Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-04
4 DEMOCRATIC YEAR.

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comes the welcome news that demo
cratic enthusiasm and confidence is
stronger at the present time than it
has been for years. That the. demo
cratic hope should be abnormally
strong now isNnatural because of the
condition Of the country brought en-
long years of governmental powe.
J The people have at last become
aroused to the fact that the favorit-
ism of the republican party has
placed the industries of the country
in the hands of a very few trust mag
mates; they see the result of strang-
ling competition by the trusts OF the
country in almost every industry;
they see many of the monopolized and
trust-controlled articles manufactured
in this country under the fostering
care of the. republican protective tar
in shipped to foreign countries and
sold for less than the American peo-
pie are forced to pay.
So strong has become the senti-
ment against the republican policies
and favoritism for the classes as
against the masses in the past that
the leaders of the republican party
have become so alarmed that they
are now promising to remedy some
of the iniquities of the past and are
seeking to gain a new lease of power
by the advocacy of the very reforms
for which the democratic partys has
been pleading for years. However,
the people of the country will hardly
be willing to trust to the promises of
party to reform conditions for which
it is solely responsible. While the
industries of the country are para
lyzed and the cities are filed with
idle men the trust magnates are roll
ing in wealth accumulated under the
favoritism of policies of the republi-
can party.
We have the evidence of what may
be expected from the promises of
those who will lead the republican
campaign this fall in the failure of
the republican majority in congress
to undertake the reforms urged by
the present executive. Does anyone
believe that Taft in the presidential
chair could be more potent to control
the "stand,pat" republicans than the
present executive? Does anyone be-
lieve that party is honest in prom
Using a revision of the tariff in the
face of the fact that it is refusing to
even provide commission to investi-
gate the matter?
Everything points to the nominal
ton of Colonel Bryan as the demo
cratic candidate He is the logical
man to lead the party now when the
republicans are relying on his well
known policies to fool the people |
again into voting them into power |
The only opposition to the nominal |
ton of Bryan is coming now from the
friends of Governor Johnson of Min
nesota. Johnson is reformer. like
Bryan, and has made a record in the
northwest for political strength which
has brought him into prominence as
one who would be available as a dem
ocratcic candidate for president, butt
we cannot believe that his personal
popularity in a few states in the
northwest would count as against the
enthusiastic following of Bryan
throughout the entire country. There
are many republicans who have seen
the growing strength for Bryan
throughout the country during the
last four years and have become so
alarmed as to demand the nomination
OF Roosevelt this year as the only,
man in the republican party who
would have any chance to win against
the Nebraskan.
: Existing conditions are pointing to
great national victory for the demo
Gratis this fall, Arizona will not be
permitted to vote for president this
year because of the failure of the
republicans to keep a promise made
at Philadelphia eight years ago for
the admission of our territory as a
state. After a failure to keep this
promise during two administrations,
promises are now made by the repub-
lican leaders that Arizona and New
Mexico will be admitted next year.
But this last promise was not made
until after all the power in the hands
Of Roosevelt, Cannon, Beverage Nand
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