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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN. FRIDAY JULY 8,1904.
FALL OF PORT ARTHUR IS
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REDUCTION SALE,
country.
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STRAW HATS
Chinese,
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• the Japanese within five miles of Kal
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these men.* (Cheers and continued
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credentials
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debate for the contestees.
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of this case
peached
outweighed the doings of the demo-
or
whether it take refuge in the tyrant's
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tain interests have
through congressional favor, to draw a
heavy tribute from the American peo
principles which
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the negative, thus bringing the op
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sition vote to 5. As agreed upoi
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All our men’s straw hats that formerly sold for $4.00, $3.50 and $3.00 reduced to
All our men’s straw hats that formerly sold for $2.50, $2.25 and $2.00 reduced to
All our men’s hats that formerly sold for $1.50 and $1.25 reduced to..............
These are half-lined splendid
25 Blue serge suits, were $10;
$7.50
$9.75
$4.85
$4.35
$6.65
$3.90
many or the spectators and some at
the delegates were leaving the hall.
other
fair
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the white house down to the lowest of
them, return as nearly as may be to
Jeffersonian simplicity of living.
plause).
Ohairinan itend of the
Chou, is the most recent and most in-
teresting news of the day.
The fact that the Japanese outposts
are gradually being pushed out along
the whole front, even to the north of
Liao Yang, as pointed out in the Asso-
ciated Press dispatches today, makes
lighting a possibility almost anywhere
along the railroad.
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politic
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Class Legislation and Trusts.
Fourth—The democratic party has
been and will continue to be consistent
on class tariff legislation by which cer-
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Executive Usurpation.
Third—We favor the nomination and
election of a president trained in the
ways of the constitution, who shall set
summer suits and big values.
Mr. Menzies Was Angry.
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen
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agent o
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ton.
Japanese Outposts are Being Pushed
Along Whole Front.
Before hticoncluded conversation had
been renewed throughout the hall and
the convention was growing restless.
The Vote Was Taken. ’
There were loud cries of "Question"
Mn Clark's Speech. 1
In his haste King David Mid that
All men are Hare."
Condemned the Wrong.
These state builders were reared
No
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passe
11 Blue serge suits, were $14 and $12.50; now
to secure, has chused what may only
have been Infant Industries to become
the greatest combinations of capital
the world ever knew.
These publicly favored enterprises
have through trust methods been con-
verted Into monopolies, thus bringing
to an end democratic competition,
which was the only check upon the
It was exactly 6 o’clock when a de-
mand was made by the chairman for a
Reduction of Expenses.
First—Large reduction can readily
be made in the annual expenditures of
the government without impairing the
efficiency of any branch of the public
service, and we shall insist upon the
strictest economy and frugality com-
l
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trip tli
130.60.
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permit itself to be robbed entering into
contracts with convicted trusts or un-
lawful combinations In restraint of
interstate trade existing in violation of
me
Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Cable as dele-
gates at large, whose seats are chal-
lenged here, nominated a state ticket
Japan, but its publication here
vention chose presidential electors
W lth his hat in his hand, Temporary
Chairman Williams presented Mr.
Clark as permanent chairmi
Mr. Clark bowed in acnowl
he was heartily welcomed.'
Mr. Clark at once plunged Into his
speech. He was greeted with applause
and given careful attention.
this sale comes lo you as an opportunity not to be neglected.
10 Two-piece wool crash suits, were $6.50; now...........
7 Two-piece wool crash suits, were $6.00; now..........
8 Two-piece crash suits, were $9.00; now...............
5 Two-piece wool crash suits, were $6.50; now...........
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Quinn Was Interrupted.
The chair then recognized Frank PT
Quinn of Illinois, who had fifteen min-
utes in which to conclude th partisan
Soiled Banners.
‘t believe it, read the
y of the highwaymen
» convention. The gen-
is not a man who waits
Mr. Vandiver of Missouri endeavor-
ed to move an adjournment until 8:30
o'clock tonight, but was not permitted
to do so, pending the appearance of
the permanent chairman on the plat-
form.
Utters from cranks of various klnd,
are beginning to make their appear-
khee in the judge’s mall.
of them received a day or two
280 purports to give him warning of
4 dastardly plot against his person and
told him to remain close at home.
