The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-28
BRYAN HITS PARKER.

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cago, under circumstance that 70
strangeness beat anything that ha
formerly fall en- to his lot. He spok,
In the great armory hall of the Secont
ltfsntry and the place was packed t.
It's utmost capacity while many peopl,
we're unable to get in. But the
strange circumstances were these: Mr.
Bryan hired the hall himself anC
spoke under the auspices Of no organi
cation or club che introduced himsel,
on the platform. He took these pre-,
cautions in order to give no appear.
ance OF supporting the candidacy Of
any one man. He wanted it distinct.
ly understood thas what he said wal
intended to come only from himself
and not as the pronounoement of some
other man who is now candidate for
the presidency
Mr.. Bryan's subject was THE New
York Platform, and he took the occa-
sion to express his disspproval of the
platform adopted by the New York
Democrats and also of the mar they
have declared to be their choice for
President. The platform, according to
Mr.. Bryan, is ambiguous, uncertain,
evasive, and dishonest and concern
ing it he declared that. 1T would
disgrace the Democrats of the Nation
to adopt such a platform and it ought
to defeat as an aspirant for a Demo-
cratic nomination any man who would
be willing to have it go forth as a
declaration of his views on public
questions"
MI. Bryan has undoubtedly struck
a note there that will make music
throughout the country. There can
be no question that the platform
adopted at Albany was a great disap-
pointment to the honest Democrats of
the State, and beyond the borders of
the State. Adopted as it was, it
must necessarily stand as a platform
approved and sanctioned by Judge
Parker. AS such it is woefully de-
fcient in the things it ought to have,
while it has the things it ought not
to have. But in reality the platform
is more honest than it would have
been had it voiced the sentiments that
the New York World and Brooklyn
Eagle and ONE other independent
Democratic papers would have liked
to have seen there. To have put in
strong antitrust declarations would
have been farcical and would have
perhaps given leading Democrats like
August Belmont the shivers until on
second thought they realized it was
all a bluff. The platform now Is
more honest in it's frank dishonesty
than it would have been had it dis
honestly professed honesty.
MI. Bryan thus expressed his opin-
ion: The New York platform is a
dishonest platform. fit only for a dis
honest party. No one but an artful
dodger would stand upon it,. The
submission of such a platform to the
voters of a State is an insult to their
intelligence, for it is intended to de-
ceive them, and a deliberate attempt
to deceive-especially so clumsy an
attempt as this platform ISIS a re-
Election upon the brains Of those to
whom it is submitted. The platform
proves that the opposition to the Kan
sas City platform is not opposition to
silver, but opposition to every needed
reform and opposition to all that the
masses desire.'
AS to what the platform should be,
he talked at some length and proposed
the following issues as those upon
which the campaign should be fought,
and with relative Importance accord
ing to the order in which they are
named; trusts, imperialism and colo
nialism. labor, government by in
junction, tariff, money trust as exem-
plified by Wall Street, income tax,
election of senators by direct vote,
corporate domination of politics. He
declared that none of these live issues
are adequately treated in the New
York platform.
AS to candidates, Mr.. Bryan said
Il regard as available all candidates
who are in favor of making the Dem
ocratic party an honest, earnest and
courageous exponent of the rights and
interests of the massee, and 1 regard
as unavailable all who are in sympa-
thy with, or obligated to the great
corporations that today dominate the
policies of the Republican party and
seek, through the reorgsnizers, to DOM
mate the policy of the Democratic
party"
OF Judge Parker, in particular, he
expressed disapproval, saying, Il be-
lieve | 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 par
ty that stands for honesty or fair deal,
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