The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-27
Wisconsin Democrats Assemble
in State Convention.
To Make Platform for Cam
didates to Be Named.
BLAMES THE TARIFF.
The Temporary Chairman in
His Opening Speech
Charges It With Bulk Of the
Gountry's Ills.

Milwaukee, June 27.-The Democratic
state convention called for the purpose
of adopting a platform to be recon-
mended to the candidates who will be
nominated at the primary election in
the fall, met here today. There We're
about ZOO delegates in their seats when
Chairman H H. Manson of Wausaus
raped for order and announced the
names of the temporary officers.
That the Bryan supporters would rule
the convention seemed to be g foregone
conclusion.
state Chairman Manson introduced
Daniel H. Grady Of Portage, as tenn
porary chairman of the convention
Mr.. Grady spoke as follows:
IF the measure Of a party's great
ness and a party's success be its abil-
ity to nabboozle the people into 4
mistaken belief or to gain the coveted
position as a provider Of political pap,
the Democrats may not have been
success. But, to the credit of that party
be it said, it has not departed from its
principles of government that it might
meet the popular approval but has
taught the lesson to rising generations
that there are higher and nobler things
in life than the holding of political OF
fee.
ITO those whom love of purchasable
power has been so alluring the Re
publican party has ever made Its ap-
peal, saying to the citizen as he stands
on lfe's threshold, that within Its ranks
may be found the wealth and infiu-
ence of the commercial world This as
sertiOn is only too true, for more men
have been enriched by the nl-gotten
gains the fruit of the Republican
policy Of leVying tribute upon the many
for the benefit of the few than under
any and all Of the most corrupting gov
ernments, the world has ever known
Upon the right of g government TO
levy tribute upon one class for the bsp-
eft Of another. we have ever differed
with them and from the watch tower
of Democracy has been sounded the
keynote of warfare against that system
that has strangled individual enterprise
and has sti1ed legitimate competition.
The prediction of the party Of years
words of the Republican Governor
Cummins Of Iowa, the total Insurance.
gratis for all time have not been one
fifth Of the annual amount OF which
the people have been despoiled by ex-
cessive tariff rates
we have seen the effect OF the tariff
upon the three great industries that
should go hand in hand and shoulder to
shoulder to secure the greatness of the
/ country and the prosperity Of her peo-
pie. We say to them that the cause OF
this condition is the inequable prOtec-
( tive tariff system. They dare not and
gate every trust in this country today
and you will ind that the article manu-
! featured by it is a protected article and
you viii not find a manufactured article
controlled by trust that is not pro-
! tected article. The Democratic party
I takes its stand in opposition to any
/ policy that says to the world that the
/ American flag shall serve inconsistent
/ purposes, but now declares that the flag
/ that for a hundred years has waved on
/ land and sea as the emblem of peace and
purity, and of the protection of the weak
shall not be prostituted to the base plir-
pose OF protecting any one In un-Ameri-
4 can practices: that it shall not serve as
4 a shield to the sultan of Jolo and his
underlings in the practice of polygany;
/ that in the name of those who laid down
their lives that human slavery might
/ be wiped forever from American soil
they now say that the American flag
shall not protect a foreign potentate in
the maintenance of human slavery-the
/ holding of human beings until they who
/ in slavery earn nothing can purchase
| their liberty by paying the usual mar
ket price even though sanctioned By
| treaty.
I'VE have seen the iIlgotten millions,
| the levied bIackmail the tribute paid for
| governmental favor, the money wrong
| fully withheld by the life insurance
| companies from widows and children.
poured out upon tempted and deIuded
people and by a criminal conspiracy and
coercion without parallel in history.
purchasing the highest Office within the
great republic.
But as truth crushed to earth viii
rise again. the united Democracy
! stands today facing the rising sun OF
the east watching for the face and
waiting for the sound Of the voice that
for a decade has in the cause of true
i Dem mocracy pleaded the promptings Of
his majestic mind, encouraging his
countrymen in the days of trial and
tribulation as did Columbus the ma
i riners on the troubled seas, saying
/ sail on. sail on, sail on. the craft VIII
yet ride triumphantly to the lea
Recognizing in him- the embodi-
ment of the principles of Democracy.
with outstretched arms he IS today
hailed and welcomed as the leader or
his party and though twice defeated,
by means corrupt and weapons be-
fouled, now bidding defiance to their
power. he who led Democracy's brave
i battalions in the memorable cam
paigns OF 1896 and 1900. lives the
loftiest and in the hearts of the
American people the best beloved OF
them all That he may live to see
the triumph Z t;se cause and answer
7lie peoples cal. to the helm CT state,
leaving an official record as stainless
as that Of his private life. We all hope
He may rest assured that In the sun
set Of his political career he may fit
tinglv emulate Henry Clay in calling
to God IN heaven to witness that he
had served his country with g single
heart and never held her interests sub
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