Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09

him as hers. The act or MS lie winch ilt'
father loved to cherish was the vote, Wilica
lie rosc from his dying bed to give. ana III
| the Senate of the United States cast
against thai measure of republican tyranny
fittingly called the force bill.
Nor are his views and sentiments Sc
cret. Speaking through the agency OF
public voice heard daily by millions on
every nook and corner of the country, his
| thoughts have been given utterance. You
| know where he stands. You know him as
one who. whilst insisting upon justice for
| the black man. has set face of flint
| against all attempts of republican schemers
| to clothe him with authority or to impose
| him as an official over a people in whose
memories the humiliation. the horrors and
| the untold agonies of reconstruction meas
ureS re still fresh. You know him as one
who considers that the problem which amid
; fields devastated and homes made desolate
| by the hand of war, has come to you a
dread legacy of the past. as a problem with
which you alone are competent to deal and
that in dealing with it the government
| should let the south alone. You know him
| as one who by unceasing appeals to the
| judgment and sense of justice has obtained
| from the best men of the north that SYM
pathy for the south which the ever-to-be
| lamented Grady had pleaded for in vain
! IN the very heart of enlightened Massa-
| chuSettS.
Gentlemen of the convention, men Of
| the north and of the south, of the east and
| or the west. accredited representa- tiveS OF
| the democracy. to you l say: Should your
nominee be man whose views upon pub
| lie questions are known. man whose at
| tltude upon the issue which at this time
confronts the American people accord with
| the principles of your party? If he should
where will there be found one equal to
him whose cause we are here to advocate?
The Trusts.
1t has been said and truly said that no
campaign ever decides more than one is
sue. What. then. is the issue which divides
TODAY Ia Iernncr,t:c
| ties? What is the fundamental principle
upon which they are in antagonism? What
is the essential thing which democracy
stands for and which republicanism antag-
on1zes? Is it Ell question of tariffs Or Of
tarl11 revision? A Que ston of standards of
money? question of regulating the cur
rency or controlling the banks? A ques-
ton of expansion or of imperialism? No.
important as these are, the question Is
greater than any or all of these. 1t in
ciudeS them all. 1t is true, but it includes
much more. 1T is question which touches
the very foundations of our institutions
and strikes at the very existence of our
government. Let euphemistic babblers
gloss 1t over rs they may; let trmmers who
SHIFT their sails to every political breeze
that blows. evade it as they can: let time
servers who usurp the name of democracy
affect to Sneer at it as they will still the
question which confronts the American
people today. which has confronted them
with ever growing insistence since the civil
war, Is whether this government shall be
carried on for the benefit of the peOpIe
and of the whole people, or whether #
shall be manipulated for the benefit of
privileged class; whether it's great depart
Inents' legislative, executive and judicial
shall be perpetuated for the benefit of
rights of ALL or whether they shall be per-
rerted into the plastic Instruments of syn
Dictated capital
Gentlemen of the convention if this is
not the paramount issue of this campaign.
what Is the issue? If this is not the funda-
mental question upon which the two par
ties differ. In what way do they differ If
the republican party does not stand today
as the party of the privileged classes and
as the exponent of the money power. for
"hat does 1t stand? And if the democratic
party does not represent the antithesis Of
all THIS, what does it represent?
The Cause Of the People.
IF the cause of the peopIe-of the plain
people-of the unnumbered multitudes who
each morn implOre heaven to give them
their daily bread, and who by daily toll
earn the right to the fulfllment of their
prayer Is not the cause of democracy. what
is the cause? If its mission is not to defend
the equal rights of those who constitute
the countless hosts of labor-not of labor
III narrow Or restricted sense not of
labor confined to those only who receive "a
daily wage. not of labor organized in guilds
or unions alone but of labor in its broad
and catholic sense-of labor which includes
all those who work with hand or BRAIN and
who, whether In fields of waving grain in
the glare of the forge in the smoke of the
furnace amid the whir of ever-restless
Wheels, In the depths of mines in the me-
phltic air of collieries. upon the decks of
noatinS craft, at the desk of the counting
house, in the chemists laboratory among
the books of the lawyers library in the
merchants shop. or wherever else upon the
earth may be found those who fulfill the
great Creators law that man shall eat his
bread in the sweat of his brow-if 1 say,
TO defend the equal rights of these the UNI
privileged and less favored. be not the
mission of democracy, what mission has 1t q?
If to protect them from the schemes of
spoiatlon and plumber of syndicated wealth
is not the justification for it's existence
what justification has 1t to exist?
AYE. gentlemen If the cause of the plain
people is not the cause to which you are
| pledged devoted, cOnsecrated by the very
name you bear by what title do you call
yourselves democrats? By what right do
| you usurp the name of him whose memory
| you profess to venerate, whose precepts you
| approve In your platform. whose examples
| you claim to emulate? BY what right do
| you style yourselves followers of him who
| said. 1 hope we shall crush in its birth the
| ar1stocracy of our moneyed corporations
which dare already to challenge our gov
| eminent to a trial of strength and bid de-
| tlance to the laws of our country'-of him
| whose cardinal maxim was equal rights for
| all, special privilege for nOne-of him whose
| whole life was one incessant battle Waged
| against the oppression of the many for the
benefit of the few?
Il repeat 1t. sirs, if the cause of the I'M
privileged and the less favored be not your
cause. to secure them equal rights be not
your mission: if to protect them glinSt the
| oppression of syndicated capital be not the
justification of your existence as a party
| aye. sirs, ii you are here today bent upon
Outdoing republicans in trucuent subserv-
| iency to the money oliarchs of Wall
| street; if you are here tremulous with
| apprehension for fear of giving them
offense; If you are here cherishiag the
| hope of placating their antagonsm winning
| their favor by SubServiency and regaining
| office and place by the aid of their influence
| and the corrupting power Of their gold-if
| the party has sunk so low. if it has reached
| this depth of contemplate GGgeneracy rise
| from thy grave, immortal spirit that sleep
! 9Th undec the sod of Monticello, rise and re
| buke the recreant democracy, which with
hypocrisy in It's heart and Il lie upon its
| lips dares usurp the name of Jefferson.
A Jeffersonian Democrat.
| Not among these shall our candidate be
| found. Not to this class does his democ-
| racy belong. His politca! practice and DO
| litical creed find fitting expression in his ad-