The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-28

Tt Is too much to say that our convention can ever reach the im- portance of the second continental congress, but the principles they met to declare We have met to preserve, and the liberties they assembled to secure we have assembled to protect.
 "I believe that we will do our ser vice to our chow citizens second only to the inestImable service rendered by the founders of this government If We shall found party which will remain unfallingy faithful to the cause of the plain people, to the prin- clples of the Declaration of lndepen- dence and to the fundamental Amer lean ideas of liberty, equality and op- portunty for all,
 Necessity for New Party
 q believe that if any party Is nec- essary In this country. to preserve the government as the fathers framed 1t, new party Is necessary; If any party Is necessary to promote progress and | prosperity, to encourage the honest business man and protect the honest working man, q new party Is neces- sary: If any party Is necessary to rep resent the typical American citizens to constitute the people in their strug- gles with the tyrannlcal monopolles which constitute the trusts, new party is necessary.
 In l792 Thomas Jefferson. who had penned the principles of the Dec laration of Independence founded the democratic-repnblcan party. to per petuate these principles
 "ln lSiO this party founded to be the party of the people had become the party of privilege, and the demo- cratic party came into being and crystalliZed about the personality and principles of Andrew Jackson. In 1851 tho democratic party had be- come the property of an arrogant arls- tocracy which denounced the self-evi- dent truth of the Declaration of lnde- pendence as 'self-evident lies Then the republican party was born to re- store the action of the government to the principles of Washington and Jef- ferson, Abraham Lincoln led lt to INictory.
 "Is it not time, is there not need for a new party which shall take up the work of the parties of Jefferson, of Jackson, of Lincoln and preserve for Us and for the citizens of the future, the rights and liberties which these parties in their hour of usefulness pre- served for the citizens of their time?
 old Parties.
 "The old parties. in this day of their decadence are no longer equal 10 this work, for they have become uniaithful to the principles which inspired them and unworthy Of the patriots who founded them.
 The republican party Is the open and avowed hand maiden of the trus g It scorns those who would rescue it, te- pudiates those who would reform it and glorles brazeuly in It's profitable in fanny
 The democratic party is merely on. vious of its sordid sisters ill-gotten fin cry. It upbraids her at one election and emulates her at the next
 The republican leaders are the poll. tical attorne $ of trusts and monopo. lies, the representatives in public lifc of those giant corporations which have superseded the people in this republl, as the source of power and the seat o authority.
 The democratic vanguard is a Fal staffs army, 1t is led ny knight ar rayed in a motley of modified pro'es sions and compromised principles, o altered opinions. and retracted state ments
 MT Hearst at this point in his ad dress mentioned the names of sullivan Hopkins, Murphy Mcclellan, Taggart Ryan, Belmont, Bailey and Williams describing them as officers of the dem ocratic vanguard, and designating then in uncomplimentary terms. He then | sumed as follows:
 "A Falstail $ army, whose banne bears on one side a watchword for tn people and on the other password fo the trusts, whose only object Is oific at any cost, whose motto After us tn deluee.'
 , Assuming that Mir. Bryan himself all that his most ardent admirers clain him to be, a great lawyer, an enighten B ed statesman, an inspired patriot, stil !, a man Is known by the company h f keeps and no decent democrat can tol 9 crate his free companions
 "No honest citizen can let down tn
 oars of office to such an Ali Baba' band of boodlers and braves.
 No prudent citizen will support & combination to which Taggart supple a candidate, and Parker a platform for which Ryan will pay the freigh and the people will pay the penalty. Back of both parties and underwrit ing each are the Captain Kidds of in dustry, those kghwaymen of hig finance, who realize that 10 plunde safely the peoples purse they mus first possess the peoples government, When Hearst Declined Gift. When l was running for governor in New York, an emissary of one o a the biggest men in Wall street cole 4 me and said that his client offered { | COntrlDule one hundred thousand dOl
 lars to my campaign fund and to rais several hundred thousand more If m ! views were reasonable m regard { honest business.
 q told the emissary that the offe was declined with thanks. said the the gentleman making it were merel 8 proposing to waste their good none, 0 for wherever business was honest would deem 1t my duty as a public of
 ficial to promote and encourage it with out any hundred thousand dolla
 bribes, and wherever business was dis "ionest, not all the money in Wall stree would Influence my attitude towards i
 T merely mention this incident t : show what I believe should be the al