Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-07-14
OUTLINES PARTY POLICY.
John Sharp Williams Temporary Chairman
of Democratic Convention. Tells OF the
Aims of His Political Associates

Addressing the democratic national
convention at st. Louis July 6 Tempo
rary Chairman John Sharp Williams
said: 4&#
There have always been two great
parties which, since the first national
political conventions, have elected
delegates to conventions for the pur-
pose OF selecting a candidate and pro-
mitigating platform. One of these
parties has gone through it's party
election of delegates, has selected a
candidate and announced a platform.
1t was one of the quietest and most
unanimous occasions that the muses.
or history have recorded. Everything
seemed to have been liked before
hand. There are some conveniences
about a convention of that sort. One
of them is that the temporary chair
man knows six or nine months before
hand that he is going to be tempo
rary chairman. He also knows what
he Is wanted to say, compared with
what ne wants to say. The platform
comes ready wrtten-no discussion
about. it-and is perhaps revised by
the candidate himself, who has also
been agreed upon.
The address of the temporary
chairman of The Republican national
convention was, in one sense, histor-
ical. Mr.. Root knew how to pay
debt. The country has not yet forgot
ten when Mr.. Roosevelt paid a glow
ing tribute to his cabinet, which
wound up with the sentiment, And
the greatest of these is Root" Here
the speaker quoted the president as
saying: "Elihu Root is the ablest
man | have known in our government
al service. | will go further. He is
the greatest man that has appeared
in the public life of any country, in
any position, on either side of the
ocean, in my time"
Charges Plagiarism.
'In this wonderful mutual-admira-
ton society of me, too, Teddy, and
me, too, Lihu,' is the return-rhapsody
OF Mr.. Roots peroration at all ex-
avagant-considered from the stand
point of repayment, of course" the
chairman continued
us it any wonder that he was the
man selected by the candidate to lay
it on strong?' A man of ability, too,
Mr. Root. He had defended Tweed.
Why not defend the Republican party
in it's hour of non-action, passivity,
negation and mere obstruction? In
InnI ba an1 thn nrpSiInnt haUn ha1
minds so much alike that they have
been suspected of Unconscious iden-
tity Of cerebration of thinking the
same thoughts in the same words"
At this point, to convict the presi-
dent of plagiarism, the chairman read
from a speech purporting to have
been made by Secretary Root in New
York in 1902 and then read an al
legged parallel uttered by the presi-
dent one year later, during his west
ern trip.
Claims Antitrust Credit.
"The temporary chairman then told
the country that the act to expedite
hearings of the trust cases-namely,
the act of Feb. IL, 1903. was 'repub-
IISdH lCSISldllOl IlC lol gu " say
that every Democrat voted for it, and
yet that is my recollection. l nave
never known a more ingenious mind
than that Of ex-Secretary Root. His
ingenuity is never so marvellous as
when it's power is illustrated by the
things which he forgets to mention.
Verify he is the Root of all evil
! 70 Ii ho
appear the better side of reason.
The Republican platform, like the
temporary chairman's speech, deals
chiefly in the boast that the Republi-
can party is responsible for every
thing good which has happened. 1t
also deals much in ancient history.
The platform in speaking of the
accession of the Republican party to
power after Mr.. Cleveland's second ad-
ministration had expired, uses this
language: We then found the country,
after four years of Democratic rule in
evil plight oppressed with misfortune
and doubtful of the future. Public
credit has been lowered, revenues
were declining, the debt was growing,
the Administrations attitude toward
Spain was feeble and notifying, it's
standard of values was threatened and
uncertain. Labor was unemployed
The panic which has devastated the
world was relentlessly approaching
our shores. A long saturnalia of ex-
travagance, public and private, and of
reckless speculation had been already
followed by depression. Corn was
burned for fuel in Kansas and else
where in the west in 1890, and after
Cotton was at or below the price of
production. The acute reaction which
We call panic was inevitably approach
ing even before Mr.. Cleveland was
elected.
Cause Of Depression.
"Why pretend to- have forgotten all
this? 1t is true that after the election
of Mr.. Cleveland the chronic business
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