Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-07
ANOTHER S|AIE
FAVORS Bryan
Indiana Democrats Endorse Him
For Nomination For the
Presidency in 1908
sH,vELy SCORES MONOPOLY
Resolution. Declare That Protective
Tariff is Cause Of Trust Evils and
Pledges Democrats to Tariff for Rev.
snue onIy-A Change in Admins
1! 1ration Demanded.

Indianapolis June 1.-The demo-
Gratis Of Indiana in convention today
adopted a platform strongly endorsing.
William J. Bryan for the presidency,
and selected a state ticket for all Of
nces except governor and reporter of
the supreme court. Benjamin F.
ltShively, of South Bend, was perma-
nent chairman.
Shively, 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 inter-
ests special and apart from the inter-
exits common to their fellow citizens.
The benehciaries of governmental
power unconsciously come to regard
their own peculiar privileges as of par
amount public concern. They come to
scountenanee even the support of other
abuses an,l mischiefs in the govern
lllent, so Long as their own special adj
Nantages are conserved. The result of
this old system Of farming out the
powers of the government has been to
bring; into the republic a confederacy
of special privileges that is today con-
testing for supremacy with the
American people. In exchange for the
favors it has received. and expects to
receive, 1t has for many years capital
-. - ~.
Ats campaigns, secured the election of
Its candidates, and required them to
stand pat after they were elected.
lMcCalls, McCurdys and Alexanders
had witnessed the trust properties of
the government turned over to private
interest, and its power farmed out for
selfish gain. They could not appro-
pirate the great trust funds in their
charge for political purposes, without
crime. The chairman and treasurer OF
the national republican committee
could not receive those funds without
crime, yet these men not only made
this criminal use of trust funds, but
openly and unblushingly justified it.
Republican Senator Mitchell had wit
messed the wrongful appropriation of
public property to private individuals
under the form of law, and his asso-
iciates attempted wrongful appropria-
tion without the form of law, of three
hundred thousand acres of public land,
and he died on his way to prison. The
republican senator from Nebraska
peddled out the post offices of his state
for his own gain is a hawker peddles
fish, and only escaped conviction on
technicality. The republican senator.
Burton, of Kansas employed the pow
er OF his senatorial office to protect a
get-rich-quick concern that was pick
Ing the pockets Of his Kansas consti-
tuents. Platt and Depew, men long in
the public life of the country, and who
had been regarded as paragons of Of
fetal esaa business integrity are at
last discoy cred to have been the COM
monest sort of common grafters.
.sThe disease itself suggests rem
edy. 1t began where public power was
first diverted from public purposes and
make the source of private property.
Withdraw the privilege, and the temp
tation to corruption which 1t engen-
Aers. AuAy,pears. Let all men, all in
terests, and all occupations stand
equal under the law and all men will
then have common interest in clean
and just government"
Shively discussed the tariff reviewed
the history of the democratic party,
emphasized the support given by the
democrats in congress in the interest
OF interstate commerce legislation, and
eulogized Bryan.
The Platform.
The platform says in part: For
nearly ten years the republican party
has been in absolute control of all de-
partments in the national government,
with power to change unjust condi-
tions and to rectify evils. Yet during
that time colossal combinations of cap
ital have dominated the people, illegal
persecution of corporate law has stified
competition and unfairly limited op-
portunity Of Individual citizens The
wealth thereby illegally obtained has
been unsps.ringly used to control legis-
lation and corrupt elections. No hon
made by republican legislators to cure
Or eradicate these evils. We denounce
the hypocrisy Of the republican psSty
which, while pretending TO legislate
against these conditions, deals only
with symptoms and not with the dis
ease. The unfair and tyrannical fea-
lures of the so-called protective tariff |
have made. these things possible. No
permanent relief can be secured until
It's obnoxious features are removed.
We demand that this be done by tar
lff for revenue only.
'vrhe growth of trusts and other in
dangerous combinations Of |
rapital. tremendous and rapidly In |
absorption and Capitalization |
Of the wealth Of the couMrW in the |
hands of chosen few. all due to pre- |
and systematic legislation in |
behalf OF the special interests by the !
republican party. demand change in |
policies imposed upon the country by !
hat party, and make the passage of |
rrss'-ictive laws an imperative neces-
pity" |
The platform pledges the party when