The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-03-08
THEODORE
ROOSEVELT.
HIS DEMOCRATIC POLICY
TOWARD THE TRUSTS.

dore Roosevelt, By grace of God
and by will of the people the TWEEN
ty-sixth President of the United
States, is playing a large part just
now not only in the affairs of his
country, but in shaping the future
policy and destiny of the Demo
cratic party.
The President is natural Demo
crat-he says so himself-a "Ben-
ton Democrat" he calls it. How
he managed to get mixed up with
the Republican camp and to pros
per in it is mystery that can only
be explained by environment--and
luck.
The Republican leaders never
liked him. They always protested
his free, bold ways, and they most
deliberately tried to shelve HIM by
making him Vice-President against
his will at Philadelphia.
But the Providence which shapes
the destinies of nations and of
men reserved him for service to- the
people, and for the revivification of
the great Democratic party which
carries now and always the best
hope of the plain people of America.
The President has climbed into
the Democratic band wagon and
has actually seized the Teins anu is
doing the driving without any
apology to the owners. He is
fighting the trust iniquities as if
his name was Bryan or Hearst. He
is taking the lines of the Demo-
cratic platform in remedial legisla-
ton, and he is fighting the rail
road rate iniduities in almost the
exact terms of the Hearst bill Of
last March. He is demonstrating
regard for popular rights and q
fearlessness of corporate displeas
ure which is dc wholesome as il is
un-Republican; and he is setting
an example of courage in high
place which is bracing the back
bone of all parties and of all citi-
zens in a republic that has been TOO
much inclined to cover and trem-
BILE before the supposed omnipo-
tence of the colossal trusts and
syndicates.
l do not fear or hesitate to say
this much of the Republican Presi,
dent, because it is true, and be-
cause l am sure that his present
policies will all work out to the
good and glory of the Democratic
party, whose platforms he is now
vindicating, and the correctness
and practicability of whose creeds
he is advertising to the amazement
of his own ranks and to the de-
light of ours.
Theodore Roosevelt is making
Democrats every day-making
them out of men who have been
Republicans, and making over
those who have forgotten to be
Democrats, or who have Teen dis
couraged in the hope of success.
Do not for a moment imagine
that the President can ever carry
HE old hide hide ssc;ss::sda party % psivi-
lege and fairfield parasites along
with him in this Democratic way.
They are following him rather
d0mbly now, because they have
scarcely gotten their breath in
the establishment which his boldness
and his popular courage have pro-
duced. They are afraid, too, of
this young and now untrammelled
political athlete, whose prowess and
daring do not particularly invite
difference or attack. But there is
a muttering all through the ranks
of the Republican party, and the
murmer will deepen to storm, in
which the spoilsmen's organization
will go down to defeat. The proph-
cts of party are already foretelling
the speedy future in which Theo-
dore Roosevelt will stand as Grover
Cleveland did--at outs with all the
leaders of his political army, and
as a wedge to split in twain an or
ganization that has already per-
formed its mission and ought to be
ready to die.
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