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Show OGDEN CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1904. VOL I gf HILT Rooseven s President -- ROT - laut ONt lie v tli Mn vote against iiim. He's that kind ur a uian. lie tight out in tha open, and he', aloray square. ho ila uo wonder that every young man 1 know ia truing to vote fur UiMwvrlt." HONEST AND PRICE FIVE CENTS. Lener UIoilu Parker of Bouton, Mend- "1 a DISTORTION OF THE TROTH Effort to Show that President Roosevelt Is a Lover of War -- f law-f- ar aat in tha comer, aoutentedly puffing at a very big, aud aery black, and Incidentally, a very A kit of ua didn't cigar. when we read I'arkera ieech he could have made auch an awful blunder aa to have declared that the com IS hVAUtU who INSTEAD, HE 13 FOR PEACE mon law would lie found aufficieut to deal with all the trout questions which come up. Barker muat have knowu, but he probably forgot, that, frniu the very nature of things, you rau't apply the common law In a natiunal court. Our federal court derive all their Kwer from the Constitution of the United Staten. Congress can only legislate under the Count and, while we apply general in iuterireting the law, k ia to aecure any affirmative actiou in the United Klatea court, except a the result of a statute law duly passed by Congress and approved by the President of the United State. A man like (Huey, who has been interested in public affairs at Washington. wouUI never hare nuide the blunder Barker made. He seemed to have written his sieech of acceptance as if he were dealing entirely in abstract question which had been pre-rsented for settleuient liy his own court. His exposition of the general principles of the (Ynstitiitiou was not had from a legal standpoint, but when be came to deal with the question of trnslu be ed to have forgotten thut he was responding to a nomination from a untiouul convention, which had selected him to act as President of the United States, in which rapacity he would have to execute United States laws only, aud would have absolutely nothing to do with the common law. Tills 'allusion of Parker to the common law, aa a means of attacking the trusts,. has been a source of snrprieo end anniiemeiit to the profession all over the country. Jndge Parker's decision! in New York State have always taken high rank, and it was this which nuide the We could amassment all the greater. not understand how it could possibly lie that aty good lawyer could have mailt auch a blunder, and we hare been forced to the conclusion that Judge Parker absolutely forgot that he was writing on a natiunal topic, x'hia la only an instance going to show the unwisdom of taking a man off tho bench for a political such a position aa position, that of President of the United State. Would Not Eacaarate War aid Sept tha day 2A-- On Boosevek't letter accept-r,- b aouiDation for the presidency issuad through tha newspapers, a were traveling from of I1" Bat? The train left i To. ,. guying patter. Wliu plenty 01 now ' them, with nothing to distract to Mr mention, with no business cares between them, it was quite natural j giva iM every man in 'that car should read-ju. close tb, letter an extraonliuarily Is point Of fact, it was easy to in that car read that Me that every man tour through, iirarticaily from beginning Thia ta cod, and read it carefully, too. took op a considerable time, and but save the little was heard in the car aa the train Haling of the newspapers, manufae-tarin- g pinO oa between the lieeutiful towns of the Old Bay Htate. After a while the newspapers were hid aside. One man after another drifted Into the smoking room, and there fob head tha usual interchange of opinions aa current topics. The men in the car wtn of the usual type of high grade, pmsperous American citixens. They all sections of the country, and aU vocations as walk One was distinctla numy a minister of the gospel, onquite to attend ber were banker gniug the hi convention in New York, there younger men who had their a era golf sticks with them, aud the rest a fair assortment of business and short white whiskers who began tha awketalk, anil aa a matter of course, b letter took for his topic the President's of acceptance, which every busy man in that rar had just finished reading. Uses Not Mince Words. There ia one thing I like about Boose-relt,- " "and said he' of the mutton-chopthat k that you never have to guess to what he is talking about, and agala what he means. I have just finished leading that long letter in the morning paper, and I don't believe there ia aq evasive word in it. I havent been Roosevelt man. My business Interest re uch that I got to paying a good deal of attention to this talk abont the President being a dangerous man, a wild, mxy, errstie follow. I was opposed to hi aomieation at the outset, because I brlieved all these stories. When McKinley died, I was fearful that Roosevelt's bit blood would Involve us in difficulties, asd, like many other business men, 1 wit extremely anxious about tha future. 