The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-09-14
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Published In 6ryan's Commoner,
Caustlc Article.

In the current issue of the Common
er, Bryans paper Rhodes !. Gregory,
of this city, has an article in which
he says:
"As a delegate to the st. Louis con-
vention, / opposed the nomination Of
Mr. Parker, and stated that Ohio would
go Republican by 100000 if Parker
should be nominated. For this they
called me radical. When they fasten-
ed the unit rule on the Ohio delega-
ton, asked if they could adopt any
rule compelling me and my constit-
uents of the Eighteenth Ohio district
to vote for candidate nominated by
such methods. Then they took occa-
sion to brand me as a bolter. But ]
did not bolt. / voted for Parker,
thinking by SO doing that / was priv
ileged to support few of the Demo-
cratic principles. If demanding hon
esty in politics is radical, | am a radi-
cal If being faithful to Democratic
bolter. l have expressed my doctrine
many times, in public and private, and
was applauded l have stuck to the
faith through thick and thin, in sea-
son and out of season. Now, in these
later days, i am told by my friends,
in the language of my enemies, that
l am radical. This may be true, but
am not ready to plead guilty. If
to give your neighbor square deal"
and to tell him the truth in politics
as well as out of politics, is radical
ism, then l am a radical. If to be-
lieve thing, work for it. spend brain
and muscle and substance for it, give
accomplishment for it, sacrifice all
hope, much of life if to shut your
eyes to the chase for gain; If these
attributes constitute radcalism, then
II am a radical. l believe that mans
politics should be an open book.
believe that we should turn from
what is in it. to what is right !
} believe that all men are created equal
r. believe that the poor devil should
l believe in the commandment thou
shalt not steal seven days of the week
/ believe that no man should sacrifice
I his own honor to preserve nations
honor. l believe that no insurance
company has right to collect prem
iums, from all the people, and donate
without their consent, the money col
lected to political campaign fund
for the election of certain candidates
for president of the United States.
believe Democrats should nominate for
congress men who kept the faith in
1896 and 1900, as well as in 1904 Men,
whose names alone would be certifi-
Gates of good character 1t would be
in bad taste to select as a candidate
for congress, one who belongs to the
crowd that classed all who voted for
Bryan in 1896 and 1900, as anarchists,
disturbers, destroyers of national hon
or, ETC., and then ask them to vote
for him. believe unremitting warfare
should be declared against corruption
lists and those who countenance brib-
cry, or they who, having knowledge
of the same conceal such knowledge
from the officers of the law. | believe
we should announce the decree that
there is no room in the Democratic
party for the boodler or q corruption
ist of any sort, believe we should re-
pudiate their support invite them to
leave the party, and offer them shell
ter only in the penitentiary, if they
fattempt to remain. These are some of
the things for which l stand If they
are radical, then / am radical | play
my cards on the table face up, so that
all may see. believed in the Kansas
City platform. l believed in the Chica-
go platform. believe in them now.
believe in holding truth to the front.
would like to win. but not at the
sacrifice of truth. / believe that those
who would resort to expediency, in
any of her enticements or allurements,
to carry political point as against
truth, should be classed among rogues
and cutthroats, and driven out of the
Democratic party. Give us men of
strength, who can Withstand a storm; !;
men who cannot be carried away by
expediency; meu who are willing to
lose their all in support of right; men
who work their way to the front
through deeds of honor. Away from
him, who through strategy, deception,
Misrepresentation, or by downright
purchase, gains his shoulder straps.
No such generals should be allowed
to lead an honest Democracy. l like
success that is woven from warp of
consistency and persistency. l believe
in saying things and then sticking to
what has been said"