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Florida who. in my judgment, represent
the overwhelming Democratic sentiment.
of my state. ] second the nomination OF
William Randolph Hearst.
The Democracy of Florida desires the
nomination of Hearst because the para
mount issue today is the trust question.
and William r. Hearst is the most peri
Sistent and aggressive opponent of the
trusts. The Democracy of Florida desires
the nomination of Hearst because we be-
lieye that he is the only man. who can
carry into the Democratic column the
pivotal states of New York. Illinois and
Indiana, which are essential to Demo
only can rescue the South from the sdegra-
daticn of Rooseveltism and negroism. We
know that there are distinguished gentle
men here from the state of New York
who loudly proclaim that Judge Parker
alone among all of the candidates can
carry New York.
1t is worthy of the consideration of this
convention that the leaders of this coteiie
are the very gentlemen who in 1892 as
vigorously protested at Chicago against
the nomination of Cleveland, and who as
confidently predicted that the nomination
of Cleveland meant the loss of the state
of New York to the Democratic party. We
believe that these gentlemen are as badly
mistaken today in their assertion that
Parker, and Parker alone, can carry New
York as they were in 1892 In their pre-
diction that Cleveland could not. We be-
lieye that Hearst can and win carry New
York if this convention makes him the
standard bearer of the Democratic party.
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a round Of applause and the usual cries
of Louder" when he had uttered a few
words. He complied promptly with the
request and revealed the best and
strongest voice thus far heard in the
convention. What president has been
brave enough to enforce the law
against the labor union violator of law?
1t was Democratic president he
said, and applause greeted the asser-
ton.
= He passed on the color question and
declared that if when the black or yell
low races came into contact with white
people, if that race would not commit
suicide, it must remain absolutely dis
,tinct. A shout from the Southern dele
gates greeted the statement.
He declared that Booker T. Wash
ingten would soon outiive his undoubt-
ed usefulness If he did not cease to
yield litoa the teachings and influences
of the Republican party and it's chief
tain. He urged the men of the West
and North to refrain from depressing
the South by advocating anything that
tended to sobiiterate the racial lines.
He deprecated the fact that in the Re-
publican convention not one man had
risen to speak against the plank in
that party's platform which urged re-
duction of Southern representation in
congress because of alleged disfran-
cnlSemenl OF voters IN the South.
The speaker worked himself into a
high pitch of excitement, and with
white face and ringing voice he drew
picture of the approaching battle be-
tween the parties and concluded with
the words:
Let us make the Republicans name
the battlefield and let us make them
call it waterloo"
The speaker finished and the band
following him close UP played "The
Star Spangled Banner and then
swung into Dixie" which received
more than the usual tribute because of
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dicial functions, whether that usurpa-
ton be yelled under the guise of ex-
eeutive construction of existing laws, or
whether 1t take refuge in the tyrant'S
pleas of necessity or superior wisdom.
IMPERIALISM
We favor the preservation, so far as
We can, of an open door for the world s
unnecessary ENHANCEMENT in Oriental
and European affairs, and without ar
bitrary, unlimited, irresponsible and
absolute government anywhere within
our jurisdiction. We oppose. as fer
vently as did George Washington him
SELF. an indefinite irresponsible, dis
cretionary and vague abSolutiSm and a
policy of colonial exploitation, no mat
ter. where or by whom invoked or ex-
sercised; we believe, with Thomas JEFF
ferson and John Adams, that no govern,
ment has a right to make one set of
laws for those at home" and another
and a different set of laws, absolute in
their character, for those 'tin the col
onleS. All men under the American
flag are entitled to the protection of
the institutions whose emblem the flag
is; If they are Inherently unfit for those
institutions, then they are Inherently
unit to be members of the American
body polite Wherever there may exist
a people Incapable of being governed
under American laws. in consenance
with the American constitution, that
people ought not to be part of the Amer
IL.
