The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-27

Industrially he is of the middle class
understanding the honest claims OF the
/ honest rich; sympathfzing as a brother
with the wrongs of the struggling poor.
Democracy's CIairvoyant Instinct for
Suicide.
Its we'll known clairvoyant instinct
for suicide directed the Democratic
party to align itself this year with dis
honestly organized wealth and then to
make Theodore Roosevelt the issue in
the campaign. There has been some
question during the last twenty years
about the relations of the Republican
party and the pirates of commerce. In
the days of Hanna's control of the
party its relations with the financial
powers that prey vacillated between
scandalous Irritation and intrigue. But
Theodore Roosevelt has shucked his
corn without reference to the red ears
of financial emolument; he has not
danced to the lascivious blessings of
the fiddle of high protection for large
campaign contributions. and therefore
has no violinist's bill to pay
Roosevelt the Best of the American
Type.
In all the years when congress was
making its questionable tariff sched-
ules Theodore Roosevelt was the
bound boy at the husking. He has
been a consistent Republican, but his
associates in the party have been men
of ideals. not men who fried the fat.
The fat may have been simmering a
little during his administration as
president, but he has turned his back
on the skillet and the cooks and SOUL
lions of politics, and has worked with
the people and for the people. If he
has erred. it was when he erred in
candor; if he is strong. it is the
strength of manly courage. He is the
best American type. clean. frank,
shrewd and brave, and the Democrats,
with charming consistency, slipped
into the liaison with Wall street which
Roosevelt had spurned and are now
making his character the issue OF the
campaign. No wonder, then. that the
incense burning at the altar of their
gilded joss smells like embalming fluid
doused on punk,
Democrats Offer Four Years of Adj
versity.
There is no hope from the Demo-
cratic party for the solution of the
problems row facing the American
people. The best that Democracy can
offer IS fOus - period of fasting
como. in to 90 E work But is this
season in the wilderness needed?
Times q Q good and the people are
sane. Tour years of adversely would
wrath never made a just law. 1t is
only in times like these, when people
reason together and do not get their
view in the heat of passion, that wis
nation. There is no disposition in any
honest quarter of this country to be
unfair The laws that would be made
under the coming Roosevelt admins
trust laws, the labor laws, the agrarian
laws, the laws of businesS-would be
fair laws. Every one desires capital
to have a square deal.
The difference between the demands
of the Republican party and the de-
nands of Mr.. Parker's Wall street
friends is this: The Wall street Dem
ocrats believe that square deal for
capital is secured by allowing capital
to take the deck and sort out the cards
as it thinks best: the Republicans be-
lieve that capital has the same rights
that labor has, and that the people
have distinct rights which both capital
and labor are bound to respect. In
the Republican programme for solv-
ing waiting problems there is no
thought of confiScation of capital legit-
imately employed, neither is there a
desire to restrain the rights of labor. !
Equity is in the soul of the Repub-
lican party this year, for its dominant
factors are men of the people But
a mess of pottage. Its future is mort |
gagged to mammon. If it. were an eff |
cient party, which it has never been, |
it's obligations would bind it to policy
of delay and equivocation. And its
now would bring an angry
to some act of folly while |
Democracy was being thrown out of
power. /
why the American GeOpIe Like EGOOSS-
welt.
The American people are not revolu-
They dislike the muss and
clutter of shattered institutions. They
are long suffering and in the end they |
are just in their judgments. They adj |
rnire Theodore Roosevelt because they |
believe he is acknowledging the |
American spirit Under his leadership |
they will meet the problems of today, |
which call for more unselishness than |
the country has put into its public acts |
tie those problems with justice toward |
all and with malice toward none. For
is conservative. Dealing with |
him as a leader, opposing forces in the |
armies may make fair
terms. They will be the terms OF
peace. But if these problems are allow
ed to remain open, If the people who
lay will surely come when dishonesty
organized wealth-and unfortunately
honestly organized wealth also-will |
meet some rampant radical with a
senseless mob behind him. For Popu-
ism is not dead. When bad times come |
it will rise.
The Republican party today stands /
between capital good and bad. between /
organized and unorganized labor, and |
the mob. The question for business
men, for workingmen. for capitalists,
for professional men, and farmers to /
decide at the polls this fall is whether /
they desire their differences adjudica-
ted by the Republican party in times 1
Of peace and prosperity or whether the |
mob shall upset things when the people |
tire of Democratic delay.
SITE FOR THE LEVEE.