The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-06-22
The Chicago Platform Still Lives

nC asHinStOn lOAt 10 oucuucu
because The CommDncr said "Thc
Chicago platform sill lives The
Post says that "iIec coinage at sixteen
to-onc was the only vital issue" in the
Chicago platform, adding:
"What possible motive can Nh
Bryau's COmmOnCr have ior culogizing
the Chicago platform AT this time when
the Democratic factions Urc trying 10
get together and elect n Democratic
House OF Representative; a red flag in
"A bull yard would be no more vi q
pfOyuCatIUn to wrath than is such Il
performance in the Democratic party,
" hat that party most needs is to for
get, or affect to forget, the split ui
1896 1t can win 40 presidential vic.
tories, and therefore, can not take it,
pIncc-thc place II ought to fIl as II
strong aud safe Experimentation
the cooperation OF The conservative
Democrats.
he Post f0rgets that the radicalism
If ls96 has become the conservatism
# 1906. The Chicago platform did
not deal exclusively with the money
question. What the Post calls "siN-
teen 10 one was not the issue. Indeed,
"siNteen to one" was the bugaboo
which Republican leaders held up for
the purpose OF frightening the people.
The Commoncr said alt is no
cNaggcralion to say that in its essential
principles the Chicago platform stand,
I vindicatcd in the court OF public opin-
iou.N That statement IS proved. Re
cent developments show that men who
/ poured millions Of dollars into the Re.
/ publican campaign fund were more
afraid of criminal prosecution than
they were Of free silver. So far from
being "a hpodoo, " as the Washington
Post calls it, the Chicago platform read
today in a gathering OF American
citizens anywhere in the land would
call tor cheers from Republicans rs
well rs from Democrats.
The Post say, that the Democratic
party "nrcds to forget the Chicago
PLATFORM Tbcu the Democratic
party i, in q bad way, indeed. How
may Democrat, forget The Chicago
platform when Republican convention,
everywhere are endorsing it, essential
principles, when newspaper editors
that once condemned its statement OF
fact now admit their error, aud when
the President of the United States,
elected as Republican, wins applause
from the masses of the people only as
he moves along the lines defined in
that platforms Why, you could al.
most palm off the Chicago platform as
a Republican editorial in some parts of
this country
1t was the quanlatlyc theory of
money not "lG TO - which was
IN fact the foundation Of all arguments
made in behalf Of bimetalIism and that
foundation is recognised generally to-
day. Even the Post will not now
question it.
In every section of the country Re-
puhiicanS demand the restriction of
the privileges conferred upon the
national banks. Aud that's in the
Chicago platform.
In every State in the Unlon a cen
siderable mum Der OF Republicans de-
nouncr the high tariff as "a prolific
breeder Of trusts and monopolicsn
which "cnrches the few at the en-
pensc OF The many, restricts trade, aud
deprvcs the producers Of the great
American staples OF access to their
natural markets. Aud that's in the
Chicago platform.
Many Republicans now advocate the
income tax, and that's in the Chicago
platform.
A Republican Congress has enacted
law enlarging the pcwcrs of the In.
terslatc Commerce Commission. That's
in The Chicago platform,
Men, regardless Of party, now favor
the election of Senators by the people,
oppose the free pass system, and de.
mand the enforcement of the criminal
clause Ct the Sherman antitrust law
The Chicago platform reminds Us
of all these REFORMS, for the men who
stood upon that platform have stood
faithfully for them. They have lived
to see the day when men who, ten
years ago, sneered at the handiwork
Of the Democratic platform makers at
Chicago, seek the preservation Of the
business interests Of the country and
the defense of the national honor along
the lines laid down by the Democratic
marty in 1896 Tho rOmmunpr