1 have been cured of all that by the way thinga have moved in the last three years. On the whole, however, I thought this man Parker would make a pretty good President, and k seemed tu me. anyway, It was abont time for a change. I read Parker' speech of acceptance with a whole lot of interest, be cause I wanted to see what he had t ' say. He didn't aay anything at alL 1 was the moat disappointing thing of that kind I ever read. This letter of Boose velt'i is exactly the opposite. It doesn't Ihtc yon in doubt a single minute a te whit the candidate believe in. It I honest and straightforward, It does not aiince words, there .Is not the slightest suspicion of trickery, and after reading it through from beginning to end, I fot me cannot find a single Una to which 1 canid take exception, not a single argn-which seems to he that of a danger-o- r an ambitions man. It Is bold and va, bnt it ia not dishonest, and it is at deceptive. After reading Parkers Paech and Roosevelt' letter, I tell you. (anUeneo, there is absolutely no choice U all as between the two men, and I am Maaavelt man from now on'. s, young fellow, brown face and strong hands gave "Mrsct f summer largely spent in the r, i the fact that he bite out ht from the shoulder. I like that Pign literature. Ite the let-- 1 who look you in the eye, JMlhea punch you good and hard. II away from the subject, and Hia letter is like the Md and honeat. I don't much " dangerous or not, bnt 1 iL ,a' Jming fellows In this question of poli- alL going to cast my first wwtial vot next November, end it'll tor Theodor Roosevelt, or the reason why. The yonng a country can understand IrtoTil ,ni they can understand this talks of the thing th.it have hm '. in tb last four years,-- ' and ate any time on constitutional lair the duty of good iiiro vrtsisA. ,n Bapohlican party baa don n the last four yean, and 7lt Wl what they are. He doemi't and tw fch'fnl: he nfo tell the facta, hia i. ,, llq people to vote for t tL, 'lievjrfhst the government " run properly. If ihry-I believi he would rather L , l'' nr- - Rl. "tt oi ' To administer the affaire of the government successfully, experience is just a necessary as it is to run a hotel or railroad. A lawyer in active practice la necessarily thrown in to a large extent with the ordinary business affair of the country, but with a judge on tho bench it is entirely different. He deals with Blatters of abstract right and wrong, and all hia training goes to remove him from business problem. In point of fact, the eucceesful judge In a court of last resort should be as far - removed from the influence of dally life aa possible. The ideal judge ia a legal machine, settling abstract principles of law, whereas the ideal President is exactly the opposite. He executes the laws a ha finds them, suggests new ones to meet new conditions, and acta as tha personal representative of the people who make the law. It ia not hi business to interpret, but to do, and the things which make a man a good judge make him a bad President, and vice versa. Parker would never have made that awful blunder if ha had had any recent experience io Con- grtm or in an executive position et Washington, where he would have been in touch with current opinion on thU I don't wonder that Roosesubject. velt picked him up on this, and, in my opinion, the President' paragraph about tha common law aa applied to the federal control of trusts is a most luminous exposition of the powers and the limitation of tha federal government. But it's certainly a knockout blow for Parker." Tha Tariff Xasaax I was glad to see, said a successful looking man, who explained later on that he was a manufacturer in northern Ver mont, I was glad to see that the President made such a point of the tariff issue. We had a doe of Democratic free trad theories up our way about tea years ago, which we will never forget We are eo user the Canediau border that we get the wont of every redaction We have to enter :in the tariff rates. into competition with the cheap labor of Canada. When the Wilson tariff bill went into operation, just ten yean ago, it shut up my factory inside of six months, and 1 tell you, gentlemen, I didnt open again nntil after McKinley waa elected and tha Dingiey tariff law went into operation. It was a time of panic, as you kaow, thousands of labor- j ing men wen glad to work for any wages, and yet, at the earn time, I could not run my factory and compete with the .Canadians who flooded onr part of tho country with goods made by the cheapest labor, surh aa I could not secure cvcq in those