Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-16
Acceptance Speeches Set the Woods and Praries Attire
With Enthusiasm.

| CauQlQaJe says, Ill eucCL, tudl Ne Is uu-
alterably in favor Of mono-metallism,
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
scheduled to take place If the repub-
licans carried out their policy on the
money question have been put aside
The great party which pledged itself
to the American people as unalterably
opposed have shifted over to the posi-
ton of being irrevocably in favor of
the gold standard.
VIII the People Forget?
Do the democratic leaders suppose
for one moment that the voters of this
country are going to forget the his
tory of the past eight years? Do they
imagine for a moment that, when they
stand in the attitude of confessing so
colossal a blunder as they made upon
the money question, they are going to
be trusted on any other question?
again ask, d. they know what they
were talking about during those eight
years, or were they simply deceiving
the American people?
Perhaps they were ignorant upon the
money question. If so, how will they
go about convincing the voters that
they are wiser today than they were
yesterday? But. perhaps, they knew
that the republicans were right and
were simply misleading the people. If
so, how will they go about satisfying
the voter that they are honester today
| than thew were ypStprday2
Amazing Effrontery.
1t seems to me to be the most amaz-
ing piece of effrontery for the demo-
cratic party to go before the American
people and proclaim that for eight
years they have been wrong and the
republicans have been right and at the
same time demand that the crowd
which has been wrong shall be put in
the places Of those who have been
If any such thing would happen. and,
so far as l am concerned, do not be-
lieve it will happen.
Why do l say SO? Because ! believe
that if the gold standard be right, as
both the old parties now say it is, the
people of the country will give the
credit and the support to the men who
were brave enough to pioneer its way,
fight its battles and win it's triumph.
But we are told the democratic party
has taken a bold stand on the tariff
question. 1t has declared that protcc-
J ton is robbery. If that declaration
means anything it certainly means that
any protection. however small, is dis
| h0nocf n,tt fhnv nc 6or n
say that the American people must
construe that language to mean what
it ordinarily would mean. Even those
who claim that the words mean "a
tariff for revenue only" will find cold
comfort in the letter of their cand;.
date who declares that. while he would
be glad to see a revision of the tariff,
lie knows that he can not bring it TO
pass. -
To save the trouble of any doubt
upon that great subject, he hands in
his capitulation 10 the republicans be-
| fore a single gun is fired.
The campaign has hardly been
urened before the standard-bearer of
democracy commences his retreat.
| Therefore, the great tariff question
nay be considered as waived" just
as the great money question is
waived"
| Let us see what else the national
democratic party presents as an issue.
In their platform they declare that
| further legislation is needed against
| the trusts. But their candidate in his
speech of acceptance, saws that we have
as n UGH law as we need. For all prac-
tical purposes, therefore. the attitude
of the national democrats on the trust
| question is precisely the same as that
Of the national republicans.
And as further proof that the demo-
cratic platform will never cause any
loss of sleep to the Havemeyers, the
Rockefellers. you have only to remem-
Der that in 1892 they denounced the
trusts and the protective tariff, with in
whose barriers all trusts are formed,
in language equally as strong as that
used in the platform of 1904; and
when we construe the meaning of the
| platform of '92 in the light of the ad-
mitted infamies of Clevelard's second
| administration. with its we'll remem-
bered surrender to the sugar trust, the
patriotic citizen might heartily ex-
claim, God denver us from another
redemption Of democratic pledges on
the subject of the tariff and trusts"
| But we are told that on the question
of imperialism there is difference,
vital and far reaching, between the re-
publicans and the democrats. What is
| it? We have seen that Judge Parker
Is in favor Of granting local self-gov-
eminent to the Philippine islands when
they become prepared for 1t. When
will they become prepared for It?
Judge Parker does not state. Will it
be four years. forty years, four hun
dred years? No mortal can tell what
the judge means.
| But he certainly does not express
the intention to do anything whatever
about it during his term. IL he should
be elected. nor does he specify. wherein
the republicans have gone wrong In
the management of that question.
Let us presume that Judge Parker,
against whose character I would not
venture to say word, for believe
! him to be an eminently worthy man
let us presume, say, that Judge Park
er. as the champion and representative
of the great democratic party, has the
courage of his convictions. If we do
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