The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-18
Hurrah for Bryan and Kern! Says Watterson
From the Louisville courier-JournaI.

Hurrah for Bryan and Kern.t 1t is a
strong ticket 1t Is an honest, sound
and Democratic declaration of principles.
The party will accept both the ticket
and the platform with enthusiasm, and the
votes will ratify them at the polls In No
vember. Henceforward the word shall be
Faction to the rear-united we stand
Upon the eve of this great movement for
popular emancipation from organized and
lawless wealth. for the recovery of the
constitution from the hands of its mutt
lators. and the restoration of the govern
ment to the people, We desire. with the
completed work at Denver before US, to
speak with earnest, but becoming, candor,
addressing ourselves to those only who are
Democrats, who know why they are DEM
ocrats, and who have no other master or
interest to serve than that of their coun-
try. their whole country and nothing but
their country.
We shall begin at the beginning of the
Democratic battle for the rescue of the
masses from the classes. which, during
and after the sectional war. had. in the
person and through the ministrations OF
the Republican party taken possession
of the whole fabric of society and law.
This carries US back to the national
platform and campaign of 1876 under the
inspiration and leadership of the lmmor-
tai Tilden. The keynote Of that life-glV-
ing struggle was reform i the reform of
the whole federal system. debauched in all
it's parts and branches; reform not writ
ten in glittering generalities. but spectre
and specified; the reform of the pubnc
service. dragged through the mire OF
official delinquency, 1.-The disgrace anu
censure of a vice president-We quote
from the platform prepared under the
supervision of Mr.. Tilden; "a late speaker
of the house marketing his rulings as
presiding officer; three senators prontihg
secretly by their votes as lawmakers. i've
chairmen of leading committees OF tiie
late house of representatives exposeu III
iobbery; late secretary of the treasury
forcing balances in the public accounts
a late attorney general misapproprlathg
public funds: secretary OF the navy en-
riched himself and enriching his frlehds
by a percentage levied off the profits Oh
contractors with his department; an am,
bassador to England censured ana oDllSeu
to Fly from a dishonorable speculatioh' the
presidents private secretary Darely escop-
ing conviction upon trial Tor guilty. com,
plcity in frauds upon the revenue
secretary of war impeached TOT hiSh
crimes and miSdemeanors-
What an indictment-yet il was out the
beginning of its counts-reform us pur,
pose: the reform of the assumption ana
usurpation of a corrupt policy OF CEN
traliZation: the reform of loose flnancier
ing methods in the treasury ana WASH
full extravaganza in the congress: tne re-
form of the currency. then as now gu,
4
cheat the people. so. ~,
Finally. so ran the rescript OF 1870 tne
centennial year of the republic the REFORM
of the revenue laws. Ito the emo thas
| capital may be set free from dlstress AM
labor be less lightly burthened. IN othei
words. the reform of the tariff, that mas
terpiece of injustice. inequality ana laist
nretense" making the rich rlcher aho
the moor poorer-father and mother, yea
and wetnurse of the trusts and or trust
ism. which prohibits imports that fnigii'
purchase the products of American Ia
bor" we use again the exact language VI
fine Tilden platform. which has degraded
| American commerce from the first TO an
inferior rank on the high seas. has de-
nIeted the returns of American agrlcul-
ture an industry followed by nall ouL
neople. which obstructs the, process Oh
production wastes the fruits or iaDor. pro-
notes fraud fosters smuggling, enriches
dishonest officials and hankrupts nom
est merchants. and which costs the peo-
pie five times more than il yields to>the
treasury
I've demand that all custom house TAX
alton shall be only for revenue.
Every word of this arrangement. ano
each of its specifications. is as true TO-DAY
as II was thirty-two years ago, with mui-
tinljed signs of omission and commission
additional thereto, hereinafter 10 De
named.
On such a platform of principles sci