We insist that we ought to do for the
Fhipinos what We have done already for
the Cubans, and it is our duty to make
rhat promise now. and upon suitable
guarantees of protection to citizens of
our own and other countries resident
there at the time of our withdrawal,
set the Fiiipino people upon their feet,
tree and independent to work out their
own destiny
The endeavor of the secretary of war
by pledging the governments indorse-
ement for promoters in the Philip
pine islands to make the United States
a partner in speculative legislation of
the archipelago. which was only tenn
pefarily held UP by the opposition of
the Democratic senators. In the last
session. VIII, II successful, lead to en-
tanglements from which it will be diff
cult to escape.
TARIFF LEGISLATION
The Democratic party has been, and
will continue TO be, the consistent op-
penent of that class of tariff legislation
permitted, through congressional fa-
vor, to draw heavy tribute from the
American people. This nonstrous per-
version of those equal opportunities
which our political institutions were
established to secure, has caused what
may once have been infant industries to
become the greatest combinations of
capital that the world has ever known.
The special favorites of the government
by its methods have been converted into
monOpol1eS, bringing to an end domestic
competition, which was the only al
legged check upon the extravagant profits
made possible by the protective system.
Ihese industrial combinations by the
hnanclal assistance they can give, now
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requirements are alike the supreme duty
of the citizen and the official. The milf
tary should be only to support and to
maintain the law. We unqualifiedly
condemn it's employment for the sum
mary Punishment of citizens without
trial, or for the control of elections.
;. We approve the measure which passed
the United States senate in 1896, but
which a Republican congress has ever
since refused to enact, relating to con-
tempts in federal courts, and providing
for trial by jury in eases of indirect
contempt.
WATERWAYS
We favor liberal appropriations for the
care and Improvement of the water
ways of the country. When any wa
terway like the Mississippi river is of
sufficient Importance to demand spe-
ciafs aid of the government such aid
should he extended with a definite plan
of continuous work until permanent i'm
proyement is secured.
We oppose the Republican policy of
starving nome development in order to
feed the greed for conquest and the
appetite for national prestige" and
display of strength.
ECONOMY OF ADMINISTRATION
Large reductions can easily be made
in the annual expenditures of the gov
ernment without iinpairing the efficiency
and We shall insist upon the strictest
economy and frugality compatible with
vigorous and efficient CIVIL military
and naval administration as right of
the people too clear to be denied or
withheld.
2. We favor the enforcement of hon
esty In the public service, and to that
end a thorough Legislative investigation
of those executive departments of the
government already known to TEEN
with corruption as well as other de-
partmerts suspected of harboring cor
ruption, and the punishment of as
certained corruptioniSts without fear
or favor or regard to persons. The per-
sistent and deliberate refusal of both
the senate and the house ofsrepresenta-
tiyeS to permit such Investigation to
be made demonstrates that only by
change in the executive and in the Iegis-
lative departments, can con,plete expo
sure, punishment and correction be OBJ
tanned.
Federal GOVERNMENT CON
TRACTS WITH TRUSTS
We condemn the action of the Repub-,
Hcan party in congress in refusing to
prohibit an executive department from
entering into contracts with convicted
trusts or unlawful com bina lions in re-
straint Of interstate trade. We believe
that one of the best methods of pro-
curing economy and honesty in the
public service is ito have public officials,
from the occupant of the White house
down to the lowest of them, return as
nearly as may be to Jeffersonian SIM
pliclty of living.