A writer from Virginia, signing
"ALunatie" but evidently a person of
Chairman Williams:
as Betsy Harris qid to
(applause), . ‘ • ''
"More than tha. I have examined
amdavits; I have examined protests
and I know as much about facts of
ibla caze as the gentleman who dared
to impeach my right to sbeak upon
this platform (applause, followed by
"The national commjtte lstens two
hours and does not give hance for a
single bit of evidence, but only a dull
ippeech, and tells you there was no
'ruud and you ought to seat these con-
sestants. The gentleman Bays he was
unanimously elected five hours after
ne began his gavel rule. Yes, my
friends, everything done In that con-
r"Poe‛un
eratic convention in the mind of Judge ntimating
Alton B. Parker today. if one might 1
Admiral Skrydlof has reported that
on July 3 the Russian cruiser com-
=
In every state,in the union it is a
felony to get property of any sort--
or attempt to get It—by false pre-
tenses. If. the same rule‘applied to the
fact, however, that he watched the bul-
letins telephoned to1 his house from
Kingston today with an Interest which
even his extraordinary calm demeanor
could not quite conceal. His drive this
afternoon with Mrs. Parker and their
little grandson was of brief duration
and some of those familiar with the
judge's movements admitted that he
remained rather closer at home than
usual.
‘ Division Superintendent Christie's
West Shore railroad train stopped at
Esopus this afternoon and he’ declared
that the road would build a new sta-
The Majority Report.
The question then recurred on the
adoption of the majority report by a
vive voce vote; there being no vots
against it, it was adopted amid such
confusion that the proceedings were
hardly intelligible.
and unprejudiced.
(Continued on page Five.)
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law. We believe that one of the best
a peculiar advantage over him.
extravagant profits made possible by
the protective system. These indus-
trial combinations, } the fina’al .ts.
---------, ----- Bistance they can give, now control
We underlaid out the policy of the republican patty. We
•How About Gavel Rula?"
“How about gavel ruleT‛ shouted a
voice from the rear of the hall. allud-
ing to one of Mr. Bryan’s sentences.
"You want to know about gavel rule?
I’ll tell you about gavel rule, replied
Quinn. Before he could reply a dis-
turbance started in the balcony just
back of the alternates’ seats and one
disturber was seized and ejected by
two policemen.
During the intermsison created by
this, John F. Jones walked to the
front and called up to Qulnn: "Talk
facts, John."
"I’ll talk them. replied Quinn.
The Money Question.
The discovery of gold within the
past few years and the great increase
in the production thereof, adding two
thousand million dollars to the world s
supply, of which seven hundred mil-
lions falls to the share of the United
States, has contributed to the main-
tenance of a money standard of val-
ue no longer open to question, remov-
ing that Issue from the field of polit-
ical contention.
Rwpu«, N. Y., July 7.—The prosoect I occupied th idrm rom "itodax-cua
of a new railway elation at Ehopus J There are to be peverat more slttings.
Judge Parker refused to say for what
purpose the portraits woula be used,
o-----•g that decision upon that
Point awaited the completion of the
Mcture. He sat for some time this
„ternoon before the camera of a New
xork photographer. This was at the
Photozrapher’s own request, but it is
Aaumed that the photograph will be
Hsed in the campaign should the uag,
be hominated.
decisive action.
Fragmentary information from va-
judge from his conversation. It is a
Ths Subcommittee Put in Entire Day
Trying to Perfect Them.
By Associated Frees.
St. Louis, July 7The subcommittee
on resolutions spent the entire day In
perfecting the details of the platform,
concluding at a late hour with adopt-
ing a gold standard plank. The plank
was voted on during the absence of
Mr. Bryan and Congressman Williams
and the ballot stood 7 to 3, the affirma-
tive votes being cast by Messrs. Dan-
iel. Hill, Pattison, Hamlin, Cable. Poe
and Davis, and the negative votes by
Messrs. Dubois, Shivlen and Newlands.
The understading was that if Messrs.
Bryan and Williams had been present
they would have cast their votes in
been permitted.
equality
al institut
rention was unanimous (loud cheers
And laughter).
