The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-08-27

vested. no less sacred and no less inalien-
able than the rights of capital The
time is opportune to emphasize the
truth of this utterance. The most sacred
right of property is the right to possess
and own ones self and the labor of ones
own hands-capital Itself being but
stored-up labor. For years worked In
the ranks as a wage Garner and know
what 1t is to earn my living in the sweat
of my brow I nave always believed
and my convictions came from the hard
school of experience-that measured by
the character of work he does and the
cost of living. a man Is entitled to full
compensation for his services. My ex-
perience as a wage Garner and my as
sociation with labor have alike taught
me the value ofsdemocratic principles.
for in them the humblest has the strong
est security for individual right and the
highest stimulus to that independence
of spirit and love of self-help which pro-
duce the finest private characters and
from the base of the best possible gov
ernment.
Furnishes Few Figures.
"The receipts of the government for
the year ending June &c. 1902, the first
fiscal year of the present administration,
showed surplus over expenditures OF
s9f 900 900. but for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1904. instead of surplus,
there was a deficit of Sal, 100000. From
July / 1904, to August 10, or for about
month and third of the present fiscal
year the expenditures of the govern
ment have exceeded the receipts by $21,-
715.000. There could be no stronger
evidence of the extravaganza into which
the republican party has fallen and no
more potent argument in behalf of
change to the party whose tenets have
always embraced prudence and economy
in administering the peoples affairs.
eOur republican friends are prone to
refer to the great commercial growth of
the country under their rule and yet the
census reports show that from 1850 to
1860. under democratic rule and the
Walker tariffg the PERCENTAGE of In
creasRwas greater in population. wealth,
manufactures and railroad milage, the
factors which affect most largely the
prosperity of the country, than in any
decade since.
The cost of government has largely
increased under republican rule. The
expenditures per capita for the last year
respectively of the. administrations
given, taken from thereports of the sec
retary of the trasury, are as follows:
In 1860 undar Runhanan 60
In 1899. under Harrison. s5-77.
In 1897. under Cleveland, S5 TO-
In 1901, under Mckinley. 1856
In 1904 under Roosevelt, $40.
THE republicans now claim great con-
sistency in their attitude upon the cur
rency question and the president in his
recent speech of acceptance said that
they know what they mean when they
speak of stable currency, the samo
thing from year to year, and yet in the
platforms Of their party in 1884, 1888 and
1892 they favored the double standard
of value. In the platform of 1883 they
said the republican party is in favor of
the use of both gold and silver as money
and condemns the policy of the demo-
cratic administration in its efforts to
demOnetize silver.
Some Bouquets for Parker.
81 congratulate your committee and
the CONSTITUENCIES it represents in the
selection by the delegates to the national
convention of the nominee for the presi-
dency. He isa man of courage, yet pru-
dent; of high ideals, yet without pre-
tense; of the most wholesome respect
for the constitution and the majesty of
Tire laws under 1t and sacred regard for
their Limitations; of the keenest sense
of Justice. which would rebel against
compounding a wrong to an individual
or to nation; positive in conviction,
yet of few words; strong in mental and
moral attributes and yet witbal model;
possessed of sturdy constitution and
magnificent manhood and yet temperate
in his actions and dignified in his de-
meanor
1T is not the orator or man of letters
but the man of reserve force, of sound
judgment, of conservative method and
steadiness of purpose, whom the people
have called to the Office of the presi-
dency. notably in the contests between
jefferson and Burr, Jackson and Clay,
Lincoln and Douglas, Grant and Greeley,
Cleveland and Blaine.
Dire predictions were made by our
political opponents of what would hap
pen at the st. Louis convention, but they
misudged the temper of the party and
the people. While there bad been differ
ences in preceding campaigns, at st.
Louis they we're all harmonized and
common ground was found upon which
all could stand and do battle for demo-
ratieprincipIes. A platform was adopt
ed by unaniomus vote. embracing the
issues of the day and presenting to the
people declaration of principles which
in the language of the times is sane, safe
and sound
Sees Chance of Victory.
with candidate whose personality
appeals to the good sense and sound
judgment of the american people, plat
form whose principles are for the great
est good to the greatest number and
reunited party earnest for the restora-
tion of good and economical government
we should succeed and the principles of
democracy again triumph.
II begamy countrymen as they value
their liberty I'd guard with great care
the sacred right of local self-govern-
ment and to watch with Jealous eye the
tendency OF the times to eentralize power
IN the hands Of the few.