Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-07-18
CLARK'S SPEECH
Chairman Says Chief Trust Mag
mates Sent Knox to Senate

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then adjourned at $40 until today.
During the day several speeches were
made. chief of which was Mr.. Bryan's
effort to overthrow the report of the
credentials committee and seat con-
testing delegations from Illinois. The
controversy was ended by the rejection
of the minority report of the commit
tee by a vote of CAT nays to 900 ayes.
When the result of the contest was
announced the report of the committee
on permanent organization was made.
Representative Champ Clark, who
was chosen permanent chairman, ad-
dressed the convention. He had pre-
pared and furnished to the press a
speech of great length. The hour was
so late when he gained the platform,
however, that he spoke about 300
words and left his audience to read
the remainder.
Though Mr.. Bryan's speech and his
appearance on the floor of the conven-
ton was cheered far beyond any pre-
vious demOnstra ton, it made few votes.
The ovation given to Bryan was one
| of the greatest ever tranSpiring at any
| of the notable events for which the i'm
mense Coliseum is famed. 1t was be-
gun before the afternoon session Of
| the convention had been called to order
| and continued for II minutes with so
much furore that temporary Chairman
| Williams and all of his assistants, in
Guiding a hundred policemen, were I'M
| able to restore order Quiet came
| from the convention only after the Par
ker forces joined and by persistent eff
| forts turned the tide by a counter
great demonstration for the New York
| er, so that the favorite candidate for
| the nomination for president finally
reaped the harvest of enthusiasm sOwn
for Bryan.
'In his haste, King David said that all
| men are liars"
Had he been in Chicago while Senator
| Henry Cabot Lodge was reading the Re-
| publican platform he would, no doubt. have
| pronounced the same opinion more leisure
| ly, for surely there never was more men
dacity packed into the same space in any
! document purporting to be a grave state
| paper.
This was the way in which Congress-
man Champ Clark of Missouri, per-
manent chairman of the convention,
began his address on taking the chair
He continues:
The proposition that we must support
| President Roosevelt's Philippine pOlicy-if
rot-a tale told by an idiot. l am willing
| to go as far as any one in patriotism;
will support my country in any emergency
but the president is not the country. The
| when
can people will accept the arrogant dictum
of LOUIS XIV, if repeated by an American
! president: Il am the state" If PreSi
dent Roosevelt is at all worthy of his high
| position he must entertain a supreme con
tempt for those political supple-jacks, par
ticularly for those claiming to be Demo
moan, saying: The president is wrong il
his Philippine policy, but we must support
| the president"
Support the presidents policy, Ell? Will
some gentleman please tell us what tina
policy is? Has he any? If so, why doesnt
he say so? The truth is he has none. H,
is an IN opportunist waiting for something t
turn up. He is letting things drift, ant
they are drifting. to the deuce. Meantime
our aye 0eg ke r ana are qy
Will anybody undertake to say? 1 defy
any lingo to stand up and declare with {
or the Republican policy is No one vii
| say, no one can say; but some say-mOre'i
the pity and shame-"the president Il
wrong; but we must support the presi
dent"
To this complexion has it come at last by
reason of the new-fangled jingoism that We
mouths and cRloroform our C. Conscience il
| order to be considered patriots.
Democrats Not For Free Trade
In every state in the union it is a felon,
to get property of any sort or to attemp
to get it by false pretences. If the same
rule applied to the getting of offices Or t.
! | attempts to get them the whole Republi
can party could be sent to the peniten
, tiary.
One Of their false pretences. the one OF
. which they harp the most this wear is tina
= the Democratic party is in favor of fire.
= trade. The charge is utterly false Their
q are individual Democrats who are fre
traders just as there are individual Repub
) licans who are atheists; but it would b
precisely as true and fair to denOunce tn
v Republican party as the party of atheisr
as to denOminate the Democratic party a
i the party of free trade. 1t never was
free trade party and is not now.
/ Democrats favor the cutting down 9
i eX0rbitant tariff rates to a reasonable basis
: They believe that in many schedules c
the present law the rates are too high
:; those that are too high we are in favor c
n cutting down.
o We favor any modification of the tart
/ schedules that may be required to proven
them becoming a shelter for monopoly.
f wonder if Secretary Shaw ever hear
= those words before? They are taken vel
r battm from the Iowa Republican platforI
n of 1901. The secretary whoOped it up a
r a great rate for Governor Cummins an
: others nominated that platform. Ii
scOrnfully denounces it now as THE dea
|; Iowa idea" But it was a righteOu
Q declaration borrowed from Democrats an
{ is not dead-not even dying.
a Where tariff rates are so high that the
enable American manufacturers to Sc
their wares abroad cheaper than they d
to Americans here at home, we say tina
l. they ought to be reduced Is this anarch
o or treason? If so make the most of it,
: The stand pat organs and speaker
:, claim that only Anticipated sorts of on
manufactured articles are sold abroa
cheaper than to Americans at home. Tha
. theory is very ingenious, but, unfortunatel!
+ 1t is not true; for steel rails are sold abroa
4 at IS ton less than they are sold at home
: and the fashions in steel rails remain tn
same or substantially so.
Inc true Democratic position on tn
Iarln Is this: Recognizing the fact that
. large portion of our revenue has Away
1 Deeh raised from customs duties take:
! Democrats divide all imports into thre
. cIasSes-necesSaries comforts and luxurie
i and contend that the tariff taxes shoul
= De highest on -luxuries. lower on comfort
ana lowest or none at all on thp neces
: saries. They furthermore saw thar take
I ! should be uniform on all articles beIongin
to one class. That is the Darnocra ri