Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-07-11
SAID BY RICHARDSON.
THE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN RE.
VIEWS ISSUES.
Finance the Leader-Trusts and Inn
perialism Arc Warmly Denounced
Administrations Attitude in Cuba,
Porto Rico and Philippines Criticized.

AeHuesSee, permanent Cudlruluu VI tne
national Democratic convention, was as
follows:
! am deeply sensible of the great honor
Eou nave bestowed upon me In calling me to
preside over this great Democratic conyen-
Hon. We have been clothed with the an-
fhorlty to name formally the candidates who
W the next election are to be chosen FRESH
l!ent and Vice President of the United
states, and TO lay down platform of pr:n-
cipies upon which the battle Is to be fought
rnd the victory won. With your permits
.sn ! VIII address myself TO some of the
Issues sues OF the impending campaign.
Inc last great national contest for SUI
Rreniacy was fought mainly upon one Issue;
Ehat Is TO say, one Issue was paramount
W. IN, tne struggie;; That issue was famiiarly
the free coinage of gold and silver ut a ratio
OF sixteen parts of silver to one part of gold,
with which all of us are familiar.
Inc momentous Issue this year is again 10
this campaign. which will briefly discuss,
are wholly different from those of 1886 1
VIII refer to the sixteen parts and then to
the one part. These sixteen parts are:
L. We have the Issue fraught with indie
5cribable Importance to our people native
born, and those who have for patriotic rea-
ions cast their fortunes with us-namely,
:hnt OF the republic against the empire. On
this part alone of the sixteen, II there were
20 other, we confidently expect to win n
sweeping victory In November. The Re-
publican party stands for empire. The Dem
ocratic party stands for the republic, for
Constitution Of our country.
Trusts a Leading Issue.
2. The pnternal and fostering care given
by those With whom We contend to the COM
binntions Of corporations and companies into
powerful organizations Familiarity known as
trusts Under three years of Republican
rule, while they controlled the Presidency,
the Senate. and the House of Representa-
tiyes-that Is, the law-maklng power of the
government-trusts have been propagated
and fostered by. legislation until they not
only dominate all markets, both the buying
aud selling, but defy the very power Of the
government Itself. The farcical efforts put
forth by the Republican party In an alleged
attempt to restrain them In the dying hours
OF the late session of Congress only excited
ridicule and contempt and served to EN-
phasize their Inability and dlsinclination to
grapple with the monsters and regulate their
conduct and actions No matter what their
excuses may be, the fact Is their policies
have created them. and, though clothed with
TO control them,
=. Called to power March 4, 1897, under a
pledge to reform the currency, they seized
the first opportunity to fasten upon the land
upon the statute books of any country. This
law was enacted, not to raise revenue, but
to give protection to favored manufacturers.
1t failed to raise sufficient revenue for the
government, but answered the purpose of
enrichlng the favored few, while 1t robbed
the many. and Mt the same time brought
forth trusts to plague us as numerous as
the lice and locusts of Egypt. Their high
protective tariff is the mother of trusts.
4. This administration came Into power
with solemn declaration In favor of b.
metnlllsm and pledge to promote 1t. 1t
has failed to keep that pledge. 1t has erect
ed In Its stead the single standard Of gold,
and has endeayored to destroy all hope of bl-
metallism. In doing this it has built up n
II han IL aud hao div
us a currency based upon the debts and la
billties of the government. We stand for bj-
metallism and not for a monometalllc stand
ard of either one or the other metal.
Attitude Toward Monroe Doctrine.
5. The dominant party hac recently
made the fraudulent declaration that 1t IA
yored the Monroe doctrine. and yet their
President and Secretary Of State have done
MI In their power to nullify and abrogate
that famous and much-revered Democratic
thor, James Monroe, l denounce their vaunt-
ed advocacy Of this truly American doctrine
as false and hypocritical We stand for this
doctrine In Its essence and form, and. de-
mand its rigid enforcement.
