Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-10-12

ting forth tremendous effort to re-
tain the power which it has so much
abused. If it succeeds it will never
surrender it short of some dire cata-
clysm, making its exit the signal for
even civil war. To that end the pol
icy of militarism, favoritism and class
distinction long have been tending
and preparing new irrepressible con-
Hlct between capital and labor. I
pray God that this may never come.
The way to avert it is by occasional
chang + party, bringing home to
our public men their subordination to
the people. If l We're republican l
would vote for Bryan. If l were a
republican would let the big chief
with his big stick go hang. If Iwere
republican l would turn my back
upon a candidate, no matter how per-
sonally acceptable, who represents
the vicious methods of ring rule and
the steam roller.
"Whatever usefulness the republic
time outlived. 1t stands today
menace TO equal taxation and eco
nOmic administration, if not to order
ly government and free institutions.
"We see all disguise of decency
thrown aside; the black flag of trust
ism run up to the masthead the deck
crowded with corporation counsel.
The occupant of the White House sum-
mons the unspeakable Hearst as his
star witness. The honest rich are in
voked to make common cause with
the lawless rich. All perspectiv.s of
truth and soberness and common sense
are lost amid the roar of rant and can't
of self-glorifying laudation and self
accusing promises of reform, with
Aldrich and Cannon, with Payne and
Dalzell and Sunny Jim Sherman for
their examples.
Having pitched the campaign on
false note, starting out with a man
of straw on platform of imposture,
no argument is too absurd, no illus
tratiOn too rank for the men and the
interests that do not mean to be dis
lodged if fraud and force can save
them.
Nicholas Longworth, the presi-
dents son-in-law, says he did not say
it. But 1000 listeners say he did. The
notes of two stenographers say he did.
What boots it whether he did or not?
No one who knows what is going on
in the national capital needs to be
told that they are undermining the
popular foundations of our democratic
republic and converting it into an
imperial republic. with nothing want
ing of monarchism and titular nobil-
ity except the nomenclature. The
White House is already the palace of
king. The president is already a
sovereign in everything except the
name. Why should not member of
the court circle blurt it out that Taft
is expected merely to hold down the
job for Roosevelt, since it was thought
premature to run Roosevelt for the
immediate succession?
1.-The campaign was and is family
affair. If the machine which nomi-
mated Taft was so merciless toward
the republican allies who dared to re-
sist it, why should it be counted on
to share our free inititutions after
eight additional years of moneyed
acretion and augmented power. Only
this can account for the personal in
terposition of the president, who
throws duty and dignity to the winds
and gets down like a matador in the
bull ring, mud-stained and powder
smirched, swearing like a trooper at
all who come within the sound of his
voice and the reach of his inflamed
fancy"
A FATAL ACCIDENT.