I
’committee accused Mr. Bryan of coun-
terbutting What dttienarmony he was
advocating. He admitted there were
thngs done in Illinois which shouia
lion. He admitted that the probability in
of Judge Parker’s nomination had a n
good deal to do with hurrying work On w
the station. ",
Iikence, is sending a series of
bered postal cards. One today
devoted to, a denunciation of the
henta of ”.afe and sane demoe-
s judge antachad aSegiuisiy no |
—
Resuming his address, he briefly nar-
rated th election of himself as chair-
man of the convention and of Hopkins
and Cable as delegates at large and
asked for fair treatment for his side.
In addition to the one man first eject- ----- -i -uunuu. vgamxuou.
ed, halt a dozen in one of the baleo- Representative Hugh Dinsmore of Ar-
nies, who were constantly Interrupting hanenn chui-----* ha
the speaker, were also put out of the
hall by the police. Senater Martin of
Virginia rushed up and ordered that
"the blackguards be hauled out,” and
the police responded quickly.
When Mr. Quinn had concluded, Mr.
Bryan advanced to the front of the
platform and was greeted with cheers.
Mr. Bryan said:
"Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle-
convention to decide,
man who with a gavel
rce upon nil democrats
test of strength In the convention and
was listened to with Intense interest.
The Hearst people cheered every vote
in favor of the substitute and were
supported by those parts of the gal-
leries who had so frequently inter-
rupted the anti-Hearst speakers. A
bleak in the Parker strength came
when Kentucky voted solidly for the
substitute.
By the time Minnesota was reached
the vote Was 115 for the substitute
and 247 against. The vote was follow-
ed with interest by the delegates.
Mr. Bryan, who remained on the
platform while the roll was called,
gave the responses his undivided at-
ent but his kace betrayed no sign
Illinois requested to be passed when
its name was called. Missouri’s vote
for the substitute was wildly cheered
but there was a whisper to the rear
that when New York voted solidly
against the substitute the vote would
be settled.
The result showed 647 against the
adoption of tha minority report and
299 for it.
Foundation of Republic.
Vnder ther lobnl self government
and national unity and prosperity were
alike established. — *
form is as follows:
We, the delegates of the democratic
party of the United States in national
convention assembled. declare our de-
votion to the essential principles of
the demgeratie faith which bring us
together In party communion.
He was — --—. ■ ,
gallery and there-were loud calls froin
the delegates to have the galleria
cleared. He declared himself a demo •
erat who belteved in the risht ot tin
majority to rule and who did not call
any man a thief unless he knew him to
be one. He was, he fold, himself de-
feated in 1596, but did not for that rea-
son argue to himself the right to mix
up in other people’s business.
He declared that Mr. Bryan had
read to the convention as his minor-
ity report, the brief of one of the attor-
neys for the contestants.
Mr. Quinn was so frequently inter-
rupted by the galleries that Chairman
Williams was forced to appeal to the
convention for quiet. Delegate Rich-
ardson of Alabama, rising and address-
ing the chair, declared that it was evi-
dent that an organized attempt was
being made to suppress the facts In
the case by preventing Mr. Quinn
from being heard and the chairman
agreed to have the galleries cleared.
patlble with efficient civil,
By Associated Press,
Tokyo, July 7.—Operations of a par-
amount importance are going on with-
in the war zone, but the governnient
succeeds in veiling them in almost ab-
solute secrecy.
Mince the operations off Dalny the
government officials have been silent
concerning conditions at Port Arthur.
It is believed, howeyer, that the Japa-
nese army and navy are dally retain-
ing their relentless grip on the be-
seiged city.
It is believed that the fall of Port
Arthur is only a matter of a few
weeks.
The fleet of Admiral Togo is in'mo-
tion day and night and is frequently
engaged, but the forces and number of
guns of the besieged, as well as their
positions, are secrets which probably
will not be revealed until the final and
kansas, chairman of the committee,
ia;"RSsa-ja .th
This monstrous perversion
rious sources, 'especially
dge Parker tonight discussed the
atation. but maintained his usuni'
**• when polities were mentloned.
a. ‘ &
The Isthmian Canal.
tween the states and with forelgn na-
1ons..we favor the early conpletlon or
the Isthmian canal.
