Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-04-26

ON, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1904.
voters of a state is an insult to their
Intelligence, for It is intended to de.
ceive them.
This platform proves that the OPP
position to the Kansas City platform
is not opposition to silver, but oppo.
sition to every needed reform and OPP.
position to all that the masses desire.
Il had expected that a platform
prepared by MI. Hill for Judge Par,
ker would be evasive and lacking in
frankness, but l did not conceive that
any body of men calling themselves
Democrats would present such a plat
form as a recommendation Of a candi-
date. If we are to take the New
York platform as an in LEGATION of what
the next Democratic platform is to
be, in case the r%eorganizers control
the convention, then who will be able
to deny the secret purpose Of the re
organizers to turn the party over to
predatory wealth?
THE division of the supreme court
in the merger case shows the clever
age on the trust case. The dissenting
judges would deny the power Of con.
gress to prevent a private monopoly
and when the power of congress to
destroy ~monopolies is denied, the peo-
pie are left helpless. because some of
the states such as Delaware and New
Jersey, find it profitable to permit
the creation of these m~onopolies, and
so long as they are created and can
evade the laws, they will exist.
The dissenting judges in the mer-
ger ease refuse to draw a distinction
between an individual and a corpor'
alton.
Rights Of Property.
Rights Of property are, according
to the dissenting judges supreme
and when congress tries to prevent
a monopoly, it is interfering with tho
rights of proptrey.' The issue pre-.
sented today in the trust question
and in all the other questions with
which we have to deal is the question
between human rights and s~o-called
property rights'-or more properly
speaking, between ordinary people
and the great corporations. Those
that believe that property rights are
supreme take the side of the trusts.
If we had q president in sympathy
with this theory it means that the dol
lar would be given consideration be-
fore the man.
mo Democrat is more anxious for
the party to succeed than | am. No
one has suffered more from dissension
and divisions in the party, and no one
| believe, is more eager for the coun-
try to enjoy the great benefits which
a triumph Of real Democracy would
bring. But | do not desire that the
party shall win Offices only.
mo one Ear defend the Democratic
party without defending its principles,
and its principles ought to be so clear
ly set forth as to be easlnly under
stood. To present a platform that is
evasive and ambiguous shows that
those that wrote the platform either
distrust the people, who are to act
upon it,or have purposes that they
desire to conceal.
The New York platform Is am.
biguous, uncertain, evasive and dis.
honest. II would disgrace the Demo
Gratis Of the nation to adopt such a
platform, and ought to defeat, as an
aspirant for a Democratic nomination,
any man that would be willing to have
1t 80 forth as a declaration Of his
views on public questions.
THE reorganizers' scheme begins
with the deception OF The rank and
file of the party. It is to be followed
by the debauching of the public with
a campaign fund secured from the
corporations and II Is to be consum-
mated by the betrayal OF the party
organization into the hands Of those
that are today menacing the liberty
OF the country by their speculations
on the D~rO1ucerc NJ wealth