EXECUTIVE USURPATION
8. We favor the nomination and
election Of president imbued with
the principles Of the constitution, who
viii set his face sternly against exec
utive usurpation of legislative and ju-
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the house against the opposition of al
most all the Republican leaders by
vote: the majority of which was Demo-
cratic
We call attention to this great Demo-
cratic measure, broad and eomprehen-
sive as II is, working automatically
ton of congress, until the reclamat lion
of all the lands in the arid West capa-
bic of reclamation is accomplished re-
serving the lands reclaimed for home
seekers In small tracts, and rigidly
guarding against land monopoly, as an
evidence of the policy of domestic de-
yeiopment contemplated by the Demo-
cratic party, should it be placed in
ISTHMIANf CANAL
The Democracy when intrusted with
power will construct the Panama canal
speedily. honestly and economically
thereby giving to our people what Dem
oeratS have always contended fora
shorter and cheaper lines of transporta-
ton and broader and less trammeled
trade relations with the other peoples
of the world.
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
We pledge ourselves to insist upon the
just and lawful protection of our citi-
zenS at home and abroad and to use all
proper measures to secure for them.
whether native born Or naturaliZed and
without distinction of race Or creed, the
equal projection of laws and the en-
joyment of all rights and privileges
open to them under the covenants of
our treaties of friendship and com
merce, and If under existing treaties.
the right OF travel and sojourn is denied
to American citizens or recognition is
withheld from American passports by
any countries. on the ground of race or
creed, we favor the beginning of ne
gotiations with the governments of such
countries to secure by treaties the re-
moyai of these unjust Determinations.
We demand that all over the world
duly authenticated passport issued by
the government of the United States
to an American citizen shall be proof
of the fact that he is an American
citizen and shall entitle him to treat
ment as such.
ELECTION OF SENATORS BY THE
PEOPLE
We favor the election of United
States senators by the direct vote of the
people.
STATEHOOD FOR TERRITORIES
We favor the admission of the terri
tories of Oklahoma and the Indian Ter
ritory. We also favor the immediate
admission Of Arizona and New Mexico
as separate states. and a territorial gov
eminent for Alaska and Porto Rico.
We hold that the officials appointed
to administer the government of any
territory as we'll as the government of
Alaska, should be bona fde residents at
the time of their appointment of the
territory or district In which their
duties are to be performed.
CONDENSATION OF POLYGAMY
We demand the determination Of
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wisdom of the American people should
see to it that it brings no more.
To revive the dead and hateful race
and sectional animosities in any part of
our common country means confusion,
distraction of business and the reopen
ing OF wounds now happily healed.
North. South, East and West have but
recently stood together in line of bat
from the walls of Picking to the hills
OF Santiago, and as sharers of COM
mon glory and "a common destiny we
should share fraternaliy the common
We therefore deprecate and condemn
the bourboniike. selfish and narrow spir-
it Of the recent Republican convention
at Chicago which sought to kindle
anew the embers of racial and sectional
strife, and We appeal from it to the
sober. common sense and patriotic
spirit of the American people.
THE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION
The existing Republican administra-
ton has been SpaSmodic, ezra tic, SEN
sational, spectacular and arbitrary. 1t
has made itself a satire upon the con-
gress. the courts and upon the settled
practices and uSageS Of national and
international law
It summoned the congress into hasty
and futile extra session and virtually
adjourned it. leaving behind its flight
from Washington uncalied calendars
and unaccomplished tasks. 1t made war,
without its authority. thereby usurping
its fundam entail prerogatiyes. 1t yio-
lated a plain statute of the United
States as well as plain treaty obliga-
tons, international usages and consti-
tionai law, and has done so under pre-
tense of executing great public poll
cy which could have been more easily
effected lawfully. censtitutionally and
with honor.
It forces strained and unnatural con-
structions upon statutes, usurping
judicial interpretation. and substituting
for congressional enactment decree. It
Withdrew irons congress its customary
duties of Investigation which have here
tofore made the representatives of the
people and the states the terror of evil
doors.
If conducted a secret Investigation of
its own and boosted of sample eonyicts
while it threw broad coverlet over the
bureaus which had been their chosen
field of operative abuses and kept in
power the superior officers under whose
administration the crimes had been
committed.