But while making this deelarafton
a d accepting the result as an accom-
plished and irreversible fact, we can
not too forcibly express our disaprovai
or the. methods by which. In disregard
to the usages and obligations of Inter-
national law and treaty obligations
the canal zone has been acquired, or
too solemnly record our hope that this
precedent of defiant diplomacy may
never be used against us to our hu-
millation and injury.
Trusts and Unlawful Combinations,
the fiction that the king can do no
wrong, but when he did do wrong I
they boldly and iconoclastically tram- I
pled that preposterous fafsehood under I
their feet and wresting a continent I
from his iron grasp, dedicated It as the
home of freedom and to the twin prop- I
ositons that "governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the
governed" and that "all men are ere- l
ated equal." There were men in the
land in 17764 Are there only manikins 1
now? I do not believe such a mon- I
Greatness of Bryan.
Continuing, Mr. Menzies said:
"The gentleman from Nebraska dealt
in strong language and positive asser-
tions, I think, unsuported by facta or
evidence. I would like to know, how-
ever, great as he is, what has consti-
tuted him a court of appeals to pass
on a contract in the state of Illinois
and wherein his wisddm is superior to
that of the committee on credentials
of this convention. (Aplaus). '
"Great as he is. he is not so great
that he can know a case without ever
having heard it.
"That same convention that elected
independence, the structure of our free
republic, and every democratic exten-
sjon from Louisiana to California and
Texas and Oregon, which preserves
faithfully in all states the tie between
taxation and representation. They yet
inspire the masses of our people,
guarding jealously their rights and lib-
erties and cherish in their fraternity
peace and*orderly development. They
remind us of our duties and responsi-
bilities as citizens and impress upon
us, particularly at this time the neces-
sity of reform and the rescue of the
administration of government in the
headstrong, arbitrary and spasmodic
methods which distract business and
the uncertainty which pervades the
public mind with dread, distrust and
perturbation.
manded by Vice Admiral Bezobrazoff,
met a Japanese squadron consisting of
three battleships, three protected
cruisers and torpedo boats, in the
Korean gulf and turned back. The
Japanese pursued the Russians.gthe
battleships and cruisers firing at them
without result. The Japanese torpedo
boats then attacked the Russian ships,
which returned the attack, and 'Ad-
miral Bezobrazoff believes two of the
enemy's torpedo bots were sunk by.
the Ruslan fire. The next morning the
Japanese had disappeared. The Rus-
sians sustained no damage.
Honesty in Public Service.
Second—The enforcement of honesty
in the public service and to that end
a thorough legislative investigation of
those executive departments of the
government already teeming with
corruption, as well as other depart-
ments suspected of harboring corrup-
tion and the punishment of ascertained
corruptionists without fear or favor or
regard to persons. The persistent and
deliberate refusal of both the senate
and house of' representatives to per-
mit such suggestion to be made by
either branch of congress demonstrates
that only by a change-In the executive
and In the house of representatives can
complete exposure, punishment and
conviction be obtained.
In broader furtherance of that end
the federal government should not
hin face strongly against executive
usurpation of legislative and judicial
functions whether that usurpation be
ruled under the guise of the executive
Champ Clark Cheered.
The mention of the name of Champ
CUric.as permanent chairman was re-
ceived with applause and the report
was unanimously adopted.
Chairman Williams appointed Sena-
tor Bailey and Bourke Cockran to
escort Mr. Clark to the chair.
from the people than is necessary to
pay the expenses of a government eco-
nomically run. So these propositions
we believe are right, and on them we
confidently rely in our appeal to the
American people in November.
Our Merchant Marine.
When Napoleon signed the title
deeds to the vust country west pf the
Mississippi ho turned to the American
commissioners and said: "Now I have
given England a maritime rival." and
so he had until insatiable greed and
criminal maladministration banished
the starry banner of the republic from
the high seas and abdicated the rich
domain of the ocean. In 1860 we had
the second largest merchant marine in
the world, our sails whitened every
harbor, and our flag floated in every
breeze under the heavens. How sadly
all this has changed after thirty-five
yars of republican misrule, hast year
of all the merchantmen that went
through the Suez canal not a single
American vessel, great or small, ex-
cept battleships, bore the American
flag at its masthead, and our flag is
seen in foreign waters only when fly-
ing over a man-of-war.
