The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-01

lyzed in detail of the platform Mr.
Bryan said:
.iThe New York platform is a dis
honest platform. fit only for a dishon-
est party. No one but an artful dodgeI
| would stand upon it. The submission
of such a platform to the voters of the
state is an insult to their intelligence,
for it is intended to deceive them"
OF Judge Parker's relation to this
fraudulent platform. Mr.. Bryan said:
IF he did not know of the platform
in advance, if he did not himself dictate
| il, or agree to it, he has allowed it to
go out as his utterance, for the con-
vention was dominated by his friends
| and adopted a resolution presenting
him as the candidate of the party of
| the state"
And of Judge Parker himself, Mr..
| Bryan deliberately uttered these words:
For a year he has been urged TO
speak out and declare himself upon the
| important issues of the coming cam
paign, but he has remained silent If
/ this silence meant that nobody knew
| his views, those who have been loyal
/ to the party in recent years would
stand upon an equal footing with those
who have deserted, but it is evident now
| that while to the public generally his
views are unknown. they are well
known to those who are urging his
nomination. Whatever doubt may have
existed on this subject therefore, has
been dispelled by the platform adopted
by the New York state convention, and
taking this platform as a text 1 am
sanguine enough to believe that 1 can
prove to every unbiased mind that
Judge Parker is not a fit man to be
nominated either by the Democratic
party or by any other party that stands
for honesty and fair dealing in poll
ties
These are not the biased sentiments
of a partisan opponent but the deliber-
ate utterances of the leading Democrat
in this country, the chosen leader OF
the party in two presidential campaigns
and the most potent personality in the
party today.
little need be said Doubtless an able
man in his day; doubtless very good
man, personally. But who believes he
was nominated for any other purpose
than for the party to avail itself of his
wealth and of his relation to the great
trusts of the country? Who will defend
the nomination of octogenarian for
the second highest office in the nation?
There of the last seven presidents have
died in office, requiring the assumption
of the arduous duties of that exacting
and responsible position by the vice
president Who believes it would be
man 81 years of age2 The remote pos
sibility of Mr.. Davis election, or rather
the improbability of that event, alone
mitigates the offense against sound
public policy involved in his nominal
ton. Regardless of politics, the coun-
try should be protected in the future
against such contingencies with legal
safeguards making men of extreme old
age ineligible to the presidency or the
vice presidency
Compare or rather contrast. the Re
publican standard bearers with these
gentlemen. Mr. Fairbanks, our candi-
date for vice president is not like his
decrepit opponent. in what Shakes
peare calls 1.-The lean and slippered pan
taloon" period. He is not rejuvena-
ted Renaissance. He is not mere
Of DAYS He is not q
hollow echo from out the past. He is
in the prime of a vigorous intellectual
and physical manhood. He is recog-
nfZed leader in the United states SEN
ate and in the councils of the nation
He is splendidly equipped for the presl-
dency should accident or crime or the
course of nature, which God forbid, call
him to succeed Mr.. Roosevelt before the
expiration of the latter's term of office. |
of our candidate for president too
much can not be said He is perhaps
the best known man in the Unlte1
States today. He has crowded more OF
honorable achievement into less than
half a century of life than any living
American. He is the best combination
known among men of scholar and COM
mon citizen, of eastern conservatism
and caution and western dash and de- |
cision. of military nature and civic dis
position, of high ideals and practical
methods-in short. OF an all arounu'
or of a score of good books, or as the
head of a great city government, OF
as governor of the greatest state in the
Union, or as assistant secretary OF the !
navy, or as commander of the Rough |
Riders, or as president of the United
States, or as a private citizen, ne IS an
honor to this country and an lnsplra-
ton to every young man in it. He is
NOT as Mr. BRYAN said of his -competf- |
tor "a Yelled Prophet" His views on
every public question are well known.
His life is an open book, with no page,
worthy act. He measures up to the
eulogy pronounced upon another:
Loved by good men, feared by PAD
men, admired by all men, initiated by
few This is our Splendld leader 1hS-
odore Roosevelt.
The Parties.
The Republican party has just cele-
brated its semi-centenn1al us niIy
years of history is open to Puohc IN
spection. Not a single leaf in that
splendid history would any RepupIlcdn
expunge. not a single record erase
Reference to this matchless history is
not bombast nor buncombe. II Is Ie-
argument Patrick Henry
theory that the lamp of experience
is the surest and safest light TO
pathway is as true now as
when that eminent patriot announced
the past as his guide for the Iuture
an hundred years ago me RepuDH-
can party. unlike its rival, asks no
of history. and seeks no obllv-
ION for it's past. 1t pleads no statute
Of limitations. Born as protest
against wrong, it has kept step to
he music of conscience 1t came into
power at ii time when the very foun-
iation of the Republic was trembllng:
II found two flags floating where Goa
Intended should float but one, and no
in those dark days had
o be superior to his party in defend
ng Old Glory. 1t found the national
reasury empty and it has filled 1t to
,v,arfowing 1t found government
ponds begging the market at twelve
Der cent interest, and it now floats
hem at two per cent 1t found the
balance of trade heavily against US.
nd IL has reversed this condition. 1t