The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-20


den increase in the percapita circula-
! tlon OF 33 1-3 per cent, the voters of
this county elected to office, three dem
ocratic officials and the delegates in
the late republican convention, rep
| resenting the business and agriculture,
interests after prolonged discussion,
forced the committee on resolutions to
| bring In a plank commencing them for
efficiency and honesty which was
| adopted unanimously.
Gives an Argument.
There Is vast deal Of speculation
by our republican brethren about the
future Of democracy since We have
suffered three defeats in succession in
presidential elections, with the result
that all departments Of government
are in the hands of our political ene-
mics.
/ It Is certain that the party will
never die because it is founded on en-
during principles and, forsooth, they
are of necessity.
1t will in the future, as it has in the
past oppose special privilege, stand for
| the rights of the people against the
entertainments of class and caste,
guard the constitution and work for
the equal rights of all men under the
law.
Envious Of Roosevelt.
We have been termed the party of
radicals, but history and present condi-
lions are demonstrating and exempli-
| flying the wisdom of our faith and
| creed. Theodore Roosevelt is winning
| the plaudits of the commonwealth
| why? Because with his hands on the
| throat of a republican congress, he is
forcing them to enact into laws demo-
| cratic doctrine
Roosevelt not only stole the clothes
| Of the greatest statesman living-W. J.
Bryan, but he is stealing democratic
| thunder
| The president distrusts his own
| party and on a measure which con-
cerned the very life of the nation he
caused it to be placed in democratic
hands with the result that today, pub
lie service utility corporations are sub
ject to the sovereign power.
But Were They?
All measures of relief enacted into
law since 1900, have been wrested from
recalcitrant congress by republican
president who believes the teachings
of Jefferson, and as applied to present
issues by our peerless and indOmitable
leader, w. J. Bryan.
We extend to labor the right hand
of fellowship and say to them that up
| on their successes depend the welfare
and future of our government.
We are in favor of the election OF
United States senators by a direct vote
of the people.
We are opposed to monopolies and
| trusts.
We favor system of direct primar-
| les to the end that all forms Of bossism
may be exterminated.
We favor publicity and strong and
rigid regulation for all public service
corporations, be they Interstate or
state, and if this be inadequate to fur
nish the relief sought, then we assert
with w. ]. Bryan it shall be the duty
of the nation or state to acquire own
ership and discharge it's function and
operation by and through governmental
agencies.
As To The Tariff.
The needs of tariff reform are OBJ
vious. The trust question inevitably
enters into it and the only party that
can deal with it successfully, is the
democratic one. We believe that trusts
should be destroyed; that tariffs should
be levied only for the purposes of rev.
enue; that the taxing power should
not be abused and that the revenues
should be limited to the needs of the
country, when economically admins
tered.
The republican party has not the
power to revise the schedules, each Of
the rank and file should demand it
because it was written for and by the
trusts that dominate the party. We
challenge the sincerity Of the republic
can leaders in the nation, state and
county on all economical and political
questions effecting the common veal,
and inasmuch as it has always been
and always will be our mission to labor
without fear or favor for equal and