The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-03

speaker on the platform. Lack of
space only prevents us from Publishing
his speech in full. He said in part:
1t will be my duty tonight, my fell
low citizens, to criticise some of the
actions and to combat some of the doc
trines of our friend the enemy. But
| shall do so in no unkind spirit.
/ am told, among other things, that
the Democrats of this vicinity are not
of the pizen kind. They are honest and
patriotic. although misguided men. And
they have enjoyed the friendship and
acauaintances and moral example of
Republicans until they have become
almost as good, although of course not
so wise as we are.
/ hope the Democrats present who
honor me with their audience tonight
will remain and hear what / have to
say, for / come not to call the righteous
but sinners to repentance, and | hope
that lone Of the sinners will follow the
example of the colored lady who at
tended a s1eight-of- hand performance.
She was delighted and amazed with
the various tricks of the professor; but
when he laid a newspaper OF a table
and laid a heavy blanket over it, and
then proceeded to read the paper, she
arose and started for the door. "I'se
gwine,'' she said, "I'se gwine; this
am no place for a decent colored lady
in a thin calico Dress daughter
and applause).
Now, then, l told that story so that
if any Democrat gets up and goes out
while I'm speaking, they will boiler
calico dress" at him.
There v has been a time in the
history of the country, my fellow citi-
zens, since the c.ose of the civil war,
when patriotism and wisdom in the
determination of public questions were
so much needed as they are today.
We nave new problems before us, and
the question of the hour is whether
these problems can best be solved under
Republican or under Democratic rule.
On all the questions that have arisen
during the last so years, the Repub-
iiean party has arrayed itself on the
right side, or at least upon the success
full side, of every issue, and the Dem
%ocratic party has as persistently ar
rayed itself upon the losing side and
the wrong side. 1t has gone wrong so
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1t has not at last become mentally and
morally incapable of going right.
Then up rose an issue that is al
issue today. The Democrats said,
1--WE will have a tariff for revenue on
ly, followed by free trade. we will
have cheap foreign goods imported in
to this country, and the American mer-
chant can go into bankruptcy and the
American mechanic can go to the
DEVIL and the Republicans said, "No,
we will build around this country a
wall of protection so strong and so firm
and so high that no cheap foreign
made goods will ever be able to pen
ttrate it,
The Democratic party hauled down
the flag in Hawaii, and the Republicans
said .'No, we need a naval station
there" and put the flag back again.
The Democrats said, +" Let us give
up the Philippines" but the Republ-
can party said, Wherever American
valor has planted the flag. there the
flag shall stay"
Is it not true that for many years
the Democratic party has been bowling
a discordant "No' to every progress
siye measure proposed? is it not true
that every phase of foul politics with
which this country has been cursed has
found its support in the Democratic
party? For fifty years it has gone on,
making mistake after mistake, without
any definite policy except that of oppo-
sition to every measure proposed by the
Republicansi For fifty years the Dem
ocratic party has been a conglomeration
of incongruities, glued together by no
thing else than a rapaeious hunger for
Office.
1t does not appear from the Denver
platform that the Democratic party has
buried its past. On the contrary, the
corpse apepars to be walking around
to save its funeral expenses.
What did they do! The Denver plat
form is a compilation of contrarities;
it is a mixture of states rights with
railroads and schools and banks. To
read it would give Thomas Jefferson
an epiloptie lit and make The ghost of
Andrew jackson rise up and snatch a
sword. 1t is like the Platte rive-a
mile wide and Sly inches deep. 1t is
like a Mexican going to mass on Sun
day morning with a prayer book under
one arm and a fighting cock under the
other. 1t il seven columns long and
contains thirty-four planks.
The Denver platform demands San