Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-21
Acceptance Speeches Set the Woods and Prairies Attire
With Enthusiasm

| In the famous telegram Of 1904 their
candidate says. in effect, that he is I'M
alterably in favor of recommendation.
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.
vii! the PeooIo 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 blunder as they made upon
! the money question, they are going to
be trusted on any other question? I
| again ask, d4u 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
I so, how will they go about satisfying
the voter that they are honester today
than they were yesterday?
Amazing Effrontery.
| 1t seems to NE to he 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 il,
the places of those who have been
eight. 1t would indeed be a miracle
if any such thing would happen, and
so far as am concerned, l do not be-
lieve it will happen.
! Why do say so? Because T believe
that if the gold standard be right, IS
both the old parties now say il is, the
people of the country will give the
credit and the support to the men who
were brave enough to pioneer it's way
| fight it's battles and win it's triumph
But we are told the democratic party
has taken bold stand on the tariff
question. 1t has declared that protec.
} ton is robbery. If that declaration
means anything it certainly means tina
any protection. however small, is dis
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say that the American people mus
construe that language to mean wha
it ordinarily would mean Even thos,
who claim that the words mean IL
tariff for revenue only" will find COLI
comfort in the letter of their cand;
date who declares that. while he wou?(
be glad to see a revision of the tariff
he knows that ne can not bring it t.
pass.
To save. the trouble Of any doub
upon that great subject, he hands II
his capitulation 10 the republicans I've
fore single gun is fired.
The campaign has hardly beer
opened before the standard-bearer o
democracy commences his retreat
Therefore, the great tariff question
may be considered as "waived," jus
as the great money question il
waived"
Let us see what else the nationa
democratic party presents as an issue
III their platform they declare tina
further legislation is needed agains
the trusts. But their candidate in hi!
speech of acceptance, says that we hav,
as much law as we need. For all prac
tical purposes, therefore. the attitud,
of the national democrats on the trus
question is precisely the same as tina
OF the national republicans
And as further proof that the demo
cratic platform will never cause an,
loss of sleep to the Havemeyers, tn,
Rockefellers, you have only to remem
Der that in 1892 they denounced tn,
trusts and the protective tariff, with il
whose barriers all trusts are formed
in language equally as strong as tina
used in the platform of 1904; ant
when we cOnstrue the meaning of tn,
platform of '92 in the light of the ad
mitted infamies of Cleveland's secont
administration. with it's we'll remem
hered surrender to the sugar trust, thu
patriotic citizen might heartily ex
claim. God deliver us from another
redemption of democratic pledges OF
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 i.
it? We have seen that Judge ParkeI
is in favor of granting local self-gov
eminent to the Philippine islands whel
they become prepared for it. Whel
will they become prepared for it
Judge Parker does not state. Will i
be four years. forty years, four hun
dred years? No mortal can tell VIVA
the Judge means.
But he certainly does not expires,
the intention to do anything whatever
about it during his term, if he shoul<
be elected, nor does he specify wherein
the republicans have gone wrong il
the management of that question.
Let us presume that Judge Parker
against whose character 1 would no
venture to say q word. for I believ,
him to be an eminently worthy man
let us presume. say, that Judge Park
or, as the champion and Representative,
OF the great democratic party, has tn,
Il courage OF his convictions. If we d,
presume this, his failure to stat,
wherein he would make any change j,