The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-09-29
Fraud and Force Rampant.

The Roosevelt administration, hav-
ing designated an Heir Apparent. set
out in this Presidential Campaign to
establish the rule of Fraud and Force,
and "Marse" Henry Watterson CON-
m snts as follows:
The DULLES began belaboring one an
other. Bogus delegations were set up
in each of the Southern States by the
Federal officeholders. All thought Ct
decency and fair play, of Civil Service
Reform pledges and honorable party
fellowship, was thrown to the winds,
whilst Messrs. Touchdown and Drag
out clustered and browbeat the prima-
ries.
"Nigger, be dam d." shouted the
lilly-wnites, if the black man dared to
offer his vote. Brain the Son of a
She Dog," cried the twirlers of the
Big Stick. whenever a Fairbanks man
appeared at the polls. Even at this
rate, however, the Steam Roller had to
he called into requisition at Chicago in
order to complete the slaughter and to
force the lordly will OF the over lord Of
the White House.
With Taft, and any old thing of a
machine poIitician-even Sunny Jim
Sherman, the grafter's own go be
tween-all would be easy sailing, they
gleefully thought.
Thus it was that the Republican
Campaign was started as a Sunday
school upon picnic. Pastor Theodore
had before hand selected a lovely
grove with nice cool spring and had
arranged all the pretty details. Proxy
Frank Hitchcock, the ice-cream man,
was t., drive the lunch wagon. Big Bill.
the Superintendent, assisted by Aunt
Jemima Aldrich, and Teacher Hughes
each provided with pasteboard wings
was to lead the little ones through
flower bordernd paths to a rustic bow
er where a puppet-show had been pre-
pared for the amusement of the assem-.
bied children. The piece was to be
called Little Red Riding Hood. y
Willie Bryan was to be Little Red Rid
ing Houd. Uncle Joe Cannon was tc
play Grandma. Sunny Jim Sherman
was to play Wolf. What happened.
The day dawned dark and sultry.
Lightning flashes played fitfuily along
the Western sky and presently dull re.
verberations of thunder rolled down
from the faraway North. Then the
rain fell in torrents Picnic GorsootE
above the voice of the elements rises
the shrill notes Of the pastor, crying
every man to cover and rats to your
holes"
He'll hath no fury like a Big Stick
foiied For the second time Theodore
Roosevelt makes common cause with
William Randolph Hearst, their first
liason through Procuress Parsons last
year having whetted the TEDDY Bear
appetite for something gamey ano
we see the Yellow Journalist astr;de
the Steam Roller. Big Stick in hand,
Delaboring alike the Democrats and
these Republicans who are persona nor
grata to- the throne, like Foraker.
1t is the old, old story; Fraud and
Force, Force and Fraud, nothing but
Fraud and Force.
They are going on as if they thought
the people deaf dumb and blind, Their
fury makes madmen of them. In their
baffled rage they strike out impotently
at friend and foe alike. Already beat
en-, they would pull the house down
rater than walk out peacefully, giving
place to their betters. 1t is pitiful.
1t is humiliating. 1t would be amaz.
ing except that it is the nature OF
Hysteria rampant and of Hypocrisy
caught in the act.
Who is John W. Kern.