Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-07-28
HEARST LEAGUE
ORGANIZES PARTY.
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Taggart, Ryan, Belmont, Bailey and
Williams, describing them as officers
Of the democratic vanguard and desL
ignating them in uncomplimentary
terms. He then resumed as follows:
In Poor Company.
Assuming that Mr.. Bryan himself
Is all that his most ardent admirers
claim him to be, a great lawyer, an
enlightened statesman, an inspired
patriot, still man is known by the
company he keeps, and no decent
democrat can tolerate his free com
panions. No honest citizen can let
down the bars of Office to such an
Ais band OF boodlers and braves.
No prudent citizen will support a
combination to which Taggart sup
plies credit and Parker a platform,
for which Ryan will pay the freight
and the people will pay the penalty.
Back Of both parties and under
lying each are those Captain Kids
of industry, those highwaymen of
high finance who realize that to plum
der safely the peoples purse they
must first possess the peoples govern
ment.
When | was running for governor
In New York an emissary of one of
the biggest men in Wall street called
on me and said that his client offered
to contribute 100000 to my cam
paign fund and raise 100000 more
II my views were reasonable in re-
gard to honest business. | told the
emissary that the offer was declined
with thanks. | said that the gentle
men making 1t were merely proposing
to waste their good money. for what
ever business was honest would
deem 1t my duty as a public official
to promote and encourage 1t without
any 100000 brides, and wherever
business was dishonest not all the
money in Wall street would influence
my attitude toward it.
Il merely mention this incident to
show what ! believe should be the
attitude of any honest candidate and
the policy of any honest candidate
and the policy of any honest party
No lawyer would serve his client hon
estly who would receive a retaining
fee from the opposite side, and no
party can honestly represent the cit
liens where their interests conflict
with the exactions of the trusts If it
be contaminated by a corporation
fund and subsidized into silence and
subserviency.
Il urge our party to take a broad
and liberal stand toward the legiti-
mate business enterprises of the coun-
try, but to distinguish between honest
business everywhere and those Grim
inal concerns which plumber through
political pull and pay for political
protection.
I'VE all want prosperity and what
is more, we want prosperity for all.
urge our party. therefore, to be
intelligently and courageously con-
structive, not merely obstructive, like
the republican party. nor destructive,
like the democratic party.
Neither Platform Pleases Hearst.
The republican platform says
nothing and means nothing 1t is a
platform of statistical invention and
political evasions, 1t is obviously
the product of party whose sole
purpose is to stand pat and whose
sole desire is to stand pat. The dem
ocratie platform contains some good
and original things. but, as has been
said, the original things are not good
and the good things are not origin
al.
1T was built by political jaekdaws
who feathered their nest with the
plumes of others without understand
ing of their significance or intention
as to their performance. 1t is the
habitation of a hermit crab, which
has no shell of its own and invades
the first convenient one without re-
gard to property or propriety. 1t is
platform, too, of Cancellation and
retraetion, of atonement and apology,
of harmony and hypocrisy, for. in
compliance with a former compact.
Parker has pronounced peace. Bill
Bailey has poured Standard Oil on
the troubled waters. and Bryan has
killed not only the fatted calf but
the goose that laid the golden egg I"