1t ordered assault upon some menopo-
lies. but paraiyzed by its first victory,
It flung out the flag OF truce and cried
leaving its future purposes be cloudcd
by its vacillatiens
APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY
Conducting the campaign upon this
declaration of our principles and pur-
support, not only OF cur great and time
nonored oTganfza ton, but also the active
assistance of all OUT fellow citizens who.
uisresarding past differences upon queS-
tons no longer IN issue. desire the per
petszation Of our constitutional govern
laeEt as framed and established by the
fathers OF the republic
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answering in his devotion to these
principles, constant as the needle to the
pole in this PURPOSE. he stands before the
American people today. And as surely as,
in spite of--the opposition, of the mon
archial followers, of, Hamilton, as surely
as in spite of the ennfty of the United
States bank, fame has inscribed upon the
Chief magistrates of the republic the
names of Jefferson and Jackson, so sure
ly in spite of the opposition of syndicates
and capital, so surely will it inscribe the
name of -beneficent and undying Democ-
racy.
Thou that in the end hast ever ruled
the destinies of mankind, speak it Thou.
From Thy home there, where dwell the
unnumbered hosts Of labor, speak. Speak
till the valleys and the plains shall ring
again. speak till every mountain peak
shall find a tongue to proclaim, even to
the uttermost confines of the republic the
name of the unquestioned Antagonist OF
all schemes, sbys which man, trampling
right and Justice under foot, bases emi-
nence upon oppression and wrong the
name Of the foremost living advocate of
the equality of man, to which the fathers
of old consecrated their lives upon the
bloodstained fields Of the Revolution. the
name of the champion of the rights of
toll, the foe of privilege and monopoly
the friend of all who labor and are heavy
laden--the- name of Hearst-William Ran
dOlph Hearst
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polygamy within the jurisdiction of the
United States and the complete sepa-
ration of church and state in political
affairs.
MERCHANT. MARINE
We denounce the ship subsidy BILL
recently passed by the United States
senate. as an incautious appropriation Of
the public funds for private purposes
and wasteful. illogical and useless at
tempt to overcome, by subsidy, the OBJ
structiens raised by Republican Iegfsla-
ton to the growth and development of
American commerce On the sea.
We favor the upbuilding of a mer-
chant marine, without new or additional
burdens upon the people and without
bounties from the public treasury.
RECIPROCITY
We favor liberal trade arrangements
with Canada and with peoples of other
countries where they can be entered
into with benefit to American agricul-
ture, manufactures, mining or COM
MONROE DOCTRINE
We favor the maintenance of the Mon
roe doctrine in its full integrity.
ARMY. 80
We favor the reduction of the army
and of army expenditures to the point
historically demonstrated to be safe and
PENSIONS AND OUR SOLDIERS AND
SAILORS
The Democracy would secure to the
surviving soldiers and sailors and their
dependents generous pensions, not by
an arbitrary executive order, but by
legislation which grateful people stand
ready TO enact.
Our soldiers and sailors who defend
with their lives the constitution and
laws have sacred interest in their just
administration. They must therefore
share with us the humiliation with
which we have witnessed the exaitation
of court faVorites, without distinguish
ed service. over the Scared heroes of
many battles, or aggrandized by exeeu-
tive appropriations out of the treasures
of a PROSTATE people, in violation of the
act of congress which fixed the COM
pensatior of allowances of the military
officers
CIVIL SERVICE
The Democratic party stands COM
Tnitted to the principles of civil service
reform, and we demand their honest,
just and impartial enforcement.
We deneunce the Republican party
for its continuous and sinister encroacf-
ments upon the spirit and operation
bitrariiy dispensed with examhiaticss
for Office in the interest OF fayorites
and employed all manner Of devices to
oyer-reach and set aside the principles
upon which the civil service was estab-
lShed.
