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convention, and that reports Of such orEaniza.
county.
BY order Of the State Committee.
Done at Des Meines. Iowa, May Is, 1905.
.; =. MoHRIsHY, Chairman.
y. w. MILLER, Secretary,
"1he Chicago Platform Still Lives"
The Washington Post is offended
because The Commoner said: "The
Chicago platform still lives" The
Post says that 'free coinage at Is to l
was the only vital issue" in the Chi
cago platform, adding:
"What possible motive can Mr.. Bry-
ans Commoner have for eulogizing
the Chicago platform at this time
when the democratic factions are try.
Ing to get together and elect demo-
cratic house of representatives? A
red nag In . bull yard would be no
more Of provocatlon to wrath than
is such performance in the demo-
cratic party. What that party most
needs is to forget or affect to forget,
the split of Of 1896. 1t can win no
presidential victories, and therefore,
can not take its place-the place it
ought to I'LL as strong and safe op.
position-without the cooperation of
the conservative democrats"
The Post forgets that the radical
ism of 1896 has become the conserva-
tism of 1906. The Chicago platform
did not deal exclusively with the
money question. What the Post calls
"l6 to 1" was not the issue. Indeed
"16 to 1" was the bugaboo which re-
publican leaders held up for the pur-
pose Of frightening the people.
The Commoner said: ut is no ex-
aggeration to say that in its essential
principles the Chicagoplatform stands
INDICATED in the court OF public opin-
ion" 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 "hoodoo," as the Washington
Post calls it, the Chicago platform
read today in gathering OF Ameri-
can cit;1ens anywhere IN the land
would call for cheers from republicans
as we'll as from democrats.
The Post says that the democratic
party "needs to forget the Chicago
platform. Then the democratic
party is in bad way, indeed. How
may democrats forget the Chicago
platform when republican conventions
everywhere are endorsing its essential
principles, when newspaper editors
that once condemened it's statements
OF facts now admit their error, and
when the president of the United
States, elected as republican, wins
applause from the masses of the PEG.
pie only as he moves along the lines
defined in that platform? Why, you
could almost palm of the Chicago
platform as 8 republican editorial in
some sections of this country,
It was the quantitative theory OF
moneY-not '18 to (Which was in
fact the foundation OF all arguments
made in behalf OF bimetallism and
that foundation is recognized general
ly today. Even the Post will not
question 1t.
In every section of the country re-
publieans demand the restriction of
the privileges conferred upon the ma.
tional banks. And that's in the Chi
cago platform
In every state in tha union con-
siderable number Of republicans de.
nounce the high tariff as "a prolific
breeder OF trusts and monopolies"
which "enrich the few at the expense
OF the many, restricts trade, and de-
prives the producers OF the great
American staples of access to their
natural markets" And 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
q law enlarging the powers of the in
terstate 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 of the Sherman antitrust law.
The Chicago platform reminds US Of
these reforms for the men who stood
upon the platform have stood faith
fully 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 Chica-
60 seek the preservation Of the bust
ness interests OF the country, and the
defense of the national honor along
the lines laid down by the democratic
party in 1895. The Commoner.
It IL always well to have box Of
saIye in the house. Sunburn, cuts,
bruises, plies and boils Yield to De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve. Should
keep q boz on hand at all times to pro-
vide for emergencies. For years the