The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-25
N DONALD OF VOLUSIA
OUT FOR CONGRESS.
He Makes His Formal Announcement
and Declares His Platform
of Principles.
DELAND, FLA, Sept. II, 1903.

biOS9 nun blle pecOnu congressional
District, | take the liberty of briefly
expressing my opinion as to the mos
important questions confronting the
American people, and particularly
the Democratic party.
:, In the first place, my faith in the
Kansas City platform is Just az
strong today as it was on the 18th daN
of July, 1900, when the delegates OF
the National Democratic Convention
voted their Endorsement of said plat.
form. Having been delegate to the
Kansas City convention, and party
to the framing of said platform, / can
consistently make and stand by the
above statement. One point will
certainly be conceded: That il the
Democratic party fails in electing a
president, the cause of the defeat
will not be found within the pages
! that contain the Kansas City plat
form. Wewill be compelled to look
in some other direction for the cause.
and also the remedy for 1t.
The Democratic party in the APP
preaching campaign should strive TO
save the republic from imperialism,
preserve the constitution against
Congressional Hsurpation of power,
rescue the government from the
abuse of the corrupt, guard the rights
of the people from the attacks of cor
porate monopolies, and see that the
disease of political deception is bur-
led deeper than the ash pits of hades.
Against continued prevalence OF
the trusts the conscience of the ma
ion must be quickened and aroused,
il their baleful influences are to be
destroyed. Modern corporate monop-
oily is the offspring of the Republican
party. 1t is the genius of organized
cummercialism. 1t has neither con-
science, sentiment nor patriotism.
Its Inspirations are greed and selfish
ness. Its purposes accumulation.
Fhe debasement of the laboring
.'laSsCS Tor personal, selfish gam Is
me Of its strongest ambitions. Cor
upi ion and deception are its neces-
'arp implements. No public service
is too high, none too low. to escape
its influences. Its hand is on the
throat and in the pocket of every
lunan being in the nation. 1t sneers
1t the rights of man and defies the
sovereignty of the states. 1t regu-
tates wages and the prices of life's
necessities. 1t feeds the employees
eight months in the year, and starves
The little ones at home the other
our. 1t divides the territory of the
Union into commercial provinces,
finishes integrity and rewards the
INSCRIPTIONS. 1t gives or refuses to
give employment at its pleasure. 1t
blacklists the working man and sets
him adrift to starve in the midst OF
plenty. 1t marches its battalions OF
employees to the polls, places its chos-
en ballot in their hands and coerces
their support for its favorite instru-
nent.
The United States of America shall
rot, with my support, continue to
Jursue the inaugurated policy OF
great and distant territorial acqui-
ition, and the inauguration of i'm
Jerialistic colonial rule, which is
,ubversive to liberty at home as well
is abroad; but, taking warming rather
han example from European mon
rchies, confine herself to the mos
;ertain methods of caring for and
preserving the lives of those who are
low and who may hereafter come
within her borders. This is one of
he most important questions before
is today, and should say the para
Mount issue--an isSueuOt alone made
~ platforms. Nothing can prevent
Judgment in favor of the old re-
public against the new empire.
THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATIONS.
In the coming campaign the ad-
ministration will be on the defensive
I'll along the line. Its spollbinders
have attempted to show that the
Declaration of Independence is Il
back number, and that the money of
rhe people should be controlled by
the banks. They will have to eX-
plain why the Republican party has
cultivated and as
sisted the trusts, and why every trust
nagnate has and always will assist
the Republican party in their cam
paign fund.
J. TEMPLE GRAVES POLICY.
The question as to what shall be
done with the negro race is a problem
that is a burden to the people of the
South today, and has been for forty |
years, and if any effort on my part |
can change the situation it will be
forthcoming. 1t is not necessary to
explain who is responsible for his |
or why his stay has been so
prolonged. 1t is enough |
to know that we have them with us
and that they have divided us. The
question of his liberty was raised by
men who no doubt were sincere in
what they did, and sentiment was
divided on the question and u fratri-
cidal war was the result, aud thous
ands Of noble lives were sacrificed
and thousands of homes destroyed.
1t was never intended that antagon-
istic races should live together, and
the only solution to the problem in
my opinion is separation. The act
that brought the black man to us was
for personal greed, and the suffering
we Are to-day undergoing is for
in the past. There is
no hope for the negro outside of sep
lration There is no harmony, no
for the white laboring
class of the South outside of separa-
ration. If there is to be Il separation
there must be some suitable place
provided for the negro, and some
olan inaugurated whereby this sepa-
ration can be perfected The govern
nent should provide suitable and
ample territory. The inducement of
Individual freedom for the negro, and
he personal opportunity of an ipde-
pendent life, is all that is necessary
lOr beginning.
TO recapitulate: favor and stand
Dy the Kansas City platform. l am
opposed to Imperialism, Congress-
onal usurpation of power, corporate
political deception; and
'avor rigid enforcement of the laws
against trusts, and the making of
avs by which they can be controlled