Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-07-16
The Democratic Declaration.
Baltimore American.

out openly in an attack upon the courts.
the writers of the platform thrust their
knife into them under the thin guise of
praise While protesting great respect
for the American judiciary las the bull
wark of our liberties" the lip-service
does not deceive, for immediately after
the tribute comes the demand for the
courts to deal fairly with labor in the
matter of injunctions.~ In the very fact
of demanding that the courts should not
issue injunctions against labor in cases
where they would not do so if labor
were not involved, indictment is made
against the courts that they do act with
prejudice toward labor causes. This ia
charge that cannot be maintained, and
it points to the purpose of the Demo
cratic party to carry on a crusade that
will kill the writ of injunction. The
Republican party expresses respect for
the courts and demands that they be up
held IN every particular. The Democratic
conventions covert insinuation is worse
than an open attack; it is more danger
Gus. Therefore, the Gompers proposal
is one that will affront the vast ma jority
of the people, laborers as well as
others.
The position of the party upon the
subject of currency and the trusts is
! the attitude of those who seek to pare
off the edges of Republican policies, to
place them in wedge, squeeze them
into some semblance of novelty, to be
palmed off as the product of an intel
lect singularly Individual and creative.
1t IS amazing that the Democrats have
so little appreciation of the intelligence
of the people and their power to make
discrimination and comparisons. They
surely cannot believe that the mass of
chaf will be taken for threshed grain of
political wisdom. The declaration on
the subject of trusts follows the state
ment of Chairman Bell. 1t is rabid
without showing teeth. The trusts will
never be busted by the attempt of the
Democrats to kill the prosperity-produc-
ing tariff or by the invasion of the
rights of industry by invoking the sent
lment of the people for the Illustration
OF the proper course of justice in favor
OF one or another class in society. 1t is
a demagogic utterance that tends to
create class antipathy to no good end.
The currency plank is as guileless in
definite declaration or evidence of scien.
tific knowledge of the subject as was
the panacea for psnics put forth by Mr..
Bryan when he entered the arena of
discussion of measures for the preven-
ton of commercial crises.
How cheap sound the carping cries
against the management of the country
by the Republicans in the full tide of
the swelling volume of American in
dustry? Economy is always the watch
word of the ''outs." 1t is the cry of
the Bryan party. But where upon the
face of the globe is nation SO we'll adj
ministered, with such vast interests at
stake, that could be financed more eco
nomically than the United States has
been under the present administration?
Economy is not a matter of expendi-
ture, but of expenditure in respect to
resources and the benefits derived. To
traverse the diatribes of the platform
on the activity of officeholders in poll
tics, the silly patronage charges and the
Ike, would be to dignity mental slush
with the qualities of sound sense. The
platform carries its own condemnation
In its childishness, its lack of definite
purpose, its misconception of the prin-
ciples that actuate the people, the dis
play of petty grievances, the evident
avidity of the party for Office and the
general insincerity and platitudinous ap-
peals to class feeling.
How lifeless the parroting of phrases
as compared with the recital of the Der
formances Of the Republican party, the
record of its President and the qualifica-
tons of the nomineesl Bryan, we are
told, believes in peace. Who does not?
Bryan, we are told, is thoroughly in
formed as to the issues of the cam
paign. Upon the Democratic side he
framed them. Bryan, we are told, is a
consistent advocate of the reserved
rights of States. Here is no issue in
essentials between him and Mr.. Taft or
any other sensible person. Mr.. Bryan,
we are told, believes in the triumph of
right. No one would seek to contra.
vert this. Mr.. Bryan, we are told.
speaks and writes freely upon all sub.
jects, His demonstrations of verbal
versatility are unquestioned. These
are the forms of laudation passed upon
the man named as the standard-bearer
OF the Democratic party.
After all the Nominations of the Den
yer convention there is not a scrap of
definite political statement, not a vital
principle, not fragment of statesman
like purpose that can be discovered, 1t
Is to be observed that opposed to the
tremendously vital and constructive
Republican party, with candidate who