The Penn's Grove record., 1904-09-02
The PENIS Grove Record
SEPTEMBER 2, 1904.
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orator who has been nominated for
President by the Populists and Thomas
I'll. Tibbles, the able editor of the indie
pent, published at Lincoln, Neb., who
has been nominated for Vice President,
were notified Of their nomination, be-
fore a large and enthusiastic audience,
in Cooper Union, New York City, on
August the 18th.
In his speach of acceptance Mr.. Wat
son made a most able and readable ad-
dress in which, he a~rraigned both old
parties. 1t had the true democratic
ring like Bryan's old speeches, only Mr..
Watson is a more brilliant and caustic
speaker than Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Wat
sons key note vas
MANHOOD SHOULD COUNT FOR MORE
THAN MONEY; CHARACTER
SHOULD OUTWEIGH ALL.
In this era when so many men wear
their political beliefs loosely, in this
time when the voter who went to bed a
demonstrating prayed for free silver
before closing his ~eyes-awakes in the
morning and finds himself under the
necessity of clothing himself in the IL
revocable gold standard, or of having
no democratic garments to wear-it is
something to be able to say, l belong to
a party which has never struck its flag,
which will not desert its creed, which
stands today just where it stood on the
day of its birth, which glories in its
principles in the hour Of defeat, which
believes it has a message to mankind
and a mission to perform, and which
will never cease the struggle to restore
III government to the democratic ideal
of the wise men, the good men, the
great men who framed it.
Unless | am entirely mistaken, there
was never a time when the plain people
of America were SO dissatisfied with
the conditions and the tendencies which
prevail. Therei is unrest, distrust, grave
apprehension everywhere. In vain do
the subsidized organs of monopoly
preach good times, universal prosperity,
general content. Deep down in their
hearts the masses of the people feel that
the reins of power are slipping out Of
their hands; that those who fill the high
nIaHnc T. not ca on yjpl1c1E 0nnnnrnnl
about the welfare of the common people
as they pretend to be. In spite of all
that can be done by a partisan press,
the fact can not be concealed from the
eyes of the average citizen that the vast
preponderance of all the wealth pro-
duced in this land is transferred by leg
allied robbery into the hands of a few;
that the courts are run in the interest
of the few; that the laW-making power
is manipulated by the few; and that
while both the old political parties pre-
tend to devote themselves to the inter
erts of the common people, they are
both financed by Wall street, both will
Ing and the seryile tools of Wall street.
TRIBUTE TO HEARST.
Tell me thatthepeople of this country
!. are resting easy under conditions like
these? Tell me that the confidence
game being played upon them by the
willy leaders of both the old political
parties creates no angry discomfort?
The man who comforts himself with
that belief has nO conception whatever
OF the true feelings of the American
people. DO you need proof that the
masses are ready to rush to the support
OF any leader who is brave enough to
challenge the right of the corporations
to rule this land?
See how they rallied to w. r. Hearst.
Because he had taken sides with the
masses, because he was %denouncing OPP
preston and pleading for the rights Of
the common man there was from ocean
to ocean an upheaval in h~isfavor which
aStounded the professional politicians
and strained all of the resources of poll
tical strategy to defeat that noble-heart-
ed champion of the Jeffersonian demo-
crazy.
HAMILTON AND JEFFERSON.
AT the very beginning of our history
the two antagonistic principles clashed.
The one was represented by Alexander
Hamilton, who had no confidence in
the people, no love for the people, but
who belived that wealth should be tax
Ell into co-partnership with the govern
ment, given control of its laws, given
command of its policies, and thus the
favored few.
On the other hand came Thomas JEFF
ferson proclaiming the principles of
democracy. With the idea of human
brotherhood, with a perfect faith in the
great body of the people, and with a
constitutional love of right and Justice
which made class legislation abhorrent
to him, he challenged the doctrines of
Hamilton, and struggled to hold the
government true to the principle of
equal and exact justice to all men.
WHAT REPUBLICANIsM REPRESENTS.
Which is the party, and who is the
candidate, that proclaims the principles
of Thomas Jefferson, and goes forth to
fight for the great mass of the Amer
lean people? 1t is the republican par
ty? How can any SAINT man answer
Yes. In form and in spirit it is Ham
iltonian.
In purpose and in practice it is Ham
lltonian. Every corporate interest on
continent knows that it has a champion
in the republican party. Every benefc-