Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-12
A Gigantic Conspiracy.

feUly at Work Tor over Two years oil d
plan to defeat the Roosevelt reform
program by the selection of aNcandi-
date for the presidency who would be
in sympathy with the trust interests
and IL elected stay the hand Of justice
now pursuing the plunderers and law
breakers to hailing distance Of prison
doors.
This combination represents a bill
lion dollars or more and It's purpose is
to control the selection OF a successor
to President Roosevelt, the election
OF trust senator's and congressman
and i'm this way undo as far as pos
.sible the magnificent work OF our
great president.
Can the five hundred or more mil
liOnaireS overcome a republican pa
tional convention and defeat the will
of the people? No, not unless the
republicans in every state go TO sleep
and allow the trusts to manipulate
state conventions.
Rather unexpectedly the plan of
these co%nspirators has been exposed
and the President has been duly noti-
fed Of the trust program. Five mil
lion dollars has already been pledged
by the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. inter-
ests TO defeat R%oose veIt's program Of
justice and reform and defeat any
mar who believes in the Rooseveltian
doctrine. This unholy combine has
also In view the selection OF a demo-
traffic candidate for the presidency
who would protect them II elected,
just as they dictated the nomination
OF Judge Parker in 1904.
President Roosevelt says that 1.-THE
greatest issue raised in this country
since the civil war; Is whether the
standard oil and allied interests are
greater than the United States gov
eminent, and this is the issue hat
the American people must decide
next year.
Organized capital is powerful, cun-
ming, qnscrupulous, tyrannical ard
hesitates at nothing to clear its path
to undisturbed plundering of the
wealth producers.
The first time since sordid wealth
became a menace to the nation we
have found a president whose courage
and love Of justice has raised a bar
rier against this menac to CONNER
cial freedom and popular government,
and for this the corporation barons
are now c%onspiring to destroy him
and the great work accomplished.
These wealthy plunderers will not
succeed unless the American people
sell their birthright and delegate
their powers to the corrupt and braz-
en- agents Of the old machine in every
county and state in the nation.
Let it never be forgotten that the
advent of Theodore Roosevelt into
national politics has saved the people
from commercial slavery, and in
breaking the corporation grip in var
ious states has demonstrated what a
corrupt power that vas. The Presi-
dents bold and vigorous action gave
the people courage to throw OF the
corporation yoke and assume the
right to manage their own affairs.
The President is now secretly and
openly assailed by this corrupt com
bination and the great common peo-
ple-the wealth producers of the ma
tion-must stand solidly at his back
until the last tenace of the giant
octupus is severed from its grip on
popular government.
The conspiracy against the Presid-
ent and his work by the corporation
plunderers makes itself evident that
Roosevelt must accept a
nomination and 1t is up to the
rank and file Of the party to see that
he receives it. There are many able
men who would be acceptable under
ordinary conditions but we believe we
voice the sentiment of nine-tenths OF
the republicans of the country when
we state that there is no man OF pres
timber in the country who
can so easily carry to ice the pol
icies inaugurated by the president as
ha can because he has the confidence
of nearly all the people who are out
side the money-mad class.
II the nation is to return to a gov
,rnment by the people and for the
pepole Theodore Roosevelt must be
renominated and elected and South
Dakota will be in the front rank of
The Roosevelt champions.