Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-05-31
The Cleveland Convention.

ton calls for no extended COM
ment. 1t did the work it was ordered
to do, in the way and manner marked
out for it by those who control the
orga nization, and 1t went home. With
one notable exception. lot of au-
tomatons would have answered every
purpose.
The platform, while verbose to a
degree, does nothing except to re-
count a lot of ancient history, to
thresh out stack of old straw, to
take credit for redeeming pledges, the
only important ones of which have
not been, and are not likely to be,
performed and to damn with faint
praise an administration not loved by
the manipulators of this gathering,
and which--the truth to tell-has not
thus far shown many lovable quail
ties.
Its endorsement of Roosevelt has
the true friedman ring to it, as far as
1t rang at all, and will prove but a
slender reed for him TO lean on two
years hence.
1t is understood that the plank
favoring some relief to Cuba in the
way of lessened restriction on trade,
was adopted in committee over the
objection of Mr.. Dick and that it's
adoption was defeat for him. If
he still holds to the opinion he had
when the question was before the
house caucus, this must be true, but
the difference between his position
and that of the convention in passing
the resolution, is that he is honest
enough, and consistent enough, as a
hide-bound tariff man, to say that the
proposed concessions to the Cuban
trade are the entering wedge which If
driven far enough will split the pro-
lection idea from end to end. This
plank and the one committing the
party In Ohio to the principle EN-
bodied In the Dingley law are grossly
Ind dishonesty inconsistent with
each other, and no man with spark
OF political rectitude can support both
or reconcile their differences.
But the plank referred to is couched
In terms so vague and general as to
he satisfied with almost any sort of
legislation which may profess to be
for reciprocal trade, even though 1t,
shall turn out to he the rebate plun,i
which Mr.. Dick Is understood to ia.
vor IL we must do something towards
the redemption of our pledges to Cuba,
ana which, reduced to its real terms
means that tho crop of
the Cuban planter Is to
be made good by taking money
enough out of the United States
treasury to render him profit, and
leaving the American consumer to be
robbed at each end Of the lne,--once
by paying tribute to the beet sugar
trust in the shape of tariff and the
consequent higher price Of his sweet
ening, and again by having the public
revenues diverted to the purpose of
making farming profitable for for
oigners by law.
One remarkable feature OF this plat
form is that II switches the cause of
prosperity from Mark Hanna to the
Dingley tariff. A couple of years ago,
everything In the prosperity line was
credited to Mark; rain and sunshine,
dew and light, were Put out of the
account. the agency of the Almighty
In bringing good crops and the like
was thrust aside and ignored, and all
was attributed to Hanna, The In,
fringement OF this royalty on the pros
perity patent Is sad sign of the in.
gratitude OF Republicans.
The platform couples the tariff
policy OF the party with what II calls
the gold standard act" and calls the
two "conservators of public conf.
dence.' This Is another instance of
reaping credit where no seed has been
Gown Since Congress refuses to pa 50
the Fowler bill, which is the only act
yet proposed to give the gold standard
legal standing in this country, and
since the administration has lust
forced upon the Philippine Islands, by
executive order, a silver standard far
The Boston Advertiser declares cdi
torially that the Hanna presidential