The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-10

Parker, defiantly, almost mockingly; and
Parker meekly stays out of the fight In
that he takes up the glove thrown at
his feet, declaring that he will revoke
that pension order, No. Is. But in the
Roosevelt did precisely what he Parker,
thinks ought to be done. If elected, he,
Parker, will at once have congress do
what Roosevelt has already done. Heav-
ems! What meek warrior is thisl Roose-
welt. did the right thing, but not in the
right way, and if you will elect me pres
ident 1 will do the same thing in the
proper way" Did any nominee ever seek
before?
When is he going to free those Philip
pines? He does not say. What is he go
ing to do with the trusts? VIII he deal
drastically with the Standard Oil trust,
which has coGd1ed his POLITICAL ambition
for the past two years? What viii he
do to the sugar trust, which his campaign
manager, German represents in the uni
tion-why has he been silent? Does he
condemn Roosevelt for that Booker T.
Washington lunch? Does he condemn the
appointment of -egroes to office? Why
did he fail to make any reference what
ever to that plank in the Republican plat
form which his running mate, Davis, says
created a race issue? The solid south
is being kicked and cuffed into the sup
port of Parker upon the ground that he
differs from Roosevelt on the negro queS-
zion. Before the south is dragooned into
their own son, hers in blood and SYM
pathy and deathless devotion-ought not
the New \ Ork6r TO be compelled to speak
out on this question?
The Way to Win.
If Republican policies are to be over
thrown it must be done by men who bold
ly declare against them, and who go up
against them with a determination to de-
feat them. The way to whip the enemy
is to fight it, The Democratic party has
known what it was to be led by captains
who put the battlecry into plain language
so that all could understand where the
was on vital issues. Such a lead
Trff CrTaI1 a1r,- Az
drew Jackson Such a leader was Ste
phen A. Douglas. Such a leader w:>5 Will
liam J. Bryan. In this campaign it has
no such leader To their secret shame and
disgust the rank and file of the great
DEMOCRATIC party sees that their captain
and a wish to believe otherwise, they see |
that Parker remains what Bryan says he |
was last April An artful dodger," alb |
soIutely unfit for the presidential nominal |
ton That Mr.. Bryan himself supports |
the ticket does not change facts nor Gre |
THE Peoples Party is helping the Re
publicans," cry the Democratic leaders. |
OWN platform and given over to Wall I
street, we could not have hurt anybody. |
ed to be Poppuflst in principle, the Pop
lliSt party could not do business. Too
The moment the Democratic leaders drop
ped our platform, we seized upon it again
and we began to rehabilitate our own
party. Sell out? Why, we have Surren-
Tered no convictions; we have not parted
with a single plank in our platform. What
nave we sold? To whom did we SELF If |
we had shed our political garments as the
Democratic bosses did at st. Louis, and
Wall street had dictated every line of
)ur new creed, and mad put at the head
If our ticket man who can not state
wherein he differs in principle from Mr..
Roosevelt, we would have hung our heads
very time we passed a mirror, to keep
rom looking into the eyes of renegadeS
o JefferSonian Democracy, servile tools
# northern corporations They went to
st. Louis with principles; they came back
lands of the Pat McCarren of Standard
Dill, Belmont of the Louisville and Nash
lille, German of the sugar trust. The
-ery first speech of the campaign was
Texas under tie auspices of the Standard
ill lobbyist, Fat McCarren. The chosen
-dvisers of Mr.. Parker are the men who
ed for the trusts and corporations when
he taxpayers We're routed during Cleve-
and's second administration. From Cor {
nan, who reeks with the foulest trust
egisla ton of the last 20 years, to Car
isle, who wrote the sugar schedule at
he dictation of the sugar trust, and Bel
1ont, of the secret midnight bond deal, I
90 willing Cleveland to lend the United s
tates army to the Pullman Palace Car :
in Chicago, the notorious old /,
and of boodlers are there. What may :
an be guessed by those who remember
he carnival of class legislation which l
endered forever infamous the second adj
Illustration of Grover Cleveland /
or the Ethiopian his skim: that C1eve- ;
md crowd is hungry: it has been out a :
ing time; woe unto the people when that
redatory band get their clutches upon
ne government againl