Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-05

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Representative Richardson.
| that of the republic against the empire. On
| this part alone of the sixteen, If there were
no other, we confidently expect to win a
| sweeping victory in November. The repub-
lican party stands for empire. The demo-
| cratic party stands for the republic. for the
Declaration of Independence and the Con-
stitution of our country.
| Second. The paternal and fostering care
given by those with whom we contend to
the combinations of corporations and COM
panies into powerful organizations familiar
ly known trusts. Under three years OF
republican rule, while they controlled the
presidency, the Senate and the House of
Representatives, that is, the law-making
power of the government, trusts have been
propagated and fostered by legislation until
they not only dominate all markets, both
the buying and the selling. but defy the
very power of the government itself. The
farcical efforts put forth by the republican
party in alleged attempt to restrain
them in the dying hours of the late session
of Congress only excited rdicule and con-
tempt and served to emphasize their In
ability and disnclination to grapple the
monsters and regulate their conduct and
actions. No matter what their excuses may
be- the fact remains that their policies have
treated them and though clothed with all
power. they refuse to enact legislation to
control them.
Third. Called to power March 4, 1897.
unders a pledge to reform the currency
they seized the first opportunity to fasten
uron the land the highest protective tariff
law ever put 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 enrchiEg the IA
vored few, while 1t robbed the many, and
at the same time brought forth trusts to
MIA numerous the lice and To-
Gusts of Egypt. Their high protective tariff
is the mother of trusts.
The Record on Finance.
Fourth. This administration came into
power with a solemn declaration in favor
of bimetalism and a pledge to promote it.
1t has failed to keep that pledge. 1t has
erected in its stead the single standard of
| gold and has endcavored to destroy all
| hope of bimetaliism. In doing this, it has
| built up a powerful national bank trust,
and has given currency based upon the
debts and liabilities CT the government
We stand for bmetallism and not for a
monometallic standard of either one or the
other metal.
Fifth. The dominant party has recently
made the fraudulent declaration that 1t
| favored the Monroe doctrine: and yet their
President and Secretary of State have done
| that famous and much-revcred democratic
doctrine. In the name of Its democratic
author, James Monroe. denounce their
Wanted advocacy of this truly American
doctrine as false and hypociitical. We
stand for this doctrine in its essence and
form, and demand its rigid enforcement.
Sixth In order to obtain place and power
they pledged themselves. i'll the interest of
an expanding commerce, to construct a
waterway to connect the two great oceans.
They have rcpudiatcd this promise. They
have negotiated tine Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
which, while 1t virtually abroSates the
vi doug iyov c.ib hi Ia m
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, oper-
ated and fortified by America
Seventh. 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 pro-
| tectcd and It's operation extended. Their
protection of this law has been such the
| wolf gives the lamb. They Gid not dare
| openly repeal the law or to modify 1t by an
act Of Congress. but tEey have insGiOusly
| by order from the President, extorted
| from him to aid tncm to obtain and hold
| political power, greatly impaired the efti-
| cheney of the law. By the Presidents or
| der many thousand lucrative offices regu-
| larly covered by the civil service law were
| taken from under its protection and these
| places turned over to his partisan follow
ers in q vain effort to satisfy their political
greed
| Territories StiIl Out of the Union.
| Eighth. They declared in their platform
| in favor of the admission of the territories
| of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma as
| states of the Union, yet after nearly four
| years of full power, they are still terri
| tories. Under the wicked rule of law as
| now applied by the republican party to
| some of territories, they may, at an
| early date, find erected between themselves
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which will serve to pauperize them while it
| enriches others.
| Ninth. When Congress last assembled,
| the President, in his first utterance, ad-
dressed 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 injunction, made ready to comply
| with his recommendation. But in a night,
| almost in the twinkling of an eye. the
| mighty magnates of the trusts swept down
upon Washington and interposed their
| strong arm, and plain duty vanished like
| mist before the rising sun. The President
| wheeled into line, the republican party re-
| versed Its policy. and set up tariff wall
| between the Island of Porto Rico and the
remainder of the United States. 1t is not
| at all surprising that the recent somewhat
| lengthy declarations of principles enun-
| ciated by the party in convention assem-
bled. while they enlarged upon almost every
political question, they could not find the
space to point with pride to the achieve
ments OF their party in its dealings with
that unhappy island. The democratic party
stands for equal taxation, equal rights and
opportunities to all who come under the
folds of the flag.
Tenth. They wholly failed by their legis.
lation or by the cheaper method of platform
declaration to tell the country wha,
their policy is in respect to the
| Philippine Islands. For two years
by their equivocating policy, and nc
policy at ALL they have continued ir
that archipelago a war. expensive in human
blood. as well as in money. Incompetent tc
deal with this question and too cowardly tc
avow their real purpose of Imperialism AMI
mlitarism in dealing with these and kin.
bred colonial questions, they should be re-
| tired from power and the control should bt
| given to a party honest. bold and patriotic
| enough to apply American theories and pre-
| cepts to existing conditions and thereb,
solve them in harmony with the underlying
principles Of the Declaration of Independ
| ence and the Constitution of our country