Mohave County miner., 1916-09-16
MARSHALL FLAYS ROOSEVELT
 IN HIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

three-quarters of the American voters solemnly protested four years ago. If proof be needed, look around you any where. If they are not upon the ticket or in control of the party machinery, it is the exception, not the rule.
 In accordance with custom, the great political parties have nominated candidates and endeavored to present to the people what they are pleased to call the issues of this campaign. These, in ordinary years, would be accepted as the issues. But this is an abnor- nal year. You cannot interest a bridegroom in the tari nor a widow in the coffin trust. Civilization is turn ing corner and the people are more interested in getting around it safely than they are in the character of the load. The American people this year have made their own issue. Those that the parties present may be only side issues. If the side issues square with the main issue, we'll anI good. If not, the people will settle the main issue first, the side issues afterwards. True, we can mourn more sincerely if we be named in the will but whether lega- tee or not the thing to do first is to bury the corpse, then to read the will.
 So multiform are the thoughts and interests of this people that here and there may be found men interested primarily in the side issues. Chief among them are those Republicans who can live, but who do not thrive, out of office. They have become so ac- customed to listening to their pro phets that they really believe, in the face of the records of 1873, TT, '97 and 1907, that prosperity depends upon Republican rule. The present prosperity of the people is therefore the result of the war, and in spite of Democratic rule, although the war business is a negligible part of the business of this country. So they ten der to the voter side issue phrased somewhat as follows: Temporary prosperity is not essentially perma- nent. You may die tomorrow. Pre- pare to meet your God"
 This cry comes from those whose speeches fairly ooze with protestations of their faith in the brotherhood of men. But in the midst of their apos- trophes to the flag as the emblem of liberty, fraternity and equality, the far-reaching hand of temporary pros perity clutches them by the throat and chokes them into semi-insensibil- ity while the spectre of a one-legged or one-armed remnant of the Euro pean conflict, a blood brother under God, keeping himself from starvation by selling some article in America, rises before them.
 Straightway, this brotherhood of men is absorbed into the fatherhood of self. With shudder these men req lize how true it is that temporary prosperity is not permanent. Thank God for his trustees who guard the squirrel track for having discovered this for us before it was too late. What must we do to be saved? Trust the Republican soothsayer to answer that the entrails have disclosed that common prudence dictates rising tariff duties so as to prevent the dumping of pauper-made, cripple-made and or phan-made goods upon our market to the detriment of the American work ing man and that while doing this we should go out and pre-empt the mar kets of the world. How, if it be nee essary to protect our working men, we can capture against these pauper-crip- ple-orphan-made goods the markets of the world where they may freely en- ter, eludes the understanding of every intellect save those who blindly wor- ship the Baal of protection.
 But the Democratic party is a grow ing-a progressive party. Part of it's duty is to quiet the fears of the timid. It proposes that the social and eco homie justice of the tariff toward the working man shall have a practical instead of theoretical test. It valves its ancient views as to a tariff com mission, now that the tariff has been lowered and wealth has been made to bear it's fair proportion of the burdens