The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-02
SAID THINGS AND OUR REPORT
..sssER 5MADEsA FEW NOTES ON
I1HEEREMARkS
THE PLATFORM is FEARFULLY
MD WONDERFULLY MADE
Ts IS QUITE AccOMMo-
DATiVE.


DATiVE.
we broke with our reporter or
the eDemocratic convention esterday
6ssSafIeTnoon#before going to press, Hon
sSsss*$ Wv Brannon, of Weston, was be
Ing announced, as chairman Of the per:
manent committee on organization
s3ss took5the platform and spoke with
icharacteristic and palatable lingo in
praise of the Democratic party as a
+ body organized in opposition to the
Republican party.
sz5 Democratic Virtues.
He showed how to his mind but for
the Democratic opposition we would
q have had foisted upon us the Force
SBill, the Ship Subsidy Bill and others
of like character, and then as a eli
matte triumph, asserted that the Dem
Socratic party had done. more in bring
ing about wise and judicious legisla-
5S5sion by means of their opposition
s:t han all that had been initiated and ex-
secuted by the Republican party DUR
d Ing its entire political history. We
y had often heard it charged, but never
before publicly acknowledged by the
party leaders themselves, that the
chief and most marked feature of
Democracy consisted in it's opposition
TO Republican measures.
Republicans Arraigned.
81 The speaker then arraigned the
sPresidentsas a political trickster and
( his sSadministration as one of Infamous
corruption, expressing the many for
the benefit of the few. He belittled
Roosevelt's pretended honesty set
forth in his acceptance of the Chi
eago platform, his mock pride in the
Sparty's record, and the stability Of the
Republican policy, which never
changed. He referred to the change.
sab1eness of the Republican party az
seen in its declarations for the green
back currency, bi-metalism and the
gold standard, but never once limited
at the Shifting side steppings of De-
mocracy from wildcat bank cur
.Fency to free silver, and then trying
to steal the Republican platform with |
its gold standard, in order that they
might have some hopeful basis on
which to stand. Not once did we hear
of the honest stability of the Demo
cratic candidate for President, who
twice within eight years voted for free
silver himself, and now reaches out
forSsthe gold plank in the Republican
platform as the only refuge of safety.
Truly the times and conditions do
change, and likewise do men and their
policies.
State Legislature relnconsistent.
The called meeting Of the Legislature
co iY,7f f1r- /
noniny and criticism, ignoring the
need Of the call and it's expense; mag
nifying the promises made at Wheel
ing for the working masses and mini
Tying their Legislative fu1fillment at
Charleston; committing themselves to
Dawson and tax REFORM" and then
yielding tacily5 to ETeter and the old
resume; reaching out for the poor
mans vote, then catering themselves
to the interests of the monied mag
A Frothy Farce.
The entire address, and others
along the same strain, gave evidence I
Of insincerity, and of being intended .
only to serve as party jingoism, bal ,
derdash and political bunkum for (
conventional effect: After reports of ]
the committees on the order of busi-
ness and cred entails, the committee (
On resolutions reported the following, l
which was adopted and the last reso- {
to be forwarded by tel y
sgram to boths houses of the Legis1a- I
ture$ now in session: t
Resolutions Adopted. s
Resolved, That the De9ocratic 6
party of the First Congressional dis g
.rict#in convention assembled, hereby {
ndorses the principles of Democracy t
IS set forth in the ST. Louis platform /,
adopted Inly 9Th, 9o4, and pledge our S
earnest support to the nominees of L
said convention. t
81 That We feel especial pride and y
oIeasure in declaring our sincere ap- S
of the high honor conferred q
1pon our Mountain State by the nom t
nation for foor the office of Vice Presi- v
lent that sterling, honest and able a
'epresentatiye of Democratic faith, III
Who has done SO omuchI toward the de- fe
yelopment and progress Of the State b
he Hon. Henry G. Davis. $I N
ReSolYed. That the4T1e ocrat tic narsssls n