The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-07-06
JUDGED BY REPUBLICANS

1t is we'll enough to leave the char
acteriZation of the Philadelphia plat
form to the Republicans themselves.
Here are some sample expressions
from members of the grand old
party" who can see through the grand
old policy of buncome and Doodle.
Acknowledgement Monnett of Ohio
(Republican) said at Columbus, Ohio,
Thursday night:
I'VE are long on platform, but fear
the people in Ohio will recognize we
are short on performance. Seven
hundred trusts have come into exist
ence practically within the last four
years.
with an Encouragement from New
Jersey, the mother of trusts, one of
the leading members of the cabinet
and the minister to the court of St.
James under the present administra.
ton the hired advocate of the
Standard Oil trust, with reputed
salary and fee from this economic
tapeworm that would rival the com
| bined salaries of the governors of the
| forty-tive states; with the charge that
| we have seventy-six United States
district attorneys, all maintained at
| the expense of the taxpayers in these
| four years, not single new case has
been begun against trusts that has
| has come under my observation, save
and except the noble fight of Col
Bundy of the Cincinnati district who
undertook to indict few coal barons
and make an example of them.
HE received Geographic orders at
once from the Attorney general of the
United States, as | was informed, to
desist, and his honor, the attorney
general of the United States, was iu-
formed that the evidence had gone to
the grand jury and beyond the
district attorneys control.
1--WE should haveput plank in our
platform to be consistent with our
acts, both in Ohio and the United
States, in view of our record in wink
ing at combines and conspiracies
against trade and condoning the un-
lawfulness of their greed and theft.
But, then, platforms do not rise higher
than our record has been on these
economic questions"
Gen. john Beatty, Of Ohio, a veteran
soldier, Republican leader and presi
dent of one OF the leading banks of
Columbus, when asked what he
thought of the Republican platform
said:
81 think that it is made up of lot
of bald assumptions, Il sprinkling of
hypocrisy and Il good many false
hoods. The wonderful thing about
the Philadelphia Convention is that
Mark Hanna seems to be its dictator.
l see by the headlines in morning
paper that the convention could not
make a nomination for the Vice Presi-
dency because Mark Hanna had not
made up his mind who should be Sc
lected. Now, in fact, Hanna is an
iliterate ass, a political blunderer.
He simply gets what he buys, rather
what the manufacturer buys of him.
"The platform declaration as to the
foreign achievements is lie.
"If we had an Englishman in John
Hays place he could not and would
not have played more into the hands
Of England. l believe that his son
was sent to Pretoria to act as a spy in
England's behalf, and that Macrum
lost his position because he would not
serve as a spy.
VI hope that the ticket will be de-
feated. will not vote for the ticket.
Mckinley is a civil fraud and Roose-
welt Is a military fraud, and the ticket
deserves to be beaten. ] don't know
that | shall vote for the other fellow,
for it does not strike me that am con-
PEELED to choose even the less OF two
evils, but must in fairness say that
my opinion OF Bryan grows more and
more favorable. He Is beyond doubt
sincere and he is certainly near to the
people. On the other hand Mckinley
is rich mans man, not a peoples
man."