SCHOOL AND RACE QUESTIONS
The race question has brought count
less woes to this country. The calm
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control the policy, Of the Republican
party. szae
We denounce protectionsas robbery
of the many to enrich, the few, and we
favor a tariff limitedato the needs of
the government economically admin
mate against any industry, class or sec
ton. to the end that the burdens Of
taxation shall be. distributed as euuit-
ably as possible We Favor a revision
and gradual reduction of the tariff by
the friends of the masses and for the
common veal and not by the friends of
it's abuses, its extpFfdQns and its dis
of equality of burdens and equality of
opportunities and the constitutional
purpose of raising assreyenue by tariff
--to-wit to support the federal govern
ment in all its power and authority
but in simplicity.
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TRUSTS AND UNLAWFUL COM-
BINATIONS
i9,sG
we recognize thal the slgantlc TRUSTS
ana comDinatlons designed ste. enable
capltai To- secure more taan It's Just
snare OF the JOINT 3proouctS OF capltai
ana iapor, and Wilcn nave peen lester
ed ana promoted under hePuplican RUE,
are menanee to eeneheial competition
a arosa an ,ooseaeie4lo peftliahent business
private monopoly is indefensible and
intolerable. Individual liberty of oppor-
10 nranper;t1, I'D ;,d,'st;ai
cornbi,,nt;o,, al, pI,ononofs, ta,1;nc TO DO 20
st-o,, tf,ts ~, - co,,trola;, ,,.a,,nt;o,, re-
strict;ne- co1,netition Or fiyine nr;ces
should hos nrahihited ann .n,,nishef3 hy
law We asnaciaiJv sleno,inra sreha tes
and discr;Yn;nafin nv = transnarta tion
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Gentlemen of the convention, if this is
not the paramount issue of this campaign,
what is the issue? If this is not the
fundamental question upon which the two
parties differ in what do they differ? If
the Republican party does not stand to-
day as the party of the privileged classes
and as the exponent of the money power,
for what does it stand? And if the DEM
ocratic party does not represent the
antithesis of all this, what does it repre-
sent?
If the cause of the people-of the plain
people-of the unnumbered multitudes who
each morn implore heaven to give them
their daily bread, and who, by daily toll
earn the right to the fulfllment of their
prayer. is not the cause of Democracy,
what is the cause? If its mission is not
to defend the equal rights of those who
constitute the countless hosts of labor
not of labor in narrow or restricted
sense not of labor confined to those only
who receive a daily wage, not of labor
organized in guilds alone, but of labor in
its broad and catholic SenSe-of labor
which includes all those who work with
hand or brain. and who whether in fields
of waving grain, in the glare of the forge,
in the smoke of the furnace amid the
whirr of ever restless wheels. in the depths
of mines. in the mephitic air OF collieries,
upon the decks of floating crafts. at the
desk of the counting house, in the chem
lists laboratory. among the books of the
lawyers library. in the merchants shop,
or wherever else upon the earth may be
found those WHO fulfill the great Creators
law that man shall eat his bread in the
sweat of his brow-if, / say, to defend the
equal rights of these, the unprivileged and
the less favored be not the mission of
Democracy, what mission has it? If to
protect them from the schemes of spolia-
ton and plumber of syndicated wealth is
not the justification for its existence what
justification has it to exist?
Aye, gentlemen, if the cause of the
plain people is not the cause to which you
are pledged, devoted, consecrated by the
Very name You bear, by what title do you
call yourselves Democrats? BY what right
do YOU usurp the name of him whose
memory you profess to venerate. whose
precepts YOU approve in your platform,
whose examples YOU claim to emulate, by
what right do you style yourselves fol-
lowers of him who said:
Equal Rights for All
81 hope we shall crush in its birth the
aristocracy of our moneyed corporations,
which dare already challenge our govern
ment to a trial of strength and bid de-
nance to the laws of our country''-of
him whose cardinal maxim was Equal
rights for all special privilege for none
of him whose whole life was one inces-
SAINT battle waged against the oppression
OF the many for the benefits of the few?