The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-19

rAlN ana the square dNai Ills
party. however. viii mol. The party
platform shows that
Read the Platform.
Read that platform. Read IL
slowly aud with thought. then take
mp the minority report Read that
with care and equal thought Read
those plauhn which the party would
not accept
cannot get into them now. hut
take one or two Instances Con.
gfessman Cooper. ~ the Wisconsin
delegation. offered planks reqniF-
lng publicity 0f campaign epntfibn. I
tons. There could have been no
honest objection. bat Il was hiow
At this methods Of our political cor
ruption. The resolutions commit
tee would have none Of a. Cooper |
was the unly man Co vote Tor t. |
Hut he carried hin platform upon
the flooF. There fortunately some (
delegates asked for n separate VOTE !
upon the publicity plank bu, the
convention beat the plank by an
vote.
Taft may be for honesty In eiee
lions. but the party u not honest
Honesty II a fine virtue II MAJ /
he rafe. ard certainly the nay Ne
Americans applaud u suggests we
have need Of u. aud honesty would !
indeed 90 much FOR IA. but u vii /
not solv. ali problems.
Menopoilss Centred
IL /, honest. for example. Tor
monopoly to raise the price Of ne.
c9asifios which u controls7 IL IL
Tor the coed OF the people 70 aiios
this monopoly 90 charge freely what
II pieascsf
Roossxeit'n railroad las reeoE |
ninee that The lsw requires = rail-.
road TO charge 20 more than f~as I
aonable rates Hut Senator Ia /
Foiiette. Of Wisconsin. and his 70 1
publican friends pet IN their n
tsmpts 20 regulate railroads In their
state. aud tina, n they wurs 10 rs
reasonable rates thsy must bs able
10 fstrrmine the value Of the rail 4
roAd.s property. No the wsrconsln 1
delesation proposed for the party 1
q plank for the valuation Of rail
road property. The railroads hated
the idea Il VS. a menace nof only
20 theit rsss-masfnE powers Of tar
Asioa, hut also to the stock wstsf
ing They opposed this piank
Their representatives In the res<r
luton committee were against IL
The committee threw Il out.
There vas a separate vote ou1
that. ! need not. ho~essf. go cal
Labor CO, Nothing.
Labor SO, nathins. absolutely,
nothing but no other common To-
tsru.t got anything either. There
Ia nalhlns ns~. or clear. nothing 1
definite or generous In the whole
platform The anti.inIanction plank
il an example. \
This piaak contains bow 10 tbs
courts. bow TO laber. a boa eel
capital. and that II all.
Read " yourself and see.
The republican party stands pat
Nov please dent misunaarsiand
me am not finding fanli. The
conservative party 10 natural. u
IL therefore seee=aary 10 think
The large proportion 81 moss Of
the conservative parties should be
in tower. They should have a sep
arnte party. When they are In a
majority they viii be In power.
Need Liberal Party.
hut we need also q liberal party 4
The latter proportion Of men are
progressive. but sc
should have a share IN the major.
fty party. Therefore the liberal
party should be In power hut that
has not been possible In this eoun'
try.
I think that At present ] am ons
of the majority. but whether ] am
a majority or minority ! certainly
should have a party. Should ! not
Well. for many years We liberals
have had no party We tried the
Democratic party. but when u came
into power n proved 10 be under
the same control and the same In.
teresfa aH owned the republican
party. And those interests are
conservatives. They are very con
sentative. tpey are tories.
They have risht 10 be tories.
but they have no right to have
two parties. II Ia not good for
them 20 have two parties. The
forces. being 30 powerful. have
abused their power. They raised 4
up the public opinion which Great
ed Roosevelt. And he IL a liberal |
And he tried To make the old tory |
republican party liberal. II was
hard 90 do Il. but be fought hard |
and he won hia fight. But he didn't
complete HIS work lie made the !
party do liberal things. but he did
not make II truly liberal party |
M the result Of the convention
shows.
Platform Says Nothing.
lie made the party bow TO labor.
10 the consumer. 10 the negro. To
the common good. but It's promises
OF progress are-nil.
IL would have been better N the |
platform had been more explicit.
n the party had only plainly said
that II stood for things as they are,
hut Il refused 10 make It's meaning
clear enough.
The republican party n a con.
sentative party. Let II be. Let es.
cry conservative vote with the rc
pubilcans They can make the
party sore the people well II they
will But let those OF MS who want
10 10 on 10 the solution Of the
next problem. let us 60 forth look
ing for the liberal party.
Let us 20 to Denver and SEE
what the democratic partisansl
promise. Let ms see N they can
keep control. There are far nom
liberals among the democrats. and
they will make fight Let us
see II they will win. ny this we
will see whether there Is on there
IN not n liberal party.