Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-11-30
Would He Be With the Republi.
can Party of To-day?
OR STRUGGLING HUMANITY?
Pertinent Queries Of Hon. william Jen
nings Bryan In the New York
journal.


refused to stand upon the st. Louis plat
form, they declared that the republican
party was deserting it's traditional policy
and that they were not willing to follow
the party in its change upon tie money
question. They pointed out that the re-
publican platform in 1888 denounced Mr..
CleveIand's attempt to temonetize silver,
and that The republican platform OF 1892
declared that the American people from
tradition and interest favored bimetal.
lism. They took frequent occasion to
quote Mr.. McKinley's speech Of 1891 in
denunciation of Mr.. Cleveland's attempt
to "make money scarcer and therefore
dearer-money the master, and every
thing else the servant"
Each year the departure Of the repub.
leans from the early ideas Of the party
becomes more apparent. Lincoln often
referred to "the plain people" and to "the
common people," but any one who thus
classifies the people at this time is sure
to be called demagogue by the republi-
can leaders. When tie republican party
wrote its national platform in 1856 it in.
vited the cooperation OF all those who
were in favor "of restoring the action Of
the federal government to the principles
of Washington and Jefferson" and Lin.
coin himself was great admirer Of JEFF
ferson. In 1859 the republicans Of Boston
celebrated the birthday OF Thomas Jefier-
son, and Lincoln in his letter OF regret
paid the following tribute to Jefferson :
"All honor to Jefferson; to a man who,
in the concrete pressure Of struggle for
national independence by single people,
had the GOODNESS, forecast and capacity
to introduce into merely revolutionary
document an abstract truth, applicable
to all men and all times, and so to embalm
it there that today and in all coming
days it shall be rebuke and stumbling
BLOCK to the harbingers Of reappearing tyr.
amy and oppression" In the beginning
OF the party's existence the republicans
appealed to the name and the principles
OF jefferson, but a. republican banquets
nowadays Jefferson's name is spoken
with disIespect, and Hamilton's name
and ideas are extravagantly Landed.
The significance Of this change becomes
apparent when it is remembered that
Jefferson was the foremost representative
Of the democratic idea, while Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge in his life of Hamil-
ton points out that the latter was the
representative OF the aristocratic idea.
Lodge says: "The republic Of Hamilton
was to be an aristocratic, as distinguished
from democratic republic, and the
power Of the separate state was to be ef-
fectually crippled. The first object was
attained by committing the choice of the
president and senators, who were to hold
office during good behavior, TO class of
the community qualified to vote by the
possession OF a certain amount Of real
property. The second was secured by
giving to the president Of the United
States the appointment OF the governors
OF the various states, who were to have
veto on all state legislation. These pro.
visions, as may be seen at a glance, in
volved the essential che 'acter Of the gov.
eminent, and although purely republican,
came much nearer to the British model
than any other by their recognition OF
classes and Of the political rights OF prop.
erty while by the treatment of the states
a highly centralized national govern.
ment was to supersede entirely the con-
federate FORM"
In 1859 Lincoln, in speaking Of the re.
lation which should exist between money
and humanity, said that the republican
party believed in both the man and the
dollar, but that in case Of conflict 1t be.
lieved in the man before the dollar. In
one OF his early messages to congress
Lincoln warned his countrymen against
the approach Of monarchy, and said that
his alarm was caused by the attempt to
place capital upon an equal footing With.
II not above, labor in the structure Of
government. Now the republican party
leeks to settle every question upon Fl.
nancial basis. The dollar mark is plainly
stamped upon every modern republican
policy.
Lincoln signed the bill which provided
for a graded income tax in the ifty'third
congress the republican party voted
against an income tax. The republican
party Great I'd the greenback; now it is
planning to destroy the greenback.
When the war closed Lincoln began to-
plan to make the payment Of the nation a.