Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-10-02
THE SIN OF REPUBLlCANISM
HAS FOUND IT OUT

of Henry Watterson .leals with the
corruption of the leaders of the republi-
can party. 1t is worthy of perusal:
THE paramount issue of this presi-
Dental campaign is the danger of in
trusting Il ptrty to lblS with power.
We are supposed 10 live under Il govern
ment of public opinion. Modern pol
itics, however, has created machinery
especially designed for controlling this
public opinion.
1T is yet Il question whether victory
against such odds is possible. The pres
ent campaign is to determine that. 1t
is to decide whether the people. unaid-
ell, can successfully 20 against 4 party
occupying Il fortrcss-whether the
American voter is or is not an over
match for the money devil command
ing the party in power-whether, i'll Il
word, it is impossible, short of Il cat
aclysm tn reach II change of parties mt
Washington
Sometimes providence does for us
what we cannot do for ourselves, and
certain recent occurrences seem to iuSti-
fy the belief that in this campaign prov
iience is with the democrats. Forak-
erscems but the victim of circumstances.
The republican woods are still full of
Standard Oil attorneys. both in and out
of congress; of sugar ring attorneys
of steel trusts attorneys posing as
CFnKnp,,nn WHIT -. T,,,, 1,,f -
trust 'attornevg' What else is Aldrich:
They have syndicated the government.
Why balk ut Foraker? 90
Caught With the Goods as the
saying has it, the senior Ohio senator
admits that he did act for Il time rs an
attorney for the Standard Oil Company.
THE republican party is the real cul-
prit. Through forty years the republi-
can party has been the attorney of
every ring and ringster, of every job
and iohbcr, which has appeared ut
Washington having a graft big enough
to tempt he steering committee of the
senate and the rules committee of the
house, from high tariff. always mt the
front, In high finance, seeking monopoly
in every known commodity-Sugar.
steel, irOn-enriching republican states
men and making II mockcry of popular
interests.
The senate is crowded with trust
attorneys. Hence the universal demand
for the election of senators by the people
inStn,l ,f lk- tn. ,.,rt,,r ,t ion ,t,-,,.1
legislatures. 1t long ago became Il
scandal that NEST republican leaders
who went to congress poor men. after IA
few years caIne away blOatcd hond-
holders, Allison of Iowa being the
exception. Ii is too late for the rcpub-
licans To make Il sCapeguat of Foraker.
Never has the republican party
faced such conditions aS meet it which
lockers conccdc that New York is ire.
vocably lost to it. The nomination of
Lilley makes Connecticut a doubtful
state, Rhode Island and New Jersey
hang in the balance.
There are both hell and chaos in
Ohio. Indiana. thanks to Hanlcy, is gone
past redemption. The prairie fires of q
public conscience sweep over Illinois,
lcaping the Mississippi River into Iowa
crossing the Missouri River into Kansas
and Nebraska, impcdcd only by thu
tenantlcss walls of the Rocky Noun
tains. to issue thence again and to SWEEP
down to the golden shores of tn,
Pacific.
We'll may the republican leaders, in
tolerant and arrogant, who used b,
money and machinery to carry all he
fore them, quake with fear and whittier
with dismay. In their rage they bit,
one another like frightened beasts
We'll may they swap horses in tin
middle of the stream, exchanging
Proxy Frank Hitchcock for Fox,
Murray Crane. Well may they max
alliance with Hearst, Taft hinscl
crying: Help me, Randolph, or I sink,
ut is amusing. 1t is pitiful. 1t i
found them out ut last. Scandals to tn
right of them. scandals to the left O
them, defeat in front Of tlcm-only TN
Taft .Sinton millions between; Cannon
clinging to Sunny Jim Aldrich falling
upon the neck of Son-in.law Rockefeller
thicving tariff cxuding fat no longer
but making quagInircs for the robbie
trusts; the people Disguised on the on,
hand or indignant on the other; tn
grand old party of graft and fraud i
in truth II sight to sec. Yet Il littl,
longer. and the boncyard, leaving onl!
a stencil behind and this inscription;
Whilst it lived, IL lived in clover;
When it died, it died all over