The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-23


lier in time,is that Senator Foraker
used his personal and Senatorial
influence IN peIsuading the very
legislature which first made hlm
Senator. TO pass the notorious Az
year franchise law at the behest OF
his friends of the Cincinnati trae-
ton interests; a law 80 traitorous
monopoly, so profitable to himseii
financially, by common rumor, ana
so foul in the nostrils of common
dccency. that the very first act
of the next Legislature, dominated ny
the same party which at his bidding
had passed the law. was to repeal
the law at the bidding of the peo-
pie and of deeency.
Our third count" is that he
strenuously opposed the pure-foodi
bill, the railway-rate-regulatlon bIl
and other bills urgently demanded
by the people, by fair play and
common honesty, and has for years
seemed one of the most stalwart
fighters for great railway and 9th
er corporate interests, ever watch
full lest some law should be passed
to curtal their grasping claims.
The people land their Pres:dent)
demands pure butter. meat spices,
medicines, commodities; they de-
mand that the government, which
condignly Furnishes the buyer for
exchanging counterfeit money for
genuine commodities, shall also Sc
verely punish the sellers for ex-
changing counterfeit commodities
for genuine money. They demand
uniform and reasonable rates and
fair treatment from the railways,
as common carriers, using the gov
crnTent s right of "eminent do
MAIN in gaining their "rights of
way" with no unfair discrim:Da-
tionc for or against persons or
places in rates, supply of ears and
the like; and that the Interstate
Commerce Commission have full
power in the matter. In short, the
people want "a square deal" in
/ the expressive words of President
Roosevelt.
Our fourth "count" is that
Senator Foraker has not only often
stood on the side { privileges to
conyrate interests as against the
rights of the people, his constitu-
ents, but has definitely flung in
their faces the assertion of his
right TO do so, to vote solely, on
his own private Judgment. The peo-
pie do mt lnger want him to defy
their demands and ignore their let
ters They are also simply disgust
ed with his ill-concealed hostility
TO the President, IN the efforts of
the latter to serve the people, and
have their opinion of his grand
stand play to the colored voters,
in the Brownsville investigation
They want men of the Roosevelt
type in the White House, in the
Senate, on the Bench everywhere
where the unfair claims of powerful
interests are in danger of overrid-
ing the just rights OF the people.
AS to his reported withdrawal,
May s, as Presidential candidate
he might as well withdraw. There
was not the ghost of chance that
even Ohio would endorse him as a
favorite SOM" still less that the
Republican leaders or the people
at large would permit his nomina-
tion. They know that his nomina-
tion, or that of any man who does
not, like President oscvelt, stand
squarely for the rights of the peo-
pie and a fair control of the ag.
gressions Of corporate wealth. would
bring terrible defeat. Even Coz
has deserted him. And in the Sena-
tollal matter, even if Foraker could
manipulate the caucuses so as tc
nominate Foraker men for the next
legislature. then the rank and file
OF the party especially of the farm
ers, would at the polls rebuke the
party scheners.
We reiterate the above and SINH,