The Penn's Grove record., 1904-09-02

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party represents his ideals'of
government, then he is justly proud OF
it, can Justly confide in it, for is has
stood by its principles through storm as
well as sunshine; and no matter how
bad you and l may think its creed is,
we are bound to admit that the republic
can party has a creed, is willing to tight
for it, is willing to cling to it i'll defeat,
and continue to struggle for it until
victory comes again. But why any
human being should, in the year 1904,
vote the national democratic ticket is
something that passes my untutored
comprehension.
/ can understand why the citizen
could vote a local democratic ticket. l
can understand how in some cities and
in some states that party may be strug-
Cling to do some distinct thing, which
he believes ought to be done: butin the
name of common sense tell me why any
sane and sober citizen should in this
campaign vote the national democratic
ticket.
What principle of democray does it
stand for? What does it propose to do
for the people, different from what the
republicans are doing? To what point
is it directing it's line of ma rch, except
to the republican camp? Surrounded
by the Wall street magnates who had
financed his campaign for two years
Judge Parker bided his time till the
perils of the two thirds rule were pass
ed; and when it was too late for the
convention to retrace its steps-for even
the democratic bosses require more
than fifteen minutes to turn complete
ly round he cracks the Wall street
whip over the heads of his leaders, and
with prompt obedience the great demo-
cratic legions were made to furl their
flags and reverse their line of march.
OUTRAGED
The mass of the democratic party
feel outraged at the way in which their
leaders have sold them to Wall street.
/ do not believe that the six and a half
million men who followed Bryan, with
cheers on there lips and warm convic-
,tiOnS in their hearts, can TO- be deliy-
cred like cattle to the C~levelandities
who knitted the ticket or bolted 1t In
1896. | believe that the great majority
of men who voted for Bryan are men
of conviction; / can not but hope they
will realize that ] am fighting their bat
tie now.
Where are the voters who followed
the fortunes of the democratic stand
ard-bearer in 1896 and 1900? Were
they men of conviction? Did they hon
eStly believe in the principles they pro-
fessed? l believe that they did. Act
ing upon that belief, our party joined
hands with the democrats who had
adopted our platform, and | myself did
yeoman service for Bryan-stumping
his own state and helping to give Ne
braska's vote to him. Tonight l re-
mind the democratic voters that the
peoples party stands just where it did
then, and if they believed in our princi-
pies then they ought to come with us
now.
| call upon the six and a half million
voters whose political faith vas crystal
izsd in the Chicago platform of 1896
and in the Kansas City platform of 1900,
and / ask, What is there in the demo-
cratic platform of 1904 that bids you
hope? What is there for you in that
platform? What do you get represent
you? What is it that he proposes to do
for you? If you believe in republican
doctrines, why vote for Parker? Why
not Ego the whole hog Or none' and
vote for Roosevelt? BY what right do
the democratic leaders undertake to
preach and eXpound to the American
people any economic questions? How
do we know that they have studied and
mastered any of those questions?
Never III the world could it emphasize
itself on any issue as it did on the mon
ey question from 1896 to the year of
1904. If all the writings and all of the
speeches which they made against the
republican party on the money question
were put into printed form and loaded
or transport upon the backs of camels,
the caravan would stretch from one end
to the other of the great Sahara desert.
Did they understand the money ques-
ton? If not, how do we know that
they understand any other question?
In their campaign book of 1896 the
democratic leaders say: 1--WE are una1-
terably opposed to mono-metallism."
THAT GOLD TELEGRAM.
In the famous telegram of 1904 their
candidate says, in effect, that he is I'M
alterably in favor of recommendation.
All of the literature Of eight years is to
be destroyed. All of the prophecies of
eight years have been repudiated. All
of the dire calamities which were sched-
uled to take place if the republicans
carried out their policy on the money
question have been put aside. The
great party which pledged itself to the
American people as unalterably oppos-
ed have shifted over to the position of
being %irrevocably in favor of the gold
standard.
LEST WE FORGET.
DO the democratic leaders suppose for
one moment that the voters of this u
try are going to forget the history of the
past eight years? Do they imagine for a