The Peoples' Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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The People's Voice.
N.R.f .A.
VOICE PUBLISHING CO.
subscription $1.00 per year.
pl'blisped every' friday.
Entered at the postofltce, Norman, Oklahonm
for transmission through tue malls as seconil.
rlaan matter.
JOHN S. ALLAN ..
Editor
Peoples Party Ticket.
For President
THOS. E. WATSON
of Georgia.
For Vice-president
SAMUEL W. WILLIAMS
of Indiana.
Many of the most prominent de-
mocrats in the nation were con-
spicuous by their absence at Denver.
At this writing Watson's election
is not conceded by either of the old
party press.' However, they are not
agreed as to who will be elected.
Ten to fifteen thousand people
turning out in Indiana and Georgia
to hear Watson and Williams deliver
their speech of acceptance reveals
the fact that the people are still in-
terested in the Peoples Party move-
ment.
We still hear a few fellows
croaking about losing their vote this
fall. Would vote for Watson and
Williams were they not afraid of
losing their vole jet some fellows
imagine that by voling one or the
other old parly tickets they will be
savirg their vote. The men who
save their vote are thnse that cast it
as their conscience ainl intelligence
directs. I tie men who lose their
vote are those who cast it as direct
ed by some political boss.
Wendell Phillips truly said:
"The reformer must have no social
position to maintain, no political
party to serve." Today some men
actually believe that they can be re-
formers and at same time be the
slave of some political party. A
notable example of such a reformer
is Mr. Bryan. His surrender at
St. Louis in 1904 to Parker took
him out of the class of geniune re-
formers and revealed Jiim to be a
real politician rather than a states-
man.
jZ2i£?
Who is Kern? He is Tom Tag-
gart's city attorney of Indianapolis.
Ran for governor in 1900 defeated
by over 25,000, ran again in 1904,
defeated by over 93,000 yet some
democrats figure that he will give
strength to Bryan in Indiana.
In speaking of Bryan and Wat-
son National Chairman Ferriss
says, "Bryan, the great orator,
speaks kindly and lovingly; talks as
one neighbor to another and all
love him, but the Watson sentences
are chain lightning in genius, the
roaring thunder in truth, carrying
conviction as the whirlwind carries
the chaff. Another writer in com-
paring the two men says; Bryan
seeks to please his audience Watson
to instruct.
Where in history would you go
to find recorded the names of gen-
uine reformers or even real states-
men who were compromisers on
principles? You can't turn to the
page. William Lloyd Garrison said
"I will not retract; 1 will not retreat
a single inch; 1 will be heard,'' thus
boldly and heroically spoke the soul
of the movement that blotted out
human chattel slavery in American.
Henry Clay and other compromisers
did not blot out slavery.
Partisan politics whereby the
average man in his blind zeal places
party success above principles con-
stitutes the open door through which
crime sits in high places and leaves
innocence unprotected, and makes
justice an outcast seeking recogni-
tion among the vagaries of revenge.
This to some may be a hard saying,
but as a man thinketh in his heart
so is he, for acts are but the out-
ward signs of the inner man. An
old mossback Republican and Demo-
crat; they remind me of an incident:
The other day a half willed fellow
had a trick dog he was showing off
to a crowd, when the village doctor
rode up and said: "Bill how do you
manage to teach your dog so many
tricks? I can't my dog." "Well,"
said Bill, "you see doctor, ye got to
have more sense than the dog to
teach him."
The political sky is clouded by
partisan insanity and bigotry and
the hope of a clearer sky and bright-
er day is in the hands of our young
men when this Republic shall raise
above the partisan train masher and
dwell amidst patriotic men.—Cap.
J. S. Felter.a
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c. It is the great medi-
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lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou-
bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
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Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec-
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just the remedy you need. It has been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, In private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that a special arrangement ..Js
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who have not already tried it, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper and
send your address to
Dr. Kilmer & Co.,Bing-
hamton, N. Y. The
regular fifty cent and Home of fiwunp-Rook
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
Don't make any mistake, but er
member the name. Swamp-Root. Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Bit minghan, N. Y., on every
bottle.
| if you will study the government of opportunism. I do not think the
j statistics you will not deny it. best benefit of laboring, men lies in
—-— supporting that old p rty because
FARMERS CALLED of a sop of false promise, when the
UPON IN OKLAHOMA performance of that party while in
j power did more to injure labor than
To contribute to Democratic ,he in'unc;;ion8 ever issued be
National Campaign Fund.
