The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-01

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{ Demo crate Party Must
Give Eyldenees 81 Sincerity
8 From tl.e Journal AM
.sss.eT: can, 3e411 ocsatss caef. h
Il IN the closing lays of he Presiden
4 tial campaign tn i Democratic man
ayers are doing " hat the z AIMS american.
i urged them to4do atfSthe beginning
appealing 70 the country on II egtrusl
issue.
If the trust issue is8to be- pressed
successfully: ltgs must be done under
SI8condittons thai give exid ence sin 4
j5cerity
Two weeks ago me erican,s''
said:
/ tOlneE has spoken for Parker and
/ It is announced that Cleveland is also
to n cunt the stump. If Judge Parker
understands. the american public MS
lis foot down land avert that browning
Calamity Let real Democrats do the
! talking from now on Iss9$
Since that was written Cleveland.
has mounted the stump, with what re. re-
suit?
To give former Attorney General
Knox, himself faithful servitor Of;
the predatory com bines, an opportu.
nifty to laugh, and laugh effectively.
at the antitrust professions of the.
Democratic party
Knox as Attorney General at least
did something against the unlawful
combinations He procured an in-5
Junction against the Beef Trust
Trust.
What did Cleveland do
When in ONCE, nothing: vixen out
of Office, his best to hinder the in.
:sutf1cient and feeble efforts Of Knox.
who tells thetstory thus
Mr. Cleveland on March a 90f,
the decree or the
Circuit Court pronouncfng the SBeefst
Trust unlawful, said it was not within
the prohibition4of the law, thus throw
ing TIE weight Of his opinion in IA
vorso of the Beef Trust and against the
United States at a time when the case
was pending and undecided In the
highest court.
Is it any wonder hat Knox sneers#
at Grover Cleveland as an enemy OF L
the trusts? Does he not make a pail
pable hit when lie inquiries
Do the principles of law which Mr.
Cleveland thought last March pro
tected manufac curing monopolies
Change in Octob and if SO does the
change affect the. Belmont trusts, or
only those Which are suspected OF see-3
Ing in the perpetuat ton Of Republf can
administration the continued genera1sI
of the country
The Republican party is owned by
me trusts, and they have no better
friend In that party than Philand Ter g. 81
Knox, but truth is truth, even when e
comes from5Knox, and he els the IS
ruth when heaccuses the Democratic
party of in consist ency in professfngsEi
antitrust principles and at the same
inc including among its Sconspicuous
eaders August Belmont. Cord Meyer.
Thomas F. Ryan, John B. MCDONALD
patrick McCarren and others Of like 81
lind.
Ills mere %p0IC1caL taauneSS TO al al II
DIV such Democrats as Grover ssTf
1eveland and Richard Olney to take L,
he stump. For every Republican
ote they gain, hundreds, il not thou q.
ands, Of Democratic votes are lost.
hey do not represent the genuine /.
,emocracy on the trust issue, nor on
ny other which has popular strength
ehind. &:
Two weeks ago we h ad& olney aft
.ontfng American patriotism and y
merican pride by scomng at one of ],
re OLDEST pages in the Republics
istory as our needless scrimmage Il,
18th Spain over Cuba, and that de- {,
of jingoism and militarism
hich brought on the scrap with !,
pain. = 3 Il
To use. our military strength in be- s
aft of an oppressed people strikes Mr. 81
1ney asShaving been needless, If not u
licked, but he&did not consider it
sedless for Mr. Cleveland to pour
edera1 troops into Illinois. in spite
the protestof that States governor,
I'd bring on a state of war in a con-