Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-08-24
FROM WASHINGTON

cratic party here, that the para
mount issue in this campaign is the
nersonality and the record of
Theodore Roosevelt. He is 1T. !"
He is the whole cheese He
dominates the republican party
and bestrides it like a colossus.
Let us see if the record he has
made will bear out the assertion
More absolutely than any of his
predecessors in Office ever did, he
nrocured his own nomination. He
dictated the platform. He edited
the nominating speeches. He APP
pointed the campaign manager.
He moved his Cabinet officers like
pawns to meet the exigencies of
his game Of politics. BY an act of
Executive usurpation he added
many thousands of pensioners to a
roll already containing million
names, in order to make votes for
himself first open use ever
made of the National Treasury as
party's campaign chest.
He has glorified war and threat
ened the future peace of the coun-
try by proposing a bullying over
lordship of the other countries in
this hemisphere and offering TO
constitute the United States the
Constable and Collector for Europe
in the rotten and irresponsible
states of Central and South Am
erica.
He has, by his recommendations
to Congress and his signature to
Its extravagances, increased the
national expenditures during his
term to more than 81, 500, 600, 600
an excess of $211, 900, 900 over the
expenditures during President Nc
Kinley's term (which includes the
expenses of the war with Spain.
and exceeding the cost of Presi-
dent Cleveland's second term by
$3.50, 100000.
He and the Congress of his party
have converted surplus of $780,
100000 in 1901 into a deficit of
more than $40, 900, 900 for the fis-
cal year just closed.
This extravagance is sencouraged, f,
and in fact made inevitable by the
high tariff and the policies of war
and imperialism of which he is the
most strenuous champion. The
greater the revenue from customs
the greater the temptation for
lavish expenditures. The more
colonies and dependencies we have
the greater the need of more war
ships, more Notifications, more
cOaling stations, more soldiers.
Every high protectionist is jingo,
and every jingo high protection
list. These cardinal features of the
republican policy are interrelated
and interdependent. They stand
TO each other in the relation of
cause and effect.
In view of this surpassing record
OF extravaganza, it is perhaps not
strange, but will be regarded by
the taxpayers as significant, that
the words economy" ," "retrench-
ment" and reform" once the
rule of the nation and the shib-
boleth of statesmen. do not once
appear in his entire speech of ac-
ceptance-NOT ONCEi
lie says in his speech of accept.
ance that prosperity has come al
home" Are there not many thou.
sands of workingmen who have
great reason to feel that prosperity
Is departingg Does the army ot
striking cotton operatives, whose
wages have been reduced 22t pei
cent. since 1900, find that wage.
are higher than ever before % Do
the tens of thousands of employee,
dismissed by our great railway
systems share his rOseate view
Are the participants in or the vic
inns of the strike against the exac
lions of the Beef Trust throwins
up their hats over the full din
ner pail 2"
DESERVING his early conviction
IN favor of freer trade, ne cult
Yates the monopolistic campaign
contributors of his party b,
standing pat" for a tariff highe
IN Its average. duty than the high
est schedules of the war time
tarlff which the republicans o
iowa have declared to be "sheI
ter to monopoly" which the re
puollcans of Wisconsin deman
snail be revised in the interest O
consumers, and which tens O
thousands of ranuhI;ca,s; -, Ngoaeo