Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-14
Full Text of the Platform on Which the Democratic
Party of the Country Go Before the People.

gates, the roll call showed 647 votes
against and 299 for the adoption Of
the report for which he had vainly
battled.
illinois, on request of National Com
mitteeman Hopkins, was passed on
the roll call. The twenty-eight votes
OF Michigan and the sixty-eight of
Pennsylvania were cast. as a unit I'M
der Chairman Williams ruling.
Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri, took
the gavel as permanent chairman of the
convention late in the afternoon ses-
sion, and delivered his speech as such.
1t was a sharp arraignment of Republi-
can shortcomings and inconsistencies,
both in the party and administration.
Mr.. Clark said in part:
Mr.. CIark's speech.
'Gentlemen of the Convention: The
principal part of the speeCh-making by
the chairman in this convention has been
accomplished. My business is to run this
convention so hat the nominees of it will
be elected next November (~applause), and
II shall be done without fear or favor to
them. king David said once in his haste
ina an iIlNI are lldIS. IL he ldQ DbGl IN
Chicago about the time Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge was reading the republican
platform, he could have taken his leisure
and said that "All republicans are liars.
daughter and prolonged applause.)
They dragged out the old free trade
DOGGY, and expect TO scare men with that
in the coming campaign. Men in the frame
OF mind that the democrats are this year
can not be scared.
"They declare-the republicans do-the
monumental lie that a democratic tariff
always produces a bad time, and a re-
publican tariff always produces good
times. And yet, in 70, When Grant was
beginning his second term in the White
House, and the democrats had scarcely
enough votes to call the ayes and noes,
you had a panic that made peoples teeth
rattle from sea to sea. CLaughter.) They
evidently believed in Mark Twain's die
tim, Blessed is the man that bloweth his
own horn, lest it be not blown Laugh
teri,
fought a quick and successful war in
favor of Cube, when the truth is, as l
stated on the floor of the house when
they were ali there, and none of them
the scruff of the neck and dragged them
into the Spanish war. And their disin-
~clinati0n to GO into. and their disposition
to monopoliZe all glories, reminds me of
a Poland-Chlna sow that my father used
to tell me about, that Vas so bashful you
had to pull her ears off to get her to the
trough, n so greedy you had to pull
her tail off to get her away. Laughter.)
I'VE are in favor of cutting down to
a reasonable basis the monstrosities of
the Dingley tariff rates. We are in IA
vor of reciprocity that reciprocates. Gap
plause.) We are in favor of getting rid
of the Philippine islands at the first IA
vorable opportunity. They are not worth
a baubee and never were. We are in
favor of restricting the functions of the
president and his cabinet to what the
fathers intended they should be in the
constitution, and we believe in compelling
the executive department of this govern
ment to abdicate the large part of the
legislative function that it has usurped.
A far as my rulings in this convention
will be, they shall be fair. If we so con-
duct ourselves that all of the various
elements of public opinion that are OPP
posed to the Roosevelt administration has
brought together, we will mop them off
the face of the earth from sea to sea in
the coming election. (~Applause.l l can
not do any good presiding over this con-
vention without your help, and that ! So
licit that we may have good order, good
feeling and a great victory in the contest
to come" (Applause.)
Following the speech of Congress-
man Clark the convention adjourned
shortly after 6 o'clock until 10 o'clock
Friday morning,
The adjournment was made neces-
sary by the inability of the subcom-
mittee of the resolutions committee to
complete its report.