The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 11
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 12, 1904

HANDS ROOSEVELT A HOT ONE.
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Thinks Parker Is The Moses To Lead
Democracy.

     EDITOR DEMOCRAT : - In this country representative government, the constitution, the laws and the treaties are at a discount.
     We have usurpation and personal authority, arrogance and bullyism, high taxes and extravagance. We have millions spent under unwarranted construction of law, and exposure of fraud prevented. We have a Czar. The president was directed by the canal law to negotiate first with Colombia, and if not successful, he was directed to negotiate with the government of Nicaraugua. Colombia declined and the president ignored the law in regard to the Nicaragua route.
     Our Czar has ways of his own. He incited and aided a revolution in the northern part of Colombia. Our soldiers and flag were used to further the interest of the rebels, and the, canal route was secured from the successful rebels, at the price of ten million dollars. By tradition as old as the Monroe administration and by special and direct treaty. Colombia had all assurance from this government of fair and honorable treatment.
     It is a stigma and disgrace that will be with us for all time.
     Such treatment of any European government would have brought war and against us the physical or moral support of all christendom. Senators Culberson and Bailey while strongly in favor of the canal, resisted this tarnishment of the fairness of our country, with great and distinguished ability, and for which all patriotic Americans should be proud.
     Division on side issues has held the democratic party back fifty years. But czarism has focused attention to fundamental principles and in this campaign it will I be "locked shields and level spears." If government of, by and for the people is the standard, snrely this Czaristm is an abomination, and a fraud upon the American people.      Infant Americanism would not submit to King Georgeism. Nor will America, now the foremost nation in the world submit to Czar Rooseveltism. The American people are jealous of their rights and in this year of our, Lord they will flock to the ballot t box. The captain of our host, the man for the emergency will be Alton B. Parker.
     He is not a politician, but he has at all times supported his party, we trace him from the from the arm to chief of one of the most important courts of the world surrounded by teeming wealth, we find him a poor man.
     He is able and he is honest. In regard to capital and labor trusts and other great questions, such as constitutional and legislative rights of the people, his opinions are sound Jeffersonian democracy. He is a just and fearless judge.
     He is true to himself. Be cannot be untrue to the people.

FORREST GAITHER.
Chilton, Texas. May 9, 1904.

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