Arizona republican., 1900-09-24

biggest of his outfit of parties is friend ly to wealth-even corporate wealth. when it's honest, keeps out of politics, and minds it's own business. He is for stiffening the interstate commerce law, and making it more binding on the railroads.
 He invites everybody's notice to the fact that the Kansas City platform declares-as the Chicago one did-for immediate, free. unlimited coinage at 16 to l. He is glad this announcement of the party's purpose was made, month before last, "in unequivocal terms" So are we. He says, correctly, that the republican party is committed to the gold standard. He shudders at the evidence that it means to retire the greenbacks and substitute bank notes.
 He is for the election of senators by direct popular vote, and for "direct gislation''-meaning, we suppose, the initiative and referendum. These are cardinal points in the populist creed. He is Gf we understand him) for abol- ishing as far as labor troubles" are concerned, the immemorial power of courts to issue injunctions. He is against blacklisting, and for arbitra- tion. He sizes up his regard for the truth by a thoroughly demagogic re- mark about "the growing practice of calling in. the army to settle labor troubles" Twice in recent years regu- lar soldiers have been used to protect United States property and the author seditious mobs. The first time it was a democratic president who ordered them out on Richard Olney's advice, and the second time they were duly asked for by a Bryanite governor. Of course, Mir Bryan is for promoting the labor com missioner to a seat in the cabinet. Also for shutting Asiatic Iaborers out of this country.
 He makes a bid for the favor of the veterans by favoring liberal and generous construction of the pension laws. Some of his supporters south of the Ohio and Potomac won't be pleased with this part of his letter, but he feels safe enough in that quarter to take minor risks. He repeats previous fool ish utterances about the Hay-Paunce- fote treaty and the Isthmian canal It will be joy to him to extend the hos pitalities of the White House to United States senators from New Mexico, Ari- Zona and Oklahoma. He wants to see Alaska and Porto Rico represented in congress. He doubts whether the re- publican party can be safely trusted with Cuba. He is for irrigating the arid lands.
 He sets his face like a flint against foreign alliances-which don't exist. He loves the Monroe doctrine He doesn't understand it, to be sure; but that is detail. He explains that the p-otec- torate he is for extending over the Philippines is strictly American, not European. It is not to cost us any thing. We are to do no fighting. The
 
 he eternally grateful to us into the bargain. No power will dare to offend us by touching them, says MT. Bryan.
 He is shocked at republican extrava- gance, campaign funds, etc. He disap- proves of the treasury surplus. He ex- plains that an income tax plank was left out of the Kansas City platform "by inadvertence." He avows his per sonal belief in that form of taxation. Finally, he harks back to his stuffed but paramount issue. No other can approach it in importance" he says forgetting again his vows of eternal fidelity to his first love. the ratio.
 This is not at all the letter that was expected. It is feebler than the h. dianapo;is speech. It leaves the presi- dents documentary vindication of his executive acts and policies absolutely Unshaken.