Worse than this, more humiliating
than this, a few years ago when con-
gress appropriated a large sum of
money to buy corn and wheat and
meat to sed to the famine stricken
East Indians, we could not send it in
an American ship, for the all sufficient
Jenson that there was none to send it
in, but to our great humiliation had
to hire a foreign ship in which to send
over the charity to our starving fel-
low men.
When an American goes abroad he
must sail under a foreign flag, on a
foreign ship, under a foreign officer.
Why hare things come to this
shameful thie pitifu) complexfon in p
country that has the finest material
for ships and sailors in the world? Be-
construction of existing laws.
woman in Dickens’ novel,
whatever you do.’ ”
We place on sale this morning a lot of wool crash and blue serge suits
at greatly reduced prices. If you are at all in need of a summer suit
cause our exorbitant taritt system has
made it impossible for an American
to build a ship in competition with
the British shipbuilders on the river
Clyde.
Yet the republican gang has the in-
finite gall to prate about its patriot-
ism.
Our boys are rushing off to face
death in search of gold in the Klon-
dike region when the oceans of the
world contain a million Klondikes, if
the republican party would only per-
mit them to work the watery main.
methods of procuring economy and
honesty in the public service is to have
public officials, from the occupant of
The time has not yet
By Associated Frees.
St. Petersburg, July 7.—Unusually
lengthy telegrams were received to-
night, but while supplementing the
previous advices to the Associated
Press from the front they do not bring
the situation beyond July 5. Therefore,
the fight of July 6 sent in a dispatch
from Ta Tche Kiao, which brought
32 Two-piece wool crash suits, were $10 and $12; now.......$7.50
Blue Serge Suits
Important Events Are Going on
in the War Zone But the
Government Succeeds in
favor a wise, conservative and busi-
nesslike revision and a gradual reduc-
tion of the larift by the friends of the
masEes and for the commonwealth and
not by the friends of its abuses, its
extortions and its discriminations,
keeping in view the ultimate end of
equality of burdens and equality of
opponents and the constitutional pur-
pose of raising a, revenue by taxation,,
towit. the support of the federal gov- /
eminent In. all its integrity, but m
simplicity and keeping also in view,
as men of common sense shouNd, any
existing condition, however wrong-
fully, mistakenly- or unjustly brought
about, and the danger to the use of
tariff reform itself of abrupt and revo-
lutionary reversal of policy.
We should bear in mind, in ’short,
these two things:
which the contestants here recognize
as the valid, bona fide electoral ticket
of the state of Illinois.
"No protest against the right of Mr.
Hopkins or Mr. Cable was ever heard
until last Saturday when the national
committee assembled in this city.
"Now, gentlemen, the main question,
the very pith of the controversy, is
whether the constituted authorities of
the party, acting under the forms of
political procedure has been the party
shall be recognized here, or whether
a case based on ex parte evidence upon
bare assertion, without facts to sup-
men:
Bryan's Closing Speech..
"I have but ten minutes. Don t take
mMre “hrst speaker raid that I had
not heard the evidence. I stayed in
the subcommittee ot the national com-
mittee and heard every one and I have
heard more evidence than the gentle-
man who talked to you and who lm-
| censured because by an old process
they figure it out that two and two
make four and that the transfer of Mr.
Knox from the cabinet to the senate
at the behest of. Frick, Cassatt and
' Cameron, known in connection with
the change of feeling in Wall street in
favor of the president, has a sinister
meaning. »
The trust magnates who secured the
senatorial toga for MF. Knox since they
have established the entente cordial
with the famous trust busters, ought to
compel the young ruffianly scion of the
great trust houses wh some time ago
insulted and assaulted Mr. Knox in a
public restaurant, to go down on his
knees and make to him the,amerde
honorable. Then all will be lovely—
away the trust and trust busters.
Mr. Clark has an ideal voice for a
convention. Everybody could hear him
and he was listened to attentively.
