Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-13

HON. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST,
81 nave offered my services and those
of my newspapers to the managers of
the democracy, and in so far as l have
felt justified as your president in so doing
l have offered the much greater influence
of the National Association of Democrat
ic clubs, pledgipg the honest co-opera-
ton of members to further effort on the
lines of that genuine democracy in which
a majority of the American people be-
lieye. Ill
democrats of the United States should as
sert themselves and work energetically
in this campaign.
First and foremost, there is the per-
manent duty before us alive must re-
store the government of this country to
the lands of the people, for whom and
by whom the government was created.
"As democrats we are interested, espe-
cially this year, in repudiating and dis
charges made against us.
''The president of the United States, in
his formal letter of acceptance, calls all
democrats hypocrites and ,time-servers.
He says they are compelled to improvise
their convictions and that it is no Won
der they forget their convictions over
hight.
Democratic clubs and of all democrats
to unite in proving that democrats nave
principles, and permanent principles.
1--WE should unite to preach our demo-
| cratic beliefs from now till election day,
and to vote for those principles on that
day,
| Spect for vested rights-it has also a
great hatred of vested wrongs, no matter
how long or respectable their antecedents.
Democrats believe in the statement of
their platform that the rights of labor
are certainly no less vested no less
sacred and nc less 'i~nalienable' than the
rights of capital. 81
democrats ~denounce the deportation,
without process of law, of ~workingmen
and women from the state of Colorado or
from any other part of American soil.
The democracy detests all kinds of an
archy, and especially that which puts the
executive of a state, backed by the
militia, above the laws and above the
courts.
THE democracy believes in putting the
thieves out of the post office and all
other branches of public service, from
the United States senate all the way
down.
THE democrats believe that public
property is public property, and that not
even the occupant of the White House
should turn men-of-War into private
yachts or make of the officers and sail
ors of the navy the domestic servants Of
the presidents household.
THE democratic party believes in ex-
pansion-it is the party of expansion. as
Jefferson was Americas greatest expan-
sionist. But it is opposed to Imperialism.
1.-THE democratic platform says: we
denounce protection as a robbery of the
many to enrich the few and democrats
mean exactly what the platform avs
"They know that through protection the
trusts rob the public, working men and
business men alike. And democrats, if
elected, will find a way to pull away
from the trust their protecting cloak, the
tariff.
'These, with a heartily pledged support
of the Monroe doctrine, a demand that
the services of the old soldiers be fairly
and generously recognized, and a vigor-
Gus protest against the attempt of Pres
ident Roosevelt to stir up race hatred
as an engine Of political advancement,
constitute the main features of the latest
democratic platform, worded to meet the
especial conditions and emergencies of
the day.
1--WE democrats hold now, as we did one
hundred years ago, to the doctrine of
equal rights for all and special privileges
for none; while Mr.. Roosevelt's party and
Mr.. Roosevelt, with every appointment in
his gift bestowed on some trust puppet,
hold to the doctrine OF special favors for
those who can and will pay.
[Sienedl
"WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST"