The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-05-23
T I'm AND NOW.
Republicans Using Democratic Piat-
form as Their Own.

torn as Their Own.
In 1895 the democratic nat iora
convention adopted a platform: one I
the planks OF which follows: but Il
this decision by. the supreme court
Cine adverse decision on the inccm''
tsx) there would be no deficit In the
revenue urder the law passed by q
democratic congress in strict purSu.
ancs Of the uniform decisions Of that
court for nearly one hundred years,
that court having in that decision
sustained constitutional objections to
It's enactment which vas prevlt usly
oVerruled by the ablest judge who had
ever SIT on that bench. We declare
that it is the duty Of congress to use
all the constitutional power which :
mains after that decision, OF which
may come from its reversal by tie
court as it may hereafter be conStitu.
ted, 81 thst the burdens CT taxation
may be squs!ly and inpertially laid,
10 the END that wealth may bear Its
cue proportion Ct the expenses of the
government"
That plank was denounced ~ re-
Dnb,ican editors and republican ora
tors, and De- oorats we're called an
aicaists'' becs1se they PRESUMED to
''crilicise the courts"
The editorial remarks Of the Ns8
York Tribune nad5 after the election
uf 1886 we're fairly representative OF
the tone employed by republicans
generally IL the treatment OF the
Chicago platform, aud particularly
that plank above q loted. TEe Til
ouns sa!d that tie uemocra.ic move
nent OF 1895 vas "a malicious coI-
spirac? sgA.us5 tne honor and inuta-
ri: 6 s:!e ),aIicn,' and aGde:.:
4 nominal head was WORTH OF
the cause. Nominal, because the
1reoched, rastle pased by, posing in
vapid vanity and n; uan:rg resound
iEe roltenness, was no. tie reai lcaoeI
Il tnss league OF hell Hs was only 3
puppeu il the hloo2-imbrued hands OF
-, the anarchist, and --, the
reyo,uti ynis5, aud other despsradoes
OF that stripe. But be was willing
puppet. B,ysl IVES, willing and eager
Not one OF his masters was Dore apt
toan ne al lies and iorgerles and blas
ohenies and all the nsme:ess iniou,-
ties OF that campaign against tae Tel
Commandments. he goes down Will
tas cause, aud must aulde @.5h il 10
the history Of iniamy. BE nad less
provoca ion than Benedlc5 Arnold,
less intellectual forcs tnan AaroE
Burr, less manl:ness and courage thai
fzrson Davis He was the rival of
them aIl in deliberate wlckeGness anc
treason to The republic. Els name
belongs With tSeiro, EeiIher the m.si
brilliant nor the most hateful IN the
Es5. Good riddsncs to it al, TO con
spiraoy and c)nsp.ruto1s, ana 10 the
toui menace OF r;pudiation and anar-
chg against the hon3r and the life OF
the republic. -
Oa April l5, 1916, Taeo1ore Roose
yelt elected to the presidency o: the
United States IS 8 republican, sent 20
congress special message dealing
particularly with the decision Of Fed
eral Judge J. OJis Humphrey In the
beef trust case. MIR. Roosevelt refer
red to the Judgment in The baef trust
case as "a miscarriage OF ] l>tice. "
M. Roosevelt also said I can hardly
oeheve that the rule OF Judge Hum.
phrey will be followed by other
Judges" Referring to the tendency
OF the times, NJ. Roosevelt SAID:
'.,rhe dspgsr nowadays is, not that
innocent men will be convicted Of
crime, tut that toe guilty man will
20 scott free. This Is especially the
case where tbs crime is Ole OF greed
and cunning perpetrated by a man OF
wealth in the course Of those business
operations where the code Of conduct
is at variance not merely with the
code OF humanity and morality, bat
with the code as established in the
lay OF the land Referring to Judge
Humphreys decision Mr.. Roosevelt
said: Such Interpretation Of the law
comes nessulably near making the
law 8. farce"
The plank in the democratic na-
tional platform OF 1896 for the adop
5ion Of which democrats were &C.
nounced as anarchists is decidedly
tame in comparison with the Ian.
guage used by the president, elected
as republican, in commenting upon
the decision in the beef trust case.
In 1896 democrats pointed in a mild
way to the fact that The courts decis-
ion in the income tax case was out Of
harmony with the uniform decisions
for nearly one hundred years, a5d ex
pressed the hope, by I'm piication, that
the curt Is hereinafter constttused
might reverse the decision. Bat Mr..
R ooseveit was not at all mild In bis
srraignment Of Judge Humphreys
decision. "a miscarriage Of justices"
be called it, and he added such IN
Of the law comes meas.
urably near making the law afarce."
Yet some.icf the very republican
editors who In 1896 denounced as an
srchi5ss" democrats vic had INDUCED
ln the very mild reference to the ln
,oae tax decision are nov enltusias-
5icslly commanding the PRESIDENT OF
the United States, who was elected as
; republican, for the plain language
De ussd when, in spec!al message to
congress, be condemned Judge Hum
phrey's decision.
Recalling the terrible accusations
made against them in 1895 oV the very
nen VINO are today out Hsroding
a democrat must vigorously
oj1nh fj-rsaif 10 he aSSI1ra5 that he Is