At the conclusion of his speech, on
motion of Mi*. Kerr of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Williams was thanked for his
services as temporary chairman by a
rising vote. The chair declared the
meeting adjourned until 10 o’clock to-
morrow morning.
DETAILS OF* PLATFORM.
and “Vote” as Mr. Head retired
- tne contestees. .. • “ *• "5. netnem-
frequently interrupted by the 4he question," said the 'chairman.
- -• — --- Jr on the substitution of the minority
for the majority report.”
The noes were in a heavy majority
and before the chairman could count
the result Mr. Bryan was on the plat-
form demanding a roll call. The de.
ma nd wag seconded and the clerk pro-
ceeded with the call. It was the first
heard the facts last night as a mem-
ber of the’ committee on credentials.
He was conspicuous by his absence.
(Applause). The delegates now seated
from Illinois came into the convention
duly authorized.”
The speaker was here Interrupted
by cries of "no” and hisses mingled
with cries from other delegates of
"that’s true.
trous libel. George 111 did wrong. Our
fathers fought and conquered him.
Theodore Roosevelt does wrong. We
will oppose and overthrow him. Sup-
port the president's policy, eh? eh?
Will some gentleman please tell us
what that policy is? Has he any? If.
so, why does he not say so? The
truth is, he has none. He is an op-
portunist waiting for something to turn
up. He is letting things drift and they
are drifting to the deuce. Meantime
our soldiers are being shelled and are
dying of disease in shoals. For what
purpose? Will anybody undertake to
say? I defy any jingo to stand up
and declare with a straight face what
the president’s policy, or the republi- I
van party's policy is. No one can say;
but some say, more's the pity, and
shame, "The presdent is wrong, but I
we must support the president.”
To this complexion has it come at |
last by reason of the new fangled Jin-
goism, that we must shut up our
thinkers, close our mouths and chloro-
form our consciences in order to be I
considered patriots.
It avails nothing to claim—as some I
do—that Colonel Roosevelt is better!
than his party. It is to be hoped most
fervently that he is a great deal bet-
tet: but truth to tell, a president can
not be better than his party. Even I
if he tries to be, he is ruined politi-
cally. Johnson, Hayes, Arthur and
never arrive—when the American peo-
pie will, acrept the arrogant dictum
of Louis XFV if repeated by un Ameri-
an president: "I am the state.” If
I resident Roosevelt is at all worthy of
his high position he must entertain a
supreme contempt for , the political
supple-jacks; for those who claim to
be democrats, who go about with sanc-
tmonfous mien, saying:
“The president is wrong in his Phil-
ippine policy, but we must support the
president.”
Out upon all such vilnglng Idiocy.
Just suppose a case. Suppose that
when George III undertook to force I
our fathers to pay the stump tax, pa-
triotic Henry, Instead of delivering that I
speech before the Virginia house of'
burgesses which precipitated the revo-
lution and which still stirs the heart
‛ke strains of martial music, had
arisen in his place and said gently us
a suokling dove. "His most gracious
majesty is wrong about this stamp tax
busir t ss, but v • must, as loy ..I sub-
jects, support him, right or wrong,” I
and suppose Washington. Jefferson,
Warren, Adams, Greene, Lee, Hamil-
ton—all that glorious host of warriors I
and sages had weakly agreed to that.
What would we be today ? Instead of I
being the ricnest, most powerful re- I
public in all the ........ of time, we
would still be English colonies, ruled I
by British pro-consuls' and generals I
without aaving any voice whatever in I
the government under which we live. I
Fundamental Principles.
The application of these fundamental
principles to the living issues of the
day constitutes the first step toward
the assured peace, safety and progress
of our nation. Freedom of the press,
of conscience and of speech; equality
before the law of all citizens; the right
of jury; the freedom of the person de-
fended by- the writ of habeas corpus;
liberty of personal contract untram-
meled by sumptuary laws; the su-
premacy of the civil over military law;
a well disciplined military; the sepa-
ration of church and state; econom
in expenditures; low taxes; that labor
may be lightly burdened; the prompt
and sacred fulfillment of public and
private obligations; fidelity to treaties;
peace and friendship with all nations:
entangling alliances with none; abso-
lute acquiescence to the will of the
majority, the vital principle of repub-
lics,—these are doctrines which de-
mocracy has established as proverbs
of the nation and they should be con-
constantly Invoked, preached, resorted
to and Enforced.
