Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-10
|WATTERSON'S CLARION CALL ID DEMOCRACY
Policies of Arrogant and Cor
 rupt Administration Prepare for lrTepreSsible Conflict Between Capital and Labor.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Oct. 9.-Henry Watterson presided and was the prin- cipal speaker at a Democratic rally in | the Masonic theatre tonight. As this was Mir. Watterson's first political speech since 1892 and will probably be his only platform utterance during the campaign. much interest was man ] tested. Former United States Senator William Lindsay and Congressman Shirley also spoke.
 i Mir. Watterson said in part: q truly rejoice that I have lived to 1 look upon reunited Democracy. was born in a Democratic camp during what proved a bad year for Demo crats, and I attained my majority just in time to see the party go over the precipice on sectionalism to what seemed its ruin.
 Only One Issue.
 The politicians tell that there are many issues, but l can see only one. If we cannot change our rulers at will. if an organized and defiant minority inside a fortress can with stand the siege of an undisciplined and | lillequipped majority on the outside. what shall talk about trusts and tariff, about rebates and bank deposits. about money and morals and stocks and bonds profit us?
 T behold now an almost exact re- production fthe ayil conditions of l fifty years ago. The Republican party grown corrupt and arrogant, is put ting forth tremendous effort to re, tain the power which it has so much ] al xrifI ,,.ax-sa.- surrender it short of some dire cata. clysm, making its exit the signal for. it may be, a civil war To that end its policies of militarism favoritism ann class distinction long have been tending and preparing a new ire pressible conflict between capital and labor. I pray God that this may never some. The way to avert it is by oc- IcasiOnal chsinge of party, bringing home to our public men their subor dination to the people.
 Let Big Chief Go Hanal
 If I were a Republican I would vote for Bryan. If I were a Republi- can I would let the big chief with his big stick go hang! If I were a Re publican I would turn my. back upon 9 candidate, no matter how personal ly acceptable, who represents the vicious methods of ring rule and the steam roller.
 Whatever usefulness the Repub- lican party ever possessed, it has for the time outliYed. It stands today menace to taxation and economic order and to government and free irstitu- tions. Its leaders know this. and knowing 1t they began early to pre- pare for tae coming presidential bat tie; to fortify field which they thought to make impregnable by the outlay of vast resources and engi- neering skill.
 Disnuise of Decency Discarded.
 They expected to draw us into this bloody ambuscade and to slaugh- ter us like sheep iu the shambles. Disappointed in their plans, what do we now see2 We see all disguise of decency thrown aside: the black flag of trustism run up to the masthead; the decks crowded with corporation counsel. The occipant of the White House summons the unspeakable Hearst as his star witness. The hon. est rich are invoked to make common cause with the lawless rich. All per spectives of truth and soberness and common sense are lost among the roar of rant and cant, of self-glorifying laud ation and self-accusing promises of re- form, with AIdrich 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 a platform of imposture, no argument is too absurd, no illustra- ton is too rank for the men and the interests that do not mean to be dis lodged if fraud and force can save them.
 White Hoose a Palace. Nicholas Longworth. the presi- dents son-in-law. says he did not say 1t. But five listeners say he did IT. notes of the 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 and has been going on for a long time needs to be told that they are under mining the popular foundations of our democratic government and convertins 1t into an imperial republic. with noth- ing wanting of nlonarchism and titu- lar nobility except the nomenclature. The White House is already the palace of king. The president is already a sovereign in everything except name. | Why should not a member of the court circle blurt it out that Taft is expect ed merely to hold down the job for ! Roosevelt, since it was thought prema- ture to run Roosevelt for the immedi- ate succession2
 Campaign a Family Affair. The campaign was and is a family affair. If the machine which nominat- ed Taft was so merciless toward the Republican allies who dared to resist | il, why should 1t be counted on to snare our free institutions after eight additional years of moneyed accre- | ton and augmented power. Only this can account for the personal lnterpo- sitien of the president, who throws duty and dignity to the winds and gets down like a matador into the bull ring. mud-stained and powder-smirched, swearing like a trooper at all who come within sound of his infamed fancy"
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