Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1908-10-28
WatterSOn Flags Republicans.

journal last sunday said:
IF there IS anything is history
that has been squarely, indisputa-
bly,, and eternally established. it j.
that Republican party managers
we're in q conspiracy to debauch
the electorate and purchase the
Presidency in 1904. Consider
their heavy assessments upon the
corporations. Consider the Presi-
dents dispatch of +. III. Hartman
to New York just 4 week before
the election for the collection from
corporate sources of 1850. 900. with
which, as Mr.. Hartman himself
unblushingly writes, $4,000 votes
were turned in the city of New
l ork alone. Mr.. Roosevelt would
have no use for $3.50, 900 in New
York three or four days before
election day-when the speaking
and other Legitimate activities of
the canvass were at an end-ex-
cept for the buying of votes. And
yet, while Mr.. Hartman was in
the very act of holding up II. II.
Rogers, John ID. Archbold. Mr..
Iwombly, and the rest, the Presi-
dent. who had sent him upon the
errand. dared to call Judge Park
er' s charges monstrous"
The insurance contributions.
$4,000 at clip: the Standard Oil
contributions, and the others all
supply evidence to demonstrate the
wickedness of the Republican
managers in 1904. And yet the
disclosures so far made are but
gllmpses. Most of the record is
yet jealously guarded.
The master hands of the 1904
campaign are the master hands of
the 1905 campaign. The Repub-
hcan party which sought power
by such means in 1904 is domi-
mated now by the same unscrupu-
lous, shameless, and debased polit-
cal manipulators. VIII the people
Of the United States deliver the
government once more into the
clutches of such a band. Will
can-any honest citizen. be he
Democrat or Republican. having
the fear of God in his heart and 4
moral instinct in his being. con-
template the damning record of
1904 and vet vote for the Repub-
ican ticket and the perpetuation
of the hideous system which that
ticket represents?
What else Is Judge Taft but a
dancing bear, to which the vener-
able John Bigelow compares him.
lie dances first TO the antitrust
music made 10y Roosevelt. Then
he Dances to the trust music made
by Sunny jim. He dances first
on one foot and then on t'other-
seeking TO make single giant
straddle between the corn-raisinc
West and the truSt-breeding East.
He Is for publicity and against
publicity. His last dance-the
dance OF DEATHS the old plea of
hard times. Elect me. good times:
beat me, bad times. We heard il
from the Hayes crowd in 1876.
We heard it from the Garfield
crowd in 1881. Regularly every
four years it bobs up Serenely with
its Wolf. Wolff Translated into
plain English. it reads simply Re-
publicanism Is essential to pros
perity: hence make Republicanism
/ perpetual. Iet-with the circum-
stances in conclusive recruitment
three of the greatest panics the
country has ever known came
under the rule, reign. and brand
of the Republican party, in posses.
sion of every department of the
Federal government and most OF
the States.
WAS ever such blind fatuity
heard of: And now nothing but
money can save them. They mus
pile it up mountain high in wha
they call the doubtful States
| get smell of it. They have (,
fight and buy Ohio-their nomi
nee's own State-ift they get itatall
In New York their only hope is t,
swap Oft Hughes for Taft. Indiana
is lost beyond recall or purchase
| Illinois comes maiesticallv to tn
front line under the lead of gran,
old Adlai Stevenson.
1T is all over but the shouting
They may pour out the Taft-Sinto-
millions they may pile up tin