Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-07-12


Kansas City:
the great honor you have bestowed upon
me in calling me to preside over this
great democratic, convention. We have
lnally name the candidates who, at the
next election. are TO to be chosen presi-
dent and vice president of the United
principles upon which the battle is 10 be
fought and the victory won. With your
permission | viii ADDRESS myself TO some
of the issues of the impending campaign.
The last great national contest for SUI
premacy was fought mainly upon one is
sue--that is to say one issue was para
mount m in the strnggle That issue was "a,
VOWED the question OF the free coinage of
gold and silver AT 4 ratio OF sixteen parts
of silver to one of gold, with which all
of us are familiar
The momentous issue this year is again
sixteen TO one, but the sixteen parts TO.
the one par, of This campaign. which I
from those OF 1896. will first refer to
the sixteen parts and then to the one
part These sixteen parts are:
First: We have the issue fraught with
understandable Importance to our people,
native born and those who have for pat
riotic. reasons cast thnir fortune with us,
namely, that of the .spublic against the
empire. On this part alone of the sin
teen. If there We're no other, we conf
IDENTITY expect to win a sweeping victory
stands for empire. The democratic party
stands for the republic, for the declara-
tion of independence and the constitution
Second: The paternal and fostering
care given by those with whom we con-
tend to the combinations of corporations
Familiarity known as trusts" Under
three years of republican rule, while they
controlled the presidency, the senate and
the house of representatives, that is, all
of the lawmaking power of the govern
ment, trusts have been propagated and
fostered by legislation until they not only
and selling but defy. the very power of
the government itself.
The farcical efforts put forth by the re-
publican party in an alleged attempt to
RESTRAIN them in the dying hours of the
late session of congress only excited ridi-
Guile and contempt and served to empha-
grapple the monsters and regulate their
conduct and actions. No matter what
Their excuses ,, may be, the fact is their
clothed with all power, they refuse to en-
act legislation to control them.
Trmst-I'ostcrin. Tariff.
Third: Called to power March T. 1897,
under pledge to reform the currency,
upon the land the highest protective tar
III law ever put upon the statute books
of any country.
This law was enacted not to raise rev.
enue. but to give protection to favored
manufacturers. 1t failed to raise sutfi-
Gent revenue for the government, but
favored few while it robbed the many.
and at the same time, brought forth
trusts to plague us as numerous. rs, the
protective tariff is the mother of trusts.
Fourth: This administration came into
power with solemn declaration in favor
it. 1t has failed to keep that pledge 1t
has er,eted in its stead the single stand
ari of gold, and has endeavored to de-
stroy all hope of bimctalism In doing
this it has built up a powerful national
bank trust. and has given us a currency
l based upon the debts and, liabilities of
llsm and not flo monometallic standard
of either one or the other meal
j.. Fifth; The The dominant party has recent
~ made the fraudulent declaration that
IT favored the Monroe doctrine; and yet
their president and secretary of state
and abrogate that famous and much re-
Nered democratic doctrine.
For Monroe Doctrine.
In the name OF its democratic author,
James Monroe l denounce their vaunted
advocacy of this truly. American doctrine
this doctrine in its essence and form,
and demand its rigid enforcement.
Sixth, In order TO obtain place and
power they pledged themselves, i'm the in
terest of an expanding commerce, to con-
struct a waterway to connect the two
great oceans. They have repudiated this
promise. They have negotiated the Hay
Paunccfote treaty. which while it virtual
ly abrogates the Monroe doctrine, rem
ders it impossible to build an American
canal. Under the terms and provisions
of this treaty which is English and not
american, the canal can never be con-
structed. We stand for, an American
canal owned constructed. operated and
Seventh: They declared in their plat
form that their party was. responsible
for the e merit . system that it was their
should be protected and IT'S operation ex-
tended. Their protection of this law has
, been such sue as the wolf gives the, lamb.
They did not dare openly repeal the law
or to modify it by an act of congress,
but they have insdiously. by an order
from m the president, extorted from him
power, greatly impaired the efficiency of
the law BY the presidents order many
thousand lucrative offices, regularly COW
cred by the civil service law were taken
from under Its protection and these
places turned over to the partisan fol-
lovers in vain effort to satisfy their
Eighth: They declare in their platform
IN In favor ~ OF the admissi2n Of the terrtor-
hes a OF ar Etaaa M N ~, MEXICO and Okla
tn territories. Under the wicked rule
of law as now applied by the republican
party to some of our territories. they
may. at AN early date. find erected he
tween themselves and the balance of the
union a tariff wall which will serve To
paliperiZe them while 1t enriches others.
The Porto iican Tariff.
Ninth: When congress last assembled.
the president, i'll his first utterance adj
dressed TO the representatives fresh from
.l,e people' sole soiismnly urged upon them
trade to Porto Rico. His party leaders,
quick to obey his injunction, made ready
TO comply with his recommendations. But
in t11f.t ,1yti
eye the mighty ;nagnates of the trusts
swept down upon Washington and inter
posed their strong arm. and plain duty
vanished like mist before the rising sun
Inc president wheeled into line, the re-
publican party reversed its policy and set
mp q tariff wall between the island of
lnited States. 1t is not at all surprising
that in the recent somewhat lengthy
declaration of principles enunciated by
the party in convention assembled, whils
| they enlarged upon almost every politi-
cal question, they could not find the
space to point with pride to the achieve
That unhappy island
| The. democratic party stands for equal
taxation. equal rights and opportunities
| to all VINO come under the folds Of the
| flag
Tenth: They wholly failed. by their
| LEGISLATION or by the cheaper method of
| what their policy is in respect to the
| Philippine islands. For two years. by
their, equlvocating policy, and no policy
| at all, they have continued in that archi-
| pelago war. expensive in human blood
as Well as in money. Incompetent to deal
with this question. and too cowardly to
avow their real purpose of imperialism
and militarism in dealing with these and
! kindred colonial questions, they should
1 be retired from power and the contro.
| should be given to n party honest. bold
and patriotic enough to apply American
theories and precepts to existing condi-
| tons and thereby solve them in harmony
\ with the underlying principles of the
declaration of Independence and the con-