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ties good enough for our Presidents in
the DAYS of Washington and Madison and
Adams; qualities good enough in the old
times when our Presidents contented
themselves with executing the laws, as
they found them and left the Legislature
to make the laws and the courts TO IN
tcrpret them; but qualities, l suppose.
according to he views of Senators on
the other side, that are altogether un-
suited for President in these strenuous,
pipinr twentieth century days.
What according to them, these times
I suppose demand for President is man
of aggression; a man of dash and initia-
tive: a man, who, when the laws do not
suit him. has the grit to change he laws;
a man who. when he wants a treaty with
a foreign government and can not get
it. has the courare to say that he was
about to report the matter to Congress
in order to see whether he should pro-
coed, treaty or no treaty, to carry out
his policy.
The Senator from Wisconsin said that
what the Democrats wanted was can.
didate for the Presidency whom we could
hold up to the people, on the one hand,
as trust buster and whom we could
hold up to the business interests of the
country, on the other hand, as a safe
man for heir interests. at once trust
buster and a safe man for the business
interests of the country-is there any In
consistency in that?
What legitimate business interest In
this coun." will be injured or endan-
gered by the destruction of the illegal
trusts? What legitimate business inter.
est in this country will not be benefited
by the destruction of the illegal trusts?
Will not therefore trust buster be also
a safe man to the business interest OF
the country, and, G converse, will not a
man who will be a safe man for the bus
mess interest of the country likely be
a trust buster?
Perhaps the Senator meant to charge,
though he did not so say, that the Dem
ocratic party wanted a candidate whom
il could hold up to the people as trust
buster and to the trusts as one VINO
would be friendly to them If that is
what he meant to charge Or to init
mate, he probably had in mind a specta-
Gle, sad spectacle, which the country
has recently been called upon to witness
the spectacle of President held up
to the people as the original and only
genuine trust buster-while his Attornes
General his great lord nigh executioner
of trusts with the assistance of scores
OF assistant and district attorneys scat
tered throughout the country at his com
mand with a special appropriation OF
100000 for this purpose at his service.
with two or three hundred predatory
years or more of superhuman efforts to
destroy the trusts. has finally succeeded
in finding and bringing two of these trusts
to trial; and now, lest the balance OF
them should take fright is seeking to
calm them with the assurance that this
Administration does not intend to run
'amuck' in its trust-busting policy
Think of it, Mr.. President, two trusts
in two years; an average of one year!
At this rate the Republican party Will
in about three hundred years have de.
stroyed all the trusts, provided no addi
tional trusts are formed in the mean
time.
1 repeat that trust the Democratic
party will have the good sense and the
WISDOM as / see it, to nominate a man
who is the antithesis of the present occu
pant of the White House and that the
people of this country may have an op-
portunity to say whether they war t.zyss
President who will execute their We 81
a. President who will bend them shis
will.
Mr. President the Senators in these
postoffice discussions have twitted us with
alleged disagreements as to the issues as
well as candidates, and charged that the
Democratic party stood for nothing and
could not agree upon anything. The
Democratic party is more than hundred
years DID, During the last forty years
of its history it has been out of power
thirty-two years, believe, and yet not
withstandlng these repeated defeats IN
the last two Presidential elections nearly
one-half of the popular vote of this
country was polled for the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency for Mr..
Bryan did not lose either time by very
large majority upon the popular vote.
If the Democratic party does not repre-
sent anything; if it does not stand for
anything, for any principles or policies
which are fundamental and immutable,
any principles and policies which are,
near and dear to the patriotic heart and
aspirations and to the vital welfare or
the people of this country, why is it that
dasnite these defeats of the last half
century such large portion OF the peo-
pie of this countrv today worship at the
shrine OF that party?
Mr.. President to say that this great
party, which was so years old when the
Republican party was Lorn and which
has survived eight defeats IN ten PrcSi-
Dental elections, stands for nothing vital
in our national life is to impeach the
intelligence and patriotism OF practically
one-half of the people OF this countryi
The truth Is, the Democratic party is q
great organization and the Republican
party is a great organization, both deal
to the hearts of millions of good and
patriotic citizens; both of them have {
great past; both of them have accom-
plished great things for this nation and
the world, and both Will live to accom-
plish greater things Tor the nation and
for the world In the future.
To the charge that the Democratic
party has no cand date and no issues,
have only this answer to make at this
time: The essential principle of Democ-
Iacy is that all authority is derived from
those who constitute its membership. It's
candidates are nominated, it's views and
positions upon questions growing out of
current and transient politics are for
INFLATED and proclaimed by its conven-
tons; but the fundamental principles
which underlie this great party--the
principles which brought it into exist
ence and which have been to it the
breath of life through the limitations or
century-are the same today as in the
day of Jefferson, its great founder.
ELEMENTS OF DISCORD.
Mr.. President, Senators on the other
side of the Chamber show strange anx,
iety about our disagreements. Have they
no discord and divisions in their own
ranks? Would it not be well for them
to look to conditions in their own house.
hold? They are indeed agreed when it
comes to making ante-election pledges