The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-05

ecOnOmZ- Ask the SrOcer Tor IL
over at last to the glorious Democratic
doctrine of commercial extension.
The speaker then took the ground
that the Democratic party was the par
| ty Of expansion. He said: The Dem
ocratic party has been the party OF
trade extension and commercial expan-
sion from the beginning. The Federal
party, the Wing party and the Repub-
lican party have been from the adOp-
ION OF the consttuIon 70 the present
time the advocates OF trade RESTRICTION,
and commercial restriction, as well as
concentration and Capitalization in gov
eminent. Against the restrictive here
sizes of Federalism, Whiggery and Re
pubhcanism, the Democratic party has
FOR more than a hundred years Waged
1ncessant and relentless war;
Speaking of the increase of the regu-
lar army, he said: This cry of expan-
sion has been raised as an excuse and
justification for a vast and unnecessary
increase of the regular army. The
American pepole will not object to such
legitimate increase of the army as will
maintain its mum ers in about the same
ratio to the population as heretofore.
But this is not what the Republican
leaders propose. They contemplate an
increase that will give US a standing
army of 100000 TO 100000 men, and this
conceded II would rapidly grow larger.
Thus we see approaching the very
conditions which our wise ancestors
1oresaw when they declared, as they
peace are dangerous to liberty and
when they held and taught that the
cOerciVe arm of a free society should be
society itself. and that the militant arm
Of free people should be the people
themselves, to the end that the people
might never pass under the iron rule
of a military despOtism.''
Mr. OVernyer favored the increase Of
the navy. On the alleged British alli-
ance he said Hay had been close to the
throne and now was in demand by the
president. 1t means the country has
listened to the call of the money power
He handled the Dingley bill without
gloves and showed the big deficiency
caused by it. Speaking of the silver is
sue he said:
The silver issue will never end until
the great crime of 1873 is avenged. 1t
will never end until that great wrong is
righted. The issue which has been
heretofore designated as tariff will for
the future be not only tariff, but taxa
ton in its widest sense. The question
viii be not only shall the tariff be laid
with a view to revenue on the one hand
and protection on the other, but shall
there be tariffs at all. The question will
arise between the direct and the indi-
rect systems of taxation, and it will
never be settled until we amend the
constitution of the United States so as
to empower congress to levy direct tax
es, not only on incomes but upon cor
poratiOns and every form of aggregated
wealth, as demanded in the Democratic
state platform adopted by the Atchison
convention.
The situation in the state has been
discussed in all OF its bearings. It is
very simple and requires at this late
day only reCa pitulation. The simple
question IS: VIII the people stand by
the men who stood by them2 Will you.
by your votes. sustain the men whose
every act has been in your interest. and
against the sinister forces that are de-
vOuring your substance and sapping
your manhood?
''The last legislature enacted more
laws for the benefit of the peOple, and to
hold in check and put down the enemies
of the people than any legislature or
than all the legislatures that ever sat
in this state. Tt gave you your anti
trust law; your anti-PinkertOn law;
your anti-scTp law; your law giving
trial by jury in cases of contempt; your
municipal utilities law; your honest fee
and salary law. 1t gave you the law
by which you oveTthreW the great stock
yards trust. It gave you the law by
which YOU overthrow that great mOnOp-
oly the American Book company. 1t
gave you laws by which insurance COM
panieS have been compelled to recognize
their obligations and perform their du-
ties to the public, and an honest, wise
banking law.
These are but the forerunners of 9TH
er wholesome laws which are sure to
follow if the people indorse the actions
of those who have fought their battles.
In the conduct of the affairs of the state
the present state administration has
been singuarly able, upright and patri-
otto.
THE present state administration
stood gloriousIy up for Kansas, and the
corporations. while bowling anarchy,
aSsaiIed Kansas, her laws, her institu-
tiOns, her interests, her people, and
themselves enacted the role of unquali-
fed anarchy.
Every act of every officer of this ad-
ministratiOn has been in the interest Of
the people. This ticket has been nOmi-
mated by three parties. 1t has been
twice nominated in two successive Dem
ocratic state conventions. IT Is the tick
ct of the Democrat tic party and. as such.
entitled to every Democratic vote But
its claims to popular support rise above
nv the people and they will stand by
it. They viii say. by their ballots, to
each candidate. Wei done, good and
faithful servant, thou hast been faith
full over a few things, we Will make thee
ruler over many"