By ran and Taft have announced
that no campaign contributions
from corporations will be received
this year. Notwithstanding the an-
nouncement, the books of the cor-
porations will show usual amount of
expense incurred during campaign
year. The pathetic appeal to the
farmer for campaign funds, is all
horse play, and made for the pur-
pose of hoodwinking. Bryan and
Taft's announcement is equivalent
to a confession that here-to-fore
both of the old parties have receiv-
ed campaign contributions from the
corporations and having accepted
tainted money in previous cam
paigns, no sane person will take
seriously the announcement of
Bryan and Taft that they will not
accept same this year. It has not
been many years since the big cam
paign contributions were given out
to the press for publication pur-
poses; but effect to-day is just the
reverse of what it used to be, hence
instead big contributions are care-
fully concealed and much ado and
publicity given to the farmers $r.oo
contribution. In view of record made
by the two old parties as the ser-
vants of trusts and corporations and
hot end of poker they have, given
the farmer to hold in all legislation
they have enacted, the farmer who
cannot see aim and design of this
farmer $1.00 contribution, is too
green and sappy to make good cow
feed. But for the class legislation
enacted by the two old parties, the
farmer today would have been one
of the most independent and re-
spected of all American citizens,
instead of a mortgaged, dependent
and enslaved citizen. Compared
with the farmer the artisan and
even the laborer in America are au-
tocrats. There is no class of Am-
erican citizenship putting in as
many hours of hard labor and
drifting into bankruptcy as rapidly
as the man who tills the soil. You
may not believe this statement but
(5-
Old Settlers
PICNI C
■V)
Grotts Grove
August 6 and 7.
Speaking by Gov. Haskell on
Aug. 6, Hon.D.T. Flynn Aug. 7
PROGRAM PUBLISHED LATER.
Of all the suckers born or hatch-
ed the politicians seem to look upon
the farmer as about the easiest
caught and plucked. Why do we
say so ? Because we notice that
the Daily Oklahoman has called upon
the democratic farm in Oklahoma
to furnish the democratic politicans
with a campaign fund to be used to
pay the expenses of politicians in
their scramble to get to the pie
counter. Why do we say so ? Be-
cause a democratic national ad-
ministration, such as experienced in
this country from 1893 to 1897 al-
most bankrupted in Oklahoma far-
mer and the only ones benefited
were a few democratic politicians
who served as post-masters and held
the appointive offices. During time
the democratic politicians in Okla
homa were sitting with their feet
under the pie counter by reason of
a democratic administration of the
national affairsthe Oklahoma demo-
cratic farmer was selling his corn at
from 15 to 25 cents per bushel, his
oats at from 10 to 15 cents per
bushel wheat 30 to 50 cents per
bushel his cotton at from. 3 to 6
cents per lb., his hogs at from 2 to
3 cents per lb and selling farms at
from $t,000, to $4,000 per quarter
section and paying from 12 per cent
per annum to 3 per cent per month
for the use of money. In 1896 the
farmers became so indignant, and
even the politicians feigned to be
so indignant, that they not only re-
fused to endorse but actually re-
pudiated democratic administration
of national affairs; but at Denver
on the 7th of July 1908 the politici-
ans in convention assembled re-
minded democratic farmers that
Cleveland's democratic adminis
tration "reflected honor upon him
and upon his party" even if it did
establish free soup houses for idle
laborers and brought the farmer to
the Yerge of bankruptcy and there
for the Daily Oklahoma has issued
an appeal to the Oklahoma demo-
cratic farmers to contribute as
much as jr.00 to democratic nation-
al campaign fund this year to assist
democratic politicians to get their
feet under the pie counter again
The editor of the Oklahoman
doubtless deems himself another
Garibaldi, for his appeal to demo-
cratic farmers to go down deep in-
to the deep recesses of their pockets
and fish up, at least a dollar for the
national democratic campaign fund,
reminds us of the inducement Gari-
baldi held out to men to join his
army towit: "I offer you priva
tion, hunger and death." The
democratic party offers Cleveland';
administration as a "democratic
national administration" that not
only reflected honor on Cleveland
but on the democratic party as well
as inducement for democratic farm
er to part with his dollar.
HON. W. R. HEARST
Cables from Paris a Hot
Reply to Gompers.
Samuel Gompers, after Denver
convention cabled a message to Mr.
Hearst at Paris stating that in view
of the democrats stand for labor, it
would be an act of greatest patriot-
ism for the Independence party to
endorse the democratic platform,
and urging him not to run a third
ticket, as it would elect Mr. Taft.
Mr. Hearst's cablegram follows:
"Paris, July 13.—Tell Mr. Gomp-
ers that I am not authorized to
speak for the membership of the
Independence league, but accord-
ing to my personal standards, a
purer patriotism consists in labor-
ing to establish a new party which
will be consistently devoted to the
interest of the citizenship, and
particularly to the advantage and
advancement of the producing
classes.
"I do not think the path of pa-
triotism lies in supporting a dis-
credited and decadent old party
which has neither conscientious
conviction, or honest intention, nor
in endorsing chameleon candidates
who change the color of their poli
ical opinion with every varying hue
"I have lost faith in the empty
professions of an unregenerate de-
mocracy. I have lost confidence in
the ability, in the sincerity and even
in the integrity of its leaders. I do
not consider it patriotism to pre-
ten I to support that which, as a
cil /.in, I distrust and detest, and I
earnestly hope the Independence
party will give me a chance to vote
for candidates who are both able
and honest, and for a declaration of
principles that is both sound and
sincere.
"William Randolph Hearst."
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much alike; both having made two
races for office and were beaten
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