The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-07-14

man of the Democratic national conven-
ton at st. Louis, and upon taking the
chair he attacked the ''stand pat policy
of the Republicans His speech in part
follows:
There have always been two great par
ties who, since the first national political
conventions, have elected delegates to
conventions for the purpose of selecting
a candidate and promulgating platform.
One of these parties has gone through its
party election of delegates, has selected a
candidate and announced a platform. 1t
was one of the quietest and most unan-
imous" occasions that the muses. of his
tory have recorded. Everything seems
to have been fixed beforehand.
The address of the temporary chair
man of the Republican convention was in
one sense historical. 1t dealt much in
history, most of it ancient history, and a
great deal of it bad history.
There was a labored argument to prove
that the party of Roosevelt must, by
something like evolutionary process, act
as the party of Lincoln and Mckinley.
This was necessary in order to disguise
the palpable fact that it is not SO act
ing.
Not without reason, then, this labored
argument by this great and ingenious
lawyer! 1t was to draw away attention
from Rooseveltism; its volcanic, erup-
tive character, by dwelling upon the
fact that, at some period of its history.
the Republican party has been "a party
which did things" and did them safely.
The orator hoped to have the country
lose sight of the fact that it is now in
both of its legislative branches a party
of passivity, of non-action, Of obstruction
to reform and progress-in a word, a
party whose only sacred precept is the
shibboleth which maketh them known,
one of them to the other, a shibboleth
drawn from the gamblers table-..stand
pat" a precept born Of cowardice and
fear to move.
Quotes Tariff Speeches.
have heard that in October, 1902, Mr..
Root made political speech in Cooper
OHiOl, NeW IOrh, III WHICH NC uSSu
this language:
IF tariff law has on the whole work
ed well, and if business has prospered
under it and if still prospering, it is bet
ter to endure some slight Inconvenience
and inequalities for time, than to in
cur the uncertainty and disturbance of
business which necessarily results from
the process of making changes"
And l have heard that the President
in his political tour through the West
in the spring of 1903 made a speech in
which he used this language:
If tariff law has on the whole work
ed well, and if business has prospered
under it and is prospering. it may be
better to endure some inconvenience and
inequalities for a time than by making
and perhaps paralysis in the industries
and business Of the country"
Verify! Two souls with but a single
thought. Two speeches that read like
one.
And that single thought so harmoni-
ously expressed is not to force a single
special interest to take its lips from
the public breast for fear the public, find
ing them unnecessary, might shake them
all off.
The temporary chairman said, speaking
of the Republican party, through it
more than any other party the moral SEN
timent of the American people finds ex-
preston" Going back TO ancient his
tory. in the Credit Momilier, in the De
Golyer-Ames scandal, in the whisky ring,
in the long saturnalia of southern recon-
struction or where?
Or in recent history? In the Postoffice
Department? In the Public Lands Bu-
reau? In the full sway of bosses, for
merly cursed so bitterly and now taken
SO fondIy to his bosom by the President ::
In the celebrated order of Hell Roaring
Jake" Smith, prescribing ten as the age
above which children were to be killed
in one of the islands of the Philippines?
In the universal honeycombing of our
national life with the corruption of leg
islation-bought special privileges? What
has ancient history to do with present
iniquities anyhow?
Mr.. Root says offenders have been
relentlessly prosecuted and sternly pun
ished." Isn't this remarkable thunder
ing in the index" for you, when COM
pared with actual Republican accom-
plishments? If there ever were a deter
mination fully entertained and finally
carried out, it was the determination of
the Republican administration and the
Republican legislative body to see to it
that nobody should investigate the alleg-
ed culprits in the Postoffice Department
except their colleagues in the executive
branch of the government.
There follows something, however,
which will be taken seriously. The Sec
retary boasts that the per capita of cir
culation of money among the people in
the United States increased from $23. Il
in March, 1897, to $31.O2 in May last,
and that the credit for that and the con-
sequent prosperity following it was due
to the Republican party.
Was Republican legislation operative
in South Africa and the klondike and
did it cause the discoveries of gold
there? Did it cause the new inventions
for the more profitable extraction of gold
from gold ore? Did Republican legisla-
ton add two billions of gold to the
worlds stock of money metals in the last
eight years? Was it Republican legisla-
tion which made the immense crops of
cotton, wheat, corn, ETC., which enabled
these United States to draw more than
their pro rata share of the worlds stock
of money metals, thereby increasing their
own stock of gold by $7OOOOO,OOO?
The temporary chairman next boasted
that the Republican party had, by ma
nipulation, which he described, of the
currency and certificate denomination
made it so difficult to get gold out of
the treasury, in exchange for other forms
Of money, that practically it cannot be
done at all to any large extent, and
hence that all danger of an ''endless
chain thereby produced has ended.
The eX-Secretary then boasts that the
Secretary of the Treasury can and does
contract and expand the country's cur
rency at his will, and illustrates this by
the occurrences which happened in 1902.
which he quotes. Remember, he boasts
that this is a fact. If so, what a mag
ni6cent one-man power it is.
As to the Republican platform, it is
chiefly boast that the Republican party
is responsible for everything good which