Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-04

) concentrated support Of whatever
= party muttered not only when the
opposite party became committed to
popular welfare.
Havemeyer, who testified that he
split the campaign contributions Of
the sugar trusts between democratic
and republican committees. simply
was the spokesman Of big business
as lay Gould when he shielded his
Erie iniquities Just punishment of
being republican in republican
counties and a democrat in demo-
crat counties"
Quay was as good democrat as
Jim Smith Of New Jersey was a re-
publican when they won the stigma
OF "perfidy and dishonor' by trust
serving. And so today a party label
is farse " en- applied to agents of
privilege Of the democratic breed
'f Bailey and his nominal repubt-
7other Gallinger.
,an b. 7ism perverted into Ham
Republlca'- Cannonism and !.
4s'nh n.1llnrerism suited big s'Is5I B,i e. e.
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mirably for fifteen yeo.s
surgery, the offspring of Roosevelt
ism, made the ever-watchful masters
of privilege make change of camps
many months ago with Mr. Will
son sees only in the light of future
peril
Big business feels certain that
1912 will take care of itself with
such safe and sane" men as Har-
mon, first choice, and Taft, second
choice, the probable presidential
candidates.
But the immediate business OF big
business is to clnch It's long-held con-
troll of the United States senate by
the election Of the right" sort OF
democrats.
There was much repetition long
before November of the ancient
phrase, "As Maine goes, so goes thr
union" And the way Maine has
gone, with democrats in control FOL
the first time In half century Il
to replace Eugene Hale with HaIe'i
democratic selection, a good lawye
las Bailey OF Texas, is, with
record indicating that he would b
as useful a republican democrats
= corporation senator as Hale an
Bailey combined
, New York in any case, woul
have served the country by retlrin
: the railroad hand, Depew after be
ing blessed by the death of EXPIRES
Agent Platt, But triumphant den
h ocracy at Albany is hesitating b,
: tween the arrant, reactionary co
poration attorney, Shepard, and II
u Tammany-Tom Ryan machlnis
a Bme-Eyed Billy Sheehan.
T. And the first striking commei
"A tary upon the present political col
" dltions is that the finest public Sc
vice yet done by democrats anywhe
a in this country has been done
d States such as Wisconsin and Was
% ington, where they deliberately co
NJ sented to the temporary obligati,
~ OF their party organization In ord
"A to prevent the purchase of the d
r. feat Of such senators as LaFollet
ia and Polntdexter by corrupt, blps
10 tlsm big business,
AS corrollary to such patriotism v
Do see every honorable, progressive +
publican newspaper and individu
In wishing Godspeed and more pow
IN to Woodrow Wilson in his flgl
In And every spokesman Of Wall sire
nj and every frank journalistic repI
nj sentative OF rotten politics and eve
hypocritical newspaper drab open
'er consuming or assailing with cowar
nd ly slurs the fighter for the peopl,
rights, whose solitary error is II
In aginirg that the worst of all pub
nd enemies has not already moved
em war chest and It's whole armame
ng into his party's camp.
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