Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-09-07

stitution, for ballot reform, for the
correction of corporate abuses; in ev-
cry case they have gone down to de-
feat at the hands of the machine op-
posed to them. The force of crime and
money welded by the corruptionists
has beaten down every attempt at bet
terment.
Now at last proofs of the rascality
of the plunderers who have ruled the
state have accumulated heavily, and
the truth has been brought home to ev
cry reader of the public press. Public
opinion is aroused, and the annihila-
tion of the gang is close at hand
when all parties are ready to join
hands in the cause of freedom and in
dependence.
In this crisis, the Democratic party,
with not less than 100000 votes, rises
clear of all party considerations with
an eye single to the sure redemption
of the state. 1t has excluded from its
platform all national issues, and placed
at the head of its ticket broad-mind-
ed Republican, who from time to time,
before today, fought in the ranks Of
Democracy, against the oppressors of
the people.
The issues of this campaign are
moral rather than political Rallied
around the fusion flag are men of all
parties who wish to drive the perjurer,
the thief and the briber from the gov
eminent of the state and from party
council whether the party be Demo
cratic or Republican.
The Republicans who admire and
believe in their president must feel i'll
at ease in association with the Penn
sylvania gangsters, il their memories
run back to the action of the gang
Legislature of 1905, resembling, under
gang orders, a resolution commencing
the course Of the president in his ef-
forts to secure legislation regulating
the business of trunk lines-a resolu-
tion which the Democrat Greasy by
chance put through.
The weakened gang now calls out
the name of Roosevelt and protests
that 1t and he stand for one and the
same thing. 1t has shown its teeth,
but now, few months after, begs the
support of the friends of the man it
struck in the back.
The old-fashioned Democrat, like
myself, believes that the application Of
the principles of the Democratic party
to the government of state or nation
must bring the greatest good to the
greatest number. He knows that the
enforcement of the principles of the
party in the government of this state
would make impossible the rottenness
now existing. He knows, as all men
know, that the adoption of measures
proposed by the Democrats at the
various sessions of the legislature,
would have made the constitution of
1873 effective, opening the doors OF
the penitentiaries to receive its vio-
lators In that case we would not be
facing the monstrous evils we are now
called upon to eradicate.
AS many sincere Republicans look
upon Roosevelt as the reform leader
of their party in national affairs, so de
Pennsylvania Democrats regard Bryan
as their great leader in the national
arena in the fight for honest govern
ment, good law and the equal and sure
enforcement of It,
In this years campaign in Pennsyl-
vania. the true friends of Bryan and
of Roosevelt, the men who believe in
honest government, have united for
the single purpose of getting honest
government for the state. When that
is done and the dirt cleaned out, fusion
will be no longer necessary.
Believing, as I do, and as have ex-
pressed myself, | am proud to take my
place in the fusion company, while my
belief in the principles of Democracy
grows stronger every day that It con-
templates the failure of Republican
rule.