Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1904-07-01
REPUBLIOAN PLATFORM.

Concerning the national platform of the
Republican party adopted at Chicago last
week, Chairman Cowherd, Of the Democrat.
ic Congressional Committee. says:
Heretofore the Republican party has bad
record for boldness. At Chicago 1t estab.
lished record for timidity and evasion.
1.-THE platform is remarkable, mainly for
what 1t does not say. The labor situation
is as acute as at any time in our history, yet
there Is no announcement in regard TO 1t.
"There is no longer war In the Philip
pines. Surely the country is entitled at
least TO know what is TO be the future pol
Icy Is to those islands--the Philippine plank
does not disclose 1t.
The tariff plank lie an open straddle-to
be used as promise Of reduction OF duties
70 the voters and apledge OF their malnte
nance 10 the manufacturers.
"GoveFnor Cummins says 1T justIfies the
Iowa idea.'
Governor Grosvenor says: 1t is stand.
pat plank
chairman Payne says; 1t leaves the
I question OPEN
vt was evidently not intended as plank,
but trap.
THE platform says: Our administration
OF the great departments OF the government
has been honest This, 10 the face Of the
notorious frauds discovered In the postoffice
department; the scandals In the land aud
Indian bureaus, which the Secretary of the
Interior is concealing with 30 much diff
Guilty, and the forced adjournment of Con
gress In order TO prevent any investigation,
must be taken either as sarcasm or humor |
THE negro plank is the only honest |
plank In the platform-it Is infamous. Nc.
Kinley's noble utterances above Southern |
graves, his openly recognized policy of a
white rule for Southern States, was thought
by patriotic men to signal the death of Sec
tionasm
"Roosevelt's negro policy, joined to Lodges
force bill, will revive it. The Crumpacker
resolution, discarded by Republicans OF the
House and Senate alike, has been forced by
the President upon his party. 1t will prove
the worst mistake among many. Every
patriotic citizen anxious for his country's
future, wishing 10 see preserved the purity
oil the Anglo-S Saxon race and American in.
situations, is willing the Southern States
shall adopt any legal expedlent that will
save that lair land from the control of an
Ignorant and debased suffrage"
The Washington Post, speaking of the
Republican platform, says:
ut means anything, promises everything,
commits Mr.. Roosevelt TO nothing. Its
claims are valid or preposlerous, according
TO the temper and the intellectual equip.
ment OF the analyst. Ia any event, how.
ever, 1t belongs to the wranglers and the
pedants. The fighting millions will take no
more note OF IL than Of the nebulae hypoth.
esis or the pons asinorum when Mr.. RoOse-
welt goes riding down TO battle with the
glittering legions In his brilliant wake.
This Is Mr.. Roosevelrs fght-nothing
more-nothing less.
Attorney General VIM, Shepard Bryan,
Jr, OF this State, speaking Of the platform
adopted by the Republican convention, with
particular reference to the plank dealing
with the reduction of the representation Of
Southern States in Congress, says:
"The Republican platform says we favor
such Congressional action as shall determine
whether by special discrimination the elect.
I've franchise in any State has been uncon.
stitutionally limited, and IL such is the case
we demand that representation in Congress
and the electoral college shall be proper
tionally reduced, as directed by the Cousti.
tuition OF the United States
"The only lawful and effective method Of
determining whether by special discrimina-
tons the elective franchise in any State has
been nnconstitutionally limited is through
some appropriate action by legal proceed
!ngs TO bring the matter before the United
States Supreme Court II that tribunal
should determine that any attempt of any
of the Southern States to limit the franchise
was unconstitutional II would set aside as
null and void the Objectionable legislation,
and thst would be an end To the matter.
aft any such uniform Legislation were
adopted by Congress II would probably
make larger proportionate reduction 10 |
the representation Of the South than In any |
other section OF the country. But this loss |
Of few Congressman and of vote or two |
10 the electoral college would be very small |
price TO pay for the great benefit which
would accrue in the more orderly, decent |
aud economical local government of that
section from the elimination, by any lair and
delensible legislation, of the illiterale mass
OF irresponsible, non-taxpaying, easily de.
luded black voters
III think II is very probable, however, that
the whole plank in the Republican platform
Is not meant seriously aud IL is only SAM
Pile OF MIR. Roosevets brag and blusler. IL
Is u belated attempt To revive in more mod
ern form the bloody shirt sentiment which
was used so long to appeal To the baser and
more narrow minded elements of the Re.
publican party.
"This plank In the Republican platform lie
on par with Mr., Roosevelts cheap pose as
the friend OF human equality, which caused
him to have his nomination seconded by a
respectable colored attorney of this city at
the Chicago convention aud which also
caused him some time ago to parade before
the country as his dining companion an
other respectable oolored mana colored
man, by the way, entirely too respectable to
be used as the vehicle Tor Mr. Roosevelt's
self advertisement"
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Ion Perdicaris, the American citizen, aud
Cromwell Marley, the British subject ar,