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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