Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-06
The Silver Question.

gram ana IN MS speech OF acceptance that
if elected he will assume that the silver
question is settled. If Mr.. Champ Clark be
correct, the acquiescence of a democratic
President In republican legislation on the
silver question will avail very little unless
his party also consents to acquiesce. This
it has not agreed to do. The answer of the
convention to the telegram is as follows
THE platform adopted by this convention
is silent on the question of the monetary
standard because it is not. regarded by US
as a possible issue in this campaign, and
only campaign issues were mentioned in the
platform"
Notice the guarded language employed:
only campaign issues are mentioned in the
platform" Congressional issues-issues that
may arise during the admlnistration-are all
omitted. The party confesSes to have put
into its platform only those things which 1t
hopes may help during the campaign. and
to have omitted everything likely to cause
embarrassment during the campaign. If
during Mr.. Cleve!ands administration (be-
cause President can be no better than his
party let them come after election.
Democrats on Trusts.
The democratic party is equally divided
on the subject of trusts, and the candidate
is again at variance with his party decla-
rations. The democratic platform in speak
ing OF trusts employs this language:
I'VE demand the enactment Of such
further legisla ton as may be necessary to
effectually suppress them. Any trust or
unlawful combination engaged in interstate
commerce which is monopolzing any branch
of business or production should not be per-
mitted to transact business outside of the
state of it's origin
Under the Sherman act no trust or combi-
nation engaged in interstate commerce
which monopoizes any branch of business
is permitted to do business even In the
state of its origin. But their platform goes
further and says:
Whenever it shall be established by any
court of competent jurisdiction that monop-
olization exists, such prohibition should be
enforced through comprehensive laws to be
enacted on the subject"
The Philippine Question.
There is similar disagreement between
the democratic party and it's candidate on
the Philippine question. The democratic
platform, looking only for issues to be
used in the campaign. said:
We insist that we ought to do for the
Filipinos what we have already done for
the Cubans, set the Filipino peo-
pie upon their feet. free and independent,
to work out their own destiny"
I'm his speech of acceptance the demo-
cratic candidate says:
The accident of war brought the Philip
pines into our possession, and are not
at liberty to disregard the responsibility
which thus came to us
nouncement of a responsibility was insert
ed. If it was on the advice of the great
New York city dailies he should have put
it in his telegram. Possibly he had been
reading President McKinley's speech of ac-
ceptance four years ago. and had taken jul
dicial notice that the people had approved
those patriotic utterances.
Judge Parker, if elected, would be in a
sorry plight trying to get consistent legfs-
lation at the hands of a discordant party.
out of harmony with each other and out of
harmony with himself. Not until the dem
ocratic party unite upon some economic
policy or some financial policy, or some in
sular policy or some trade-expansion pol
lev for purposes other than campaign use
will il be wise to elect a democratic candf-
date. however good or upright or learned
such candidate may be.
The Income Tax.
The democratic party of 1896. implicitly
at least. and many of the leading demo-
cratic orators openly, criticised the Supreme
Court for it's decision holding the income
| tax of 1894 unconstitutional. and some went
| far enough at least to intimate something
| more than a difference of opinion II Con-
| press has the right to investigate eo-ordi-
| nate branches of the government without
| Jet or hindrance why was not congress
| sional investigation of the Supreme Court
| proposed?
If one coordinate branch can investigate
another independent of impeachment pro-
| ceedings, 1t would seem at first blush that
| each coordinate branch might investigate
| both the others This, of course. has no
| reference to requests by the legislative
| branch for information needed in determin-
| ing questions OF legislation, nor to inquiries
| from the administrative branch concerning
! pending legislation. 1t has reference only
| to what the democratic platform demands
| congressional investigation of coordinate
branches.
Congressional Investigations in extreme
| cases are doubtless beneficial, but they are
/ yvtat nyF Tod fnr
| furnishing campaign pyrotechnics. 1t is
| bad enough for party to go on record, as
| our opponents did in their convention tele-
| gram to their candidate, that "only cam
1 paign issues were mentioned in the plat
| FORM" without inaugurating Investigations