The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-04
Comes Out In Support of the
Democrat National Ticket.
Issues an Address to Association
of Democrat Clubs.
PLEDGES HIS SUPPORT.
And That of His Newspapers to
Parker and Davis.
Urges Club Members to 60 to
Work for the Cause.


doIph Hearst, president of the Ma
tionaI Association of Democratic clubs,
has issued an address to the associa-
ton urging upon its members "spe-
cial activity and untiring energy from
now until the closing of the polls. :"
Mr.. Hearst's address says in part:
"I hope that every official and ev-
cry individual member of every club
in our association will do all that he
can and more than ever before-to
promote and expound the interests and
the beliefs of genuine Jeffersonian
Democracy.
Il call upon all members of the
clubs to begin earnest campaign work
Immediately, to reorganize where re-
organization is necessary and especial
ly to respond promptly and energet-
ically to every suggestion that may
come from the national management
of the Democratic party.
Il have offered my services and
those of my newspapers to the man
ayers of the Democracy, and insofar
as have felt justified as your presi-
dent in so doing, 1 have offered the
much greater influence of the Ma
tional Association of Democratic
ton of all the members to further
effort on the lines of that genuine
democracy in which ma ajOrity of the
American people believe.
There are special reasons why the
Democrats of the United States should
assert themselves and work energet-
tcally in this campaign
First and foremost there is the
permanent duty before US alive
must restore the government of this
country to the hands of the people
for whom and by whom the govern
ment was created.
LAS Democrats Interested
especially this year in repudiating and
dtsproying by earnest, sincere work
the charges made against US. The
president in his formal letter of ac-
ceptance calls all Democrats hypo-
critics and time-servers. He says that
they are compelled to inprovise their
convictions and that it is no wonder
they forget their convictions over
night.
1T is the duty of the members of the
National Association of Democratic
proving that Democrats have princi-
pies, and permanent principles.
I'VE should unite to preach our Dem.
ocratic beliefs from now until election
day and to vote for those principles on
that day.
THE Democratic party has a great
respect for vested rights-it has also a
great hatred of vested wrongs, no mat
tecedents. Democrats believe in the
statement of their platform that the
rights of labor are certainly no less
vested, no less sacred and no less in
alienable than the rights of capital
Democrats denounce the expectation
without process of law of workingmen
and women from the state of Colorado
or from any other part of American
OF anarchy and especially that which
puts the executive OF a state, backed
by the militia above the laws and
above the courts.
the thieves out of the postoff1ce and all
ether branches of public service from
the United States senate all the way
down.
prosperity is public property and that
not even the occupant of the White
House should turn men of war into pri-
vate yachts or make of the officers and
wants of the presidents household.
The Democratic party believes in ex-
pansion-it is the party of expansion
as Jefferson was Americas greatest ex-
pansionist. But it is opposed to inn-
perialism-
THE Democratic platform says:
We denounce protection as a rob-
berry of the many to enrich the few
platform says.
They know that through protection
the trusts rob the public, workingmen
and businessmen alike. And Democrats
If elected will find a way to pull away
from the trusts their protecting cloak
the tariff.
1.-The with a heartily pledged sup
port of the Monroe doctrine. a demand
that the service Of the old soldiers
be fairly and generously recognized,
and a vigorous protest against the at
tempt of President Roosevelt to stir
up race hatred as an engine of politi-
cal advancement constitute the main
features of the latest Democratic
platform worded to meet the especial
I'VE Democrats hold now in what
we did 100 years ago to the doctrine
of equal rights for all and especial
privileges for none; while Mr. Roose-
velt's party and Mr.. Roosevelt with
every appointment in his gift bestowed
upon some trust puppet, hold to the
doctrine of special favors for those
who can and will pay.
s'WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
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