Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-09-22
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1t Is the Ohices, and the Democrats VIII
Never Abandon 1t.

1t Is the OHices, and the Democrats VIII
Never Abandon It.
There is one issue the Democrats
have not and never will abandon-the
offices. With a light heart and an
easy conscience they are willing to
swallow the gold standard, to enter a
nolle pros as to the tariff robbery"
to construct the Panama canal and to
postpone independence for the Philip
pines until the Filipinos have donned
clothes, but the offices-thcseth they must
have or the last excuse for their par
tvs existence is gone.
Editor Pulitzer is writing page upon
page of open letters in the New York
World, which prints them because he
owns 1t, to prove that Theodore RoOse-
welt and he alone is the issue. The
paramount issue of this campaign"
the editor writes, addressing himself
direct to the president, lis not as you
would have it, free trade or free silver,
but YOU YOURSELF - Theodore
Roosevelt. This issue inforced upon
the country by your unusual tempera-
ment and talent-your own strong,
able, ambitious, resourceful, militant,
passionate personality, your versatile
and surprising genius"
If this were not meant to be alarm
ing it would fittingly describe one side
of the personality of the Republican
standard bearer worthy of being print
ed in flaming type and posted at every
cross roads in the country. Add to it
the unquestioned attributes of honesty,
courage and patriotism and you have
the true measure of the head of the
Republican ticket. Mr.. Pulitzer cannot
find that the possession of any of the
impulsive and willful traits he has at
tributed to the president has led him
into hasty, arbitrary or ill-considered
acts, or into any policy 1nimical to the
public welfare or that has not been
fully justified by the event.
No higher tribute could be paid to
the president than the way in which
he has been singled out by Mr.. Pulitzer
as the one engrossing, overshadowing
Issue of the campaign.
Now, why does Mr.. Pulitzer wish to
get rid of a president of such known
and approved qualities to make way
for the INFESTED and inexperienced
master of RosemOunt?
The answer is plain THE OF
FICES. Mr.. Pulitzer is a Democrat
"a transplanted Missouri Democrat.
He knows that the national Democracy
is very hungry and very thirsty and
that it is weary of feeding upon the
husks that fall to the share of the op-
position party at Washington.
So long as Mr.. Roosevelt is in the
White House Mr.. Pulitzer knows that
every office, outside of the classified
service, will go to a Republican, pro-
vided there is no Democrat so much
better qualified for it that to ignore his
claims would create a national scan
dial.
What Mr.. Pulitzer and the Democra-
cy want is that the only touchstone of
fitness for federal offices shall be the
frayed maxim of David b. Hill, Il am
a Democrat" Upon this issue he has
no misgivings as to the firm and IT.
revocable" convictions of the sphinx
of Esopus. In Judge Parker's eyes
the author of the maxim ITO the vic
tors belong the spoils' was the great
est statesman, not excepting Ross
Tweed, New York has ever produced.
And Mr.. Pulitzer believes that Demo-
cratic mummy of the Marcy school in
the White House would not permit
any question of fitness to interfere be-
tween the faithful and the federal pay
roll.
At present the sturdy, robust Repub-
licanism of Theodore Roosevelt stands
between the Democracy and the of
fees. How to remove this stumbling
block in the path of the lean and hun
CRY wanderers of 1896 and 1900 is the
supreme, the only issue LETT to the
Democracy.
If a national election could be de-
cided by the voters wanting job, ire
spective of their fitness for it. the
Democracy under the leadership Of Mr..
Pulitzer would be invincible.