The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-14
WILL INSTRUCT
THE DELEGATES
Democratic State Convention
of Wisconsin Called to Or
der at Milwaukee.
KEYNOTE OF THE CAMPAIGN
ADDRESS OF JOHN F. DoHERTY,
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN,

! Milwaukee, Wis, Feb. 1S-The Dem
| ocratic state convention for the NOM
| mating of delegates to the national
/ convention to be held at Denver was
called to order this afternoon by State
| Chairman II. II. Manson. who intro
| duced John F. Doherty Of LaCross as
temporary chairman.
Mr.. Doherty, in sounding the key
note, lauded the principles of govern
ment proclaimed by jefferson and
made respondent and illuminated in
the light of that master intellect, Will
liam J. Bryan"
Among other things, the speaker said
the Democratic party should demand
a revision of the tariff. He concluded
his speech as follows:
Let US rely on good sense and con-
science of t q American people. Our
leader in this great contest is already
chosen Follow him and we cannot
faiL He stands today as DemOcracy's
exponent, DemOcracy's idol, Democra-
cy's hope. Let US make him the peo-
pies president - William jennings
Bryan Mr.. Doherty said, in part:
Address of Mr.. Doherty.
In the application of Jeffersonian
principles 1 baieve lies the real hope
for the success Of this republic. False
ideas may thrive for a time. The in
PREVENTION of a political accident NAV
give an undeserving party a limited
lease Of power, but just as sure as this
government viii continue to live, just
so sure will the people finally assert
themselves, just so sure will they de-
mand justice and equal opportunity
Tor all men. Let us not entertain the
false notion that the triumph of De-
mOcracy means the triumph of the
poor as against the rich. il is natural
that such false ideas should prevail.
Forty years of Republican ascendancy,
forty years OF high tariff, forty years
of legislation for favored interests.
forty years Of millionaire making with
all the accompanying evils of monopo-
lies. pools and trusts, has naturally
brought TO the support of the Repub-
ilcan party the organized forces of pre-
datOry wealth, while it has also, lust
as naturally. brought forth from the
Democracy. both in platforms and on
the hustlings, d bitter arraignment of
the money power.
Equality of Opportunity.
But we must not forget that the
Democratic principle of equality does
not mean equality in wealth, equality
in social standing, equality in brain
power, equality in energy-that cannot
be. 1t means equality f Opportunity,
and the limitation bears upon the poor
IS well as the rich. Jefferson himself
was d rich man. and he countenanced
no principle that would array class
against class. rich against poor. en-
ployer against employed. There is per-
haps today as much danger, if not
more, than the man Of wealth may be
injured, that capital may be despOiled,
as there is that the poor man may be
crushed under foot. To do an inius-
tice to one class is just as undemo-
cratic as it is to do injustice to the
other. 1t is not Democratic to attach
a stigma to the word corporation II
Is not un-DemOcratic to honor the man
Of honest wealth. Of honest industry,
the man who is the employer of labor
at honest wages and who treats his
employees as men, and not slaves.
Revision of the Tariff.
First and foremost, the Democratic
party should go before the people in
the approaching campaign and demand
revision of the present tariy Re
publican legislatures have petitioned,
Republican leaders pleaded, and Re-
publican newspapers have appealed for
a revision Of the tariff, but those sa-
cred schedules still remain. And they
VIII remain until an outraged public
opinion shall again place the Democ-
racy in power Then will the full din
ner pail somewhat dented and
marred, but filled to overlooking by
soup from the panic of 1907, be con-
signed to its last resting place in the
graveyard Of party slogans. 1t will be
buried under the auspices of the An
cient Order of Standpatters' and the
uniformed rank will march with muf-
fled drums and measured step to the
tomb.
All in One Graveyard.
There il will lie alongside of the al
most forgotten creations of the past
On one side of the weatherbeaten slab,
in letters faded and obscure, we may
read The foreigner pays the tax
Further up the slope. or Ger a new
mound in characters still bright and
undimmed, will be the melancholy
words, The Tariff Should be Revised
by Its Friends, while yonder, where
the willow droO9s as if still weeping
for the dead, we viii see dim outlines
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