The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-07-30


steel and iron, OF The sugar trust and I
the tobacco trust, Of fraud and force,
from the hour when IL sought Ia
Mexicanize the government by the
impeachment Of president who had
committed 90 legal wrong and the
setting aside of the verdict Of the
ballot box by congressional usurpa-
tion to the hour when 1t adopted
platform of imposture, placing upon
it the pretended counterfeit present.
ment of Roosevelt, but coupling him
with a yoke-m mate out of the very
vortex of predatory wealth and the
jaws of monopoly.
Flying the flag of Roosevelt, the /
republican leaders have already made |
their peace with the ssytem. that is,
with S'tan Pittsburg and Wall
street. From Rockefeller to-
, Carnegie, from Hartman to Morgan,
t every chieftafn of lawless riches is
well content with Taft and Sherman.
) They foretoken and imply the old
, order of special privilege To the few,
/ ilbDloibiOIlc VI CfOiJ ootb w wv
: many; high finance rampant; high
r tariff, "revised by its friends RAM
, pant; the end of Rooseveltism and
: agitation 'for the good of business
4 business only organized capital and
: licensed monopoly, the same old
t story, the same ola song, the same
old gang, slicked over with goose
e grease from the Roosevelt iafder but
t meaning four years more Of the
!, rascaldom, which Roosevelt has un-
, masked, but not downed; which
h Roosevelt has exposed, but left in
j. tact; which, in spite of Roosevelt
and all his works, stands today as I'M
s. pudent and defiant as ever il stood, a
+. gray wolf presiding over the senate,
y a gray wolf presiding over the house,
" and gray wolf giving tone ard effect
e TO the ticket.
y Can any thoughtful democrat, car
any patriotic American, balk of his
al duty before layout so menacine anc
re obvious?
Of If the Courier-J Journal could get Y
D. MIR. Bryan. as IL has and as II die
" quite three months ago, most sin
cerely and with entire heartinesS, an,
" democrat may; hut, the better 20 ex
a. plain the situation and 10 simplify ii
~ logical bearings, let MS say that tw
&c facts, sufficiently ascertained 10 b
h conclusive, decided us; first, that a
p. overwhelming majority Of the demo
Ell Gratis of the south and west were fo
IT. Mr.. Byran i'm spite Of the arPumen
40 we had made against his availahilit
n? as n candidate; and, second tina
q the belated movement TO defeat hi
he nomination appeared uuder equivoci
les patronage and Involved the use {
at money which emanated trol
y? doubtful sources. The latter, bodin
To- party disruption, impeled us active
IRE to take hand, urging that we refu'
to rest silent whilst a scheme, II
he sidious, dangerous and unworthy
re- character, percolated beneath II
he surface. To do SO would ha'
not amounted to acquiescenee.
AN The result was a friendly COME
he ence with Mr.. Bryan, for whom \
It's entertained only sentiments OF pc
49, sonnl resuect and good Will.
nm intelligent and thoughtful peof
will not need TO he told that there
all the difference in the word I
tween sympathy and agreement
though tentative-and opposition
antagonlsm, though resting up
Eouestiuns Of eypediency. There W;
OF course, reverse SIDE OF the SHE
Mr.. Bryan had bis own story
tell, and this embodied a very stfo
case. What authorization had be
name successor in case he stcpl
aside? What power bad he, conc
ing the will to transfer his follow
to another? Not one, but i
dozen aspirants would take the Il
Immediately on his Withdrawal,
majority Of the party was for hiI
as the Courier ADMIT ed-what
made 1t So? Surely neither organi
ton, nor money, nor other eirori
g MS IildH liiE GhilHiAhh BAhdA}tAtE
democratic gospel. II lie agreed
stand down and out, designating
heir apparent, would he not becon
dictator, an autocrat, ard Is
Indifference would there in bis nan
successor, and attetL pting To I
hin upon the party and Rooseye
naming and forcing Taft upon
Republicans, which We were d
copdemnlng? lie did not stand Y
his rights at all. upon bis clai
upon his wishes. or ambitions.
put the facts of the situation plai
lmpersoually, precisely rs they
ana are. and there was 20 reason
answer TO he made by any reason
man.
Then and there the CCurier-Jou
z-=~E laid dosn its hand. AS . good {
- ocrat, as the wise and faithful !
tier Of its party associates, II ha'
ways tried to be seeing clearly or
the senuel has shown, seeing 8