The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-07
State Convention Names Ticket
and Makes a Platform.
TARIFF FOR REVENUE.
Speech Of Chairman Holds Up
Republican Black Sheep.
He Calls Attention to Burton,
Mitchell, Dietrich and Others.

Indianapolis, Ind, June democrats
of Indiana in convention today adopted
a platform strongly endorsing William
J. Bryan for the presidency and selected
a state ticket for all offices except gov
ernor and reporter Of the supreme court
Benjamin F. Snively of South Bend,
former representative in congress from
the Thirteenth Indiana district, was per
nanent chairman and in his address
said
The use Of governmental power for
private purposes is the beginning of
what is today called graft. Such use
of governmental power creates a dis
tinct class in the country with interests,
special and apart from the interests
common to their fellow citizens. The
benefciaries OF governmental power un-
consciously come to regard their own
! peculiar privileges as of paramount
public concern. They come to coun-
tenance and even support other abuses
and mischiefs in government, so long
as their own special advantages are
conserved. The result of this old system
of farming out the powers of the gov
ernment has been to bring into the re-
public a confederacy of special priv
! ileges that 1t is today ccntesting for su-
In exchange for the favors it has re-
ceived and expects to receive, 1t has for
many years capitalized the Republican
/ organization. financed It's campaigns,
secured the election of It's candidates
and required them tc stand pat after
they were elected.
'"The McCalls, McCurdys and Alex
anders had witnessed the trust prop
critics of government turned over to
/ private interests and its power farmed
| out for selfish gain. They had wit
messed those functions which had been
conferred for benehcent purposes,
! transformed into merchandise. They
/ could not appropriate the great trust
funds in their charge for political pur-
poses without crime. The chairman
and the treasurer of the national Re-
| publican committee could not receive
4 those funds without crime. Yet. be-
cause of the moral turpitude, born of
! persistent and successful merchandise
/ ing in power, these men not only made
! this criminal use of trust funds, but
| openly and unblushingly justified it.
Republican United States Senator
! Mitchell had witnessed the wrongful
| Appropriation of the public property TO
! private individuals under the form of
/ law and he and his associates attempt
/ ed the wrongful appropriation without
! the form of law Of 800, 600 acres of the
| public land and he died on his way to
| prison A Republican United States
/ senator from Nebraska, peddled out
/ the postoff1ceS of his state for his own
! gain as a hawker peddles fish and only
/ escaped conviction on a technicality.
About Burton.
Republican United states Senator
! Burton, of Kansas, employed the DOW
er of his senatorial office to protect a
get rich quick concern that was pick
! ing the pockets Of his Kansas constf-
tuents. A Platt and a Depew=men
/ long in the public life of the republic
and who had been regarded as para
/ gons of official and business integrity
are at last discovered to have been the
commonest sort of common grafters.
1.-THE disease itself suggests the
remedy. It began where public power
was first diverted from public pur~
/ poses and made the source of private
1 property. Withdraw privilege and the
/ temptation to the corruption which il
engenders disappears. Let all men, air
interests, all occupations stand equal
under the law and all men will then
| have a common interest in clean and
/ just government"
Referring to William J. Bryan. he
said: THAT which is today eulogized
and approved as broad statesmanship
and enlightened patriotism in Theo-
4 dore Roosevelt, was only a few years
ago denounced as reactionary revolu-
( tionary and unpatriotic in William
! Jennings Bryan. The aftersight of
the one is almost equal to the fore
sight of the other"
The Platform.
The resolutions say in part: ssThe
Democracy of Indiana in convention
assembled renews its allegiance to the
principle of constitutional government
through laws enacted and executed in
/ the interests of the whole people with
out favor to individual or class It
pledges Itself when returned to power
! to correct the evils that have grown
out Of Republican official shortcom-
tngs. to an economical administration
/ of public affairs, and to the consistent
enforcement of the laws pertaining to
public welfare.
''It sends greetings across the sea
/ to that wise and conservative states
man. unfaltering patriot and superb
leader, William Jennings Bryan, and
| pledges its vote in convention and the
| electoral vote of Indiana to him for
| president in 190S-
For nearly ten years the Republi-
| can party has been in absolute control
in all departments in the national gov
| ernTn ent with power to change unjust
\ conditions and to rectify evils Yet
| during that time colossal combinations
: of capital have dominated the people
and Illegal perversions of corporate
law have sti7ed competition and IN
fairly limited the opportunity of the
! individual citizen. Wealth thereby IL
legally obtained has been unspa aringly
used to control legislation and corrupt
| elections. No honest effort has been
/ l1aQS OF Is DeAltS lfldO6 DS the tIepuD-
lican legislation to cure or eradicate
these evils. We denounce the hypoc-
risy Of the Repu blican party which
while pretending to enact laws against
i these conditions deals only with the
symptoms and not with the disease.
| The unfair. tyrannical features of the
socalled protective tariff have made
these things possible and no permanent
relief can be secured until its obnox-
/ i0uE features are removed
I'VE demand tariff for revenue only.
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