The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-24
more In the same strain which I have
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ROgues Fall Out.

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ROgues Fall Out.
The Globe-Democrat is exceedingly
dlspleased with the platform adopted
at Kansas City, which is the surast.
sign that know of that the platform
is right. l know of no safer rule Of
human conduct than to find out what
The Globe-Democrat wants and then
go u do the opposite thing. 1t has
the infinite gall to talk about Bryan be-
ing a dictator, when, as a matter Of
fact, there isn't a Republican of any
responsibility in the United States who
doesn't hide his head in shame every
lime he thinks of the doings of the
Philadelphia convention. Mark Hanna
was the whole thing, and everybody
knows it. The only man in that vast
aggregation of trust pap suckers who
seems to have got from under Marks
thumb was h statesman who stole
two or three planks Of the Republican
platform which Mark had dictated. 1t
is said that n palpitating patriot re-
ceived $1,000 for changing the word
Nicaraguan into the word isthmian in
IldI DIdtIOIlu. l. a hcpuDilCdn Call
get $1,000 for changing u word in a
platform, it is only a question of arith-
metic as to how much he would get to
change the whole 300 words.
Now, if this letter falls under the
eagle eye Of any Republican sovereign
let him recall that l did net originate
the charge that part of that platform
was stolen and has not seen the light
of day, but it is made on the authority
Of the Hon. Charles Henry Grosyenor
Of Athens, O., who is taken as McKin-
ley'S mouthpiece on the floor Of the
house of representatives. That valor-
Gus warrior asserts openly and above
board that he has the original rough
draft of the platform as written by
Senator Joseph Benson Foraker and
h a somebody On the subcommittee to
whom it was given to be copied cab
baged two or three planks, and they
did not appear in the platform that
was sent out to the country. Now, on
q question of yeracity between Gen
eral Grosvenor and the majority Of his
Republican confreres I prefer to be-
lieve Grosvenor Notwithstanding the
fact that sometimes when. under high
pressure the general himself is rather
economical of the truth. So the next
time The Globe-DemOcrat wants to say
anything about platform it would do
well enough to explain to an astounded
world all about those lost planks in the
Philadelphia platform, which are likely
to create as much discussion as the
sibylline leaves.
Grosvenor closed his remarks about
the platform in this wise:
"Otherwise the platform, although
badly written and in poor English and
without angularity, conveys in a mild
sort of a driveling way the best ideas
Of the Republican party"
An Ideal Document.
Individually 1 take much pleasure in
reading and bordering the Kansas City
platform, for it represents the ideals
in which | have long believed.
On June II, 1898, in the house Of rep
resentatives, fighting the annexation of
Hawaii because | believed it would
lead to infinitely worse things, inter
ALA l said: "Our institutions hav in
deed been purchased with a very great
price, and yet we are abOu to imperil
them by entering upon a vainglOriOus
policy of imperial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, gOr
geous in appearance, but surely fatal
in it's effect, or all history is a lie"
1 also feel good ovcr the specific dec
laration for 16 t. l.. At the big anti
trust banquet in ST. Louis May %
1899, | said: "In 1900 we will express
the unyielding principles of Democracy
in this wise: We will not only reaffirm
but readopt the Chicago platform OF
1896, abating neither jOt nor title OF
that second declaration Of independ-
ence."
MissOuri's congressman.
One pleasant result Of the census tc
Democrats everywhere will be that
Missouri will gain certainly three con.
gressmen and possibly four, and as
these will be Democrats it strengthens
the Democratic party greatly. The
fight for the first place in the Union is
now between Missouri, Texas, New
York and Illinois, with the chances de
cidedly in favor of the proposition that
within the lifetime Of men now living
, it will narrow down to Texas and Mis-.
| souri,. Any gain in these states is pure
ly a gain for Democracy. At the pres
ent rate of increase Missouri will pass
Ohio in 1910 and will probably pass
Pennsylvania in 1920. And among the
things upon which the people should
felicitate themselves in the census this
is the one which should bring most JOY
to Democrats.
In these letters I have frequently
held Missouri up as an example Of ap.
piled Democracy, a performance which
l wish to repeat now. When the Dem;
! ocrats came into power in this state il
1873, they found a state debt of over
S26, OOO. 900 and hundreds of millions OF
county and township debts, every dol
lar of which was created by Republic
an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., misrule and dis
honesty. During 81 years of Demo
cratic rule we have paid off most OF
the county and township debts anG
have cut the state debt to S2,0OO,O 900
every cent Of which will be paid with
I'm the next two years. And while w