Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-30

classes and conditions of people. A more strenuous if less polite adminis- tration has demonstrated, however, how egregiously our martyred presi- dent was in error regarding the Philip Dines The demoeraticapartY has been SC consistently and inadvertently mis- represented as to it's attitude in regard to the islands as to call for a sober and candid statement of the truth. We insist that the principles at the bottom of the war. if it be termed a war now proceeding in the Philippines, are both un-Ainerican and un-denocratic. The administration stands upon the propo- sition that we can buy with money, or obtain by force the right to hold in subjugation a people whose consent is not had, and put upon them such constitution as we deem proper.
 ''The democratic party makes no at tack upon the American soldier. We assault the administration that is car rying on this so-called war in the Phil ippines, upon the ground that it does not declare a time when it will turn the islands over to their people, as we. did in the case of Cuba.
 4SVe condemn the party in power be- cause it refuses to declare and publish a policy under which the Filipinos may be restored to their own Had we made public proclamation to the is landers that upon the laying down of their arms we would so soon as they should form a government turn over the islands to them, reserving a similar interest to that we now have in Cuba. the war would long ago have endeds
 What the democrats say to our re publican opponents is, you must exer- else a protectorate over Cuba-why, to please the beet sugar cabaI. do YOU . leave the tariff as a hurdle oyer which she must forever jump before she is on level in the running? Take off the tax. and in the nc distant future Cuba will be one of us-a jewel in the sister hood of states.
 Owing to the dominating in1u- ence exercised by the so-caIled trusts of the day, which have grown upon republican soil, we find ourselves 1n a position where the democratic party can take an affirmative stand upon the one issue that surpasses all ohhers in it's relation to both the na- lion and the state. We assert that the l.lne has come when it is the duty of the people by means of legisIation to
 
 Those corporations whose business if is to foster and promote1 nonopoIies in the necessities of life. We wage no war upon those corporations engaged Tn legitimate enterprise. If we were Tn power and could pass and enact into law a provision removing the tariff rom all articles in which a monopoly nad been created, who will be so ven- Iuresome as to assert, or who so credu- Ious as to believe that relief Would not De at once experienced?
 Let him who boasts of our unexam- pied prosperity go into the home nf tba man who labers with the pick and shoYei to support himself and his chiI- dfen, upon dollar and twenty cents day, with the ruling price of meat ana coal. aud there seek an answer to his inquiry --'' = -
 m closing, the temporary chairman dWelt at length on state affajTs Ma = charged the republican adn9infstra+io,, with willful and wastefuI expepfit,,ya or the peoples money. Accordino fo the appropriations legaEzed for the current year, he declaretY, the stafNs expenditures will amount to 800 0o0 eo0, While the receipts for the yaa,. ending in September, 1901. from all sources by indirect taxation ano,,,fted Le Sl6,cO0, GOO
 At the close Of Stanchfe1d,s ad- dress the convention adjourned unfil lo a. m., tomorrow.
 Saratoga, N. r., Sept so.-The act eai situation to-day as regards candi- uates for governor on the democratic state ticket was as much befogged as It was late last night. Thus Senator Hill said: ''The race is still an open one.D -
 Senator MeCarren said: q am still of the opinion that the conven- ton will nominate Judge Parker and if he is nominated I am sure he will not dare to refuse to serve his party. :
 John Whalen said: If Senator Hill does not look out he will find '94 repeated and the convention will nominate him. Coler is not in it.
 John B. Stanchfield declared: s.The party has no right to insist upon any mas1 running on the ticket who does 1t in q perfunctory way. Bird S. n Ir.