Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-21
give him the full benefit Of his EEK
nIanatinn. 2 in his own words:

| you will see that here / most explicit
| ly draw the line between the men who
support and ask support for the Kansas
City platform and all other citizens.
whether Democrats or Republicans. / feel
| that. as matter of fact. the greatest pos
sible credit Is due to men like you my
/ dear sir, and to the other Gold Democrats
who, four years ago, stood and now stand
| for national honor.
II hold UP the policy advocated in the
| Kansas City platform as a base and cow
ardly policy to emphasize our right to
appeal TO the countless thousands of high
! minded Democrats who abhor baseness
and cowardice, and are quick to see and
| disown them
1t will strike the average reader that
the Governor of New York has not i'm
proved his position materially. His st.
Paul address has simply been revised
and explained" He denounces the
Kansas City platform as Infamous, and
its sponsors are responsible for the al
legged infamy. They stand for law
lessness and disorder, for dishonesty
and dishonor." The sponsors for the
Kansas City platform are at least one
half Of the American people. They APP
prove OF it, and will vote for the can
didates who stand upon that platform.
The great body of the people approve
of the principles enunciated at Kansas
City, among them many former Repub-
leans. They are for that platform
cordially and entirely. According to
Roosevelt, they stand for lawlessness,
disorder, dishonor and dishonesty, for
license and disaster" The people will
resent this vile imputation.
The Democratic party and those who
affiliate or sympathise with it is not
and never was a party standing for
lawlessness, disaster, dishonor or dis
order. 1t is not, and never was, in ia
vor of crime and license. On the con-
trary it has ever been the party of the
Constitution, standing for the rights of
the people, for the greatest good for
the greatest number, for law, for order
and for popular government. 1t stands
for these things to-day. 1t is for
government of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people. 1t believes in
executing the will of the people, free
ly expressed. 1t believes in the ex-
preston of the popular will as OPP
posed to the Capitalization of power
and government in the hands of any
one man or set of men. 1t believes in
freedom of thought at home and in po-
pular self government abroad It is op-
posed to government by pro consuls,
and is forever against military gov
eminent over people who have as much
right to freedom and the management
of their own affairs in their own way
as we have to manage ours. Broadly
stated, the Democracy believes in the
equality Of the human race-that all
men have rights which are entitled to-
respect, and that no nation, however
strong, has right to dictate to a peo-
pie however weak. The Democratic
party stands for liberty, equality, JUS
tice and free government. Theodore
Roosevelt and those associated with
him would lead the American people,
could they have their way, to some
thing very different. The people Of
America will not take kindly to that
policy
Governor Roosevelt's st. Paul speech
has been explained" but the 'explan-
alton" is not a satisfactory one. He
will have to try again. And in the
meanwhile the protest against his re-
marks and against the policy of the
Republican party will grow stronger
and stronger, until it will sweep over
the country like a deluge wave, and on
the sixth day of November the verdict
of the people will be adverse to Nc
Kinelyism, Rooseveltism, Hannaism
and all the rest of it.