The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-23
The Political Platforms.

United States, this year OF our LOId,
nineteen hundred, each having called
National convention, created plat
form, and nominated ticket for cleo
ton in the coming autumn. Several
of the political parties have no expec-
tation.eor even thought of electing
the candidates whom they have nom1-
mated, or that their hypothesis will
have any weight whatever in deciding
the great political battle. Some OF
them were born out of due time, and
some are mere puffs of sentiment.
But what are the conspicuous planks
in the different political platforms?
THE UNITED CHRISTIAN PARTY be-
1ieves that, "the time has arrived
when the eternal principles of justice,
mercy and love, as exemplified in the
life and teachings of Jesus Christ,
should be embodied in the Constitution
of our nation, and applied in concrete
form to every function Of Our Govern
ment." Amen! But this sublime
vision will not materialtze until dawns
the promised millennium.
THE.PRoHIBITIoN NATIONAL PLAT
FORM proposes that, "the interests OF
this great Nation can be promoted no
way so surely as to apply the principle
of prohibition to the beverage-1iquor-
traffic. Many think much as the
n L Il q a~-
cording1y if it were practical at this
time. Yet, if memory serves us right,
the Prohibition party of Iowa once
on a time, sent to the dogs, certain
prohibitory law that had been enacted
sby the Republicans of Iowa, simply
because it did not spring out of the
1oins of the Prohibition party.
THE SoCIALIsT-LABoR PLATFORM
asserts it's belief in the doctrine that,
~'the machinery of government must
be owned and controlled by the whole
people, and that the machinery of pro-
duction must likewise belong to the
people in common. Therefore a de-
termined people must take possession
of the public powers, abolish classes,
restore the land and all the means of
production, transportation and d1str1b-
ution to the people as a collective
body, and build up cooperative Com
monwea1th." It is doubtful whether
this socialist-labor language and the
peculiar economics embodied in it is
understood even by those who stand on
the adopted platform with James +.
Ma1loney and Val Kennel.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
ec1ares Gin favor of organization to
conquer the public powers now con-
oiled by capitalists; and believes IN
pubic ownership of railroads, tele-
raph, thelephone, water-works, electric
1ants and other public utilities" No
suggestion is made beyond the idea OF
organization, as to how this tremen-
dous revolution is to be brought about,
or out of whose pockets the money is to
come for the purchase. Possibly it is
intended to confscate them.
MIDDLE OF THE ROAD PoPULIsTs
claim that "the land, including all nat
ura1 sources of wealth, is heritage of
the people, and should not be nonop-
o1ized for speculative purposes; also,
that a scientific and absolute paper
money should be made legal tender
for all debts.'' 1t is our opinion, and
millions opine as we do, that Wharton
Barker and Ignatius Donne1ly will
wait indefinitely to be elected Pres1-
dent and Vice-President while based
on such ultra and singular principles.
THE SILVER REPUBLICANS "adhere
to the principle of bimetalism as the
right basis OF a monetary system un-
der our National Constitution" But
is not this wild and weird subject for
political party to fight over, in the
noon of a day more radiant with the
sun of prosperity than any other day
that ever dawned on the finances Of
of the North American Republic?
THE PEOPLES PARTY islands strong
for the restoration of the Lincoln
greenback." What, then, is the
trouble with present National cur
rency, when every United States dol
lar, silver or paper, is worth dollar
in gold?
THE ANTI-IMPERIALIsT CoNvEN
TON, according to the resolutions
passed, recognizes the present period
as covering "a great national crisis
which menaces the Republic, and tina
Mr.. Mckinley, the weak or the
wicked, is to all intents and purpose:
tyrant;" therefore, the supreme pur
pose of the American people, in th'
present momentous campaign shonlc
be, to stamp with their final disap
prevail his attempt to grasp imperla
power, and advises 'Edirect support K
Mr.. Bryan as the most effective means