The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-08-28


contrary had lately been enuncatcd from hi1h
source as proposition Of constitutional law, to
which can not agree
That WAS vBted down,
Another resolution that IL wis the duty of
Congress tp provide by law that railroads should
not make discriminating rates 40 as to enhance
the price Of the necessarics OF life between the
producer and consumer.
This suffered the same fate.
Again, q resolution declaring the public lands
to be the heritage OF the people, and that they
ought to be held In small quantities for that
purpose only, and another resolution that pub.
Tic lands were held In trust bv the Government.
for those who became citizens OF the United
states, and ought not to lie permitted TO he
monopoized In large arrears by corporations and
the aristocracy of Europe
Both voted down.
Again, n resolution TINT the United States will
not ICftnit n ship canal tO be built across the
lsthmns Of Panama without its consent, except
that il will exercise the right to take possession
Of II Whenever the necessity Of the country de-
mands
That, too, was yated down,
also olIrrrd n resolution that the various
offices vi the Government belong to tine people
thereof, and that frequent changes of Federal
officials were necessary to counteract the grow
ing aristocratic tendencies to life Office N well
| as Tor the discovery and punishment oil frauds
and elnbezzicmcnts OF public money.
Thia was voted down
Again, offered in sub-comnittcs, resolutions
defining the duty Of the United States to pro-
tcct every citizen everywhere. and also that no
American citizen should DO tried for any act
done In this country except under its own iawa,
and on it's own soil. and that there was no power
| IN the Government to send citizen elsewhere
to be tried therefor.
| These resolutions were voted down IN the sub
committee. hut when offered IN the general
committee, there heng nothing In the platform
deemed by that committee to be substantial
| equivalent. they were adopted although there
were some namby ~pamby statements reported
| by the sub committee on the same SUBJECT.
This will account to those curious In such
matters for TWO sets of resolutions upon TIE
same subject in the platform, to which call At.
| tentson, and designate for convenience as tho
| American" and the English" resolutions, as TO
| the rights of American citizens to protection by
their Government
| These declarations Of principles seem to
cover most VI the questions In politics In which
the people are interested.
| Through the courtesy Of the Chairman of the
| committee, and by personal ntefcession, OBJ
tanned the boon of thirty minutes To present
| ara dlrcnsa charter Of the peoples rights Mt
: an hour crowding on midnight, but before II
| could be printed and laid before tho convention,
| and with the refusal Of the convention to adj
| iourn to the morning before - vote was taken
/ upon them. So eager were the members to got
, at their work of Presidential nomination.
| -, Aud such a convention has been called de-
| Lucrative body!
Il Is true that it spent days upon tho unit
/ rule. which required a mans vote To bc cast
| against his conscience and Judgment, IN spite
| OF his protest, by others, and days In trying to
| settle the internal disscnsions of the machine
politics OF y single State: but II could give
| thirty minutes only to the discussion OF plinci-
| PIES for the government of the matte i, there
| fore could substantially present but one plank,
the most important OF all, the protection OF the
| American laborer and producer. without which,
In my judgment, there can be no prosperity to
| this country.
And this was voted down in the convention
| by u vote Of Ti2ig to 2fte.
| fel. II but right to warn the convention how
| ever nnimportant such warning might seem, of
| the course OF my duty II such vote was assea
+, against the working men and women of the
/ country, for whose welfare 1t was well known
| had stood from my earliest manhood. The
| no'ice was In this emphatic language: IF yon
| refuse t. stand by the workingmen, God help
| You, cannot. In this there was mistake.
Mr. Watterson. of Kentucky, who followed me.
took warning. saving the party would look to
| prayer Of tine wicked ayaileth not" 1t was due
to myself not to adopt the course which certain
| pure minded and upright and highly moral
politicians deem II proper to pursue. take part
| In the proceedings OF convention To It's end,
and then, without giving any notice to any
body, and without protesting, refuse to support
its doings.
| have thus given snccnct, as It mus, be, but
| u faithful account Ut my connection with the
| Chicago convention an Its action on the mat
| ters which was charged to present 10 II by the
| National drccnback~ Labor party, the Anti
I, Monopoly organization, and the Democracy of
| Massachusetts,.
