The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-07-13
Q. Ys HypOcIites 7!
Cries Mary B. Lease.
Noted Woman Politician Ever
Calls Tammany Braves Whited
sepulchres.

tional democratic convention:
The fercest conflict In the history
Of a political party was waGed for SO
hours over the one issue Of specifically
reatiirming the 16 to l plank in the
Democratic platform. Out of the
battle silver emerged dimmed and
SCARED, for it was placed low down on
the list Of grievances and given third
rate consideration.
"The opposition to trusts emanated
from the Tammany Ice.Trust thieves.
Ex-Judge Van Wyck, one OF the large
holders Of shares in the trust. declar-
ed for the benefit Of the Western
gullibles that private monopolies are
indefenslble and intolerable."
"Could the members Of the conven-
ton have looked upon the pallid, tor
tured children of the tenement dis
trlcts Of New York that Van Wyck
and his Tammany associates robbed
and tortured by monopolizing the ice
of the city they would certainly
agree with his statement and would
repeat the words of the Nazarene, as
applicable to-day as in Judea of old.
"Pharisees, hypocrites, outwardly ye
appear righteous, but ye are whited
sepulchres filed with dead mems
bones and uncleanness."
BENJAMIN Tillman presented a
startling paradox in extending sympa-
thy to the black men Of the Philip
pines while denying even semblance
of Justice to the black men OF the
South. "Yes, we cheated the Niger
and we'll cheat him again. We've
shot niggers and we'll shoot them
again. Anigger has no right to live
if white man don't want him to-"
This specimen of Tillman's oratory
and love for the black man was vented
byhim in Providence, R. l., while
speaking under the auspices OF the
Democratic club of that city. While
the Democrats, individually and col
lectively, refuse to acquire that
knowledge which defines and secures
the rights and guarantees the political
equality Of every citizen Of the United
States. their interference in behalf Of
the Beers and the Filipinos is'a pitiful
subterfuge injected for political effect
into platform whose teachings are
out Of harmony with the growth OF
American ideas.
"The issue of imperialism presented
by Democracy as paramount will be
VIGOROUSLY met by the patriotism OF
America.
"Desplte the glowing accounts of
the enthusiasm and spontaneity and
glowing patriotism of the Kansas City
Convention, sent out by the official
liar who has charge of the Democratic
bureau, the convention was tame and
soulless and filed with doubling and
openly expressed dissatisfaction at
the introduction Of Tammany, the
influence of Corporatlon-Attorney
Hill, Van wyck, Belmont, Croker and
the corrupt political elemeho Inao las
persistently plundered industry in the
East.
..The men of the West and South
who honestly believe in political re-
form and are genuine in their efforts
to bring it about see no hope for re-
form from the present combination,
and are sick at heart Of the gigantic
farce and its pseudo-patriotic leaders.
s'That the convention was packed
by political schemers there can be no
question. The total membership OF
the convention. as repeatedly the COM
mittee on Credentials, was over 1900.
Only $50 delegates were on the floor
when the committee reported. But
the methods of Democracy are too
familiar to the public. The word of
Victor Hugo to the mob may well be
adapted tothe Democratic Convention
held in Kansas City.
1T is the victim of darkness: receive
its complaint; hear its confession and
accusation; do anything for it except
in evil. 1t suffers so much and 1t.