port it, will be recognized as a prece-
dent in the democratic party. The
gentleman from Nebraska said he be-
lieved in the great elementary prin-
ciple of democracy that the majority
should rule. I stand behind him and
will always follow him in the advo-
racy of that principle, but I have been
taught by that same great mind that
promulgated to man that cardinal prin-
not have been done, but sald the
well defined, orderly method Of par- mittee had weighed the facts
lLamentary procedure and until akcer- decision was fair
tained that way. it is not the will o.
anybody ; either tho . majority or the
minority.” (Cheers and pplaus.
Ha . he been in Chicago while Sen-
ator Henry Cabpt Lodge was reading
the republican platform he would no
doubt have pronouneed the same opin-
ion more leisurely, for surely there
never was more mendacity packed into
the ram? space ir any document pur-
Porting to be a grave state paper.
Shakespeare says;
Thrice is he armed that hath his
quarrel just; and he but naked, though
loked up.n steel, whose conscience
with injustice is corrupted.”
In the Impending conflict our quar-
rel is just and we are in the right
beyond all cavil. To state it in a gen-
eral way, our contention is that the
government shall be restored to the
democratic-republican basis on which
the fathers of the republie intended
it to rest, and shall be made once
more a government of the people, by
the people and for th* people, instead
of a government of classes, by .the
classes and for the classes. To state
with more particularity, we insist
that exorbitant taxation shall be re
juced to just and reasdnable rates;
that extravaganee in approprlationa
•hall ceaset that economy shali pre-
vail in all the trim, actions of the 2ov-
tenment:, that ft|| departments shall be
tharoucMy Investigated from top 1
botyom. by.congreasional committees;
that,al V whatever degree
shall be driven froin the public ser-
vice and promptly punished; the trusts
shall be proceeded against by indict-
ments as are common and smaller
criminals; that the constitution ac-
companies the American hag In its
new possesalons, * “
We recognize that the gigantic
trusts and combinations designed to
enable capital to secure more than its
just share of the joint product of cap-
ta and labor, and which have been
fostered and sprouted under the re-
publican rule, are a menace to ben-
eficial competition and an obstacle to
permanent business prosperity.
We demand the vigorous and impar-
tial enforcement of the laws already
made to prevent and control such
trusts and combinations and we favor
such further legislation in restraint
therof as experience shows to be nec-
essary. Corporations chartered by au-
thority by the people must forever re-
main subject to regulation in the in-
terests of the people.
A private monopoly is indefensible
....... .. ...... .U..g- ... ...» .g.unve and intolerable. We recognize the
pleas of necessity or superior wisdom, right of capital in all legitimate lines
of enterprise to combine for the In-
crease of business, for enlarging pro-
ductive capacity and reducing the cost
of production, but such combinajion,
which in its purpore or effect, creates,
or Intends to create, a mnopoly n its
productions to restrafn trade, or to
. stife competition; to Increase cost to
the consumer or to control the market,
it violates the laws, becomes inimical
to the public welfare and should be
from republican trust busters. It is the
appointment of Attorney General Phi-
lander C. Knox, republican trust bus-
ter par excellence, to succeed the late
Mathew Stanley Quay of Pennsiyvania
in the senate, of the United States.
.4. . - ----------------- — . There would have been nothing strange
getting of offices or to attempt to get or suspicious about that performance
them the whole republican party could were it not for the Influence which se-
be sent to the penitentiary, cured the appointment of Mr. Knox.
