The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-08

| The democracy of the Nation is still de
Tending Jeffersonian principles with Jack
sonian courage and has no thought of de
| parting from the principles enthciatei Il
| Chicago in 1896, That platform will liv,
| In history and the hour Of its adoption Wi
| be Remembered as the hour when tn,
morey changers were driven from the dem
b0cratic temple. There will be no turnin,
$back Tho platform will be added to rs new
| conditions force new Issues into the aren,
of politics. but nothing will he subtractet
from It. Events have vindlcated every pc.
sit!on taken by the platform.
Arbitration was advocated in that plat.
| form and arbitration is stronger today thar
| 1t was in 1896.
| BY injunction and the sentiment against
government by injunction is increasing.
That platform Denounced the trusts aud
declared them to be merace; thai menace
is greater today than ever bsfore.
That platform warnei the people that o
conspiracy was ON foot TO give TO the Ma
tonal banks monopoly of the issue and
supply of paper money; that conspiracy is
now known 10 every enc.
That platform Denounced International
bimetallsm az delusion and a snare aud
it's condemnation has been JUSTIFIED.
That platform pointed to independent
free coinage as the only means of restor-
ing the double standard. who doubts it
ROW?
That platform named IS to / as the
proper ratio and that ratio stands today
as the only ratio at which bimetallism Is
possible.
Other platforms have been forgotten, but
that platform is fresh IN the memory of
friend and foe because it was clear and
positive upon every public question. To
those who believe in equality before the
law, tho Chicago platform is still an in
'spiration; 1t is terror only 10 those who
seek to use the government for personal
and private ends
1t has been attacked at two points, but
the attacks will not harm 1t. Some who
opposed the platform in 1856 have promised
TO return to the party on condition that
the party will drop the money question
ard confne the fight to the trusts. The
offer will not be accepted. What confidence
would the people have in our sincerity IL
we should declare against trusts In gen.
tie greatest of all Trsts-the money trust?
II we should attempt to center the fight
upor the trusts tho republicans would
adopt as strong an anti trust plank as We,
because no party wouil dare to defend
the trusts. In such a fight the trust mag
mates would be found supporting both par
ties and contributing tbsrally 10 both cam
paign fuadz, provided the trusts were guar
antesd the privilege OF naming the attor-
ney general and the judges. The trusts OPP
posea the democratic party in 1896 because
the Chicago convention took ths party out
Of the haris Of the Wall street crowd and
adopted a Platform which preeipitated the
plulocracy which the party had held in
solution for several years.
The gold democrats had an opportunity
20 crush out the trusts during Mr.. Cleve-
arii's administration. but they d not do
1. The gold republicans are having their
opportunity Now, but they are not improv-
ng It, The trusts will fall when the gold
standard Is overthrown and not until then.
The gold standard means falling prices aad
'a.ling prices VIII create trusts more rapid
y than any gold standard party can de-
troy them.
The second point OF attack Is the ratio