The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-07
RADICALS WIN.
Control the State Democratic Conven-
ton of Iowa

Marshalltown, Ia, Sept THE state
conventions of the Democrats, Populists
and Silver Republicans today were not
largely attended, the former being the
smallest since the silver issue was taken
up three years ago. me pIatLorn VIII
declare unequivOcaIly for the Chlcago plat
form ana 10 TO l. as the raG IG M ntI{a Won
ma jority of the committee on resolutions
po 5r4ii-S Chairman of the convention and
delivered a lengthy address
Frank Q. Stuart, temporary chairman,
| .tChastened by forty-one defeats in
forty-three state campalgnss the Dattle-
Scared but unconquered ana unconquer-
able Democracy of Iowa are again assem-
bled in state convention L9I ine purpose o OF
among men, and of applying those princl-
Of the hour In our deliberations and
conclusions today, while renewing our
one moment forget that answering 10y
atty to them, in thought and in action
that power which chasteneth, and insure
for us this year or next year or IN lSOO,
| courage of an incompatible Bryan lead
| ing our hosts-victory, righteous victory
| our country has been called upon to face
grave issues-issues of national and inter-
, to a successful termination great war
WHO instigated this war for humanity?
! The great Democratic party:
/ who prosecuted this war? The Ameri-
| the expenses? The American people, will
On On no; by buying the coin bonds Of the
| government, payable in either gold or sill
/ only two hundred million dollars. the peo-
! pie offered thirteen hundred million-all
| land and a sixteen million dollar 'swipe'
| by his gold standard friends.
| What should we do with Cuba? Do
| with it that which we as nation proInis-
/ ed to do-give it a stable and independent
republican government of the peoples own
| creation. What shall we do with Porto
! Rico and the Philippines? Do with them
| annex any of these Islands? Without the
| full and free consent of the people to be
| shall we build the Nicaraguan canal
| Yes the United States should construct it,
Should we build up large and power
ful navy? Possibly, for r, the sig signs Of the
/ cessity, for the protection Of this republic
| Shall we have a large standlng army
| No, a thousand times, no. The smoke of
battle has scarce r eIearea away NEer Dut I'VE We
Steve Elkinses, the Mark Hannas the
Abner McKinleys and a few Palmer-and-
| and syndicates to procure from the tgnor-
| from an obliging administration at Wash
| ington, numerous CONCESSIONS iran
| chises' and privileges, to the end that
| these great financial philanthropists may
go and 'civiliZe the people.
| Shades of Jefferson and jackson! Are
these to be the results OF this great war
for humanity? Are we to turn loose
on the helpless and dependent people OF
Hawaii Porto Rico and Cuba an army OF
financial wolves, backed and supported by
American nag to be Kept flying from the
| prOmOntOrieS of those Islands to the end
that these financial ghOuls, these inhuman
| hyenas backed by Republican Legal priv
ileges, may under due forms of law hlch
of conversion into greasy dollars? Is this
the message of peace and love and free
dom that the great American government
is to carry to these benighted peoples?
God forbid.
in nd in
Democratic party. has sustained the Re
publican administration in this war from
it incipiency to its close. 1t has done sc
on the theory that. it was war for hui
manity, not for lucre; for principle not
license; and heaven forbid that at this
critical time any Democrat should allow
the present or prospective clink of a GOLD
standard dollar to cloud his Judgment OF
stife the still, small voice of principle
Heaven forbid that under the guise Of
| commerce. or business, or progress OF
1aytv Should be indaced to sanction the
fastening upon the helpless people of thesS
ISLANDS the RepubIlcan eVlIs that at TINS
very moment are a very grave menace tc
mo Democrat wishes to disturb friend
! 1y relations or cultivate unfriendly rela
tons between the American people an6
the English people between the America
people and the people of any other coun
try. But the business relations, the golt
standard financial relations, between thi:
4 country and the English spectators are
already sufficiently binding for all prac
''The tremendous wave of gold standard
| prosperity did not strike Iowa with a force
| sufficient to unhinge any Democratic in
tellects, and therefore we are stronger
than ever in the faith of '76 and SO. Blu
it did battle the overheated brows o.
! some of our gold standard friends to sucl
an extent as to cool their ardor percept
bly,.
| syndicates and pools is a question tina
! Democracy must solve, for all other al
legged solutions have proved to be futile
and useless The great antitrust stat
/ utes. both state and national have proved
to be wholly inefficacious.
1.-The one remedy is the repeal of thu
Republican state statutes that Iegallze
support, sustain and foster trusts and
/ combines. All other alleged remedies arr
wholly worthless. Every trust is founded
on the state laws for the organization o
corporations for pecuniary profit. NJ
trust could exist for a single day but TO
the corporations; no corporation could ex
ist for a single day but for the Republi
can statutes legaliZing corporations fO-
pecuniary profit These statutes are stat
statutes, not national
rs not this a radical remedy? Possibly
but it is the only remedy, and it is tn
tate a gangrened leg with court plaster
you cannot remove a malignant tumo
with Vaseline. But after all the remedy
is not nearly so radical nor so harsh, no
! by any means so drastic, as the adToi
and plausible corporation Schemer wOulC
would destroy not one dimes worth O.
property; it would take away from NJ
man one cent of wealth: but it would eff
fectually and for all time put a stop t.
a vast amount of grand larceny that il
now rendered respectable by the sanction
of statutory law
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