The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-19
BOTH PARTIES ARE
 GIVEN TRIMMING
Continued from Flrst Paue,

 Jefferson, and Coes forth to fight for the great mass of the Americans?
 .I do not believe that the six and a half million men who followed Bryan with cheers on .aeir lips and warn con victions in their hearts c@n now be deliv- cred like cattle to the Clevelandites whe knifed the ticket. or bolted in 1896. be- lieve that the great majority of the men who voted for Bryan are men of con viction. 1 cannot but hope they will real ize that am fighting their battle now.
 Amazing Piece Of Effrontery.
 aIt seems to me to be the most amaz- ing piece of effrontery for the democratic party to ge before the American people and proclaim that for eight years they have been wrong and the republic;ss have been right. and at the same time demand that the crowd which has been wrong shall be put in the piaces of those who have been right.
 We are told the democratic party has taken a brave stand on the tariff ques- ton. It has declared that protection is robbery. Even those who claim that the words mean A tariff for revenue only will find cold comfort in the latter or their candidate who declares that while he would be glad to see a revision Of the tariff he knows that he cannot bring IL te pass. In their platform they declare that further legislation Is needed against the trusts. But their candidate Tn ms speech of acceptance says that we nave as muck law as we need. For all prac- tical purposes therefore, the attitude of the national democrats on the question is precisely the same as that of the republican party.
 But we are told that on the question or imperialism there is difference, vital and far reaching. between the republicans and democrats What Is it? We have seen that Judge Parker Is in favor of granting local elf-government to the Phillipine Islands when they become pre- pared for 1t. When will they become pre- pared for 1t? h.-- 1t be four years? Forty years? Four hundred years? No mortal can tell us what the judge means.
 'Where does the national democratic party stand on the labor question? Can anybody tell?
 Know What the Record Is.
 We know what its record is; we have not forgotten how at the call of the Pull man Palace Car company democratic president invaded a sovereign state with federal troops in spite of the protest of It's democratic governor-John F. Altgeld- d better and abier and brayer man than ever Grover Cleveland was.
 They tell us that Judge Parker Is man of judicial temperament-and yet in his speech of acceptance he prejudges the laborers of Colorado, assumed as proven the unestablished accusation that union men resorted to dynamite and thus demonstrates that if elected president he will go Into office with his mind made up a0afnGf tha a of inc most serious and doubtful problems of the day. Upon the one sided statement of their bitterest enemies, the democratic nominee for ---e presidency preJudges the case of the laborers and gravely declares that to their use of dynamite must be traced the horrible conditions of Colorado.
 "So much for the democratic platform and for the nominee who stands upon it. Again I ask what Is the issue between Parker and Roosevelt? The Honorable Henry G. Davis, who came up to New Yor.. soon after his surprising nomination for the presidency and in the first gush of his exultation told the truth. He declared that the platform of the two old parties were almost identical,' and that the issue were narrowed down to the choice of persons.
 Platforms Are Identical. ne lWO pldllOEin5 dlInOSl iQcuIllAl Certainly they are. Boiled down to its real essence. sifted to it's real meaning. the democratic campaign of 1904 is a mere interruptions hunt for office.
 'I speak tonight for the populists-a principle which has been ridiuled, mis- represented fin every known way to poll tical warfare. Tonight shall do what can to maze you understand us better.
 The men whose cause I would plead before the bar of American public opin- ion ar, chiefly those who toll In the hum dred different fields if industry and who have never lifted their voice to ask any thing of this government except just laws and honest administration.
 You will find them in the shop where the anvil rings. in the mill where the spindle nuns. You will find them in the wheat fit Ids of the west, where, as far as the eye may reach, runs the yellow har- vest in waves of gold. You will find them oi. the farms in the south-the dear old ao th-where the cotton blossoms. white aad bediamonded with morning dew drops, bushes and becomes as crimson as the rose under the kisses of the sum mar sun. I am proud to speak for these men and proud to proclaim their creed.
 What if we say that the great Amer ican republic should own it's public roads 1t is simply question as to whether
 
 0r submit forever to the disgraceful sit uation in which the railroads run the gcvsrnr ent. They can tax the life out or one city to build up another. by secret sales and determinations they can de- stroy any citizen, any business, any city, any state
 We ara in favor of the income tax. It would put the burden of government upon the shoulders Of those who are most able to lenr it.
 Peril of Money Question.
 This country today Is in the utmost peril from the money question. In vain do the democrats waive 1t. The Cleveland ruling by which coin was held to mean gold, and by which paper notes were used to get bonds from the government, Is still In force. and the endless chain only needs another Cleveland at the wind.sss The discoveries of new methods in treating gold ores, the opening of vast deposits of the precious metal in so many different parts or the world illustrates and has vindicated the peoples partys conten- tons on the subject Of the currency rather than discredited it.
 But beg to call your attention to the fact that no man can tell when those veins will be exhausted, and when this vast Increase in our currency will he