The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-09
WAS THE 1895 CAMPAIGN
ONLY A DREAM

one of the planks of which tollows;
"But for this decision by the su-
preme court (the adverse decision
on the income tsx) there would be
no deficit in the revenue under the
law passed by a democratic con-
gress in strict pursuance of the
uniform decisions of that court for
nearly one hundred years, that
court having in that decision sus.
tanned constitutional objections to
Its enactment which had previously
been overruled by the sbIest
judges who had ever sat en- that
bench. We declare that it IL the
duty of congress to use all the ccn-
stitutional power which remains
after that decision, or which may
come from its reversal ny the court
as it may hereafter be constituted.
30 that the burdens of taxation
may equally and impartially laid,
to the end that wealth may bear its
due proportion of the expenses of
the government"
That plank was denounced by
republican editors and republican
orators, and democrats were called
anarchists" because they pre-.
sumed to "criticise the courts. -
The editorial remarks of the
New York York Tribune made
after the election of 1896 were
fairly representative of the tone
employed by republicans generally
in the treatment of the Chicsgo
platform, and particularly that
plank above quoted. The Tribune
said that the democratic movement
of1896 was "a malicious conspiracy
sgainsr the honor and integrity of
the nstion," and added:
Its nominal head was worthy
of the cause. Nominal, because
the wretohed. rattle pated boy,
posing in vapid vanity end mouth
ing resounding rottenness, was not
the real leader of that league of
of hell. He was only a puppet in
the blood imbrued hands of -,
the anarchist. and H, the revo-
lutionist. and other desperadoes of
that stripe But he was a willing
puppet Bryan ives willing ant
eager. Not one of his masters was
more apt than he at lies and for
geries and blaephemies and all the
nameless iniquties of that CAM
paign sgainst the Ten Command
ments. He goes down with the
cause, and must abide with it in
the history CT infsmy. He had
less provocation than Benedict
Arnold. less intellectual force than
Aaron Burr. less manliness and
courage than Jefferson Davis He
was the rival of Them all in DELHI
crate wickedness and treason to
the republic His name belongs
with theirs, neither the most brill
liant nor the most hateful in the
list. Good radiance to it all, to
conspiracy and conspiratorp, and
to the foul menace of Reputation
and anarchy egainst the honor and
the life of the republic.
On April Is. 1906, Theodore
Roosevelt elected to the presi-
denoy of the United States as Re
publican, sent to congress a special
message dealing particularly with
the decision of Federal Judge j.
Otis Humphrey in the beef trust
case Mr. Roosevelt referred to
the judgment in the beef trust
case as "a miscarriage of Justice y
Mr.. Roosevelt also said Il can
hardly believe that the rule Of
Judge Humphrey Will be followed
by other judges" Referring tc
the tendency Of the times, Mr.
Roosevelt said: THE danger
nowadays is. not that innocent
men will be convicted of crime
but the guilty man will not g
scott free This is especially thu
case where the crime is one o.
greed and cunning perpetrated BY
q man of wealth in the course o
those business operations wherr
the code of conduct is at varianol
not merely with the code of hu
manity and morality, but with tn,
code as established in the law of tn
land" Referring to Judge Hum
phrey's decision Mr.. Roosevelt
said: "Suoh Interpretation of tn
law comes measurably near making
the law a farce"
The plank in the Democrat
National nIatfoTm re- 1908 For kh