The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-28

tered in sarcastic vein, for SO many
Republican papers have attacked that
convention that It has passed into
history with less reputation for hon
esty than an ordinary game of three.
ctrd monte. There is room here only |
for extracts from three of these Re-
publican organs.
The Toledo Blade said: "The citi- !
zen who does not know that a clique |
of politicians composed OF Walter |
Brown. Walter Guilbert and George
Cox. aided by heutenants. had a slate
at last weeks state convention and
succeeded in bagging the game, must
is an amateur in politics"
The Monroe Gazette said that: "The
convention was manipulated by the
greatest bunch OF political criminals
that ever held sway in Ohio"
Tho Sandusky Register said THE
Columbus convention was exclusively
Taft gathering. The Taft men boast
ed that not a single Foraker man
could he found in the convention;
that they were all Taft men. selected
under a call so worded that IT was
we'll nigh impossible to elect anybody
a delegate who had not first been o.
K.'d by Arthur vorys. The Taft men
were I'm absolute control. It's officials
were all Taft men. The several coun-
ty bosses who controlled the county
delegations were all Taft men. Every
candidate nominated was understood
TO be the choice of the Taft gang"
The governor also gave an eXuber-
ant testimonial to the Republican can
didate for vice presideut-known on
the floor Of congress for the last 20
years as the agent Of predatory
wealth." and to whom his associates
Familiarity refer by the expressive
sobriquet of Dollar Jim" He 1t was
who prevailed upon Dear Hartman
TO raise that s240000 Of election brib-
| cry funds in 1904, which, at the time,
was openly charged by Alton b. Par.
ker and strenuously denied by Theo-
dore Roosevelt, although he was its
beneficiary with full knowledge of the
= fact. It seems incredible that anyone
could be ignorant of the fact that Mr.
Sherman Is as complete creature oi
! the trusts as are all of the eminent
gentlemen connected with the nation
, al Republican campaign, such as
| Treasurer Sheldon, Senator PenrosC
and Defendant Dupont.
: Both Ohio senators having been ig
: nored at Youngstown, It became ne
cessary to import senator from In
: diana. Albert J. Beveridge, brillian
+ and capable, gracefully compared Mr.
0 Bryan to Patrick Henry and Wendell
L Phillips: and, although Mr.. Bryan Il
X infinitely greater than either of them
! we are grateful for the compliment
i Senator Beveridge, being given L
l. flowery language and flamboyant fig
e ures Of speech, fired off the following
y pyrotechnical paragraph
Q "Mr. Bryan never has handled sir
?. gle foreign problem. He has govern
y ed no Philippines. regenerated no CT
IS ba. built no canal, avoided no allie
q danger, saved us from no threatene
n peril Mr. Taft has done all this"
10 Was there ever such witless twa'
h. die? When did Mr.. TAFT build cana
II and where? What alien danger hs
T. Mr.. Taft avoided? From what threa
It ened peril has Mr. Taft saved us
v When did he, or anybody else, 'r
e. generate" Cuba? IL is true that NJ
re- Taft, as q satrap, with n great arm
O. managed 10 hold the Filipinos in sem
TO subiection. but what especial mer
d. is there in that? When as able
C. man as Senator Beveridge is cor
IN PEELED TO resort to such balderdash ;
to this. what kind OF slush may he c
% pectcd from the ordinary polite
20 bushwhackcr?
~ in this connection we are moved
al cnuuire whether Senator Beyeridi
was not much more in earnest, al
at considerably nearer the earth, la
u.s. June when he wrote the followil
lO' for the Saturday Evening Post:
"Our whole financial system viii
81 is a sort of chaos, must he set In
ne der and put upon solid, ondurir
nB scientific basis. The time has cor
Or when we must abandon the logrolllI
IN hop-skip.and.jump methods of tart
os- building and make our customs la
ON upon exact information according
III modern principles of commerce
Ns The Republican party has heen
az control of the federal government
lui most continuously for As years a
ne' in exclusive control thereof for
pie last 10 years. If our financial syst'
use is a Chaos and our tariff is bu
zen upon "log-rolling and hop-shp'al
on Jump methods" who is responsible
ck' Charges like these have been ma
ne by the Democrats for many years,
ne this Indiana statesman is the 4
VIII prominent Republican who has adm
not ted their truth over his own signatu
II the Republican party, after
nod many years of unlimited power c
or fesses that II has utterly failed to ]
the islate irtelligently and equitably III
eft the finances and the tariff, is 1t to
his wondered that the whole country
ary rising in its might and demanding
oSe change?
zen Governor Hughes of New York Y
edo the last orator upon the Youngsto
sky program. The governor is a man
Ga many admirable qualities, but aT
roe | 1907, ,,ovo scarca in tho Ranuhlil