The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-24
REPUBLICAN TICKET AND PLAT
FORM.

| AEE UDbhOAN ItOAEE AMI fLAl-
FORM.
The Republican nominations and
declarations are exactly what have
been expected for many weeks. The
present Chief Magistrate has been
| manipulating the wires and pulling the
| strings. and all the others have been
dancing attendance on his wishes and
whims. He named the organization Of
ficers and none dared to. protest. He
selected the platform committee and
before IL reported read every line and
caused every suggestion of his own to
be Incorporated in it. He even went
TO the extent of supervising the
speeches of those who were engaged to
nominate him and to second his NOM
ination. II was essentially a Roose-
welt ratification meeting in spite of the
fact that the best thought of the Party
would have preferred some ether can
didate.
1t is useless to assert that a man Of
such masterful hold upon a Party can
be easily dealt with by his political OPP
ponents. In all the history of Parties
there has never been such an exhibition
of one-man power. Jackson, in his
palmiest days never undertook to assert
such control as this accidental Presi-
dent has assumed. The Vice-Presiden-
tial tail is a mere incident. The best
men among the Republicans hesitated
about going on the ticket because of
unwillingness to be dominated and
Inundated by the arrogant man, who
all booted and spurred, rides rough
shod over all who dare to think for
themselves. Senator Fairbanks is
about as good q selection as could
have been made from those willing-to-
be-tied to Roosevelt.
The platform is tissue of false pre-
tense from beginning to end, and long
before next November it's falsehoods
will be exposed in thousands of news
papers and by thousands of Democratic
orators. In many particulars, 1t puts
forth dangerous doctrines, and 1t will
require but little argument on the part
of the Democrats to show to the peo-
pie that continuance of control of Gov
eminent in the hands of a Party that
will take Roosevelt for it's candidate,
and upon such a mischievous declara-
ton of principles, bodies evil to all our
people.
The convention was in session three
days. yet its lahors could have been
performed in three hours. 1t stretched
out to create an idea of interest in its
deliberations, which did not exist. 1t
took a free and breezy character like
Speaker Cannon to get them out of the
dead rut of indifference. Even the
posted clacquers over the hall who had
the cue as to when to applaud and
cheer and laugh, failed to get up enthu-
siasm. 1t was too thoroughly cut-and-
dried to interest any, except those who.
in some way or other, expect to be
beneflciaries.
The Advertiser in other issues will
show up the iniquity of the Republican
candidates and platforms. The duty
of the Democrats at St. Louis is now
more plainly defined than ever. They
should adopt a platform accepting ac
complished facts, whether they are ter
ritorial aquisition, inter-oceanic canals.
or the establishment of money stand
ard. They should put themselves upon
the high plane of real Democratic prin-
ciple which is a part of the history and
tradition of our country. They should
demand the punishment of grafters of
high or low degree. the lowest possible
tariff taxation for revenue only, and
not for the pockets of greedy and
grasping monopolists. They should
relegate dead issues to the charnel house
of the past and cease to bow in
the dust before men who seek to tie
the great historic Party to Populite and
Socialistic ideas, with a view to pleas
ing people who live in States which
never have aided and never will aid in
electing a Democratic President They
should nominate a ticket which will
appeal to the reason and good sense of
the great mass of voters in the pivotal
States, whose support is absolutely es-
sential to success.