Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-07-06
HENRY ! WATTERSON
TALKS STRAIGHT TO The EAST
ERN MAGNATES..
Tells Them Why They Have Made the
Election of Bryan Necessary. The
Time Has Arrived to end SVndt-.
Gated Government. n Parting Of
the WayS.

Following is an extract from an
editorial written by Henry Waiter
son for the Louisville COurier-JOur-
nal: ...
But there is that which is strong
er than the individual preference for
Mr.. Bryan-deeper than personal
sympathy and sentiment-the con-
viction that he stands for something
other than equivOcal promises work.
ing their ends through the arts of ex-
pediency laid in dicker and barter:
that he means something not embrac-
ed by private arrangement, reached
in dark and distant places; that his
very simplicity and lack of prudence
give the people guarantees that he
cannot be cajoled or bought or bullied
but may be relied on to set his face
against low politics and high finance,
sending the BelmOnts and the Ryans
of democracy to keep company with
the Harrimans and the Morgans OF
republicanism.
New York City has grown some
what cavair to good men, whether
they be republicans or democrats.
The real line separating Ryan, the
alleged democrat hailing from Vir-
ginia-and Morgan, an alleged re-
publican, haiing from London, as
we'll as New York-they are assO-
ciated in a gigantic community of in
terest-the real line separating Har-
riman, the alleged republican and
Belmont, an alleged democrats in
visible to any gaze. None of them.
whether calling himself a democrat
or a republican, would be satisfied
with president not at all times ac-
cessible to him. We shall never have
an end of syndicated1 government un-
til an end is had of this tainted in
fluence, until the Morgans and the
Belmonts, the Ryans and the Harri-
mans are led clearly to understand
that they can not name the candi-
dates of both parties and so buy the
elections each way, coming and 60
ing, until they are given to know
their place and made to find 1T in the
rear. -i-J .'h3 81
This is to be the paramount issue
in the campaign. Predatory wealth
still seeking to rule-the trust
breeding tariff behind 1.-THE COM
bine of rascaldom exposed by the in
surance scandals, the traction scan
dals, and the proclamations of the
president to back its candidates, Ger
tain New York newspapers to organ
grind for them-Taft, the middle
man and make-believe, already chos-
en- for the one party--what could we
do with nominee under the smallest
suspicion, or in the least degree
equivocal? We could do nothing.
The case on its face shows for itself.
These men plainly tell us that if
we nominate Bryan they won't give
us cent. They are supported by
local press, standing for little else
than corporate wealth, knowing
nothing of the country at large, not
caring for anything outside the con-
fines of dollar-grubbing sky-scrap-
prOvincialism--of big houses and lit
tie men--whose business has grown
as corrupt as it's society, and whose
politics is more corrupt than either.
They insult decent people alike by
their effrontery and their money.
They furnish so many additional rea-
sons for declaring that upon q
straight issue between the republic
and the plutocracy, we shall stand
for the republic. ron I'D s''i'l''i 4al
''s "In short and in fine, gentlemen of
the east, if you are resolved to have
1t SO, we have come to a parting of
the ways!" nR9 gmbiiUa s7.iH9 sdi aaIg