One of the false pretenses—the one Folks who still dare to think will be
on which they harp the most this year forced to one of two conclusions:
el the democratic party is in favor 1—Either that Mr. Knox is the only
° trade. lawyer in America capable of conduct-
rhe charge is false, a lie made out Ing a suit against the trusts, which is
of the whole cloth. There are individ- J absolutely preposterous, (for there are
ual democrat* who are free traders, hundreds of lawyers as capable as he
just as there are individual republi- is, and that the trusts were anxious to
cans who are atheists, but would be get him out of the attorney general's
precisely as true and fair to denounce office because they fear him more than
the republican party as the party’ of they do any other human being; or,
atheism as to denomimnate the demo- 2—That the Knox anti-crusa.de has
eratic party as the party of free trade, been a bunco game from the beginning
It never was a free trade party and and that Messrs. Frick, Cassatt and
is not now. The man Who charges that I Camneron, together with those whom
It is does so out of his ignorance, or they represent, procured for him the
because of his mendacity. senatorship as a reward for favors al- I
Democrats favor the cutting down ready rendered the trusts secretly
. exor .itanttar if rates to a reason- I while in the cabinet, and to be here-
able basis. They believe that in many I after renaere in the senate.
schedules of the present law the rates I According to the press reports Pres-
are too nigh; those that are too high (dent Roosevelt stood by consenting
we are in favor of cutting down. We to transfer Knox from the cabinet to
favor any.modification of the tariff I the senate just as I’aul stood by con-1
schedules that may require them be- I senting to the stoning of Stephen,
coming. • shelter for monopoly. I Plain people cannot be blamed for
, The true democratic position on the being bewildered by all this kaleido-
tariff is this: Recognizing that a | scopic performance. They can not be I
large portion of our revenue has al-
ways been raised from customs duties
or taxes democrats divide all imports
into three classes: necessaries, com-
forts and luxuries, and contend that
the- tariff taxes should be highest on
luxuries, lower on comforts and lower
or none at all on the necessaries. They’
furthermore say that taxes shall be
uniform on all articles belonging to
one class. That is the democratic
party’s position from which it will not
be driven or coaxed or bullied. No
amount of misrepresentation will cause
them to budge from that position. We
say furthemmore that not one dollar
more in the shape of tariff taxes or
any other sort of taxes should be taken
2
the younger Harrison, all tried that
experiment, and all were refused sec-
ond terms, either in convention or at
the polls. So wili jt be with Colonel
Roosevelt. His particular friends may
deem him better than his party. He
ian, and as party will drag him down to its level,
vledgement. No man ever fpund himself in worse
political company than does President
Roosevelt inthiyearof grace. He is
In the hands of the republican Philis-
tines and they will bind him with their
so regulated, controlled or prohibited
by the law as to amply protect the
public interests.
We demand that the restraint of
such illegitimate combinations be en-
trusted to the democratic party, which
is not responsible for their existence,
And which has ever protested against
their continuance.
We condemn the republican system
of legislation under which trust mo-
nopolies are enabled to enet higher
I pray Almighty God that it will
Trust Busters.
Republicans claim in public to be the
great and only trust busters, notwith-
standing the fact that republican mis-
rule trusts have sprung up like mush-
rooms in a dark cellar, and have be-
come as plentiful as berries in June.
It is said that straws show which
way the wind blows.
Here is a "straw” which indicates
that the trusts have nothing to fear
Russians Claim to Hava Sent Twa to
th* Bottom.
By Associated Press.
London, July 7——A dispatch to a
news agency from St. Petersburg
says:
ed in contrast to the dose attention
that had been given Mr. Bryan.
He shouted out that he would be
heard and the audience would have
to remain all the longer in this "sweat
box” if it persisted in disorder. He
raid:
he Convention:
"It would be vain indeed on my part
to attempt to cope with the oratory of
the gentleman from Nebraska, but in
the facts in this case I think I have
far as anyone in patriotism. I will
Bupport my country in any emergency,
but President Roosevelt is not the
Power of Taxation.
First, the general principle that the
sole derivation of the power of tax-
ation is the support of the federal gov-
ernment. economically and constitu-
tionally adopted, and, second, the
equal truth that in the assertion of
any ultimate end, however Sacred and
logically unavoidable, due regard, but
only due regard, must and should be
paid to actually existing conditions.
Tax on Trust Produced Articles. *
We favor the reduction of tariff tax-
ation upon trust produced articles to
the point by which foreign competi-
tion may enter the American market
whenever trusts and combines seeking
monopoly raise their prices to the
American consumer above a reasona-
ble and just profit, but such reduction
depriving trusts and monopolies of the
power to extort from the American
people; under shelter of American law,
prices higher than those charged for.
eigners for identical articles.
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