Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-08-10
WILL SUPPORT RoosEvEvLT.
Prefers a Freeman to a Bondman,
Owned by Wall Street.

VIZ ~ wan SiSSe
The Daily Bee, the leading Demo-
cratic newspaper of Sacramento, Cal
ifornia, announces that it will not
support the Democratic candidate for
president. 1t endorses the Republi-
can candidate and platform in the
following editorial:
The Bee can say of Theodore
Roosevelt that the trusts do not want
him, while they do want Parker.
And 1t can say of the Republican
platform that whenever there was
anything to be said on any public is
sue, 1t said II. II diu not hesitate,
and stammer and stutter and finally
put out a long farago Of words, say
ing much and meaning nothing; nor
did it smother the question altogether,
on the ground that there were no
votes to be got by injuring anybody's
feelings on either side.
THE Republican platform stands
out in the open and says: Here /
am. You can either take me or leave
me-
The Democratic platform darts
out ~sneakingly like a Chatham street
secondhand clothing dealer, appeal
ing to each voter: MY opinions are
just the same as yours. Vot are
yours? Come in and I'll show you
a coat that will perfectly fit you. |
can fit any man of any size
in this world men cannot get all
they want, nor half they desire. They
must make a choice between what
is set before them.
And the Bee chooses Theodore
Roosevelt in preference to Alton
Brooks Parker.
1T chooses Roosevelt because, with
all his faults, he stands self-reliant
in his American manhood, independ-
ent, courageous, plucky, conscien-
tious, untrammeled and unpurchase-
able; shackled to no syndicate of cor
~porations; the thrall of no criminal
coterie waxing fat upon illegal pro-
fits; the automatic m%outhpiece of no
predatory monetary combination evad-
ing Just laws now on the statute
books and numbering honest meas
ures in the womb of legislation.
1T opposes Alton Brooks Parker
because he is not a free agent; be-
cause he is but as clay in the hands
of the potter, and that potter August
Belmont; because he is merely the
graphophone of Wall street, and what
little the people have heard through
the machine has Enthusiastically reveal
ed the Voice of His Master; because
he is today but the instrument which
the trusts hope to use in disciplining
Theodore Roosevelt for daring to
place the slightest barrier in their
way.
1T chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause il considers the president should
be q mar who can be dealt with d.
rectly.
1T opposes Alton Brooks Parker
because it does not believe the peo-
, Pile of this great nation should Sc
lect as president a Man Friday to
any Robinson Crusoe.
1T chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause one great issue this time is the
man, and Roosevelt represents that
in all its courage and all its Ameri.
canism.
1T opposes Alton Brooks Parker
because he is merely the automatic
representative of the machine.
at chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause he stands for the rights of the
colored race, for justice to the down.
trodden, the oppressed, the disfran.
chised.
at opposes Alton Brooks Parker
because he is put forth on a platform
which. cowardly evading the vital is
sue in the south, not only silently
approves the rankest injustice TO the
upprO-nu iniuctfpn that har tho ad.
ditlonal dement, OF unconstitutional
ity-but adds insult to injury by de-
nominating an effort to do justice to
the black man as AN attempt to kim
/, die anew radical and factional strife
, 1T chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
cause the n great and ~overshadow-
ing issue in the coming campaign will
be whether the trusts shall dominate
this country, snap their fingers at the
laws of the present, and strangle fur
Their needed legislation at its birth, or
whether the people shall hold these
syndicated infamies in check.
> ut was on that issue the trusts
would have defeated the nomination
' of Theodore Roosevelt IL they could.
1T is on that basis they will put
/ money in the fight for Alton Brooks
| Parker, whom they nominated and
Y whom they control.
Finally, the Bee chooses Theodore
Roosevelt because he is a free man.
1T opposes Alton brooks Parker
because he is a bondman-tied hand
I and foot to Wall street and the
trusts"