- - -- errfr- v r- .Twv - r ' "itp - t nwapt--f. )'f V" .3,M,Wkyai 'W 'lf)Wp, 'lW'I'RtllPWfPJBWWff! , - M The Commoner.- VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2a. Mr mflll llsForiir THE COMMON PEOPLE (Continued from Page 6.) democracy, not only in 1776, and in "therefore, the sense of hearing of the 1800, and in I860, . but also in 1896. (111.) fu- grasshopper is in its legs." (Applause.) Tho common people did Rockvillo (Ind.) Tribuno: That big Clinton Register: In the 18DG. g. o. p., used by the 'ihat the common people do respond not win in That was a lost bat- democratic picnic at Chicago ought to ture the letters a historic tle in a war is yet ratisfy even the plutocratic press republican party, will be transposed to appeals to right, is fact that not ended. But All down tho highway of history you they did respond. And the other peo- and file" stand. and read p. o. g. post office grab. , where the "rank Und its landmarks. Go bacic to Pal- ple kept away as they did in Pales- JerseyvIUe (111.) News: All demo- Lewlsburg (W. Va.) Independent: estine, go back to the days when the tine, as they did in Philadelphia, as re-organ- crats should - understand that the izer The tariff plank In- - tho republican iuan of Galilee preached through that they did in Jefferson's day, as they plea, is nominally for har- platform of Iowa Is a mere juggle of far eastern country, when the doc- did in Lincoln's time. Tho common mony and in reality for the republican words that makes no positive declar- trines of truth, of righteousness anu people responded to the new demo- party. ation and simply means nothing. It love, echoed among tho hills of Pales- cratic leadership of 1896; and al- Hastings (Mich.) Journal: The re- declares that if any schedule is too tine, and who was it that heard him? though they jost the battle then, and any com- may publican press is again' nominating high, it should he reduced, and if 'ihey all heard him. But the Jose battles in. the future, . there democratic candidates for the presi- schedule is too low it should be in- mon people heard him gladly. It was will be a glorious victory yet to crown dency. They are getting a lot of fun creased. Any fool could write a plank not the reinorganizers, it was not the the work of this new inspiration' of out of it, too. like that Pharisees that heard him gladly. It democracy. people. Many who did Portsmouth (O.) Times: We have was the common not understand tho Rochester (Ind.) Sentinel: Demo- Come down a little later. When call in 1896 are finding out not ex- re- not yet heard of threatening crats who do not want to win and Roosevelt printing was invented, and when the actly what they missed, for they could publicans who do not want the demo- to send around minions and shut down powers ruled in those times tried not very: well realize business entirely Evansville be- that that but what crats to win are talking in favor of at to suppress it, what was Jit that they havp got It is written largo in Grover Cleveland. cause the whites are driving all tho brought printing out into the open arid the story of the trusts. Look these blacks out of the town. Neither do at Courier-Democra- t: spread of and jus- trusts. all over the country. See Langdon (N. D.) we see a pro- made it ideas truth how certain class of papers The.de-mand- s they are absorbing every Senator Hanna says he would join the jecting tice all over the world? interest By such thunderous editorials of the common people, the de- the way, did you ever hear a definition Salvation Army and go to preaching if against the Hoosiers for their bloody he had time. The senator is a good sires of the common people; it was of the trust? I suppose you have. Ev- exhibition of race prejudice. With they welcomed printing, and with erybody seems to have his own defini- deal like "the rich young man" of the some people the location of a crime is that Bible. Ho hates to let go. It all the knowledge that printing was tion. But I have found a pretty good far more he"inous than the crime itself. capable of spreading over the earth. definition in a set ot verses. Maybe Jonesburg (Mo.) Journal: Republi- New Bloomfield (Pa.) Democrat Come down a little farther, a little It isn't a definition either, but at any can papers are-- very busy these days nearer to our own times. Who were rate it Is a suggestion as to the char- - The question now being asked is, bringing- "good men" to the front for What has become of the "Iowa idea?" the people that followed Cromwell? acter of the trust These, verses are places on the democratic ticket It seems to haye "gone glimmering Who were the people that gave us the called the son of the Nancv Bell, or When the democrats chooBe theL like a schoolboy's dream, the wonder British constitution, which has in it something like that I suppose most standard-bearer- s, the republicans' of an hour." After all the beating of so much of what is best in popular of you have read it It is a quaint wishes will not be consulted. torn toms and sounding of hew gags government? Who was it that rose story in rhyme of a ship-wreck- ed crew up on a "Jbarren Eureka (III.) Democrat-Journa- l: Re- anent this "Iowa idea" the platform under Cromwell's leadership and island. No succor came publican papers cito the fact that the adopted by the Iowa republicans was made that constitution possible? It and they had to get food by killing government has taken a hundred mil- a straddle and a fake on the tariff was the common people of England. off one another and turning canniba s. people more reform and And now turn to this Declaration of Finally they reduced the whole ship- lion from the than it revision question and all wrecked party needs, by exorbitant taxes, as an evi- tho analysis of it on earth could make Independence that we have heard read down to the mate and dence of "prosperity." Any old thing nothing else out of it here today. A century and a quarter the cook; and then the verses go on seems to go for an argument in that ago on this very day we have the evi- to tell how' the cook was getting a camp. Monmouth (UL) Democrat: The dence of It in letters from aristocrats broth ready, and the mate was stand- fact that Grover Cleveland has ac- of Philadelphia, living there . at the ing by to see that it was a good palat- Falrbury (Neb.) Journal: The two cepted an invitation to speak before time, which tell how a mob of the able broth, for he loved thacopk, and most prominent candidates for presi- the Chicago Commercial club this fall, common people, these letters call them how the cook said: "New come on; dent on the democratic side are Wm. and tho further fact that a number of a mob of common people, how that it is your turn!" and then how. the R. Hearst Tom mate grabbed L and Johnson. The his old political friends and allies are mob of the common people listened for the cook and threw him Journal could support either of them also invited to attend the meeting, is the first time to the reading of this into tho broth and lived off him till on the proper platform, but we want taken as evidence that his "corpul- grand old document The first time it a passing ship came that way. All no Dave Hill or Grover Cleveland or ency" has really designs on the presi- was ever read in public, it was the this horrible experience drove the Arthur Pue Gorman. dency again, and common people who welcomed The mate crazy that is the explanation of there is much stir it the verses Westmoreland (Pa.) in political circles in consequence. We aristocrats sneered at them and at it and he used to standVupon Democrat: The and held aloof. own let-- a city street and sing absolute subserviency of the republi- are not a prophet, but nredlct that Their private them with this tors of day us re- refrain: , can, party de- the "auto" that fetches Grover that tell that all the to Quayism has been in the spectable people, they For I am the cook captain monstrated by the fact that, thus far, presidential ring in 1904, will be so called them the and the badly punctured the, respectable people, stayed away on bold, not a single republican county con- that both it and occasion. And the crew, ,.; ex-presid- historic of gig, ent that was the captain's vention, in Pennsylvania, has had the only living will look It the worse common people of that day who wel- And the midship mite and the bo's'n independence or courage to condemn than a Mexican dollar does to comed a gold bug, before, finish. the Declaration of Indepen- tight, the unconstitutional and infamous the dence, as it is the common people who And the mate of tho" Nancy brig. press-ga- g law. Lowell (Mich.) Ledger: The presi- welcome it now.