Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-09-09


question of highest privilege offer a
resolution and secure q vote on it to
displace the speaker of the house of
representatives and put some other
member in his place."
In other words, the remedy is to dis
grace and destroy one of the highest
officers in the government-tr cast him
fguratively from the political Tarpeian
rock. to be erected by the members
with his consent, for that purpose.
l have suggested the other way by
which the American voters can regain
their rights of self government, and
that is by the assertion of their man
hood OH election day, by rebuking with
their. ballots the party which has
brought about such an intolerable con-
dition.
Time forbids the multiplication of
instances where the popular will has
been defied and set ut naught by the
real republican leadership-someti
by the one-man power of the house and
sometimes by the few representatives of
monopoly who dominate the senate.
Measure after measure-scores of
them-favored by the people of all
parties-in many instances advocated
strenuously by the president, either
failed of passage, or were so emascu-
lated by amendment as to utterly fail
to register the popular will.
The question, Shall the people ruler"
is one which demands the serious and
earnest consideration of all men who
are interested in the perpetuity of our
institutions. 1t must be apparent TO all
who have followed the course of legisla-
ton during the past few years that
there is power within the republican
party determined that the people shall
not rule. That power has manifested
itself whenever effort has been made to
check the destructive work of unlawful
combinations, reduce the oppressive
tariff tax, or enact any legislation look
ing towards the equalization or tighten
ing OF the burdens resting upon the
people. =
That dominant power which now
guides and directs the republican party,
has on many occasions defied the presi-
dent in cases where he has, on the
| demand of the masses, made sporadic
efforts in their behalf. In some in
stances he has persuaded this handful
of leaders to compromise, on their own
terms, with the eighty millions of
people whom he assumed to represent,
but in most cases he has been absolutely
powerless.
That dominant leadership elects the
| speaker of the house, names the COM
mittrrs of the senate. and is in full
charge of the ingenious machinery pro-
vilct for the protection of entrenched
monpoly. against the demands of the
people.
1t dictated the platform adopted by
that party in its national convention
| this year, and after .defying Mr. Roose
welt for three and Il half years, and kill
ing, III crippling nearly all his proposed
reform legislation, and having received
Ills uIlSUluIGu
prucrc led with the finest irony to en-
dorse his administration, after which it
| dictated a committee to take charge of
the campaign, and is now in full com
mand of the party organization.
This dominant leadership is now Cir
culating two kinds of campaign litera-
ture one being for the east and the
other for the west-the first being
! placed in the hands Of the trust mag
mates, tariff benefciaries, stock gamb-
lers, and others who are supposed to be
enemies of the president, declaring that
Mr.. Taft is sane and safe" free from
the faults of Roosevelt, while the
second goes to the business men, the
| farmers and labUrers who are presumed
to i've admirers of the president, and
declares that Taft is Roosevelt's
'double' and may be safely counted on
! to Insist upon his policies and see that,