The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-12

! lCOntlnueQ rom Inlrd Page.l confers immediate benefit upon priv
 ileged few who secure the enactment of
 the law does not find it's way by indefi-
 mite and devious ways back to the pock-
 cts of the many sometimes confuses the
 mind, but to say thou shalt not steal" | by or in defiance of law. And so in deal- I ing with the trusts, with finance, with
 labor problems and with all the other
 questions at issue we must view them
 From moral standpoint and arraign
 every evil at the bar of the public con- science. will it win? Nothing else
 will give permanent success. As the
 martyrs who eighteen hundred years ago. kneeling in prayer while hungry
 beasts devoured them, invoked power lmightier than the legions of Rome. so to-day it is not only possible but neces-
 sary to appeal to that moral sentiment
 which. when aroused. will brave more potent than the purse.
 He spoke of the ten capitals of the
 old world which he had visited and said
 that they were watching this countrys
 doings very carefully, and that they all | ANSdA1C uS Witl tAlc ll1COt AiiQly l6Gl- 1 ing, without single antipathy In closing he said: "Of all statesmen
 which are dear to the memory of all
 Americans, there was not more hon. est or sincere statesman than Andrew Jackson"
 The next speaker introduced was Att torney Henry G. Newton. He was in- | troduced as 8 republican, and he said that, although he was one, he was glad
 to be present. He then gave an elo- quent and witty address.
 Governor Garvin, of Rhode Island,
 was next introduced and spoke on ''The
 Mission of Democracy He believed that, despite the increase of foreign
 born population, New England was sol | idly republican to-day wholly by the l increased power of money in elections, accompanied, as 1t has been, by the
 drift of nearly all men of wealth into
 the republican party. And this is true of every state of the Union The influ- ence of money in determining the re- suit of an election was unbounded, The
 newspapers, too, were chiefly republi- can and catered to their wealthy pa- Il ] hesive power of public plunder' is tri- l fling compared to the cohesion effected
 by an abundant supply of money placed 1 at the absolute disposal of a shrewd l party manager. Such is this money po- 1 tency that republican managers usually
 know well enough beforehand how an election IS going. Direct bribery is called into requisition, and the corrup- l tion of election officials.
 No wonder republicans control things in New England. Only by a fiuke oc- casionally can democrats win. Yet
 New England's people are at heart | democratic, and a large majority of | New England's republicans are, in sem timent, democrats. The moneyed men, though few comparatively, who supply | the campaign funds, dictate the policy | of the party and the course of legisla- l ton. They are aided by appeals to
 race prejudices, party spirit and the
 machinery of election which invites corrupt practices.
 The one way to change all this is through an alteration of it's constitu- l tional environment. We must agree upon an amendment sufficiently funda- mental to destroy the dominance of
 money in elections and substitute for it the will of the majority The speediest and surest remedy seems to be for the people to gain direct and complete con- trol of their state and national consti- tutions.
 l At the conclusion of Governor Gar wins address the party adjourned to
 the Hyperion, where the evening exer-
 cises were held.