Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-04-06
FROM WASHINGTON
special correspondence OF the cormEK.


dSiiiStou. ApTtt D
1T creates widening circle of
WEAKNESS in my neighood to hear
all this talk of conservative can
didate for the Presidency on the
Democratic ticket, when the aver
age man does not know what he
means when he uses the word CON
servative' in this connection. said
the Hon. Frank +. Shober, of
New York, member of Congress
from the Harlem district. IF he
means by conservative that the
man must have brains sufficient to
understand what would injure the
real business interests of the cOun-
try and steer clear of it, then he
does know what the word means
and / quite agree with him. If,
on the other hand, he means that
the candidate must be n namby
pamby. milk and water, wishy
washy, negative and altogether
colorIess man who stands for moth
ing and who has never uttered a
word that can be construed into
his position on any public question
now agitating the people of the
country. then | am unalterably OPP
posed to him and his kind of
candidate. | cannot understand
how men, who pretend TO know
anything about the game of politics,
can advocate that sort of a candi-
date in the present circumstances
That manner of candidate on the
Democratic ticket in competition
with the present occupant of the
White House and who undoubtedly
will be the Republican candidate, a
man who is the very apotheosis of
strenuosity. positiveness, aggres-
siveness. bullheadedneSs, a man
full Of color who fills the public
eve, would have about as much
show of winning as would one
legged man at a kicking match.
and the man who advocates that
kind of a candidate on the Demo-
cratic ticket knows about as much
about politics as a hog knows about
navigating a ship. To attempt to
defeat Roosevelt with that kind of
candidate would, in my opinion,
ne like trying TO stop a cyclone
with a quiet closet prayer. What
we want and need is not conserva-
tism of the mushy kind, but radi-
calism of the right sort. We want
man who is radical for the right.
radical for equal Justice to all and
special privileges To none, radical
for the enforcement of all laws on
the statues regardless of individ-
uals, radical for the uprooting of
the criminal trusts of the country
and for legislation that will insure
the just and proper distribution of
the wealth of the country. radical
for honesty, radical for proper
reversi0n and reduction of the
tariff schedules of the present ini-
quitious law that gives shelter to
the trusts, radical for proper re-
ciprocal treaties with foreign coun-
tries, radical for economy npublic
expenditures and the proper con
servation of internal improve
ments, radical for Jeffersonian
simplicity and pure democracy,
radical for all that stands for good
government and that will best con
serve the best interests of the busi-
ness men of the country who are
within the pale of the law.
With man who is radical i'm
those things, man who does
things and who is not afraid to
come out every day in the year
and proclaim that these are his
ideas and he stands for them and
is radical for them and will press
them on the Congress of the nation
If he should be elected. we can win.
With such a man we can hold every
Democratic vote in the country
and draw to us the votes of millions
of men who have hitherto voted
the Republican ticket. to wit: the
workingmen of the nation.
The last congressional election
taught us that the democracy must
go to the great labor centers of the
country il it wants to make gains
In the election this year.
There is where we made all our
gains in that election and the man
who can hold ali that labor vote in
the next election is the man who
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