Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-01-08
SENSELESS CHATTER.
TALK OF TRUST MONEY "BUYikG"
THE PRESIDENCY.

Result Of the BaMoting Completely
Refutes Judge Parker's Reason For
His Crushing Defeat-The Peoples
Vote IL Not For Sale. b
The Philadelphia Press has the fol-
lowing to say regarding Judge Par
ker's charge that trust money accom-
plished his defeat: a4 ..Ss
How silly, in the. face Of all that has
happened, is the prediction chatter
about buying" the presidency with
money" from the trusts Will,
overwhelming pluralities staring him
In the face, what senseless after cleo
ton chatter it is for Judge Parker to
find cause and reason for. his crushing
defeat in "a party grown SO corrupt
that it will gladly enter into partner
ship with trusts to secure money for
election purposes" n. ,.,t
Look at the result. Does anybody
think for one lucid instant that money
had an atoms influence in bringing it
about? Take New York. Early In the
campaign it was held d doubtful state.
Last July, just after Judge Parker's
gold standard telegram, it was deemed
by many good judges to be likely to
cast its vote for him. To the end it was
holly contested. ~ .,&S atlW&i
President Roosevelt has in New York
a plurality of 174,OO0. Governor Hig-
gins is elected by 1900. No money
brings pluralitiesj like these. No or
ganizatfon can win them.
It is nonsense to suggest it. No man
in his senses Believes latter election,
not even Judge Parker in his address
Before, election careless iteration and
perpetual Charges" lead q great many
well meaning people, sane in other
things. to imagine that the trusts"
or the protected industries or the
'.plutocrats' are buying the presi-
dency. The idea fastens itself In their
minds like burr. No logic can de-
tach It. No facts remove it. ,lf"@
Tuesdays tidal wave should have
swept it away even from the mind Of
a defeated candidate. A verdict like
that should settle this hallucination.
Money has nothing to do with such a
popular demonstration. No one can
buy" it. No one can bargain for it.
You might as well try to 'buy" tor
nado or expect to find an earthquake
on bargain counter. H. b
Canst thou draw leviathan with
hook or lead him about with cord?
This vast, sentient conscious, puissant
people which sits between the Atlantic
and Pacific is not to be led by trusts
or bought with q price. Money SO
spent is but poured on the ground and
returns no more to him who expended
it. Sometimes ward, occasionally
city, In rare instances single state,
not too large, has its action and choice
Influenced by money. Even this is not
often. r. s..g ~. ...,s,. Is
The blare and talk of money and
trusts" and protected Industries" is
the veriest rot and nonsense. As on
Tuesday the great ocean of voters,
whose whelming tides neither men nor
managers control does it's work with
out warning and with it's own indi-
vidual will. And in the day Of its
power who shall measure it's might
and by whom shall it's proud waves be
stayed? .'...
Not by money or price weighed Of
the merchants. To suggest this is dis
loyalty and to believe it treason.
Judge Parker comes dangerously
near to both when in his post mortem
statement he tries to explain his rejec-
ton by the largest popular majority
ever in our history cast against a presi-
Dental candidate to the corrupt use Of
money, corruptly gained by bargain
with trusts" 8, Il <:,...z .sg.s.t