Mexico weekly ledger., 1908-10-01
WHAT MoURNFUL SOUNDS
MARsE wATTERsoN MAKES
Louisville Editor, Using Foraker In
eident as Text, Rhetorieally Con-
signs Republican Party to the
Tomb and Selects Its Epitaph.

LOuAdNkAAOt 05t
the head Of THE Sin Of Republicanism
Has Found 1t Out" Henry Watterson
saws This morning In the Oourier-Jour-
nal, In part:
1.-THE paramount issue OF this presi-
Dental campaign is the danger OF In
trusting one party too long Win
power. We are supposed to live under
a government Of public opinion. Mod
ern politics, however, created macnin-
cry especially designed for controlling
this public opinion.
"It is yet q question whether VIC
tory against such odds is possible.
The present campaign is to determine
that. 1t is to decide whether the
people, unaided, a successfully go
against a party occupying q fortress
whether the American voter is or Is
not an overmatch for the money devil
commanding the party 10 power
whether, in a word,it is possible, short
of a cataclysm, TO reach q change OF
parties IN Washington.
sometimes Providence does for US
what we cannot do for ourselves, aud
certain recent occurrences seem TO JUS
tify the belief that In this campaign
Providence is with the Democrats.
Foraker seems bat the victim Of cir
cumstances. The Republican woods
are still full Of Standard OIL 'attor-
news both In and out OF Congress; OF
sugar ring attorneys Of Steel Trust
ssttorneys,' posing as statesmen.
What Is Cannon but q trust 'attor-
new, WHAT else is Aldrich? They
have syndicated the Government.
i, Why balk at Foraker
"'Uaugnt With the Goods as the
!. saying has it, the senior Ohio Senator
admits that be did act for a time as
an attorney for the Standard Oh Com
!. pany.
1.-THE Republican party is the real
culprit. Through 40 years the Repuo'
. lican party has been the attorney. OF
every ring and ringster, Of every jon
and jobber, which has appeared al
Washington having a graft big enough
to tempt the steering committee oil
the Senate and the rules committee OF
the House, from high tariff, always al
:. the front, to high finance, seeking
monopoly In every known commodity
.-sugar, steel, iron-enriching Repuo'
J lican statesman and making a mockerJ
of popular interests.
The Senate Is crowded with trusl
attorneys. Hence the universal de
mand for the election Of Senators By
the people instead of by the corpora
tfon-owned Legislatures. 1t long ag'
y became a scandal that most Repuoli
5 can leaders who went to Congress poo,
men after a few years anne ava!
bloated b~ondholders. Allison Of low
being the one exception. Ii is tol
/. late for the Republicans to make 4
il scapegoat of Foraker.
I'll Never has the Republican part!
faced such conditions as meet IL whicl
e ever way it turns. All thoughtful on
lockers concede that New York is II
" reyocably lost TO it. The nomination
Re of Lilley makes Connecticut a doubt
It full State. Rhode Island and NeS
Jersey hang In the balance.
al mThere are both hell and chaos il
u Ohio. Indiana, thanks TO Hanly, J
o gone past redemption. The praifi
d fires OF a public conscience sweep owe
Illinois, leaping the Mississippi Rive
into Iowa. rossing the Missouri Rive
y into Kansas and Nebraska, impede
b only by the tenantless walls OF th
Rocky Mountains to issue theme
again and TO sweep down to the golde
shores OF the Pacific.
BEL "Well may the Republican leaderI
intolerate and arrogant, who used b
I. money and machinery to carry all b
fore them,Quake with fear and white
a. with dlsmay. In their rage they bit
one another like frightened BEAST
E, Well may theyswap horses In the mic
d. die OF the stream, exchanging Prox
Frank Hitchcock for Foxy Murra
Crane. Well may they make allianC
% with Hearst, Taft himself cryint
Help me, Randolph, or | sink.
r. IL Ii amusing IL is pitiful. IL
', h%umiliattng. Their sins indeed hav
found them out at last. scandals I
the right Of them, scandals TO The lei
Il of them, defeat In front Of them
only the Taft-Sinton millions between
is Cannon clinging to Sunny Jim,' A
d drich falling upon the neck Of Son-iT
Law Rockefeller, the thieving tari
II exuding fat no longer, but maxim
u auagmires for the robber trusts; th
people disguised on the n hand {
d Indignant on the other; the grand oil
n party Of graft and fraud is 10 truth
a sight to see. Yet a little longer, an
the boneyard, leaving only a stenc
n behind, aad this inscription.
"whilst it lived, II lived IN Glove
te When It died, 1t died all over
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