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Show GARFIELD TELLS SOME THINGS Hon. J. u. Garfield erstwhile Progressive Pro-gressive and Roosevelt admirer, recently re-cently gavo out the following statement: state-ment: "So long as tho Democrats play politics with loaded dice starting every campaign with tho 13C votes of the solid south and only 130 more needed to elect tho country must understand that Its first business Is to prevent control In that Interest. This year the sitatlon is aggrevated by tho fact that Gov. Cox Is the candidate can-didate of tho south, plus tho boss controlled states of tho north. His solo hope Is In holding first tho south a)id then adding to it tho votes of New York, controlled by Murphy and Tammany; of New Jersey, controlled b boss Jim Nugent, who at San Francisco cast twenty-eight wet votes for Cox; of Ohio, where Cox has built a Tammany of his own in tho last eight years; of Indiana nnd Tag-gart's Tag-gart's machlno nnd of Illinois nnd the Urcnnan organization. "Tho-Democratic plan -Is to concentrate con-centrate efforts In carrylyng tho big cities of theso states through controlling con-trolling their wqrst elements. "Tho gravity of the situation cannot can-not be overstated. For nearly eight years tho country has been ruled by tho old lino southern Democracy. Something has been heard lately about a sentorlnl oligarchy. The real sentorlal oligarchy Is tho group ol veteran southern Democratic senators sen-ators who always control legislation when democracy Is In power. Long service brings them to. tho top of tho great committees and when Dcmora-cy Dcmora-cy comes In they grasp tho steering wheel. "Tho samo Is truo broadly of tho houso of representatives. Democrats from tho south have a comparatively' secure tenure, rise to tho top of of their committees and when an accident ac-cident makes the country Democratic they como Into complete domination. "Tho ountry has been in tho last seven years what this means. It has seen taxes laid so that their weight was borno mainly in tho north whilo expenditures havo cben bo apportioned apportion-ed that tho south was a disproportionately dispropor-tionately large beneficiary. It has seen tho agricultural products of the north and west put under strict limitations limi-tations as to prices, while those of tho south wero left to benefit by tho frco operation of a demoralized law of supply and demand. "It would bo vastly worso during tho noxt four years of tho Domocrnts should win in November, for in this campaign tho most vicious elements ot tho north aro arrayed with the solid south to bring tho country under un-der their control. "If tho country should go Demo-crtlc Demo-crtlc this year it would bo absolutely absolute-ly In tho grip of tho old sotbern machlno, plus tho Tammanies of New York, New Jcrsoy, Ohio Indiana and Illinois. "Governor Cox was nominated be-causo be-causo ho was willing to bo nominated on this basis. Every wet influenco recignlzed him as tho wot candidate It" Is unnecessary for his to declare himself on tho subject Jit was unnecessary unne-cessary for the party platform adopted at San Francisco to declare itsolf ; tho flno free-masonry of boozo and bosslsm has him marked for Its own. It recognizes him as Its blood brother." |