Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-08-02
TAFT'S FUTILE APPEAL
Secretary of Wars Song to the
Solid South.
DEMOCRATS EVERYWHERE UNITED

The Rotten Republican Party Offers
No Inducements to Honest Voters.
President Indorsed by Democrats
When Right and Rebuked When
Wrong Outlook Good For Next
Congress-.
Inspired by the boss of Oyster Bay
Secretary Taft delivered his speech,
carefully inspected and revised, to the
warning Republican factions Of North
Carolina. Taft may be called the
buffer if not the buffer of the admins
t@ration, and he seems to have been
used on this occasion to Glide the fed
eral officeholders, who, with the ne
groes, compose the Republican party in
the southern states, and to advise the
Democrats that nothing would work
greater advantage to the country at
large and to the south in particular
than the breaking up Of what is known
as the solid south" How the south
would gain by %"breaking up" and elect
ing Republican congressman Taft did
not explain, SO evidently President
Roosevelt had nothing to offer.
The chief burden Of his 0 n was the
doings Of the boss of Oyster Bay and
an appeal to stand by Roosevelt and
not allow him to be 'rebuked and
thwarted in his high purposes by the
return to congress of a majority of the
opposition"
AS all the good things President
Roosevelt has recommended have been
OF Democratic origin and in the next
congress, as in the past session, he
will find quite as warm support from
the Democrats for all righteous legisla-
ton as he will from his own party, the
above partisan appeal is surprising.
In fact, heretofore the president has
had far more to fear on railroad and
trust legislation from the majority of
his W party than from the Demo
Gratis, and when he has been "rebuked
and thwarted' by them it was because
he was urging congress to do things
that We're not Democratic, such as
forcing Arizona into statehood with
New Mexico and in his treaty with
Santo Domingo, which would make the
United States the debt collector for all
Latin America, and by his extrava-
gance, which far exceeds that of any
other president.
Democrats everywhere, south and
north, have no reason to break away
from their party and join the Repub-
leans, whose rotten political machine
has been exposed in a hundred scan
dals and whose compact with trusts
and corporations, by receiving their
tainted money, is a disgrace for which
President Roosevelt is personally re-
sponsible, for he stood by conserving
While Chairman Cortelyou of the Re-
publican national committee was col
lecting from the Wall street controlled
life insurance companies the funds thai
should have been sacred to the wild
ows and orphans Of the policy holders.
That is a black spot on the Roosevelt
armor, which vas intensified by his
denial Of the charge of Judge Parker,
which Mr.. Roosevelt has never been
man enough to acknowledge. although
Judge Parker's charge proved true, nor
has he ordered restitution to be made
to the widow and orphan fund.
Oh, no, MI. Taft, this is no time for
Democrats to break from their ancient
mornings. and even if it was the Re
publican party would offer no induce
ment to honest voters until it repents
of it's sins and honestly tries to lead a
better life.
Instead, rather than Democrats
breaking away from their party. hon
est Republicans are leaving their party
as rats leave a sinking ship, and all
signs point to the election of a Demo
cratic congress this year and the cleo
ton Of a Democratic president in 1908.