The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-18

burros, that in time of danger when
attacked by wild animals, would get
together, putting their heads together
and their feet on the outside so thew
formed a circle with their heels and
kicked the enemy, but he said it was
often the case that the advocates of
various reforms would put their heads
on the outside and kick each other
(Laughter.)
1T has been too often the case that
those who were fighting for reform, be-
cause they could not agree entirely,
would interfere with each other and
each attempt to offset the others work
In this campaign those who believe in
the free coinage of silver have Joined
together regardless of differences of
opinion upon other subjects.
Democrats who believe in tariff re-
form and Republicans who believe in
protection are able to get together
when both recognize that the money
question is superior to the tariff ques-
ton. (Applause.) A PopUlist leader in
this state well expressed the idea when
he said that while he believed in Pop
ulist doctrines, yet he was willing to
lay some of them aside until he could
get others. For instance, he said while
he believed in the government owner
ship of railroads, he did not want the
government to own the railroads as
long as the ROthschilds owned the gov
eminent. (Great applause.) 1t is this
willingness to lay aside minor Differ
ences in hours of danger that charac-
terizes our people and gives the surest
proof that they are able to rise to the
requirements of any emergency. Some
times they accuse US of raising a sec
tionaI issue. One of the best evidences
that the platform adopted at Chicago
does not raise a sectional issue is found
in the language of the platform adopted
yesterday in New York.
Let me read it to you. After unre-
serVed1y endorsing the platform and
the candidates of the Chicago conven-
Vol lot f. or deafa arr
as it's deliberate judgment that never
in the history of the Democratic party
has a platform been written which en-
bodies more completely the interests of
the whole people as distinguished from
those who seek legislation for private
benefits than that given to the country
by the national Democratic convention
of 1896. (Applause)
.srThere. within the shadow of Wall
street, though against the combined
opposition of those once leading Demo-
Gratis of New York who have left the
Democratic party and either gone over
entirely to the Republicans or stopped
for moment at the halfway house,
the Democracy Of New York declares
the platform adopted at Chicago is the
most Democratic platform ever put be-
fore the country by a Democratic con-
vention (Applause.) In the state of
Connecticut they have also endorsed
our platform, and likewise in Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey. In these and
other eastern states the Democracy is
beginning to realize that the Chicago
platform presents to the American peo-
pie these great issues around which the
people must cluster if they are going
to retain a government, of, by and for
the people. The Chicago platform con-
tanned a plank expressing q desire for
an income tax, not saying that we are
going to ignore the decision of the su-
preme court, but that an income tax
should be retained and enforced so far
as the decision of the court would per-
that XV0I1l6
principle still if a future court, exer-
cising the same right to reverse the de-
cision recently given that the present
court exercised in overthrowing the
precedent of a hundred years, should
go back to the doctrine we used to have
and declare that under the constitution
it is possible to make those who have
large incomes pay their share of the