Buster.
Shall the attitude OF the United States
toward foreign nations be that OF a
bully with a big stick" and a hip on
his shoulder. or shall we return to the
policy OF Washington and Jefferson
Peace and friendship with all nations
Il N nOlfnr IL nnac u,ifk nnna's -IzR
ing our own business and expecting
other nations TO do the same?
K.-What Will the Filipinos Do
to Us?
Shall We continue the malevolent Eff
feet upon ourselves OF so called "be-
nevolent assimilation" in the Philip
pines until il is too late to withdraw
from that deplorable and un-American
adventure in Asiatic coIonialism-
which becomes all the more dangerous
| the more We impose upon them the
veneer of our civilization-and until
the hybrid and forever alien races or
those islands shall be Incorporated in
to our body polite, to cast the dies in
our national conventions as the dele
gate from Hawaii did at Kansas City in
1900; to participate in our elections, TO
| sit in our Congress, and eventually to
help to govern those who now by force
impose upon them government with
out consent and taxation without reps
| resentation?
X--"Let Us Have Peace"
Shall we. forty years after the end
of the war and after a complete recon.
| Citation OF the once hostile States, tear
asunder by a revival of the sectional
Issue the bonds of fraternity and con.
cortland this when the people of the
South have just ecure the nomina-
ten Of a conservative and sound inon.
ely Democrat for PresideE., and have
given repeated instances Of tn. strong.
est national and patriotic fe.ling3
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d Parker has red hair and Adj
wiser Sheehan's Is Of like color. The
same is true of John Sharp williams.
Senator Carmack. Of Tennessee, ana