The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-01-28
SENSELESS CHATTER.
TALK OF TRUST MONEY "euYlhe"
THE PRESIDENCY.

Result Of the Balloting Completely
Refutes Judge Pnrker"s Reason Foe
His Crushing Defent-The Peoples
Vote IL Not For Sale.
The Philadelphia Press has the fol-
lowing to say regarding Judge Par
ker's charge that trust money accom-
plished his defeat:
How silly, In the face of all that has
happened, is the prediction chatter
about buying" the presidency with
money" from the trusts" With
overwhelming pluralities staring him
In the face, what senseless after cleo
lion 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"
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 a 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
hotly contested.
President Roosevelt has in New York
a plurality Of 174,OOO. Governor Hig-
gins is elected by 1900. No money
brings pluralities like these. No Or
%1antZatiOn can win them.
It is nonsense to suggest it. No man
in his senses believes it-after election,
not even Judge Parker in his address.
Before election careless iteration and
perpetual Charges" lead a great many
well meaning people, Inc 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 a burr. No logic a de-
tach it. No facts remove it.
Tuesdays tidal wave should have
swept it away even from the mind of
a defeated candidate. A verdict like
that should settle this ha%llucination.
Money has nothing to do with such a
popular demonstration. No m can
''buy" it. No one can bargain for it.
You might IS well try to ''buy" a tor
nado or expect to find an earthquake
on a bargain counter.
Canst thou. draw leviathan with a
hook or lead him about with a cord?
This vast, sentient conscious, puissant
people which sits between the Atlantic
and Pacific is not to be led by trusts
or bought with a price. Money SO
spent is but poured on the ground and
returns no more to him who expended
1t. Sometimes a ward, occasionally a
city, in rare instances a single state,
not too large, has its action and choice
Influenced by money. Even this is not
often.
The blare and talk Of money" and
'trusts" and protected industries is
the veriest rot and nonsense. AS on
Tuesday the great ocea Of voters,
whose whelming tides neither men nor
managers control does it's work with
out warning and with its W indi-
vidual will. And in the day Of its
power who shall measure its might
and by whom shall it's proud wave be
stayed?
Not by money Dr. a 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 a bargain
with trusts"
A Backward Reorganization.
Beyond all is the unprecedented fac