The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-13

what is it we have donez IL IS Ioo
late for me to tell you; the list of
achievements is too long for me to
enumerate-
"Mr Bryan, the peerless leader Of
the Democratic party has made a
speech, one in particular, he has made
many but one In particular. in which
he has cast horoscope and in which
he has approved all We have done and
does not seek to make the issues of
1908 on account of anything we have
done, but says the issues will be two.
Tariff revision and government own
ership of the railroads. Mr.. Bryan
says we must have tariff revision
Some day, my fellow citizens, we will
want it and we will have it, but that
to determine.
1.-The great mass of the people of
the country while recognizing that
schedules are not inviolate that they
are made to be changed, are OF the
opinion so happily expressed by
Speaker Cannon when he stated in his
speech in the convention in Illinois
that the party would revise the tariff
not when Mr.. Bryan or some other
Democrat told us to, but we would do
it when revision would do less harm
than non-revision would do good.
That is the position of the Repubh-
can party.
THAT is the opinion OF President
Roosevelt That is the opinion of
Speaker Cannon That is the opinion,
of oil "a
leaders in the Republican party of
the nation. Let us not here today
sound a discordant note.
"Just another word. / am a little
touchy about some things. When l
am told I am to stand for whatever
some other man stands for no matter
what 1t may be am 1 going to sub
scribe to it? 1t has been my pleasure
to stand with President Roosevelt on
most of his recommendations, but ]
cannot go with him on all of them;
/ draw the line for instance, on pho
netic spelling Phonetically it may be
all right, but esthetically it is to me
impossible. No, am not Tor it ami
1 do not think the president will think
any the less of me for speaking right
out in meeting and saying that l ar
not for it. And 1t would not make
bit of difference to me if he did.
81 have always considered 1t ar
honor to be a United States senator
never understood that somebody
was to tell me how to vote either at
that end Of the line or this end OF the
line. Especially not about great and
profound constitutional questions
about which lawyers differ. thought
was to work them out; was to
speak for you. l pursue that policy,
II that is not right, if, on the con-
trary, a man Is to be rebuked becauce
he exercises tie qualifications with
which he is blessed, then you take all
the honor away from the Office, and
so far as l am concerned you can take
the Office with it If the Office does not
carry with 1t the right Of the man
holding it to go according to his own
his sense of duty, free and untram-
meled, the official obligation to sup
port and maintain the constitution OF
the United States which he takes
when he enters upon his Office"
Drafted the Platform.
Following were the members of the
on resolutions: First dis
trict, Sherman T. Mcpherson, Hamil-
ton; Second, Jacob H. Brownell,
Third, U. S. Martin, Mont
gomery; Fourth, D. L. Gaskill, Darke;
Fifth, F. L. Hoy. Defiance; Sixth. c.
L. Hildebrant, Clinton; Seventh, ].
Warren Keifer. Clarke; Eighth. r. C.
Cole, Hancock; Ninth, M. l.. Case.
Wood; Eleventh, Albert Douglas.
Ross; Twelfth, Thomas H. Clarke,
Franklin; Thirteenth. w. G. Harding
Marion; Fourteenth, Frank Patter-
son. Ashland; Fifteenth, G. F. Keeper.
Sixteenth, c. L. Wiems,
Belmont; Seventeenth, H. G.. Russell.
Licking; Eighteenth, Roscoe L. Nc
Cullough, Stark; Nineteenth, r. NJ
Wannamaker, Summit; Twentieth, c.
w. McCallister, Cuyahoga; Twenty
first, w. II. Boyd, Cuyahoga.