The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-10-13

a question each citizen should put to his
own intelligence before ne votes.
BY a dictatorial tone. amounting to
menace. Judge Parker was driven by the
New York World into the sending of tns
telegram which told the Democratic con-
vention for the first time. and many
hours after Parker hai secured tie nom
nation, that me gold standard was 'ir-
revocably fixed" Neither then nor in
any utterance afterward did he say that
the gold standard was right until he had
been shelled so vigorously by myself and
others for having deserted the free silver
ties without saying they were wrong,
and having gone over to the gold stand
ard without saying it was right. Even
Judge Parker finally realized that the
ground was caving under his feet and
was literally driven to firmer footing.
AT last he has taken his place side by
side with Roosevelt on the most impor-
tant issue before the people.
Roosevelt stands in the open, and dares
Parker defiantly, almost mockingly; and
Parker meekly stays out of the fight. In
his formal letter of acceptance he says
that he takes up the glove thrown at his
feet, declaring that he will revoke that
pension order. No. rs. But in the same
breath he hastens to admit that Roose-
welt did precisely what he. Parker, thinks
ought to be done. If elected, he, Parker,
will at once have congress do what
Roosevelt has already done. Heavens!
what q meek warrior is this! "Roose-
welt did the right thing. but not in the
right way, and If you Will elect me pres
ident l will do the same thing in the
proper way!' Did any nominee ever seek
the presidency on that kind of a plat
form before?
The Democratic party has known what
it was to be led by captains to put the
battle cry into plain language. so that
all could understand where the difference
was on vital issues. Such a leader was
Andrew Jackson Such a leader was
Stephen A. Douglas. Such a leader was
William j. Bryan. In this campaign 1t
has no such leader, To their secret
shame and disgust. the ran and file OF
the great Democratic party see hat their
captain will not fight. In spite of party
loyalty and a wish to believe otherwise.
they see that Parker remains what Bry-
an said he was last April. IAN artfui
dodger. absolutely unfit for the presi-
Dental nomination" That Mr.. Bryan
AAifoS ooPPOh - ~
change facts nor create satisfaction.
The great party of $780, 900 voters sent
their leaders to st. Louis without any
instructions to surrender to Wall street.
That surrender created a profound dis
content, which will not down. Mr.. Bryan
himself cannot make that bitter pill pal
atable to the Bryanites. The sell-out was
too brazen, too sudden. too complete. No
hnlxy crrcnaotnd m Aor thnvtnE lilo fhot
The ground opened and down into the
yawning chasm fell all the principles OF
the Democratic party. These leaders
went to st. Louis clothed from head to
heel in good Jeffersonian Democracy.
When Dave Hill. Pat McCarren and Au-
gust Belmont finished their work. the
Democratic bosses were so nearly nude
that. had it been a personal matter raih
err than political, they would have been
indicted for "a notorious act of public
indecency." Able statesmen have I'M
dressed themselves in public. And now
they are furiously angry with me because
/ am renewing the struggle which they
abandoned. They resent the fact that
some one else should try to do that
which they were not willing TO try to do.
Besides. who could put faith in the
pledges of the party which has so little
unity of conviction as the national De-
mocracy? What party ever changed its
ground SO often? What other party ever
unloaded all of it's principles at one quick
throw-down as they did at st. Louis?
They elected Cleveland on a free silver
platform and called a special session to
violate the contract. They promised to
put an end to national banks, and they
issued new bonds to keep them in life.
Then, when the bank charters expireo,
they united with the Republicans to give
national banks a new lease of life for
twenty years. They promised to relieve
the farmers from the Mckinley tariff,
and they increased the tariff on lumber,
nails, horseshoes, rivets, tacks. screws.
pipe, fues and wire. They doubled the
tax on molasses and put an addition OF
$45, 600, 900 to the price which the people
were paying for sugar. They pitied the
laborer and promised to be his friend,
and they let the Pullman Palace Car
company have the use of the army to
compel the submission of laborers to a
cut in wages. They promised to abolish
child labor, and in those states of the
south where the Democratic party Is
most absolute, child slavery is most i'm
movably planted. They promised the
people a graduated income tax. which
should compel the millionaires and the
gigantic c~orporationst to contribute
something to the support of the govern
ment Upon which they f%attened; but now
they rave given up the contest. The in
come tax no longer appears in their plat
form. The millionaires and corporations
supporting Parker are not the kind of
Democrats to clamor for a graduated in
come tax.
The tariff reform of the Democratic
nominee must. therefore. be taken with
care: and to the Parker letter of accept
ance should be attached the German tar
IN act of 1894 as Exhibit A." and the
speech of General Joe Wheeler against
mat measure as Exhibit B."
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