Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-19

publican party and vote its ticket with en-
the
he Is justly proud Of II, can Justly confide
In 1t, for 1t has stood by its principles
through storm as well as sunshine. and no
matter how bad you and may think its
creed is, we are bound to admit that the
republican party has q creed, is willing to
fight for it, Is willing to cling to 1t in de-
feat and continue to struggle for 1t until
victory comes again. But why any human
being should in the year 1904 vote the ma
tional democratic ticket is something that
passes my untutored comprehension. l
can understand why the citizen could vote
a local democratic ticket; can understand
how in some cities and in some states that
party may be struggling to do some dis
tfnct thing which he believes ought to be
tell me why any sane and sober citizen
should in this campaign vote the national
democratic ticket.
Parker Bided His Time.
What principle of democracy does it
stand for? What does it propose to do for
the people, different from what the repub-
licans are doing? To what point Is it d.
recting its line of march, except to the re-
publican camp? Surrounded by the Wall
street magnates who had financed his cam
paign for two years. Judge Parker bided
his time till the perils of the two-thirds
rule were passed, and when it was too late
for even the democratic bosses require
more than fifteen minutes to turn com
pletely round in-he cracks the Wall street
whip over the heads Of his leaders, and
with prompt obedience the great demo-
cratic legions were made to furl their
flags and reverse their line of march.
The mass of the democratic party feel
outraged at the way in which their leaders
have sold them to Wall street. do not be-
lieve that the six and half million men
who followed Bryan. with cheers ON their
lips and warm convictions in their hearts,
can now be delivered like cattle to the
Clevelandites who knitted the ticket or bolt
ed 1t in 1896. l believe that the great ma
jority of the men who voted for Bryan are
men of conviction; / cannot but nope they
will realize that l am fighting their battle
now.
Peoples Party Unchanged.
Where are the voters who followed the
fortunes of the democratic standard-bearer
in 1896 and 1900? Were they men of con-
viction? Did they honestly believe in the
principles they professed? I believe that
they did. Acting upon that belief, our
party joined hands with the democrats who
had adopted our PLATFORM and l myself did
yeoman service for Bryan-stumping his
own state and helping to give Nebraska's
vote to him. Tonight, / remind the demo-
cratic voters that the peoples party stands
just where it did then, and If they believed
In our principles then they ought to come
with us now.
1 call upon the six and a half million
voters whose political faith was crystallizad
In the Chicago platform of 1896 and in the
Kansas City platform of 1900, and l ask
them. What is there in the democratic
platform of 1904 that bids you hope? What
is there for you in that platform? What do
you get out of it? To what extent does
Parker represent you? What is 1t that he
proposes to do for you? If you believe In
republican doctrines, why vote for Parker?
Why not "go the whole hog or none and
vote for Roosevelt? BY what right do the
democratic leaders undertake to preach
and expound to the American people any
economic questions?
Amazing Effrontery.
1t seems to me to be the most amazing
piece of effrontery for the democratic party
to go before the American people and pro-
claim that for eight years they have been
wrong and the republicans have been right,
and at the same time demand that the
crowd which has been wrong shall be put
in the places of those who have been right.
1t would. indeed. be a miracle If any such
thing would happen, and far as 1 am
l do not believe that it will
happen.
Why do say so? Because I believe that
If the gold standard be right as both of the
old parties now say that 1T is, the people
of the country will give the credit and the
support to the men who were brave enough
It's triumph.
But we are told that the democratic party
has taken a brave stand on the tariff Ques-
ton. 1t has declared that protection is
If that declaration means any
thing it certainly means that any protec-
ton. however small. is dishonest. But they
would never dare to say that the Ameri-
can people must construe that language to
mean what it ordinarily would mean. Even
those who claim that the words mean "a
tariff for revenue only will find cold COM
fort in the letter of their candidate who
declares that while he would be glad TO see
a revision of the tariff, he knows that he
cannot bring 1t to pass. To save the trou-
bic of any doubt upon that great subject.
he stands in his capitula ton to the repub-
means before single gun is fired. The
the standard bearer of democracy COM
mences his retreat. Therefore, the great
tarin question may be considered as "waiy-
ed" just as the great money unas+,nr :,
waived" 80
Let US see what else the national demo-
cratic party presents as an issue. In their
PLATFORM they declare that further leeisla
.ion rs needed against the trusts. But their
Candidate In his speech of acceptaace
says that we have as much law as we
need. FOR all practical purposes there
1ore, the attitude Of the national democrats
on the trust question is precisely the same
as that OF the national republicans.
No Difference on Imperialism
but we are told that On the question or
imperialism there is a difference vital and
far reaching, between the republicans and
the democrats. What is 1t? We have seen
that Judge Parker is in favor OF granting
local self-government to the Philippine Is
lands when they become prepared for II.
When will they become prepared for ~
Judge Parker does not state WIN IT ne
-FOUR years, forty years. 400 years? NO
mortal can tell what the Judge means. But
ne certainly does not express the intention
TO do anything whatever about it during
his term. If he should be elected, nor does
ne specify wherein the republicans have
gone wrong in the management of that
question. Let us presume that Judge Par
ker. against whose character / would not
venture to say a word, for believe him to
be an eminently worthy man-let us pre-
sumo, l say, that Judge Parker, as the
champion and representative of the great
democratic party, has the courage OF his
convictions. If we do presume this. his
failure to- state wherein he would make any
change in the policy which the republicans
are pursuing in the Philippines, Is the most
significant bit of silence in all Of the vari-
Gus and interesting bits of silence to be
found In Judge Parker's remarkable speech
of acceptance.
Where does the democratic national party
stand on the labor question? Can anybody
tell?
We know what its record is We have
not forgotten how q no COL Of ho Dull