The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-21
IN Indictment
Of the Repub-
Iican Party.
~4s0mmoaer.

&xCzmmoasr.
Are not the American people iusti
fkssin bringing an indictments gainst
r.pe ReT ublican party2 The record
v~srrsnts the ASSERTION that that
Es<ty is the greatest pretender and
rtrs greatest disssmbler Of all prlit
6euE organizations.
For years 1t posed as the friend Of
fIaaetsllism and charged the Give.
lssIS administration with having
,Csuuapletely demonetizad silver. Its
prsxdential candidate OF 1896 while
Serving in the house denounced MIR.
i-ssseland Tor his psrtiality to the
sss2,gie standard and charged that it
vSraNs his purpose tn make money
ScGS"e and therefore dear, to make
1mOaey the master and every thing
~sss thc servant" And then in 1896
cSoi party declared for tlmetallism,
tsfrough international agreement,
pt.'@;ng itself - bring atout that
49, cement, ana saying that In the
INA stiue the existing standard would
he t9e;Rtained. No sooner had the
yates be, n counted than republican
liva2ers declared that the victory
k'v2 On thGt platform was q victory
ew tie single gold standard, They
made 10 serious effort to fulfill their
pisat'Ge us to un International agree.
1sslo. On the contrary they pro-
up,sied in the fort to fasten the sim
xts standard more thoroughly upon
s,hss country.
The republican party sent Especial
@ngcy to the coronation Of King
Edward, thing there oiore unheard
Il &, the history o! our government.
Ia the war Great Britain waged
4'-aiast the Bo,r. it gave All the aid
80 sympathy i dared 70 oive To the
u. G1erchy, aud refused the smallest
y I'D OF cheer to the r-yurIcs The
3'5 ish freely used our prrEs for the
5iCment Of horses ard mules.
&retending 10 BE- n.Xi Ne Tor the
preservation Of the American system
l.se republican party has created
':Ot onies aud governs them as King
iisr' rye governed the colonies, adopt
az slo very policies against which
,7Is' own forefathers fought. And
20 Ii Porto Rico as WEI 80 the Philip
Jia,as is in revolt.
"retending to b" IT, -2o.ill cham.
lIisr " the soldiers aud tile sailors,
she representatives u that party
RAJ repeatedly snuhbed and sought
q ,,tniliateDewey Sahley aud Miles,
ley - Of our latest war,
~ rs name elections have been
"Grrhased through the enormous
a.v.s.sgn uDdscontrimted by trusts
40 osers dependent COR livingup
81" heir wages have beenintimidated
" am2loyers.
kd1oAgC.Is and Unnecessary expen-
iitnrps have been made until the de-
The last fiscal year was S24,
800 900 and the deficit ior the COM
Isg fiscal year is estimated at
HV. 100000. And now when 1t is
ssszyyseh TO meet that deficit by
.sec-iving the trusts OF the shelter
shay find in the tariff, we are told that
0su must not, interfere with business
anf5erssti'
Republican leaders boast OF the In
1zsrity Of their party's foreign policy;
Fse they violated the rules ofnations
~a&n shsy interfered in Panama, and
by sorce ,wrested that strip from It's
9-azaatitutional possessors. They
snxse>beasted that they would build
&1caual, but recently it has devel.
oped that Senator Morgan and 9th.
Arssweraright when they charged that
ssx-panama route was chosen at the
Gflex.ation OF the transcontinental
railroad companies, and that the
~ rpose was not to build a canal but
10 delay the building of canal.
Secretary Taft announced that the
srgsts>were endeavoring to "hold up"
yEke government in the purchase OF
Panama canal supplies, and he said
CHAT In order to avoid these imposi-
0ans the government would purchase
..upplies abroad il such course were
1ecessary in order to protect 1t from
ssxtortion. While many republicans
sspplauded Secretary Taft for this
set. tits noticeable that, although the
popular demand for tariff revision
IL