| will not omit the fact that In the platform
adopted there were certain sweet phrases used
toward The foreign born citizens There were
| CERTAIN HoNEYEp WORDS,
over aud over repeated, in order that their repc-
~
| In favor OF labor, and upon some OF the topics
| Of our platform. But do claim, and submit To
the Just judsinent Of the people, that comparing
| the two platforms, and taking the action of the
convention, every claim of the Anti Monnpolist,
| and Of the National Greenhack and Labor men,
| was 20 contemptuously rejected or 40 thoroughly
| smothered by patitudes, which would permit
| any financial theaiist or any monorolist To sub
| scribe to tha majority PLATFORM, thai Ii IL must
apparent on the face of the resolutions that thos
| were simply resolutions OF eNnvdlents To catch
votes by ind,rection, deception and Illusion. not
| declarations OF those high principles which
should form the basis Of the united action of n
great party OF the people
The country has had no experience for nearly
| a quarter OF century of what the Democracy
| would do II they had the power, so that the peo-
pc are obliged to require tie most explicit
pledges from them OF intended action before we
can put the Government in their hands. But
the farmer and the laboring man do know that
a Democratic House of Representatives has lust
appropriated more money raised hy taxation
tsan any other House OF Representatives has
ever arrrol rated in time VI peace, We also
know that the Democratic majority would hav,
made
fREE- TRADE TARIFF.
containing all the odious features of the present
War IA iii, so Tar IA regards its mons'raas ine-
| GuaiIties by horizontal reduction III the tafin
to break down very many rising and struggling
industries. and destruction of the homes of on,
workingmea and the home market OF the Ameri'
| Tan producer.
VII, does not know that the vcrs fear Of III,
ttion of the Democracy In Congress- has 81 lar.
alyzed American enterprise and business that
| mills are everywhere closing. mines shut up
| tnrna tes blown out, anu every Kind OF employ
ment 80 curta,led that the mechanic and work
, ingman are not earning enough To support i ,
/, | III comfort. so tho farmer even, deprived OF u
| home market, aud crushed down by disefimi-
mating rates OF transportation. finds his corn
wheat, and wool lower than II has been within
the present generation. Can the people, there
| tore trust the machine Democracy With power
upon shifting. cvasise, ami deceptive plat
, | forms
| srba en,n.ry has ba n axn.ryao.a In Eann a,
| party rule twentr-nv, wears, and knows Its re.
| suits, We tn reforc have no need tn Look at its
platform. for by their fruits We shall know
| th.m.
The Republican party. in its inception. wa
emphaticalls ,hs party of the people. II had IN
II substantially neither monopnlist nor capitalist
| IT WIS poor a. was the convention of delegates
who framed the Declaration of Independence
Taxing out hive men, the rc>t could hardly paS
| th,ir hoard bills
The Republican ,arty was formed upon i
/ grand and noble idea, TO do for one class o
workngmen what the nemue attic party, cyei
under Jefferson and jackson, hal failed Ia Ito
, | Their Democracy dealt only with the whit
man, The Democracy OF the Refuhli al raft,
dealt With the black man, and aimed to xiv,
| him frs cdum aud equal rights, Ear thai Itir
, rose and that alone, WAS the Eepubli an party
i formed, II Was the radical party, and 50 rAd,ea
party u the saple that tn aristocratic part
9t 9th tn Whls party, the old advgr~aries OF tn,
| themselves in the Democracy without drop a
| Democratic blood, as they hoped, In their VEINS
OF n thohSht LOT the people except ~ tiie lowe
, | classes OF their party, and such nf them a.
i quarter ot century has spared. arr found Wit
, the Democracy to-day, largely guiding it. caan
ellis In the manner We have seen.
! The necessity for money tn carry on the W Y
| drew all the bankers ana capitalists into III,
, | Republican arty. The immense fortunes, al
mos necessarily growing out of the vast ex
penatnres of tho war, fell into the hands O
men who attached themselves to the party tha
/ fed them, as the iron Ii attracted Ia the mag
i met, aud monopolizsd industries and enter
/ uri>es.
The necessity 10 bind together the eastern
and western shores af the republic by mcthn i
a uf quick transportation, giving reason for ian
mense subsidies, grsntea To make three system
/ | oi railroads across the continent. with a thei
q branches and feeders, c e4ted wealth IN cor
porations and individuals To degree beIor
. unheard Of in this or any other country. an,
: | brought all those interests substantially Int
| the Republican party. Aud In any stassd III I'll
g Democratic party they We're in eontederatol
| with the same class. to arran2e politics tha
o whichever party came la power, capital, In al
v lie varied and powerful toIms, would le sure O
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