Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-07

st, Louis, July THE committee on
permanent organization, which met lust
before the morning session Of the con
vention, met and accepted the formal
decllnation Of Senator Bailey as perma
nent chairman. Champ CLARK Of Mis-
souri,, was then elected and accepted
the position. He then spoke as follows.
I'm his haste, King David said that
all men are liars Had he been in
Chicago while Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge was reading the Republican
platform he would no doubt have pro-
nounced the same opinion more leisure
~ for surely there never was more
mendacity packed into the same space
in any document purporting to be a
grave state paper
Shakespeare says:
Thrice is he armed that hath his quar-
rel just;
And he but naked, though locked up in
steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is cor
rupted,"
A JUST QUARREL
In the impending conflict our quarrel
Is just and we are in the right beyond
all cayil
To state It in a general way our con-
tentlon is that the government shall be
restored to the Democratic Republican
basis on which the fathers Of the re-
public intended 1t TO rest, and shall be
made once more a government of the
people by the people and for the peo-
pie, instead Of n government OF the
classes, by the classes and for the
classes
To state It with more PARTICULARLY
we insist, that eXorbitant taxation
shall be reduced to just and reasona-
BILE rates, that extravaganza in appro-
priations shall cease; that economy
shall prevail in all the transactions OF
the government that all the DEPART
ments shall be thoroughly investigated
from ton to bottom by congressional
committees; that all evil doors of anv
degree shall be driven from the public
service and properly punished that
theh trusts shall be proceeded against
by indictment as common and smaller
criminals, that the Constitution accom-
panles the American flag into our new
possessions.
ROOSEVELT NOT THE COUNTRY.
The proposition that we must support
President Rooseyelts Philippine policy
If he has any-right or wrong Is the
veriest rot--a tale told by an idiot. | am
willing 70 go ms far as anyone I'm pa.
triotism | will support my country I'm
any emergency but President Roose
welt Is not the country. The time has
not yet arrived, | pray Almighty God
that 1t VIII never arrive, when the
American people win accept the AFRO
giant dictum Of Louis XIV, n repeated
by an American presldent--"I am the
state President Roosevelt. II al
all worthy OF his high position, he must
entertain supreme contempt for those
political supplejacks. particularly for
those claiming to be Democrats who go
about with sanctmonlous mein,savinp.
THE president Is wrong In his Phllip-
pine policy but we MUST support the
president"
A SUPERSTITION.
Out upon all such cringing ldocy. sun.
pose that when Geore III undertook To-
force our fathers To pay the stamp tax
Patrick Henry, Instead OF delivering
that great lyric speech before The viz.
ginia house OF burgosses, which nrecl-
plated the Revolution and which stlu
stirs the heart like strains OF martial
music. had arisen In his place ana said
gently as a sucking dove His most
gracious majesty is wrong about this
stamp tax business, but we must as
loyal subjects support him right or
wrong And suppose Washington lief.
ferson, Warren, Adams. Lee, Hamilton
ALI that glorious host Of warriors aud
sages had weakly agreed to that-what
would we be today? Instead OF being
the richest republic IN all the food OF
time we would still be English colonies,
ruled by British prooonsuls and gov
ernor- generals without any voice what.