The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-09-06

through the avenue of campaign
slogan, for platform of principles
setting forth the tenets of the
party of which, by virtue of his
office, he is the head.
Most of the men who will vote
this year were voters in 1906. They
heard the cry of "anarchy" raised
against the Chicago platform.
They heard the eloquent, able
and fearless leader of Democracy
in that campaign, vilified, SANDER
ed and abused as no Presidential
candidate had been since the days
of Abraham Lincoln. They saw
that matchless young champion of
the cause of the common people go
down to what seemed ignominious
defeat. They heard the exultant
shouts of the purse proud, alleged
defenders of the national honor,
proclaim that victory of mammon
over men. They have seen that
champion of the rights of the
common people arise from the
ruins of political defeat and with
logic unanswearable, maintain,
with tongue and pen, the princi-
Piles set forth in that Chicago plat
form, called anarchy" by Theo-
dore Roosevelt, in 1896. They have
learned that that platform was
really only third reiteration of
the principles of the Declaration
of American Independence, the
second having been made in the
platform on which the martyred
Lincoln rode to victory in 1860. In
short the voters OF America haye
seen and heard and are no longer
afraid.
The campaign this fall is but
the skirmish before the great po-
litical battle of 1908. The popu-
larity that has come to President
Roosevelt has come because of his
advocacy of the principles and
policy set forth in the Chica go
platform. Even though he be SIN
cere since in his attempts to bring
relief from the encroachments of
organized corporate greed, it is
plain that he will be unable to do
so because handi capped by the
deals of his own party in both
branches of the national Congress.
In the struggle over the railway
rate bill, In the last session of Con-
gress, defeat would have been as-
sured had tine appeal of the Presi-
dent, to the leaders of the Demo.
cratic minority in the United
States Senate, fallen on deaf ears.
Every intelligent reader is familiar
with the story of the unseltish
services of Senators Tillman,
Bailey and Daniels, In their sup
port of the position of the Presi-
dent. Without the aid of these
patriots railway rate legislation,
the pet measure of the President,
even in its present emasculated
form, would have been impossible.
AS the Democratic leaders in
1860, bowed to the dictation of
the Southern slave owner, go the
Republican leaders of the year
1906, bow to the dictates of organ
lied corporate greed.
In all great crisises in our ma
tion's history the occasion has
raised up Il leader to guide the
people. The American revolution
gave us Washington. In the
dark days of the great Rebellion,
a Lincoln arose to blot the black
spot of African slavery from the
fair escutcheon of American liber-
ty. And is it too much to believe
that in the struggle now waging
between the masses of our popula-
tion and corporate greed, that an
other great commOner shall come
out of the West to lead the peo-
pie to victory.
One of the suhlimest pageants in
American history is, at this hour
in progress in the metropolis of !
the nation. From each of the
forty-six states of the Union,
thousands of American citizens,
of party affiliations,
have this day eongregated in the
city of New York to welcome home
after years absence in foreign
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