Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-07-07

pie will accept the arrogant dictum o
Louis w to be repeated by an Amerl
can president"
But. he asked mas Roosevelt i;
policy?" and he denied it, classinl
him as an opportunist, waiting fol
something to turn up. Meantime oul
soldiers are being killed and dying o.
disease in shoals A President can
not be better than his party, and he
Roosevelt, could not find worse po
litical company than this year"
Clark denied emphatically the
charge that the Democratic party was
in favor OF free trade. There are in
dividual Democrats VINO are free trad
ers just as there are individual Repub
licans who are atheists.
Where the tariff rates are so high
they enable American manufacturers
to sell their wares abroad cheaper
than they do to Americans here at
home, we say they ought to be re-
duced If this were anarchy or trea.
son make the most of it. VIII some
stand patter explain why the Ameri-
cans should be made to pay one-thrd
more for American steel rails than the
citizens Of other nations" He claimed
that the panic of 1893 was clearly a
Republican panic. Turning to Amer
lean shipping, he said: when
the American goes abroad he must
sail under a foreign flag, on a foreign
ship, under a foreign officers. Why?
Because our exorbtant tariff system
has made 1t impossible for the Ameri.
cans to build ships In competition with
the British. Yet the Republican
gang has the infinite gall to prate
about its patriotism"
Whacking away at the trusts, Clark
said, That, under Republican mis-.
rule, the trusts have sprung up like
mushrooms. One straw that indicated
that the trusts have nothing to fear
from the Republican trust busters was
the appointment of Knox to succeed
Quay. Another straw was the recent
report that Wall streets opinion had
undergone a change in opinion toward
Roosevelt. Has the President changed
his views, or have the trust magnates
changed theirs, he asked
The platform makers are proceed
ing witn the utmost deliberation. At
10 o'clock this morning the subcom.
mitteee OF the resolutions committee
went to work again. 1t is their expec.
talon to be able to present the plat
form to the full committee late this
afternoon, and to procure its speedy
and give II to the con.
vention today, even though it be nee.
essary to have a night session for that
purpose, The platform will be strict.
~ conservative" without reafirma.
ton of any of It's predecessors. The
subcommittee is impatient because of
The demands made on their time by
petitioners Of all sorts This morning
he Cattle Raisers Association sub.
nitted a plank requesting protection
ly the interstate commerce commits.
sion, and the prevention Of differen.
lal rates, Ex-senator Towne offered
petition with 10000 signatures de. |
handing the independence of the
The committee an. |
proved planks dealing with irrigation
epaate statehood for territories and |
he election OF senators by a direct
ote.
James Fullerton, of Montana an.
cared before the committee and de.
handed a plank looking TO the i'm.
eachment OF Roosevelt on the al.
eyed ground that the President con.
ones the unlawful sale of liquor in 4
le Yellowstone Park. aui refuses TO
'heye Supt Pitcher. WAC is held re.
p'nS'0le Tor the alleged violation of
.w.
Ihe subcommittee ON platform re.
'ssed from 1880 until . O'Clock II is
ndersIood that they will report to the
III committee at O'Clock. This
ooahN means an au-night session
nd the tip is out strong that the Park.
people may refuse 20 permit an ad.
urnmenJ until the nominations are
ade