The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-10-20

because delighted to be in minority,
but because | owed duty to the six
million men who voted for me in two
campaigns, and considered it my duty
to secure as much for them as could
was placed on the committee cn plat
form. We were in session sixteen con-
secutive hours; extending tnrou5n the
night and till noon today. | Iougnt
every inch OF the ground for what
conceived to be the interest OF Amer
icas commOners. | was with the NIL
nority, and was vanqulshed, save In
some miner points. That platform was
brought in here and read. Not fifty
men heard 1t. The convention was
bedlam. A motion was made TO adopt,
and it went through with a whoop,
without the slightest pretense OF de-
liberation.
: Some OF you have called me dicta-
tor. 1t was false. You knew it was
false. | have contended for certain
things. Have you net exercised the
same privilege? Why sirs, the right OF
a man to have an opinion and express
it is more important and sacred than
holding of snK otIiGe. however high.
have alIis}8 believed, ''l511re~ssts~-
night sh9lI believe, hope, mans
duty 10 his Country is higher than his
duty to hi Rarty | hope it will all
WAYS y that men of all parties
will have w moral courage to leave
their partif6whe they believe that to
stay with heir party will be to injul g
their coulfry. The success OF your
governme4f depends upon the inde-
pendence Ehnd the moral courage OF
it's citlzeT&ip
MI. Chairman, II we are going to
have son4 other god than this war
god pressed ID to us by Governor Black
as their II I'm of granite and iron,
what hlr,Y BE god is it to lie? Must
we Choot between god of war and
a nod q geld? We now have tnen
spectacllj3& political farce Of the repaL-
lican patty running on gold platform
and the nemccratic party running On
gold te(am. III there is anything
that co1knareS In hatefulnesS with mil
itarism is plutocracy, and insist
that TIL mccratic party ought not 70
be CONGO led to choose between miIi-s
tarism ~ one side and plutocracy on
the otlf&
Bnt g, am SORRY to say that the
demOc1dC party in its official capacity
has chfen the latter. The democratic
party as completely under the con-
troll OsFNall street as the republican
party. / The triumph of the Wall street
elemelk of the party denies to the
count any hope of relief on economic
quest Us. SO far as democracy as now
organizes y. concerned: The ..laLor
plank, as prepared BY Judge ffzssstssx'as
friends on the subcommittee, was a
straddling, meaningless plank. The
nomination of Judge Parker virtually
nullifies the antitrust plank. The
methods pursued to advance the candi-
dacy Of Judge Parker were plain and
deliberate attempt to deceive the par
ty. His nomination was secured by
crooked and indefensible methods
However this convention itself is plu-
tocratic.
Labor has been snubbed from the
very start. The employers associa-
tons and the citizens alliance secured
two thousand seats in this convention
while labor and the working classes
were not given so much as an empty
box for their comfort And when Mr..
Hobson of Alabama, whose past record
shows him to be man of more ply
steal foolhardiness than rational cour-
age, made the boast that Mr.. Cleveland,
a democratic president, was the only
president with the courage to send, IN
solicited, United States soldiers against
striking union men you cheered him tc
the echo The most of you are Office
holders or Office seekers. And you are
prostituting the democratic party to
plutocracy to get its aid to help you
into power. We now have two organ
lied colossal appetites thirsting fol-
spells. And verify the democratic par
ty is without fixed principles or set.
tied policy, held together by the CO.
hesive attraction of public plumber
The voters Of the party now fine
themselves in the clutches of gang
in the harness Of a system as heart
less as death. From their eyes no hui
man power could draw tear, and NJ
suffering wiring a pang from theil
bosoms. They are immune to every
feeling or sentiment known to man
Wall street is symbol of their powe
where hearts and souls are grOunt