time of starvation. Thor an soma places far in the interior where freight rates protect them from foreign competition in times of free trade, but thoae of aa who are near the border era tho first to feel this competition. I got it in the neck ten years ago, and got it good and hard. If there weren't any other issue between the two parti, I would vote for Roosevelt, because ho and the Republicans generally stand for tin protection of American manufacture against tha competition of tho cheap ia bor, not only or Canada, bnt of the world at large, W all believe in reci- procity which ia reciprocal, and not ia fret trade nader the gqise of reciprocity. Roosevelt's story of VwAliastroa effect of tho Wilson tariff of lSH is not overdrawn In the slightest particular, and I am glad to see that he has kept the tariff issue ta the front, bocauso in aU they do, they admire, respect and love him. When public opiuion had forced the war with Kpain usm the America aiat-anation Theodore KtMMevelt, the oecretary of the uavy, wea oua of the official of the I'uited Htatea who Lika aa prepared for the inevitable. every other keen olmerver, Mr. Roosevelt had seen from the Jnciideury of tho agitation for American interference in Culm tbit the nation muat prepare fur war. In bis own office ha did all that waa wit bin hi power to get the navy ready for tha part it must play. What the navy did la a part of tha imperiah-aNo on history of our country. claim more than ia due to Mr. Roosevelt in tins connection, hut to ignore hi services in tha office of tha secretary of the navy In the early days of 1K!M would These aerv-Iche an act of ingratitude. hava been recognised from tha beginning and will never bo forgotten. Trusted no Irooldeot. When he rams to the Presidency tho lieopjg withheld, but only tor a moment of time, their full Sllegiauce. From the first President Roosevelt wea trusted. Never once, by word or act ainca he aat in the presidential chair haa I resident tho ItooMerelt encouraged or fostered must remote idea of war. He haa been interested In improving and strengthening our army and navy, and lu all way haa shown himself to be a loyal American to his country, bnt by no rhanca has he shown any lova of or desirs for war, because ha baa no leaning that way. lie love hia country ho loves maukind. By what twisting of ststcincnts snd distortion of facts, by whst destruction of troth and letting go of all decenry, the opposition to President Roosevelt lies raised the charge egainat him that he ia likely to foster war no one wh is acquainted with the man and his life can Imagine. Tb scriptural mystery of tho way of the serpent on the rock ia nothiuf to thia pnaala of tha passing moment. Every word and act of Theodora Roosevelt's life makes against the fsls view now set afloat a to the possibilities of his rbsracter. The President Is s man who love his country aa only that man can lor it who haa endured the storm of war fur its aake. For no possible er Imaginable cause, save alone the honor of tha country Itself, aod then but at the alern bidding of Congress, could or would President Roosevelt invoke the ruin snd misery ef war. It is a slander upon a man of humane nature, strong and cultivated intellect aad proved patriotism to foster sad circulate the idle vaporing of political enemies to the effect that ha Is likely to bring about or encourage war. There ia no foundation for the slander. It is shaine-fthat it shonld exist, or, ones existing. should be continued by repetition. ns have an end to the silly claraur-jng- a of tho mendacious tricksters npoa thia bugaboo. nt bl ea Experlooco Necessary, amiton-cho- p Hold and Honest. I like beat abont the letter," The attempt to make a bogey ma uf President Roosevelt, by luiarep lover of war, ud rvseuliug him to the pear of therefore dangentu the couutry, ia ilisuued to iguoiniuioa The American people are e failure. ruHtomed to sis up" their public we with an accuracy unknown in the life of other cuiiulriea. They have had President Uuusevelt under their, gaae for year, aud they know him well, Mur than that, knowing hint wall a Ut sci-n- i' professional men. It was the man with tlio ta Maintain the Cautrya Huaur. V pm-srufr- ii Briny Abort lit Destructive Forces, Except prin-cipl- Bmttw. Mam.. ar thia talk of imperialism aud extravagold Democrats and in enuaervativ gance and the trusts, and one thing aud business circle by Jndge Parkers gold another, people seem to forget that the standard telegram has entirely subsided Republican party- ia pledged to protecas the conviction ha become general that tion, and that the Democratic party is it was a brick artfully gilded to comforWe to trade. free haven't pledged mit hi party to the appearance of regotten that up our way, however, and I pudiating frea and unlimited