The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-05-26
DELEGATES Should Know First.

form.
Delegates Should Know First.
To be sure. the platform is to, be
written by the resolutions commit
tee and Yet when genuine harmony
Oil platform and On candidate is so
desirable. it is important that dem
ocrajs who choose delegates to the
/ national convention be informed as
10 the character OF the platform that
| IS TO be prepared il their name, by
| those who ga. that they are willing
! 10 make concessions in order that a
! united and not a divided army" may
! 10 duty behind the democratic nOmi-
! nee for the presidency.
! The question. rhen. is how many
! their principles must democrats
! surrender. permanently or Temporal
! gily. in order to AVOID incurring the
| hostility Of mcr who during the par
with which toy claimed allegiance
| ard gave open and bOasIful aid to
/ the enemy?
! Perhaps no better illustration of
/ the dfficul:i's to be encountered
when democrats undertake to avoid
mourning the hostility of Mr. Cleye-
land ana his followers could be
souud.than the well remembered sec
onG adm GisuatiOl MIR. Cleveland
and his followers have never apollo
lied for the acts that made his sec
md administ"at on OdiOus III the i yes
; Of democrats generally. On the con-
trary. the" insist that the history.
that according to republican authOri-
IT, has indicated republican policies
has likewise vindicated the Cleveland
policies.
Do you think it would be possible
for the democratic party to maintain
It's dignity in this day, when men are
thinking and reading as theY never
thought and read before. unless the
party SCI its seal Of disappTGTal in
unmistakable terms not necessarily
upon the second administration itself,
but upon the policies and the meth
DDS. the intimacies between the rep
resentatives Of the government and
The Representatives OF the money
power and other evils that character
lied the Cleveland regime?
To Please Baron and labcrer.
Do yOu think that a democratic
platform which ignored or dealt aQOl-
Ogetically with those evils could pro-
vide serious attraction for the people?
DO you believe that platform framed
50 ,.at il would impress upon the
tariff baron and the trust magnate,
| Is We'll as upon the people the party's
! determination to give the people
practical relief from the imp0siJions
! that emanate from the same powers
| that welded more influence at the
| White House during Mr.. Cleveland
| second administration than was eX-
! ertef BY the entire democracy of the
c0untry-do you think that a plat
form so framed could avoid mourning
he hostility OF Mr.. Cleveland and
| his followers?
know you do not make the mis-
take of thinking-that democrats
who may not entirely agree with you
are any less DESTROYS for the termi-
nation OF republican power than you
are But will the American people.
requiring and demanding relief. turn
from the republican party 10 a party
that gives them no right to believe
| that its professions are sincere and
| that it is determined to establish
| popular government and to dethrOne
the tariff baron and the trust mag
| nate?
! AS anxious as you can possibly be
| for democratic victory by "a united
and not divided army | respectfully
ask you to present for the benefit of
democrats generally. and in the inter-
ests of genuine harmony, an outline
| OF what the democratic platform
should be in order that it may not in
cur the hostility of Mr.. Cleveland and
his followers