Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-09-02
THE SACRAMENTO BEE.
California Democratic Newspapers
Reasons for Supporting Roosevelt.

California Democratic Newspaper,
Reasons for Supporting Roosevelt.
The Sacramento Daily Bee, hereto
fore the leading California Democratic
daily, has thrown up the Democratic
sponge and will support the Republican
ticket, giving the following reasons:
"rhe Bee can say for Theodore Koose
velt that the trusts do not want him
While they do want Parker.
And it can say of the Republican
platform that whenever there was any
thing TO be said on any public issue, il
said it. 1t did not hesitate and STAN
mer and stutter and finally put out a
long farrago Of words, saying much and
meaning nothing; nor did it smother the
question altogether. on the ground that
there were no votes to be got by injuring
snybody's feelings on either side.
The Republican platform stands out
In the open and says: Here l am You
can either take me or leave me-
The Democratic platform darts out
sneakingly like a Chatham street sec
snd-hand clothing dealer, appealing to
each voter: My opinions are just the
same as yours. Yot are yours? Come
In and I'll show you a coat that will
perfectly fit you l can fit any man of
any size
I'm this world men cannot get all they
want nor half they desire They must
make a choice between what is set be-
fore them.
welt in preference to Alton Brooks
Parker.
1T chooses Roosevelt because. with
all his faults, he stands self-reliant in
bis American manhood, independent,
courageous, plucky, conscientious, I'M
trammeled and unpurehasable. shackled
10 no syndicate of corporations; the
thrall of no criminal coterie waxing fat
apon illegal profits; the automatic
mouthpiece of no predatory monetary |
combination evading just laws now on
the statute books and numbering honest |
measures in the womb of legislation.
1T opposes Alton Brooks Parker be-
sause he is not a free agent; because
he is but as clay in the hands of the
potter, and that potter August Belmont;
because he is merely the graphophons
pf Wall street. and what little The Peo-
pie have heard through the machine has
Enthusiastically revealed the Voice of His
Master; because he is to-day but the
Instrument which the Trusts hope to use
n disciplining Theodore Roosevelt for
laring to place the slightest barrier in
heir way.
1T chooses Theodore Roosevelt be-
lauss it considers the President should
- 4 man who can be dealt with directly.
TT opposes Alton Brooks Parker be-
auss 1t does not believe the people of
his great nation should select as Pres
dent a Man Friday to a Robinson
)Eusoe.
1T chooses Theodore Roosevelt be- I
ause one great issue this time is the |
aan, and Roosevelt represents that in :
Y its courage and all its Americanism.
ut opposes Alton Brooks Parker be- ,
auss he is merely the automatic repre- s
autative Of the machine.
1T chooses Theodore Roosevelt be- :
luss he stands for the rights of the r
Dlorsd race, for justice to the down :
'odden, the oppressed. the disfranchised. !
1T opposes Alton Brooks Parker be- \
luse he is put forth on a platform
hich, cowardly evading the vital issue
the South, not only silently approves
70 rankest injustice to the negro-an
justice that has the additional demerit =
unconstitutionality-b adds insult :
injury by denominating an effort to
justice to the black man as an at
mpt to kindle anew radical and fac
,nal strife
ut chooses Theodore Roosevelt be- e
use the one great and oyershadowing g
rue In this campaign viii be whether OF
. trusts shall dominate this country. 81
ap their fingers at the laws of the d'
ssent, and strange further needed leg
alton At its birth. or whether the peo- r
, shall hold these syndicated infamies "
check. ID
TT was on that issue the trusts would re
W defeated the nomination OF Theo- he
~ Roosevelt il they could. W
1T II on that basis they will put
,nsy In tho fight for Alton Brooks r,
rksr, whom they nominated and whom Is
y control. hs
= Finally, the Bee chooses Theodore 81
ossvsh because he is free man. 90
1T opposes Alton Brooks Parker be- al.
ne he is bondman--tied hand and he
{ to Wall street and the trusts" sa