silver. The tell you, gentlemen, that the big Repubsubsequent utterances of tho Democratic lican vote in Vermont was largely, if not candidate have entirely dlaaipated any entirely, produced by the determination of onr people to put themselves on record against the free trade principles and platform of the Democrats." It's frank, it's honest, and it's fair, in aid the clergyman to a the interior of the car, when they were disenaoing the same letter of acceptance. I'm nut much of a politician myself, hut I have been very much impressed with the extraordinary honesty and the tenarity of pnrxe shown by thq President in his letter of acceptance, Comparing it with the speech of Judge Parker, in accepting his nomination, I cannot see bow the iieople ran hesitate very long in making their choice." THE CAMPAIGN. Evidence tkat Popular Oplalaw Hapablicaa Oncreaa- - Ptiart Although election day is still mm weeks off, it is not too early to review the progress of tha campaign nnd taka not of the drift of popular opiuion. Te doubt that the latter is setting strongly in favor of the Republican ticket would seem almost te question the capacity of tho American people to choose between approved competence in government and wobbling incompetence along every line of adminfstrativo and legislative poliry. From the day when tb Republican convention adjourned after adopting a positive platform enJ nominating positive candidates upon it, the Republicans have proceeded to organist their campaign with the unhesitating confidence In theinaelvea and their principle that goes so far to assure ancrcaa. Unlike their adversaries, they have had no internal differences to patch np before taking the field The Republicans have simply gone before tha American voters on tha partys record, which is not a document artfully concocted for campaign purposes, but a scroll of splendid achievements written l.i the life of the republic daring the peat forty-fou- r yean. Tha scroll stretches from 1800 to 19M and coven a period of national development an paralleled ia the annals of tho world. The story of this development and tha promise of it continuance under the leadership of a man who is tha incarnation of America energy, courage and achievement, has the Republican appeal to constituted Americas voters. Tha elections In Vermont, Arkansas and Mains have shows tha natoral response to aa appeal based oa thinga accomplished. Ia the meantime, the Democrat hava been trying to find ent exactly where they are at." . All efforts to bury the hatchet between the geld end silver fringe of the party have merely resulted in burying It in the heads of the leaden factions. William of the respective Jennings Bryan haa no more affection for Alton B. Parker now than ho had tho night when he denounced tho nomine or. tho floor of tho convention. , Thq brief enthusiasm created among favorable impression mad by bis telegram, and proved him to bo a juggle with obscure and meaningless phrases. His proffer of a comparison of governmental expenditures under Republican and Democratic administration haa disclosed that ha waa ill informed as to the details of those expenditures and the marvelous national expansion that haa come during the past twenty years- Bnt the most marked feature of the Democratic ramiwign has lien Ha instability end lofirmnesa of purpose. One issue after another baa been taken up only to be dropped, until now H looks a if tha party would hava to fall back oa the tariff and the trusts, on lioth of which issue It has been tried and fonnd wanting ia legislative courage and administrative effectiveness. American voters know that tha protective tariff is not robbery, " and they have more faith in the American antitrust statute than in any curbing of modern trusts under tha old common law. The Democratic campaign started with David B. Hill as it sponsor and boaq bnt recently Jndge Parker aongbt t reconstruct its management, going t New York City and holding a number of e conferences at the Astot House with Senator fiormao and several Tammany leaders. It is rejiorted that he succeeded in placating Tammany ead that Renator Gorman will supplant Tor .Taggart a tha real director of the Democratic campaign. What was tb consideration promised for tha loyal support of Tammany has not transpired. But if (here is one thing necessary t the snccea of tha Republican ticket, it la llut tha Democratic candidate shall deserve end get the loyal support of Tammany UalL Viewing tb situation broadly, never in tha history of campaign between Republican and Democrat were the distinguishing characteristics of the two parties eo strongly emphasised as ia this on. The Republicans face tho problems of the day without flinching from either the opportunities or the responsibilities of action. They have tha necessary