The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-02
BIRD COLER GETS
 THE NOMINATION
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modes of interstate communication should be exercised by the enactents of comprehensive laws and the vast legis- lative powers of the states shall be in- voked to the ned that the people may have adequate relief from the present intolerable trust condition.
 Trust Products on Free List.
 As another means of immediate and practical allev1ation the present Repub- lican tariff, laws should be amended by putting those products of trusts which are essential to the life, comfort and necessities of the people upon the free list and thereby prevent the further con- tinuance of monopoly under the plea of protection.
 We reiterate that provision of the na- tional Democratic platform which de- clares that we condemn the Dingley tariff law as a trust breeding measure sldlfully devised to give to the few fa- vors which they do not deserve and to place upon the many burdens which they should not bear" The Republican competent to deal with this problem Its national and state platforms contain cunningly devised phrases, which. how ever, scarcely conceal the insincerity of their pretentions and are only designed to still further deceive and mislead the people and postpone the relief which they demand; while the diffuse, evasive and contradictory partisan speeches or the President, in which he criticezes ev- cry simple and plain remedy proposed and hints at redress in the far distant future by means of as impracticable, dangerous and doubtful scheme of a con- stitutional amendment-only exhibits the grotesqueness of his attempt to ride two horses on this subject on his endeavor ta y,laa ha npon1p and the same time not offend the trusts.
 No Middle Ground.
 There is no middle ground on this ques- tion: those who are not against the trusts are in favor of them. The sug- gestion of a constitutional amendment is not new It was previously proposed in the Republican House of Representa- lives just before the national election or 1900 and thereafter immediately dropped from consideration. It was not approved in the Republican national platform of that year; nor recommended in the mes sage of any Republican president. It has only been revived after the recent ad- journment of Congress when the oppor- tunity for its passage had gone and is simply another ''ignis fatuds" proposi- ton of procrastination intended to pre- vent immediate remedial legislation. The Republican party cannot escape respon- sibility for existing trust conditions In full control of all branches of the na- tional government, as well as of this State, its failure to enact adequate leg islation or to successfully enforce exist ing antitrust laws, attest either the in- sincerity of its professions or the incom- potency of its administrations. We con demn the neglect of the federal and state administration to enforce the provisions Of fhes cta tttfaa Lpn aa tho Sherman antitrust law The Donnelly antitrust law and the conspiracy laws defining crimes against the trust combinations violating them.
 No British colonial system: We be- lieve in territorial expansion-the expan- sion of Jefferson and of Polk-and in the honorable acquisition of desirable terri tory which can be erected into States in the Union and whose people are willing and fit or capable of becoming fit for American citizenship. We favor trade expansion by every peaceful and legiti- mate means. But we are unalterably op- posed to the seizing or the purchasing of distant lands to be held as colonies anal ogous to the British colonial system, to be governed outside of the Constitution, and whose people can never become cit- izens.
 Condemn Philippine Policy.
 We condemn the Philippine policy of the present administration. The Filipinos cannot become citizens without endanger- ing our civilization: they cannot be sub jects without imperiling our form of gov ernment. The national policy toward them should not remain uncertain and vacillating, but the purpose of the nation as to the ultimate government or dispo- sition of those islands should be in har- xxyith m traditions and aXnIiritlV | declared. As the original friends and ad- vocates of the cause of Cuban indepen- | dence to the support of which a Repub- | lican administration only reluctantly | yielded, Democrats demand justice for Cuba in the reduction of tariff upon her l principal products. not mere paltry re- | reduction of 9 per cent of existing du- | ties which a Republican President pro- | fesses a willingness to grant and to
 which even his own party In Congress does not assent. but the full measure of justice involved in the reduction of the tariff to a strictly revenue basis. The refusal of the present Republican Con- Gress. under the dictation of special sell fish interests. to give Cuba through prop CT tariff concessions. living chance of establishing a stable and efficient gov ernment under her flag was shameful betrayal of national honor. We call the attention of people to the equlVocal char acter of the Republican platform in this State which only favors that relief to Cuba proposed by the Republicans in Congress-" while some of the Repuoh- cans in Congress proposes one thing and some another and nothing whatever was accomplished.
 Adeouate justice to Cuba can only be obtained through the election of a Dem- ocratic Congress.
 Interference with Judiciary: We ar raign the administrations both national and State for their attempted interfer- ence with the independence of the Judi ciary. The national administrator has traded national and State judgeships for partisan advantages.
 The State administration has attempted to secure to itself the control of the des- ignation of supreme Court Justices who are in districts other than their own, un- dertaking thereby to pervert purely judicial function into scheme for par tisan and personal favoritism.
 pEvERY IS RECoNCILED.