Saint Mary's beacon., 1904-08-18
COMMUNICATED.

1t is the consensus OF opinion
among the leaders of the democratic
party here, that the paramount is
sue in this campaingn is the per
soHality and the record OF Theodore
Roosevelt. He is 1T" He is the
whole cheese" He dominates the
republican party and bestrides il
like a colossus. Let us see il the
record he has made will bear out
the assertion:
More absolutely than any of his
predecessors in Office ever did, he
procured his own nomination. He
dictated the platform. He edited
the nominating speeches. He ap-
pointed the campaign manager. He
moved his Cabinet officers like
pawns to meet the exigencies of his
game politics. BY an act of Exc
cutive inspiration he added many
thousands of pensioners to a roll
alread containing a million names,
in order TO make votes for himself
the first open use ever made OF
the National Treasury as q party's
campaign chest.
He has glorified war and threaten
ed the future peace Of the country
by proposing a bullying overload
ships of the other countries in this
hemisphere and Offering to consti-
tute the United States the Constable
and Collector for Europe in the rot
ten and irresponsible states of Cen
tral and South American.
He has, by his recommendations
TO Congress and his signature TO its
extravagances, increased the ma
tional expenditure during his term
to more than $500. .O00, ,oOO-an ex
cess of $2l1 ,0OO.OO over the ex-
penditures during President Nc
Kinley's s term (which) include the
expenses of the war with Spain),
and exceeding the cost of President
Cleveland's second term by $780,
600, 900.
He and the Congress of his party
have converted surplus OF $50, ,OOO.-
600 ia 1900 into q deficit of more
than $4e. .OO0, 900 for the fiscal year
just closed.
This extravaganza is encourag
ed, and in fact made inevitable, BY
the high tariff and the policies OF
war and Imperialism OF which he is
the most strenuous champion. The
greater the revenue from customs
the greater the temptation for lavish
expenditures. The more colonies
and dependencies we have the grea-
ter the need of more warships, more
Notifications, more coaling stations,
more soldiers. Every high protec-
ZIONIST is jingo, and every lingo a
high prOtectionist. These cardinal
features of the republican policy are
interrelated and interdependent.
They stand 10 each other in the re-
lation of cause and effect.
In view of this SURPRISING record
OF extravaganza, il is perhaps no,
strange, but will be regarded by
the taxpayers as significant, thai
the words economy, "retrench-
ment" and reform, once the rule
of the nation and the shibboleth oil
statesmen, do not once appear IN his
entire speech Of cfacoeptaRce-Nor ONCE.
E#&
He says in his speech of accep
tance that "posperity has come al
home. Are there not many thous-
ands OF workingmen who have great
reason to feel that prosperity is de-
parting? Does the army of striking
cotton operatives, whose wages
have been reduced pa per cent.
since 1900, find that wages are
higher than ever before2" Do the
tens of thousands OF employees dis.
missed by our great railway sys-
TENS share his roseate view? Are
the participants in or the victims of
the strike against the exactions OF
the Beef Trust throwing up their
hats over she full dinner -pail2"