Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-21

WATSON AND TIBBLES NOTIFIED AT COOPER UNION

dUl6 speech OF acceptance.
Democracy's Attitude Toward Labor.
Where does the national democratic
party stand on the labor question?
Can anybody tell?
! We know what~its record is. We
have not forgotten how, at the call of
the Pullman Palace Car company, a
democratic president invaded a SOW
spite of the protest Of it's democratic
ADLER and more patriotic man than ever
Grover Cleveland was.
! We all remember how the strike of
the workmen whose wages had been
cut was broken by the mailbag farce
and the prostitution of the power Of
the United States army to the service
of greedy and heartless corporation.
The democratic doctrine of state rights
was trampled under foot, and, urged
on by Olney, the railroad lawyer,
Grover Cleveland exercised power
which Daniel Webster, advising An
drew Jackson, believed could only be
exercised by authority of a special act
OF congress.
I
| Well might Judge Cooley, the emf
nent constitutional lawyer, write a let
ter of congratulation to Cleveland for
having established a new precedent in
constitutional law. It was new. And
the greatest novelty about it was that
the railroad attorney, Olney, was able
to force democratic president into a
position vastly more undemocratic
than that which Alexander Hamilton
and Daniel Webster had yentured to
take when similar crisis occurred in
the administrations of Washington and
Jackson.
! Parker on Colorado.
They tell us that Judge Parker is a
mar: Of judicial temperament-caln
meditative, circumspect dispassionate
and yet in his speech of acceptance
he prejudges the laborers of Colorado,
assumes as proven the ablished
accusation that union men resorted to
dynamite and thus demonstrates that,
if ele"ted president, ne will go into
office with his mind made up against
the laborers upon one OF the most Sc
rious and doubtful problems of the
day.
Who has supplied Judge Parker with
the proofs that the union laborers COM
mitted that dynamite outrage? Where
has he listened to witnesses whose tes-
tinony was given under the solemn
obligation ct an oath? Surely Judge
Parker-eminent jurist and just judge
did not find these men guilty until
they had i'een proven so. Surely, as q
lawyer and judge, he presumed that
even union laborer of Colorado
bounded and driven and bull-penned
and banished by the Peabody and Bel
colnnine--tO be innocent till proven tC
be guilty:
No. lie could not presume Innocence
in such case. He could not give the
accused the benefit Of any doubt. Upon
the one-sided statement of their bit
terest enemies, the democratic nomi
nee for the presidency prejudges the
case Ct the laborers, and gravely de-
cla1 es that to their use of dynamite
, mrst be traced the horrible conditions
in Colorado.
! Cannot Fix the Blame.
am not here to say who is to blame
for the ]awlessness in that distracted
state. 1t may have been the fedora
ton, it may have been the alliance!
I l simply do not know. But this much
do say: the conduct of the legisla
ture of Colorado in refusing to enac
! the eight-hour law after the people ha(
sanctioned and demanded it by ballot
was in it's very essence far more de-
structive to republican government
far more demoralizing in it's tendenc,
than any mere dynamite outrage tha
! ever was known in Colorado
; When corporations can corrupt thu
law-making power to such an extern
that the will of the people as legally
expressed at the polls is nullif1ed, the1
q the end of popular government is al
hand. 1t is revolution-nothing less
Judge Parker. while condemning thu
!aborcrs for the alleged use of dyna
mite, utters not one word of censurf
against the INSCRIPTIONS monopolist:
who debauched legislature into {
, base betrayal of it's trust.
So much for the democratic plat
form, and for the nominee who stands
upon it. Again ask, what is the issue
between Parker and Roosevelt?
, "Almost Identical"
The Hon. Henry G. Davis came u,
to New York soon after his SURPRISING
nomination for the vice presidency
and in the first gush of his exultatio1
told the truth. He declared that thu
platforms of the two old parties "wer<
almost IDENTICAL" and that the issue!
were narrowed down to a choice O,
persons. What pity it was that the
politicians had not got hold of the ole
gentleman and inoculated him with the
) don't talk" policy which prevails al
!. Esopus!
The two platforms almost identical.
Certainly they are. Boiled down to it.
| real essence, sifted to it's real mean.
ing. the democratic campaign of 1901
Is mere INSCRIPTIONS hunt for Office
; They have no fixed and certain creed
They have no articles of faith by which
democratic loyalty can be tested. A
party, like an individual, should seel
tc build up character. And without
convictions there can be no character
BY convictions mean essential be-
liefs which become part of q mans
very life; convictions by the light o.
which he works; convictions for which
he would die. Has the democratic
} party any such character? Can 70,
: measure 1t by q standard like that;
: Stealing, the platform of the ne0nle's