Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-28

each are the Captain Kids of Industry.
those highwaymen of high finance who
realize that 10 plumber safely the peo-
pies purse they must first possess the
peoples government.
When | was running for governor in
New York an emissary of one Of the
biggest men in Wall street called upon
me and said that his client offered 10
contribute Sin0HD to my campaign fund
and 10 raise several hundred thousand
more # my views were reasonable in re-
gard 10 honest business.
~ told the emissary that the offer was
declined with thanks. l said that the
gentlemen making ii were merely pro-
posing TO waste their good money. for
wherever business was honest | would
deem il my duty as public official to
promote and encourage 1t without any
hundred thousand dollar brides, and
wherever business was dishonest not all
the money in Wall street would influence
my attitude toward 1t.
No lawyed would serve his client hon
estly who had received retaining fee
from the opposite side. and no party can
honestly represent the citizens wheree
their interests conflict with the eNactionS
of the trusts If il has been contaminated
by a corporation campaign fund and SUB
sidized into silence and subserviency.
Broad and Liberal Stand Urged.
Il urge our party to take broad and
liberal stand toward the legitimate bust
ness enterprises of the country. but to
distinguish between honest business
everywhere and those criminal concerns
which plumber through political pull and
pay for political protection.
GOOD wine needs no BUSH and honest
business needs no bribe'
Honest business and prosperity are al
most Synonymous terms. AS one devel-
ops the other increases: when one is I'M
duly disturbed the other fails.
Reforms must be made as the coun-
try develops and the people progress. but
these reforms should be carried out by
those in authority without spite or pre)u-
dice. without egotism or senSationallsnl,
without a brass Dand or a big stick
Not all who ask to be let alone realIy
want to be let alone.
The thief may we'll ask to be let alone
in his thievery but the legitimate busi-
ness man would ask for all the encour-
agement that an intelligent business ad-
ministration can properly provide.
I'VE all want prosperity and, what is
more. we want prosperity for all.
II urge our party. therefore. to be In
diligently and courageously constructive.
not merely obstructive like the republican
party nor destructive like the democratic
party.
Platforms of the Old Parties.
THE republican platform says nothing
and means nothing.
1T is a platform of statistical lnVen-
lions and political evasions
1T is obviously the product of party
whose sole purpose is TO stand pat and
whose sole desire is to stay pat.
The democratic platform contains some
good and original things. but. as has been
said, the original things are not good and
the good things are not original.
1T was built by political jackdaws
who feathered their nests with the plumes
of others without understanding OF thelr
significance or intention as TO their per
Torrance.
1T is the habitation of a hermit crab
which has no shell of its own and invades
the first convenient one without regard
to property or proprety.
1T is platform. too, OF Recommendation
and retractlon of atonement and apology,
of harmony and hypocrisy. for in compll-
ance with a former compact, Parker has
pronounced peace, Bill Bailey has poured
Standard OIL upon the troubled waters
and BRYAN has killed not only the fatted
calf but the goose that laid the golden
egg. . ,a M
man can conciliate the conf1lctlnS ele-
ments of the democratic party. lie VINO
tries must serve one and deceive the
other; must make public pretense TO the
people and private compact with the
trusts.
Not a Party of Factions.
"Our party is not party of factions or
sections or cliques or classes. We have
no warning wings to pacify, no contra
dctory declarations to modify, no corrupt
bosses to satisfy.
LET us act boldly and speak plainly.
Let us make platform so clear and
so sincere that every citizen will under
stand our position and have confidence
in our intention.
Let us nominate candidates from
among the many men here present whose
lives and deeds are a guarantee of the
genuinenesS of their attitude, a pledge OF
the sincerity of our profession.
Then let us go forth to an honorable
effort for a righteous cause to battle and
to victory.
Ten minutes were consumed in the pre-
sentation to Mr.. Hearst of two gayels.
One from local labor union and the
other from friends in the fourteenth as
sembly district of Manhattan.
After that two-thirds of the audience
and one-third of the delegates left the
hall and the convention practically wound
up its first session.
Today's Sessions.
The convention finally adjourned until
, o'clock. this afternoon. Two sessions
will be held today. At the first c. A.
Walsh of Iowa. will be elected perma-
nent chairman. the platform read and
adopted and at the second, which VIII
probably be held in the evening. candi-
dates for President and Vice President
will be selected.