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Show ii-m .if! i , DON'T SUBSCRIBE, EH? It is said that the rich men of New York City are not subscribing generously1 to the Republican campaign. Very likely. It was those same rich men, which include the great trusts, banks and combines, who found Judge Parker, and who first raised the cry that President Roosevelt was a dangerous candidate and that a conservative candidate can-didate was needed. Tney wanted Grover the good, but they weie afraid. Afraid that the people still had memories of what happened when they before by fraud and money secured him the place, and so they selected a man against whom nothing of wrong in all his past cfth be urged. Having fixed upon him, they sent their agents, the Hills, the Belmonts and Guffeys to St Louis to secure for their candidate the nomination. A platform was prepared, before they left home, to be adopted and the only injunction given was if anything in it proved to be offensive to any part of the convention, con-vention, to strike it out, but not to permit anything any-thing to be added which would be distasteful to the men in New York City who are to supply the campaign corruption funds. Hence the income tax plank was split into kindling wood; the tariff plank was bored full of holes; the finance plank was set on fire by Bryan's invective and consumed; con-sumed; the plank calling for the prosecution of unlawful trusts, combines and monopolies was attached at-tached for buncombe by order of those same trusts combines and monopolies just as was done twolve years ago; a promise pf freedom to the Filipinos some time In the dim future was given; a reckless and utterly unsubstantiated charge of corruption in office was hurled at Republican officeholders, of-ficeholders, the usurpations of the Republican President were set up, men of straw, and then knocked down; then the selected Judge of Esopus was nominated and for a running mate called out a man who of his own volition retired from active work ten years ago. who has been a trust mag- nate, and dll magnate, a railroad magnate for iaHH half a century, and who has managed so well that IBH his millions number half as many as do the years BV of his long life. 'fin That is the platform and the ticket which fifi ose same rich men ot New York prepared for fiH free voters of the nation to support and it is ififl j likely that they are not subscribing very 'fiH ' 'ously to a fund intended to defeat their : flH schemes. Their hostility to President Rooseveit jHfl began when he as Governor declared that every fill one of them should pay honest taxes on his prop- j ! H erty the same as the men of moderate means have ' j j flH to and signed the bill to compel such payment. ' I jBj They could neither coax nor bulldoze him, , BH hence their wrath, hence their determination to BV down him, hence the reckless, intense and un- fifl scrupulous charges that they hurl at him. jBfl But we shall see. The people of this country 'H mean to be honest; they are determined to be fflfl just, and every one of them believes in fair play. & More, when they select a business agent, they do fB not take the word of a few that a certain man, jfl tnough inexperienced and so constituted that he flfl never givers an idea of what he thinks is all right, Bfl but rather one who has been tried. !Bl Now President Roosevelt has been tried. The ' , BJ men of New York know the stock from which he ' Ba sprang and know that they were thoroughbreds B all; they have seen the President from the time H he held his first office; they watched him in war H and peace, saw him as cowboy and author, marked H his bearing as Governor and watched him more H closely when the bloody mantle of a slain Presi- H dent fell upon him; they saw how he accepted k that trust and how he has fulfilled It; they be- lM lieve that he Is honest and brave and true, and , H may be no great amount of money will be needed H to cause them to record their ballots where they ' BJ will count most for the dignity, the integrity and H the glory of his native land. ' , H |