Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12
THE WORK OF THE CONVENTION.

H. McLeaD ana tnoSe TOT WHou ne
stands in the outcome of the late
X State convention.
The nominee for Governor is, with
out doubt, an cmnently respectable
gentleman, and for an office the chief
Function of which is to sign Notaries'
commissions, eminent responsibility
Is an all.su1icent credential
The material work Of the convention
Is found in the platform adopted, and
the manner of its adoption is fully
ss important ms what it says Or fails
10 say. a nephew of the late Grover
Clevoland, the former law officer in
Cleyeland's cabinet. who has since
naturally graduated into II railroad
attorncyship, and a Palmer and Buck
uer boomer Of 1896, came TO Columbus
with a ready made declaration for the
party, which for shopworn plati-
tudinoslty sounded like II bclated echo
from the Canton porch. This trinity
was too much for the Democratic
stomach, and the convention intuitive-
ly concluded that 1t would be strange
indeed if any good thing could come
out of such n Nazareth as this.
SO the sccond-h hand platform which
came from Cincinnati was rejected,
and happily SO for the good of the
people. II was IN attempt to rcor
ganize the party back TO the days when
the declarations of conventions were
couched In generalites which nobody
disputed, which meant nothing and
promised nothing tangible and in the
meantime both parties united in fore
ing upon the people economic policies
which plundered, under various
names, the producing energies of the
country, and laid all industry under
tribute to the favored interests which
controlled politics
The Republican party Is now left
with monopoly of this sort of pollti-
forms and deathly policies.
We are not of those who attach
any significance to the gaps in the
Democratic declaration Upon tho
money question the entire argument
OF 1896 hns been proved by time and
events to be with MS. The cardinal
point of it WAS an abundance of cir
business and as being the necessary
tool by which alone trade can be car
ried on Enlarged sources Of gold
supply and improved methods of cx-
traction have brought the needed
volume to the front and have abun-
dainty vindicated the Democratic doc.
triDe In this respect and our enemies
are left without an argument used by
them in the first Bryan campaign.
There was, therefore, no need of re.
peating thing which has gone into
history
The failure to endorse Mr. Bryan
was only the compliment paid to that
gentleman Of believing him TO be II
man Of his word. He has definitely
announced that he Is not candidate
for the Presidency, ANA to parade nm
endorsement of him under these crcum.
stances would be but TO treat his an
nounccment as nslnccrc and tricky
The action or non'actlon of the CON
yent!on in this regard was n tribute tc
Mr.. Bryans honesty Of intention which
Is eminently lifting TO the party and
equally deserved by him,
Leaving the negative features of Tho
platform, however, II has the supcrla
tive merit of speaking the voice OF
ohio's people on the question OF tax
alton with no uncertain sound. In
like the Republican dclivcrance upor
the same subject, II is neither shuf
bing, eyasiye, nor meaningless. II de
llyers body-blow at the system O
chicane, fraud and double dealing
which in this State takes the people
money from them in the shape o
taxes. and renders them no adcuuat
equivalent, either in efficient admin
isrration, economical expenditure, o
security 10 property. II Is no wondc
that its adoption was bitterly oppose
by these financial heirs-at-law O
Grover Cleveland, or that they vince
when their ready made platitudes wcr
turned down as If they had been sa
on by the President OF the fat men
convention
For this we are to thank the peop
OF Ohio, who were represented in III
convention largely enough to max
themselves heard. And so, thank
again TO the people, this attempt I