The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-24

mistress on the people of Indianola.
The people of Indianola would not
nave negro mistress. In de-
tiance of the plain letter of the law,
he closed the doors of the Indianola
postoffice, and for more than a year
deprived the good people of that
flourishing town of the benefit of gov
eminent postal facilities.
"He wanted to strengthen himself
and his party with the negro vote in
the close States of the North and mid
die west. To popularize himself with
this vote, he Spat upon the most Sa-
cred instinct of the South and inau-
gurated social equality in the White
House.
Congress was troublesome and in
his way as an embarrassment and
bother to his ambitious campaign
schemes. The order went forth that
Congress must go home. and Congress
was sent home before it's time
Despite the restraints imposed
upon him by his succession to the
presidency, despite the restraints i'm
posed by his ambition for the nomi-
nation, the President has been during
his present term, admittedly head
strong and hard to manage. If he is
elected and succeeds to the office in
his own right. and these salutary re-
straints are removed. the people of
this country will likely learn more
than they now know of the methods
of the Kaiser and the Car.
mot only has the Republican party
been eXtravagant in the appropriation
and expenditure of the peoples money,
but it's expenditure has been charac-
teriZed by a degree of dishonesty and
corruption in certain great depart
ments at Washington, unparalleled
since the day of the Credit Mobilier
Bribery, fraud and forgery in the
Land office. embezzlement, stealing
and graft in the postoffice. swindling,
fraud and robbery in the Internal
Revenue Department The full ex-
tent and scope of these populations
and frauds, will never be known I'M
til the Republican party is removed
from power, and the books are open
to inspection. Under the force of
great public pressure an investigation
e tho frnuds in the postoffice was or
dered. Four bureaus in that great
c.Js.r tmenu were examined under the
direction of an officer of the depart
ment Each one of these bureaus
was found reeking with corruption.
The stencil was awful. Suddenly be-
fore the investigation was fairly be-
gun, and when exposure was follow
ing exposure in rapid succession, with
out rhyme or reason, except the eXig-
encies of Republican partisan politics,
the doors of the investigation were
closed with a slam and a bang in the
very face of the people, and all the
powers and influence of the admins
tration were exerted and exhausted
to prevent an investigation by Con-
gresS
"Was it the Dingley tariff which,
oil IF OH SjO
md high price making schedules, was
so impotent to help its beneficiarieS, or
its victims. while the price of the
staple products of the farm was low.
or was it borntiful harvest and high
world prices which supplied the non
protected customers of our protected
Industries with money to buy their
products and by furnishing them with
we'll fed and we'll supplied victims.
put into effective operation, the con-
iscating schedules of that system of
tax injustice and discrimination.
know and you know, and we all know,
that the trust has got the lions share
of this prosperity. but that does not
prove that the tariff made the pros
perity. it only exemplifies the success
of this Republican tax system in
transferring profits from one man S
pocket to another S.
THE Democratic party is not Tree
trade party either in theory or in
practice, but it does demand that the
monopoly schedules of the present
tariff shall be revised and reduced to
the point of reasonable profits to the
producer and a living price to the con-
sumner.
For more than two years Presl-
dent Roosevelt, with kettle and drum,
has been Waging a sham war against
the trusts. The campaign has been in
charge of his late Attorney General,
himself trust attorney and a close
friend of Carnegie, Prick and the rest
of the big trust magnateS. These
doughty warriors. after two years of
noisy clamor and beating in the air
with the whole machinery of the law