The San Francisco call., 1904-10-10
SOLD TO WALL STREET.
Democrats Said to Have Gone Over
Body and Soul.

:, The Peoples party is helping the Repub-
hcahs' cry the Democratic leaders II these
leaders mad not abandoned their own platform
ana ana given over to Wall street we could not
have hurt anybody. As long as the Demo-
cratic party pretended to be Populist in prin-
clple the Populist party could not do business
Too Too many Of our men were dupes of the fraud
Inc moment the Democratic leaders dropped
our platform we seized upon II again and
We began to rehabilitate our own party Sell
out? Why, we have surrendered no convic-
tlons; we nave not parted with single plank
IN our platform. What have we sold? To
whom did we sell? If We had shed our politi-
ca cal garments as the Democratic bosses did at
line of our new creed and had put at the
mead mead or our ticket man who cannot state
Roosevelt. we would have hung our heads
every time We passed a mirror to keen from
LOOKING foosg INTO the eyes Of renegades to JEFF
Iersonian Democracy, servile tools of Northern
corporations. They went to st Louis with
principles; they came back without them: thev
were clay In the hands of the Pat McCarrens
of the Standard Oil Belmont of the I1o,IisviIie
ana Nashville. German of the sugar trust
The very first speech of the campaien was
made In Brooklyn by Senator Bailey of Texas
under the auspices of the Standard OIL Com
pany lobbyist, Pat McCarren The chosen ad-
vlsers OF Mr.. Parker the men who led
for the trusts and corporations when the tax
payers were looted during Cleveland's second
the foulest trust legislation of the last twentv
years to Carlisle. who wrote the sugar sched
Belmont 81 fba & OF the sugar trust and
down to Olney who in effect advised the
too willing Cleveland to lend the United states
army to the Pullman Palace Car Comnanv IN
Chicago. the notorious old band Of booSlsrs 70
are there. What may be expected of them
II II. Parker Is elected can be guessed by those
which rendered forever infamous the second
administration of Grover Cleveland.
The leopard has not changed his snots nor
the Ethiopian his skin; that Cleveland crowd
Is hungry; 1t has been 'out' a long time.
hsos woe unto UNI me people when that predatory
again.
What secret pledges have been made to the
Standard OIL? What is its motive for put
ting half a million dollars into Parker's cam
palgn fund? Are they afraid of Roosevelt. and
not afraid of Parker? What is the ground of
their preference for Parker? The STANDARD
on IS not In politics for health or pleasure
II always has an ak to grind What is the
notlve thls time! The sugar trust put S24O non
in the New York campaign alone when CIeve
land ran against Harrison; and all of US know
tho secret pledges which were publicly re-
deemed Arthur German and John G. Car
Isle saw to it that the tariff measure was so
people, by tens of millions. than they had
gotten under that eliminating atrocfty of class
legislation" the Mckinley bill Their Sena-
torial representative. Arthur German, has been
placed in open control of the Parker cam
paign; he has been the secret dictator from
the beginning-what will his client the sugar
trust get out of this election II Parker is
successful?
Wall street wants more bonds: the ma
chincry for getting them is there Just where
Cleveland left it: the same men who worked
Cleveland for bonds are steering Parker's cam
his confedcrated corporations? Is the ''endless
chain to be put in motion again? Voters who
injustice.
The wall-street organ. the New York
World, compelled Parker to speak out on the
money question: why should he not be COM
PEELED by the Hearst papers, and other really
Democratic papers, to speak out upon other
questions where the people have a right to
information?
What avails this cry about "extravagancep?
That the Government is run with reckless
cla
pay most of the tariff taxes is known OF by
all men. But who beIieves that either of these
penditure? Appropriations for administrations
on the increase everywhere. With the
going backward. The billion dollar Congress
OF the Republicans succeeded by Cleve-
land Congress pledged to rigid economy;
propriations reached the billion dollar mark
Harrison reduced the public debt by a quarter
billion dollars. and Cleveland was not long in
adding more than Harrison had taken away
1t was the Democratic Congress devoted to
rigid economy which allowed the Chicago
exposition to loot the Treasury of millions
time after time; and which gave to each men,
Der of the House clerk at 500 per month.
Besides, who could put faith in the pledges
victicn as the national Democracy? What
party ever made and broke so many pledges?
What party ever changed it's ground so often?
What other party unloaded all of its prin-
cIples ut one quick throw down as they did at
They elected Cleveland on free silver plat
form, and called special session to violate
the contract They promised to put an end to
national banks. and they issued new bonds
to keep them in life. Then. when the bank
charters expired. they united with the Repub-
licans to give national banks lease of
life for twenty years. They promised to re-
lieve the farmers from the Mckinley tariff
ard they increased the tax on lumber, nails,
horseshoes, riyets, tacks, screws, pipe. hues,
and wire They doubled the on molasses
and put an addition of $45. 600 to the price
which the people paying for sugar under
"the eliminating atrocity of class legislation,
the Mckinley act. They ptied the aborer and
promised to be his friend. and they let the
pullman Palace Car Company have the use of
the army to compel the submission of aborers
to a cut in wages. They promised to abolish
child labor and in those States of the South
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