conviction, conrag and to remove mountains. On the ether band, the Democrats exhibit all their old failings of irresolud tion, theoretical vagaries, lack of convictions and conflicting conneila that render them unfit to be entrusted with the control of tho government. At this stag of the campaign there seems not the slightest reason to dunlit that tha popular drift ie with the parry that marches forward rather than that which stands still er mark time in the footprints the other haa left in the pathway of national progress. The best proof of this ia in the fact that the American people are going abont their daily hasineaa without any perplexing doubts as to what will happen in gnm-sho- act-tie- Best of AH Markets, ef all markets for American Tha best manufacturers end farmers la the home market. The internal commerce of the United (Rates aggregate earh year mors than 23, NN),W RMJUO and ia far greater than the international commerce of ell the world. Thia vast market Is at our doors. It is among our own people. Why should wa surrender It to foreigners, a tha Democratic policy of free trade would do, and pay to foreign manufacturers and workmen the money that should go to Americans! Wa have kaewa party la dealing wltk offenders, nnd knve hooted dawn to without marry ovary wrans-doe- r tho eorvica of tho Motion wham it woe paoolbla by tho utmost vlstlance to dm tocti for tho public servant who betrays hie trust and tha private Individ not wh debnnehes him ntood 04 tho worst ef crimlnaU, hero one I hoi crime are crlmoa oaalaot tho oatlr community, and pot only asalnet tbit Bonoratlae hot osolost tha soro-llan- o I that are yet te be,M-Bsum- U1 f asetytaaeo. Moot Trait Roosevelt. (Western Laborer (Omaha.) In a former issue or thia paper wo said wa must trust Roosevelt and we will treat him and in our judgment every workingman, skilled or unskilled, of whatever rare or creed, should et once make np his mind to trust him and vote for him instead of Indulging in vain regrets that they had not when they sc Parker's hand," if by chance or fraud he ia elected. WE MUST TRUST . ROOSEVELT. The prime reason why tho expense ef the Government have lacroasod of recent years la ta ha foood to tha fort that tha people, after motors thought, have deemad It wise te hava certain aw forms of worh for the public by tho public. Thin n sees auch expend! (area, for instance, as thasa far raral fraa delivary, or fa tha laapactloa of moats nader tha Department of Asrlcaltars, or far Irrl atlon." looter t', l im uf srceptaae nl Id What haa become of that grand array Democrat Judge Parker ummonrd from tb raid net of Cleveland's two terms for purposes of comparison with Hay. and Taft, and Khaw, and Root? Are Olney and Carlisle aad Fairchild and Hannon and Vila wasting their power Jo behalf of the man who flung hia all at tha feet of Senator of A ntrlklaar Contrast, aleck, crying, Bav me. From 1892 to IMifi, inclusive, nader a Gorman, tha 1 Democratic administration and a low Arthur, or sink. tariff, the total exporta of American manPresident Roosevelt is a aiacera friend From l'JOi) ufactures were ftK!4,8&8JSML and labor admires and reapacta of to IIKR, inclusive, under a Republican him.labor,II ia aa honorary me in bar of administration and a protective tariff, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Tha export the they were l,(lo5,9M,84(X and the esteem in which ha la held by of manufacture in any one year of Re- Ra mem tier waa fittingly show at tha publican administration waa considera'convention of the Brutherbo-iin Bufbly more than In any two yean of Demfalo, when 5.000 persons wildly cheered ocratic administration. the President name in the ronrs of an address by Grand Master Ilanuahan. Boarka Cockran, tha hired orator oi Lika the Indian, who, when unabls to Tammany Hall, says that every line is hia camp and it wa suggested ha President Roosevelt's letter breathes tb find waa lost, replied, "Me no lost, wigwam spirit of triumphant plunder." Cockrai os lost," so the Democratic party insists, ought to know, for he has been hotUnnotwithstanding its constant change of tho scent of plunder all his career. front, that tb country, not the party, fortunately, what t'oekraa knows ho doe is lost Tha Democratic party, without hat be doe not not tell, and he tell a fixed poliry, would b aa safe a guide know. in d at tha ladiaa a,Tlo the Rlosaa!" As to the President letter of acceptance. tha Republican party and the thinking men of the country those who have read end can understand hava hut one comment: hear it! Tie the alogaa!" Diana ; a strange wilder. The effort to galvanise the New York Democratic campaign iuto the semblance of life by nominal. .ig District Attorney Jemma haa failed because Jerome refused to confine himself to half truths oa Mi stamp. |