Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-05-29
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A Square Deal.

A Square Deal.
In politics the boosted square deal"
is good deal of a myth, especially
when the cards are dealt by Republic
can politicians. AS the money of the
trusts and corporations has been law
ishly contributed for Republican cam
paign funds to purchase enough votes
to make majority in close States and
Congressional districts, 1t is Impossible
to expect a square deal from such
source. All this talk, therefore, Of the
people getting square deal Is a fraud,
delusion, and snare, to close the
eyes Of the voters to the actual state
Of political affairs.
There certainly should be square
deal between the railroad corporations
and the people, but so far all that has
been accomplished has come through
the action Of State legislatures in re-
ducing passenger rates, for the result
Of the national legislation has been of
no direct advantage to the public, but
seems satisfactory to the corporations.
There should certainly be square
deal between the people and the trusts,
but the Republican Congress has abso-
lutely refused to enact any remedial
legislation. The trusts are notorlously
protected by the tariff, and the Repub-
lican Congress refused to even consider
bills that proposed to cut down the
most prohibltlye and monopolistic
schedules, even those exceeding 100 per
cent.
There certainly should be square
deal between Labor and Capital, but as
far as national legislation is concerned
the Republicans have refused to pass
any laws Labor has asked for and have
persistently refused to repeal, or
amend, the laws that protect Capital
In plundering the many for the benefit
of the few.
| There certainly should be square
deal for the farmers and planters
whose profits are precarious and sub
ject to all the vicissitudes Of heat and
cold, drought and flood, and can least
Withstand the rapacity of corporations
which charge all the traffic will bear.
For the past year, the price of wheat,
cotton and some other agricultural
products has been below the cost Of
production, considering that on an
average all the farmer buys has ad-
vanced in price over so per cent, main
~ because the tariff protects the trusts
from competition. Such monopoly the
Republican leaders defend and are re-
paid by enormous campaign contrlbu-
tons by the trusts and corporations
for perpetuating themselves in power.
AS long as these Republicans poll
cles are allowed to continue, it is pre-
posterous to say the people are getting
a square deal.
Five Favorite Sons.
There is every promise of lively
circus and a long continuous perform
ance in the Republican Convention
next year, when the favorite sons Of
numerous States gather to do their
stunts of ground and lofty, tumbling
for the. Presidential applause of the
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One there will be from Ohio, to a
certainty Whether he will be the re-
doubtab'e Foraker in his remarkable
Fire Alarm act, or the ponderous Taft,
torped off with the helmet of Mars, is
to be decided in the preliminary ring
tcontest already begun with Burton and
Taft, Dick and Foraker throwing the
sawdust into one another's eyes.
Illinois has already set Its teeth
hard for Its Uncle Joe Cannon, who
can crack as many jokes as any sea-
soned old circus clown. and Fairbanks
will, at the request of the Indiana del
egation, render remarkably good Imi-
tation of the iceman. New York is
putting Hughes in training, and IL the
Iowa delegation does not insist that
Cummins deliver a mock eulogy on the
4 memory of the late Mr.. Dingley, of
Maine, all the Republicans in the West
who are eager to Sc his tariff knocked
out by solar plevus blow will be bit
/ Terry disappointed.
In truth, the Republican enemies of
Mr.. Roosevelt, who desire that he shall
neither have third term nor nominate
his own successor, seem to be raising
i up favorite sons in the States which
would be most likely to decide the
contest in favor of the President, un-
less they are held away from him by
their own candidates In the earlier
stages of the convention.
AT this distance it looks as If next
years Republican Convention will be
a long deadlock, with the chances as
good for a dark horse MS was the case
In 1880, the only convention in which
the attempt has been made to nominate
a candidate for a third term in the
White House.
In that convention the exercises be-
gan with Blaine, the Plumed Knight
of Maine, concentrating in himself
most Of the opposition to Grant and
the third term; but there were too
many favorite sons with good backing
for either Of them to get majority
OF the votes, so that on the thirty-sixth
ballot the nomination went to the dark
horse, Garfield.
If President Roosevelt should seek
denomination or man of his choice
should go before the convention with
good backing, we are apt to have some.
thing like n repetition of the conven-
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band of 300 were ridden down by othe
| Ohio man, who until the last ballot
had never received more than fifty
votes in the convention.
For some such grand-stand wlnd-up
the favorite sons are now practicing and
going through their PAGES. When the
show begins they are likely to make ii
very interesting for Mr.. Roosevelt him.
self or for his slate-St. Louis Repub