Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-07-14
THE NEW AND THE OLD
REPUBLICAN PARTY lMPOTENT
TO DEAL WITH THE TRUSTS.

REPUBLICAN PARTY iMPOTENT
TO DEAL WITH THE TRUSTS.
In fhe Resenerated Democracy Lies the Only
hope-If II is True to Itself, Its Mission viii
Not Fail-A True Man on the Chicago Plat.
form. is the Demand Of the Psopls--Ths
They Will Have If Signs Do Not Mislead.
National waichman.
Trusts must be destroyed and liberty
restored to industry or the republic
must perish. The Republican party
is impotent to deal with the question
of trusts. The trusts live and have
their being by virtue of Republican
legislation and Republican policies.
The human race will not commit sui
eide, neither can the Republican party
destroy trusts.
The Republican party contains mil
lions of honest, pure and brave Amer
ican citizens, but the control of the
party is no longer within their hands
nor within their reach. The fatal
year for the Republican party was
1896. The act that consigned the
party into the hands of the money
power and monopolies and placed its
redemption beyond the reach of the
honest Republican voters was the tri-
umph of the people over Clevelandism
in the Chicago convention. Had
Clevelandism triumphed at Chicago in
1896 both political parties would yet
be competitors for the favors of the
money power and corporators. If the
Democratic masses had not risen in
their might and purged the party of
its old leaders and made platform in
the interest of the people, the Hills,
Whitneys, Crokers, Belmonts, Palmers
and Buckners wonld still be bar gain
ing the service OF the party to the
banks, railways and trusts for cam
paign funds, while its prospective can
didates for the Presidency would be
vieing with each other in their efforts
to convince the monopolies of their
desire and ability to serve them.
The masses of both parties are alike
honest and desire good government.
Prior to 1896 both were alike victims
of bosses composed of opportunists
and political highwaymen. Issues in.
volving the welfare of the people were
kept submerged and American politics
was merely a duel between ambitious
and corrupt leaders for the honors and
emoluments Of Office.
Accident largely accounts for the
turn of affairs that liberated the De-
mocracy from the grasp of the money
power and left the Republican party
its helpless victim. Cleveland's con-
tempt for the people grew upon him
as he prospered in the service of Mann
mon. During his first term as Presi-
dent he proved himself steadfast,
strong and worthy of the confidence of
his masters, the gold combination,
who had promoted his ambition. Yet
while he had observed faithfully every
wish of his plutocratic masters he felt
it necessary to pay some attention to
the people, therefore he uttered in a
spirit OF cant some noble sentiments
and beautiful phrases which gained for
him much popularity. During his
second term, however, he undertook
the task assigned to him of ridding
his party of ideas that were heretical
in the minds of his masters. The task
was an impossible one, but with we'll
matured plans he undertook the work
with the courage and brutality OF a
Napoleon. A veritable car occupied
the White House. Cabinet officials
were shorn of dignity and reduced to
cringing clerks. The absolutism OF
President Cleveland was such that in
his presence Democratic traditions and
platforms were forgotten things while
he himself was all in all.
While Cleveland, divested of hypoc-
risy and cant, was playing the role of
political brute and disgusting all
Democrats, the work of preparing the
party for final and successful revolt
against unprincipled and corrupt lead
ers was being wond erfully aided by
the insane and bOisterous antics of
David B. Hill in the Senate of the
United States.
Hill is politically dead, one of the
unburied dead that may yet attend a
few conventions only TO serve as ter
rible warning to other unprincipled
politicians. He committed political
suicide. The example Of Cleveland's
success unbalanced his mind. He saw
Cleveland succeed by bending the
pregnant hinges of the knee to the
money kings. He desired to succeed
Cleveland as their tool and become
the recipient of their favors. In his
zeal to win their favor he forgot the
people. In his madness to impress
the money kings with his devotion to
their interests he presented pitiable
picture in the Senate of the United
States raving against an income tax,
pettifogging the silver question and