Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-02
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government by consent; for free
dom of the press, of conscience
and of speech; freedom for the
person defended by the writ of
habeas corpus; liberty of per
sonal contract untrammeled by
sumptuary laws; supremacy of
the civil over the military au-
thority; separation of church and
state; economy in expenditures !;
low taxes that labor may be
lightly burdened; prompt and sa-
cred fulfllment of public and pri-
vate obligations; fidelity to trea-
ties; peace and friendship with
all nations, entangling alliances
with none; absolute acquiescence
in the will of the majority, the vi
tai principle of republics; taxation
for public purposes only; econ
omy in the administration of pub
lie affairs; honesty in the public
service; no governmental con-
tracts with trusts; no usurpation
of legislative and judicial func-
ton by the executive; opposition
to colonial exploitation on the
exercise of arbitrary and imper-
ial power, but that all power shall
be limited by constitutional re-
strictions which shall be faithfully
observed; to do for the Filipinos
what we have done already for
the Cubans-and it is the Demo-
cratic policy to make the prom.
Use of independence to them now.
The Democratic party is OPP
posed to creating monopoly and
trusts by tariff taxation, believing
that all taxes should be for pub
lie purposes; that trusts and prl-
vate monopoly are indefensible
and intolerable and exist only by
favors granted to them by Con-
gress and the executive; that
equality of opportunity and free
competition are essential to a
healthy and permanent CONNER
cial prosperity, and that any eco
nomic system which creates mo,
nopoly, controls production, re.
stricts competition or fixes prices
and wages should be prohibited
and punished by law; and labor
and capital should not be enc
mics. These are some of the
things the Democratic party
stands for in this campaign, and
which are written in the plat
form.
There is not an issue before
the country today that the st.
Louis convention did not place IN
the platform, nor single issue
that the platform does not reach.
A party that shouts about pros
perity and claims every blessing
which sun and rain produce, can
not meet the issues presented by
the Democrats in this campaign.
The party that stands for imper-
ialism, for the "big stick" and
against the doctrine of govern
ment by consent, and which de-
clares that to promise independ-
ence to a people struggling for
freedom will make rebellious sub
jects of them, is too ignorant or
too dishonest to discuss the ques-
tions involved in the campaign.
What does Judge Parker stand
for? Read his court decisions;
read his speeches and letters
since the nomination and none
will be left to doubt, except those
whose opinions are so mixed with
ignorance or partisan hate as to
strip them of all political import
ance. Then read the Republican
platform and speeches and letters
of Roosevelt. And then let the
intelligent American voter draw
the comparison. On the one hand
you may read the doctrine of the
Republic as understood by our
fathers, supported by the un-
daunted courage and mastery in
tellect of Alton Brooks Parker;
while on the other hand, you
may read the declaration pre-
pared at Washington by the
trusts and monopolies and sup
porters, and represented by an
erratic, vain and spectacular man
in the person of Theodore Roose-
welt who denies the doctrine writ
ten in the Declaration of indie
pendence and the limitations OF
the constitution by the builders of