Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-21
PLATFORM AND MAN.
EVENTS HAVE FIXED THE ONE
AND NAMED THE OTHER.

Forces the lssue-There is aDull Rumble
of Revolution in the Protests Of the People
Our Government as Founded Must Be
Preserved.
Why should the availability of men
be discussed when the fact is silhoutted
upon the consciences of the people
that the platform of the next Demo-
cratic National Convention must name
the man in the principles therein out
lined?
1t is no longer question of avail
ability, but question of principles,
and the man nominated must be the
living embodiment of every plank in
the platform, with the dynamic
energy to enforce them if elected.
Lucre has ruled the councils of the
Democratic party for the last time,
and the would-be leaders may learn
that money changers are not wanted
in the temple, nor Republican wolves
disguised as Democratic lambs.
Let it be understood now that the
people are n the saddle again, as they
were in 1896, and that they have
passed the point where they can be
misled into electing a President upon
platform which was ignored during
the campaign and definitely repudiat.
ed in the White House.
1t is enough to have passed through
one such experience, and those who
expect to fool the voters again, may as
we'll turn their faces to the wall, for
the people demand and will only be
satisfied with men, not marionettes,
and with principles, not platitudes.
Allegiance to party is nothing if
principles do not govern, therefore
look to the platform and the planks
will spell the name of the man want
ed.
Money is the supreme power in all
the transactions of life, and until the
currency question is settled right, it is
the paramount issue, no matter how
strenuously the renegades of the last
campaign may attempt to put it aside
Justice demands the restoration of
the free coinage privilege to silver,
and until this is done, the toiling
citizens of the West and South will
not be content to yield the making of
the platform or the nomination of the
man, to the money-mongeis and
mortgage holders of the East.
Evading the issue and ignoring the
facts will fool nobody, as long as high
taxes eat up the earnings of the farm.
er and prosperity only falls to the lot
of those who lend money and cut
coupons.
National bankers have controlled
the finances and corporations dictated
the revenue laws until to-day We are
confronted with the spawn OF this un-
holy alliance-the trust monster that
murders competition and adds count.
less thousands to the grand army of
the unemployed.
Never before in American history
was capital so impudent and defiant,
so utterly without respect for laws in
tended to restrain illegal combina.
tions, and so royalty contemptuous in
its dealings with those who suffer at
its hands.
Is it strange, then, that there should
be dull rumble of revolution in the
indignant protests of the people
against the trusts, and that this in
dignation, not only of Democrats and
OF Populists, but also of Republicans,
should center against the great devil
fish of all the trusts-the single gold
standard?
Notorious dealers in politics have
traded upon the principles of Democ-
racy for years, and it was not until
1896 that the stalwart yeoman of the
West and the South arose in their
might and wrested supremacy from
the tricksters, not to yield it back
again as long as right is on their side.
Cable about harmony, appeals for
questions upon which $4,000 boilers
may unite with 6,5OO,OOO regulars, at
tempts to kill silver by calling it dead.
and other efforts to galvanize life into
the corpses of the past, may be anus
ling to those that delude themselves
with their advocacy, but the majority
of the party know the issues and the
man who represents them will be the
next nominee Of the party.
Sentiment has not changed among
the farmers of the West nor the
planters of the South, since 1896, and
those who cannot stand upon the
Chicago platform will find no well
come in the Democratic party in
1900, but are urged to join the party
that upholds the single gold standard,
the high protective tariff, the trusts,
bond issues, pauper labor, high taxes
and boss rule.
Bluffing is played out, and those
who threaten may do we'll to remem-
Der that it is just barely possible that
there are times when the left wing
can't flap the entire rooster.
Retreat is impossible, and eastern