Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
THE OHIO DEMOCRATS
Met in State Convention at
Columbus Today.
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THE PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES
ENUNCIATED IN RESOLUTIONS,
Eight Candidates for Governor Placed
in mination-Patterson Named
on Second Ballot.
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| morning at $50
Chairman Mckinney of Marietta OF the
| state central committee called the conven-
ton to order. He introduced NJ. A. Daugh-
| erty of Lancaster as temporary chairman.
| MIR. Daugherty said:
Temporary Chairman's Address.
1t has been the historic position of tho
| democracy, a position now firmly held by
| it, that corporate power created by the
state to subserve the public welfare is all
ways subject to the control of the govern
ment whose creature it is. And the remedy
of the democracy is regulation and not gov
ernmental ownership The democracy is not
yet ready 10 concede that privilege has be-
| come so powerful and intrenched in the
| laws and policies of the government that
| IT. cannot be dislodged The democracy has
not abandoned the struggle. 1t still has
1alth IN the efficacy of the popular will to
| restore and to maintain popular rights
| Whenever democracy shall cease to con-
| tend against the constant aggression OF
| privilege pressing on with its ver-tighten-
ing coils; whenever democracy shall
| longer marshal its legions in the defense of
| equal rights and shall haul down it's flag in
lnglorlous surrender, then the day of gov
| ernmental ownership md the sta agnation and
| decay of socialism is at hand. The last re-
! sort of the people gainst the oppression OF
! privilege Is COVE. nment ownership. No
| man who knows the history, the teachings,
the traditions and principles of the demOc-
| racy dare associate lis name with that of
| socialism. Between democracy and social
| ism there is no peace and no reconciliation;
! they far apart as the poles and as
| dlametrlcally opposed.
Attitude of Socialism.
The paternal attitude of socialism is Of
| fensve to the sight and breath of democ-
| racy. Democracy stands for individual
r;o
achievement. for that stimulus to energy
| and spur to honorable ambition which en-
| larges the heart and quickens the brain.
| which assures TO labor the enjoyment of it's
| own reward and crowns a life of toll and
| saving with an age of honor and of ease
Special privilege and paternal government
these are the inducing clauses and foster
| ing spirit of socialism. and these, too, bear
| the distinctive mark peculiar to modern re-
publicanlsm. Socialism springs from repub-
| lcan policies like the miasma of the air
from the marshes of the earth. If that dis
astrouS day shall ever come when socialism
shall write its decadent theories into the
laws and policies of the republic. it will be
traced to that form of special privilege
known as protective tariff.
There is no distinction in principle and no
difference in practice between that form
of socialism which would place all indus
trial agencies in control of the government
and that other and infinitely worse socfal-
ism which, under the guise Of tariff and by
the aid of government. places all consumers
at the mercy and greed of It's pampered fa-
vorites Socialism, like tariff. trusts. mon.
opoly, privilege and corruption. comes troop
ing from the poisoned womb of republican
policies
Democracy and Roosevelt.
Surprise is expressed that a democratic
club in Chicago should have entertained
the President But democrats know what
republicans dislike to hear. and If the
President is now being borne on the crest
Of the popular wave, 1t is because 1t is un-
derstood that he sanctions three significant
planks in the democratic platform, and pro-
poses to employ all the power of his admin
istration and his own personal interest, as
well to write upon the statute books
of the nation-corporate control, the regu-
lation of transportation rates and the reduc-
ton of the tariff, each and all of them DEM
ocratic to the core, and to do this against
the controlling influence of his own party.
Popular favor was never so showered upon
President Roosevelt as II Is when he Is
sowing the democratic seed in democratic
soil prepared for him by democratic hands.
The boasted prosperity enjoyed by the
United States Is not the result of the high
est tariff law of their history. 1t has come
to them from natural and other causes
and in spite of a prohibitive tariff.
The democracy believes that the hated
| trusts and the intoerable monopoly will
not be exterminated until the economic
| policy of protection, which is their refuge
and nourishment, shall be buried beyond
| all hope of resurrection. The democracy
| believes that the overthrow of the pro-
| tective system and the administration of the
government along the democratic lines OF
| equal rights to all men and special privf-
| leges to no will be the panacea for
| all evils that now at1iict the body polite.
| The democracy faces the future with
| hope, with courage and with confidence.
| Time and the progression OF events will
vindicate its principles. The delusions OF
| imperial expansions does not lure it from
| the path of safety and the steady light Of
| the Constitution. 1t does not measure ma
tionai greatness in large standing armies,
designed to crush labor at home or free
dom abroad, or in powerful battleships,
built to destroy human life and to crimson
the seas with human blood. 1t regards the
growing military spirit as an impending
danger to and the mortal enemy of repub-
lies.
1t summons young men to it's ranks to do
battle in the cause that the loved republic
may not be supplanted by an oligarchy of
wealth or be lost in the maelstrom of en-
pire
Mr.. Daughertys speech was followed
closely and frequently applauded. but the
mention of William ]. Bryan aroused q
storm of cheers which was renewed at tho
end of the address. The announcement Of
the committees was on motion dispensed
with, and the credentials committee report
ed that there were no contests.
The committee on permanent organization
recommended Judge Curtis c. Williams OF
Columbus permanent chairman, but the
announcement of that choice was greeted
with cries of NO from the delegates, the
same shouting answering the presentation
of Rodney Diegel as secretary.
Mr.. BridweH of the eleventh district moved
to amend to make the temporary organiza-
tion perm anent. 1t was understood that the
Pattison supporters were favoring the tenn
rorary organiza ton and that the vote was
a test of strength between Pattison and the
field. vote by counties was demanded,
but before it had gone far Judge Williams
took the platform and moved that the rules
be suspended and the temporary organiza-
ton be made permanent. and the motion
was carried with a rush.
The name Of John NJ Pattison- was pre-
sented by former Representative Dennis p.
Donovan and that of J. c. Welty
nounced by Robert s. Shields of Canton.
Mclean Resignation Accepted.