The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-11-05
CHATS BY THE WAY.

upon Chauncey M. Depew, says: 'The
Press is believed to be one of the or.
gans Of Ex-Governor Frank s. Black,
who aspires to oust Depew from his
comfortable seat in the Senate"
Among the numerous reforms that
may be looked for in the event of the
election of Judge Parker is one for
the preservation of the lives Of trav-
elers by water. The steamboat inspec-
ton service, by practice of graft and
Indulgence In favoritism, has been ad-
mittedly rotten, like the bulk of the
life preservers aboard the ill-fated
General Slocum. 1t was rottenest
when Chairman Cortelyou was Secre-
fary Of the Department Of Commerce
and Labor, which has under its juris-
diction the steamboat inspection SER
vice.
The Panama chicken is coming home
to ro0st before the coop is ready. 1t
was not intended to be ready until af-
ter the election.
The Steel Trust takes from the pock-
cts of our people and does not even
give its workmen a fair share of its
swag. In fact, it robs them right
along with the rest of the people and
besides giving to foreigners a better
bargain than to our own people.
All signs point to the election of a
Democratic House of Representatives.
Then will the time come when a rot
ten Administration will not be per-
mitted to investigate itself and exclude
Congress from participation.
Announcement is made that during
the New York campaign the Republi-
cans will keep Odell in the back
ground. The Democrats, on the 9th
er hand, will keep Odell and Odellism
well to the front. They are worth thou
sands of votes.
Roosevelt boasts of his undying de-
votion to civil service reform, yet not
In dozen years has the law been so
extensively and fiagrantly violated as
now. All over the country Government
employees are being forced to contrib
ute to the Roosevelt campaign fund.
Roosevelt will come down to the Har-
lem River with 10000 plurality. If
he reaches that point with 10000 plu-
rality he will be doing very well, but
even the former figure will not save
him, because Judge Parker's lead be-
low the Harlem will be at least 125, 900.
This is a Democratic year in New
York.
We have often wondered just what
was the matter with Tom Watson and
now we know. The Nashville Ameri |
can lets the cat out of the bag. 'Tom
has had kind of viperish, gangrenish
hatred for the Democracy ever since
Judge Fuller, of Georgia, mopped up
races for Congress"
The Boston Journal, the newspaper |
that the Vermont Republicans regard |
as only less sacred than the Bible, re-
ports that eleven men have subscribed |
each $1,000,000 to the Democratic |
campaign fund, and yet the Journal is |
sure that Roosevelt will win out. This |
nice little wad of the ''long green is |
to be dumped" into the doubtful |
States. Next!
Governor Chairman Oden says these |
stories about 'perversion of State |
funds are lies from start to finish. |
"On the contrary" he says, II have |
saved the State over $6,000,00O by my |
yetoes." What an awful lot of graft
ers Odell's henchmen must be, if, in |
addition to what they got away with, |
the boss held them up and made them
aisgorge to the tune of $6,0O0,OO0!
"You can see twenty acres of Philip |
pine life at the worlds fair, but you
cannot see a square rod of the Constf-
tuition. Justice Brewer, of the Unit
ed States Supreme Court.
Respectfully referred to President
Roosevelt, with the suggestion that |
Justice Brewer be promptly tried for
high treason.
The campaign for the perpetuation of !
Odellism in the State of New York is
progressing beautifully. mo act of
the Republican State Administration
could bring a blush of shame to the |
face Of any Republican" exclaimed
State Senator Elsberg, one of OdelPs
henchmen, in closing an impassioned |
plea for fair treatment of the Govern
Dr-Chairman. Marvellous, comments
the Republican New York Sun, that |
SO immaculate thing should difuse
such an appalling stench!'
Colonel George Brumder, of Milwau-
kee, who started out to help elect
Roosevelt, has decided that he made a
mistake, and is now advocating the |
election of Judge Parker instead.
Colonel Brumder owns the leading Ger
man-American newspaper in Milwau-
kee. He is also the proprietor of the
Freie Presse, published in Lincoln,
Neb., and a German-American weekly
of large circulation in Chicago. Colonel
Brumder is recruit worth having. 1t
is a fact of considerable significance
that majority of the newspapers in
the Western States that are print
ed in the German language are
supporting the Democratic Presi- |
dental ticket. Four years ago
nine-tenths of these papers were on |
the other side of the political fence.
More significance.