Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-08-11
ONE REPUBLICAN OF MANY
WHO WOULD LIKE CHANGE
Illinois Attorney and Campaign Speaker Says
His Party Has Not Kept Faith and Should
Be Retired This Fall.

I IOFe THIS DOQy since We Deen q mem
| Der of it. but if l vote against it the
people of my district will turn me
down That measure put legitimate
| business out of existence by imposing
tax which made it Improbable. If
that congressman had been honest
with himself he would have explained
the whole proposition to his constitu-
ents as he understood it.
However. there isn't much to say
about the congressman, for the senate
can override president, congress and
everybody else.
Will Ask Embarrassing Questions.
I'm of the opinion that the demo-
Gratis Will ask our republican spell
binders some very embarrassing ques-
lions this fall. | really am glad that
I'm not going to try to answer them
from a republican standpoint. No one
wants to forget that the tariff is the
real issue in every campaign. the one
principle that touches the pocketbOOk
of all. What we have termed 'protcc-
ton is all right, up to a certain point
We have protected our infant indus
tries until they have grown into hydra
grasp by the neck the people who per
mitted them to be created. Tell me
why is it that an American harvester
can be bought for less in BuenoS Ayres
than the American farmer can buy it
for in any town in the country?
This is only one of hundreds of neces-
sary implements and articles that can
be bought cheaper abroad than at
home. The list ought to be made up
and given to the people of this country
to read this fall.
Il regret to say that | have lost
faith in the promises of the republican
party, in which l was born and reared.
If the ideas of William Mckinley. Am
crica's greatest president since Lin
coin, had been carried out, conditions
would have been different than they
are today. a republican commissioner
of labor would not be issuing false
statistics as to the cost of living for
the purpose of bolstering up some
weak campaign principles.
Il used to be afraid of the idea of
democratic administration, but I've
learned that there are just as good
and just as sincere Americans in the
and in my Judgment it would be a good |
thing to have housekeeping. |
have unlimited confidence in the hon |
esty and ability of Judge Parker, and |
not even Wall street will be able to
break down his hand if he is elected.
And I'm somewhat of the opinion |
that he will he elected. There, Is a |
growing unrest among republicans ev-
crywhere | have seen it from coast |
to coast and lakes to gulf. There are |
a few republicans like Albert b. Cum |
Minis who are not afraid to say what |
they think, and they, not our rcpresen-
tatives and senators, speak the real |
mind of the masses of our people.
Disappointed in ROoscvcIt.
Il would not speak disrespectfully of
our president. but Theodore Roosevelt
has been a disappointment to me. Will
liam Mckinley dominated the very men
who have now gone over to those OPP
posed to McKiHley's principles and
pledges and who now control Mr..
Our people need have no fear of a
change of administration. Changing
demand changes in IegisIa-
ton, which the republican majority has
refused to give us. 1t would be i'm
possible for democratic administra-
ton to be more unfair with the great
masses of the people than the republi-
cans have been, and for one am salts
fed that if Judge Parker and demo
cratic congress are elected we will
have some healthy, honest legislation