The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-06

1t Will be well to guard against what
merely partisan papers or orators may
say Of the purpose of this league Pr1-
marilv lis object is to secure the organ
izaticn Of the independent voter as I
watch dog against vicious politics. he
league evidently intends to Use one or
the other OF the older parties. presuln-
ably the. Democratic. to attain popular
ends and to achieve the success OF popu-
lar demands. Failing in this they will
assume independent action. | his league
insists that the trust and vicious ele-
ments ia the Nation have usurped the
power in both old parties-and that. as
at prese mt controlled, neither OF them
will ever effect popular purposes. Hence
the eague's being.
As if TO confirm the claims of the
league If the failure of the old parties
to conform to the spirit OF popular de
mands. one of them, through its ''otfl-
cial" heads. met in New York on the
same day. and declared. not for prln-
cipIes, not for measures for the public
veal, bug for man to unite all Demo
cratic party factions.
To show The Caucasian readers the
real purpose OF these people, 1t has but
to cite the names OF some of those who
met to select that man.
James. Smith Jr., OF New Jersey. VIM,
F. SheeFlan. Patrick II. AlcCarren, Cord
Never il New York, and Thomas lag
gart of Indiana.
These are Of the Executive Commit
tee. and with them was Joseph Barley OF
Texas. and David Francis Of Missouri
David r. Francis OF St Louis, who
bolted Bryan nomination i'll 1896. and
was one of Bailey's monumental Ana
Mas witness in his late senatorial contest
before the Texas Legislature. was con-
sidered as the most likely man to secure
harmoav,' is considered entirely safe
by the Oil Trust, and will have the sup
port of predatory greed for the Demo
cratic nomination for the presidency
How is this to be worked:
Will the 1904 methods. with sucl
|mcdifcations as time and necessity may
require. be employed:
Already Waterson, whose pen ant
soul has been sold to the mercenaries
has begun the work. He insists tha
Hearst is after the ncmratOn, and /
he does not get it will knife Bryan.
Watersons pleasing tlicttion now re
cites that MIR. Hearst's recent letter pos
itively declining any preferment an'
that he would accept none. is meaning
less; that Hearst does want the nomna
ton. ard is striving to secure It. y
course Waterson is wilfully prevarlcat
ing. but he hopes to earn his money eve
if he betrays his people.
Tie scheme all along for two year
has been to fight Hearst with Bryan o
BRYAN with Hearst as the case might de
\ mand. The Madison Square Garde
+, meeting was an attempt to fight Hears
with Bryan. The Waldorf-Astoria meet
, ing the other day was to fight Brya
v with Hearst OF course Francis is a
i impossiblity If nominated Fairbank
q could beat him. and the Solid South
. would burst worse than when Parke
lost four Of the Southern States, an
rock-ribbed Missouri went over to til
enemy.
q But the conspiracy is unveiled whe
v you know its promoters.
Where McCarren and Taggart an
4 Smith and Myer and Sheehan and Ba
p |lev are together, there is where dangt
p to popular rule and Democracy lie:
~ These are notorious tools of plutocrac
v and their spokesman is Waterson. WI
l. has sunk name, intellect and charact'
IS for the despoilers.
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