Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-10-09

ercise your part of this power. Voting
is matter of conscience. The presi-
Dental election is great crisis. This
is no ordinary election. 1t is one that
concerns the destiny of the nation,
and you should decide which party
you are going to support. The ques-
ton is what do we want and how are
we going to get it?
What Do We Want?
There is not so much difference as
you think there is between u.s. We
want purity in politics. If they are
impure we do not want the candidates.
The Wall Street influence, the trust
magnate, the stock gambler, the COM
binations and the polite gentlemen
call them the interests. We do not
believe these are consulting our in
terests and if we can find out who they
are supporting we will know that we
ought not to train with that crowd
We have five or six candidates for
president and If we can find out who
they are supporting we will know who
we should turn down. We can find no
one of all the other parties that these
trusts are supporting so I guess we
will have to lay it onto Taft.
Here the speaker wandered off in
true democratic style and harped for
time on the publicity of campaign
funds" He did not spring anything
new but quoted the statistics taken
from the democratic campaign press
sheet, the same matter that has been
sent out over the country broadcast
in the plate service of the party, and
which has no authentic author. In
his remarks he admitted that Taft
had done all in his power to have a
law passed making publicity of cam
palgn funds necessary The speaker
then wandered off to his old time cal
amity talk about the money of the
United States being turned over to
the bankers of Wall Street so that
they could make good times and bad
times at will.
Mr.. Weaver then played upon the
crudelity of his audience by stating
that there had never been hard times
under a democratic administration.
They all occurred when the republi-
cans were in power" said the speaker.
Money Mons lis is the gas in the. balloon Of
business, when the money leaks out
there is nothing left but the balloon
The speaker at this time spent con-
siderable time and energy trying to
explain the cause of the panic and
hard times we had during the Cleve-
land administration, and stated at that
time none of us had any money. Dur
Ing this talk he gave many of the old
time democrats in the audience
scare. His talk was considerably along
the same lines that he used to pursue
when he was stumping in the interest
OF the greenback party and his friends
were very fearful that he had failed to
revise this part of his address, but he
stopped On the brink and stated how
they were going to proceed if Bryan
was elected and, said the speaker, "He
will be elected" Here the speaker
waited for an outburst of applause,
the suspense was fearful and at last
few in the back part of the room took
pity on him and feebly clapped their
hands.
The speaker then took the oppor-
tunfty to score the republican national
executive committee, because they
were men who had been successful
In business ways, and then while he
was warmed up he paid his compli-
ments to President Roosevelt and Gov,
Hughes and tried to convince his hear
ers that both of these men we're cor
rupt, using as an argument against
Mr.. Hughes that many of the states
had passed the 2-cent mile law for
railroads, but that whef, it came up
to New York Governor Hughes vetoed
it. He then took the wind out of that
sail by saying that the railroads had
been making more at &c than they did
at &c in states where the law had been
passed, on account of the increase OF
business. =
Mr.. Weaver alluded to LaFollette
as great statesman and was greeted
by cheers. He also stated that be-
cause Senator Hansbrough had work
ed against the International Harvester
trust they had sent men and moneyIin-
to North Dakota and defeated him for
senator. He also stated that Mr.. Taft
was free from corruption, H.
Here the speaker endeavored to play
upon the sympathies Of his hearers by |
ailnding to the deaconess societies and
sisters of charity In the great cities
going down into the slums ia their
work for humanity, and stated that
these people were never contaminated