The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1908-10-21
DEMOCRACY !
IS UNITED
..ITER50N
DEAN OF AH-T.CNN JOURNAL
ISM TELLS OF HIS JOY
At RESULT
REPUBuChn F52lY MENACE
TO OR5 .a.i Government

In His First Political Address since
1892 the Editor Of the Louisville
courier-Journal Urges his Hearers
to support Hryan, Whose Election
He has Twice Opposed
Louisville, Ky. Oct 21.--In his
first poliuca, speech since 1892, de-
livered at a democratic rally in this
city, Hon. Henry Watterson declared
that whatever usefulness the republi.
can party ever possessed, II has for
the time outlived, and that It stands
today a menace to equal taxation and
economic administration, If not to or.
deHy government and free institu-
tions.
Il truthfully rejoice that have liv.
ed to look upon a united democracy"
said Mr.. Watterson. 81 was born in
democratic campaign during what
proved to be a bad year for the dem.
ocrats. and l attained my majority
just in time to see the party go over
the preclpice of sectionalism, to what
seemed its ruin.
ne ltll US lHdl
are many issues, but / see only one.
If we cannot change our rulers at will
If an organized and defiant minority
inside a fortress can Withstand the
siege of an undisclplined and III
equipped majority on the outside
ifs, about rebates and bank deposits,
about money and morals, and stocks
and bonds profit us?
IL behold now an almost exact re-
production of the evil conditions OF
so years ago. The republican party
grown corrupt and arrogant, is putting
forth tremendous effort to retain the
power which 1t has so much abused.
IL IL succeeds II will never surrender
It short of some dire cataclysm, max.
ing its exit the signal for. II may be,
civil war. To that end its policies
OF milltarism, favoritism and class dis
tinction, long have been tending, and
preparing a new irrepressible conflict
between capital and labor. | pray
God that this may never come. The
way to avert 1t is by occasional change
Of party, bringing home to our pyb-
lie officers their subordination to the
people.
IF l were a republican would
vote for Bryan. II I were a repuE
lican l would let the big chief With
his big stick go hang II I were
a republican l would turn my bacx
upon a candidate, no matter how pss.
sonally acceptable, who representa-
the vicious methods OF ring fhle and
the steam roller.
"Whatever usefulness the republi.
can party ever possessed, 1t has for tn
time outlived. It stands today u
menace to equal taxation and ec@
nomic administration, II not to o.
derly government and free ihstitt
tions.
"Its leaders know this, apd, know.
ing it, they began esfly to prepare
for the coming presidential battle;
70 fortify feld which they thought
to make impregnable by the outlay et
vast resources and engineering skilb
They expected to draw us intK
this bloody ambuscade and to slaygD
ter us like sheep In the shables. Dlk
appointed in their plan, what do W
now see? We see all disguise OF d&
cency thrown aside; the black flag n
trustism run up to the mastheadi
the decks crowded with cofporation
counsel. The occupant Of the whits
house summons tue unspeakablS
Hearst as his stan witness. The hoo.
est rich are invoked to make common
cause with the lawless rich. All the
perspectives of truth and soberneSs
and common sense are lost amid the
roar OF rant and cant of selfglorifyS
ing laudatlon and self-accusing prom
ises of reform, with Aldrich and Can,
non, with Payne and Dalzell and Sun.
ny Jim Sherman for their examples.
Having pitched the campaign on
a false note starting out with a man
of straw on a platform OF imposture,
no argument is too absurd, no illus
tration Is too rank for the men and
the interests that do not mean to be
dislodged If fraud and force can save
them.
Nicholas Longworth, the presi-
dents son-in-law, says he did not say
II. But 5000 listeners say he did.
The notes of two stenographers say
he did. What boots II whether he
did or not? No one who knows Shat
ds going on in the national capitol,
and has been going on for long
time, needs to be told that they are
undermining the popular foundations
OF our democratic government ana
converting 1t into an imperial repub-
lie, with nothing wanting of monarch
ism and titular nobility except the no
menclature. The white house Is Al
ready the palace OF king. The pres
ident is already sovereign In every.
thing except the name. Why should
not member OF the court circle blurt
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