@. In order to obtain place and power they
pledged themselves, in the interest of an
expanding commerce. to- construct water
have repudiated this promise. They have
negotiated the Hay Pauncefotc treaty
which. while it virtually abrogates the Mon
roe doctrine. renders L 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
constructed. We stand for an American
canal, owned, constructed, operated and
fortified by America.
Z. They declared In their platform that
their party was responsible for the merit
system. that 1t was their creature and that
the civil service law should be protected and
Its operations extended. Their protection
of this law has been such as the wolf gives
the lamb. They did not dare openly repeal
the law or to modify 1t by an act of Con-
sress, but they have insidicusly, by an or
der from the President, extorted from him
to aid them to obtain and hold political
power, greatly impaired the efficiency of the
law. By the Presidents order many thou.
sand lucrative offices regularly covered by
the civil service law We're taken from under
Its protection. and these places turned over
to his partisan followers In vain effort to
satisfy their political greed.
8. They declared In their platform In favor
of the admission Of the territories OF Ari-
IONA, New Mexico and Oklahoma as States
full power. they are still Territories. Under
the wicked rule of law as now applied by the
Republican party to some of our Territories
they may at an carly date find erected be-
tween themselves and the balance of the
Union tariff wall which will serve to pau
perlze them while 1t enrlches others.
''Pinin Duty" In Porto Rico.
0. When Congress last assembled the
President, In his first utterance addressed to
the representatives fresh from the people
solemnly urged upon them that 1t was their
plain duty to give free trade to Porto Rico
His party leaders, quick to obey his injunc-
ton. made ready to comply with his recon-
mendations. But in Il nlght-almost In the
twinking of an eye-the mighty maSnatcs of
the trusts swept down upora Washington and
interposed their strong arm, and plain duty
President wheeled into line. the Republican
party reversed Its policy. and set up a tariff
wall between the Island Of Porto Rico and
the remainder of the United States 1t is
not Mt all surprising that In the recent some.
what lengthy declarations of principles
enunciated by the party In convention as
sembled, while they enlarge upon almost
every political question t,e they could not find
ments of their party In Its dealings with that
unhappy Island. The Democratic party
stands for equal taxation, equal rights and
10. They wholly failed by their legislation
and by the cheaper method Of platform dec
is IN to
two years. by their equiyocatlng policy, and
no policy at all, they have continued In that
archipelago a war, expensive In human
deal with this question. and too cowardly
to avOw their real purpose OF Imperialism
and miiitnrism In dealing with these and
kindred colonial Questions; they should be
be giyepAto party honest, bold and patri-
otlc enot.h to apply American theories ana
precepts to existing conditions, and thereby
solve them in harmony with the underlying
principles of the declaration Of independ-
ence and the Constitution of our country
IL. Another part Of the issue Of the cam
paign this year Is the scandalous dealings Of
n high cabinet officer with private banks of
the country. These scandals are notorious,
and are based upon the earnest and repeated
written demands of the officers of some of
these banks that they should be favored by
this administration because of money CON
tributed by them with which to buy the
Presidency of 1896. Correspondence submit
ted to Congress shows that In one case Mt
least, an appeal from an Institution In New
York City to the Secretary OF the Treasury
for financial assistance, because. as 1t was
claimed, the officers of the bank had con:
tributed literally to the election of the pres
ent chief executive, was not made In vain,
and the asked-for assistance In this case
from the government was freely, II not cor.
ruptly, given.
"Embaimed Beef' for Soldiers.
u. The scandals which surrounded the
War Department In feeding embalmed beef
to the soldiers, In Its purchase of old yachts,
tugs, ocean liners, ocean tramps, barses,
scows, etc., for use as army transports con-
stltute an important chapter.
Is. So also the scandals In connection with
the postof1ice matters In Cuba, and the scan
dals III connection with the expenditure of
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