The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-10
the sugar trust, get out of this elec-


 Wall Street wants more bonds; the machinery for getting them is there, just where Cleveland left it. the same men who worked Cleveland for bonds are steering Parker's campaign; what has been promised to Belmont ana a ms less chain" to be put In motion again! Voters who do not consider these ques- tions do themselves injustice.
 The Wall Street organ, The New York World, compelled Parker to, speak out on the money question; why should he not be compelled by the Hearst pa pers. and other really Democratic pa pers to speak out upon other ques- tions where the people have a right to information?
 agance?" That the Government is run with reckless dis regard of the middle and lower classes who pay most of the tarif believes that either of these two great parties Is going to retrench expendit- ure? Appropriations for admtnistra- tions are on the increase everywhere no such thing as going backward. The Billion Dollar Congress of the Re i publicans was succeeded by Clevelano Congress pledged to rigid economy,
 cratic appropriations reached the bill | lion dollar mark. Harrison reduced | the public debt by a quarter billion dol lars, and Cleveland was not long in adding more than Harrison had taken | away. It was the Democratic Con- l gross devoted to rigid economy" which | allowed the Chicago Exposition to loot | the treasury of millions-tlme after time; and which gave to each member | of the House a clerk at $100 per month
 Besides. who could put faith in the | pledges of the party which has so little | unity of conviction as the national De- l n1nFraCV2 What marty ever made and broke so many pledges? What party 1 ever changed its ground so often What other party ever unloaded all ot 1 its principles at one quick throw down as they did at Saint Louis?
 They elected Cleveland on free sill yer platform. and called a special ses- sion to violate the contract. They banks. and they issued new bonds to
 keep them in fife. Then, when the | bank charters expired, they united with a new lease of life for twenty. years 1 They promised to relieve the farmers | from the Mckinley tariff. and they in l creased the tax on lumber. nails. horse | and wire. They doubled the tax or l molasses and put an addition of $45,- l 000,000 to the price which the people | were paying for sugar under the cul. minating atrocity of class legislation | the Mckinley act. They pitied the la | borer and promised to be hls friend and they let the Pullman Palace Cal l Company have the use of the army tC 1 compel the submission of laborers tc cut in wages. They promised tc
 abolish child labor. and in those States
 of the South where the Democratic
 party Is most absolute child slavery ii
 most immovably planted They prom
 ised the people d graduated income
 tax, which should compel the million
 aires and the gigantic corporations tC
 contribute something to the support oi | the government upon which fthey fat | tened; but now they have given up tho
 contest. The income tax no longer ap | pears in their platform. The million | aires and corporations supporting Par
 ker are not the kind of Democrats tC | clamor for a graduated income tax
 | How any party which has for recen | years stood for so many differen | things and broken so many contract,
 can now expect to be trusted is a pug
 gle in politics. The manner in whici | the platform of 1904 was evolved, tn,
 manner i'll which Parker's nomination
 was brought about, ought to intensity
 the distrust which the bad record o
 the party justly creates. Every lin,
 Of the platform seems to be in q trem