The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06

the Republicans to accept Democratic
policies; our work now is to expose the
| Imitation by them Of Democratic ideas
| and to point out wherein they come
| short in their effort to appropriate DEM
| ocrat doctrines.
/ Take for instance the trust question.
We had difficulty in convincing the Re-
| publicans that there were trusts. Now
| they admit trusts exist. We had diff
| Guilty in convincing them that criminal
| law should be enforced against trusts;
now they admit it should be enforced
but fail to enforce it. In 50 far as they
have acted against the trusts at all
| they have acted along the lines laid
| down by the Democrats but the trust
magnates are still at large, the trusts
| are still hourishing and even the sup
| porters of Mr.. Taft have no specific
| remedies to offer for relief and trusts
| arise while Republicans are boasting Of
| their crusade against them.
"On the tariff question the Republi-
| can leaders now admit that tariff re-
| form is necessary, but a careful reading
| of their promises show that they use
| language Identical with that employed
| in former platforms which have been
| the basis for the present extortionate
| rates What reason have we to believe
their promises are worth any more now
| than they have been in the past twenty
years.
| THE Republicans now admit that
| railroad regulation has been needed
| and yet for ten years the Republican
| party allowed itself to be overaWed by
! the railroad lobby at Washingto and
| having with the aid of the Democrats
| secured little relief, the Republican
| leaders now rely upon what has been
| done and outline no program for fur
| Their legislation.
Under Republican rule the rela-
| tons between capital and labor have
| become CT ir,,od n
| yet the Republican leaders resist each
attempt to bring employers and en-
| ployes into more harmonious rela-
lions.
Instead of applying American
ideas to the Philippine question the
Republican leaders initiated the en-
pires of the old world and entered
upon a colonial policy which has in
vOlved us in enormous expense,
| brought US weakness instead of
! strength and humiliation instead of
glory.
1.-THE present financial stringency is
another illustration Of Republican in
competency. In the full possession of
power it has allowed the country to
| be run by Wall street financiers and
in the crisis is impotent to do more
than furnish money out Of the public
| treasury to support the market. It
has made no effort to furnish govern
ment notes for an emergency, and 1t
| mas mace no EFFORT TO protect OepOSl-
| tors. The Democrats face the future
| with hope and their hope rests on a
| firm foundation. Democrat policies
have grown In popularity as the vot-
| erS have become better acquainted
with the evils to be remedied.
| Another reason for hope is to be
found in the fact that the Democrat
party is united while the Republican
party is divided.
1.-THE third cause for hope Is to be
found in the moral awakening. Never
within q generation has there been
sense of justice inherent in the people
| has been made sensitive to the Demo
crat appeal which Is essentially an
appeal for justice"
| Bryan's Own Work.
/ The platform was largely Mr.. Bry-
/ ans own work. That it reflected the
| leaders views as to what should form
| the issues upon which the party should
i go before the country next summer was
| not denied. Mr.. Bryan, however said
| that the declarations of the platform
| were necessarily incomplete, that some
| subjects which will be included in the
national platform were omitted, while
| others were treated in the Nebraska
document in purposely brief manner
so as to allow amplification at Den
| ve-.
The platform advanced little tina
was new. The Fowler and Aldrich cur
rency bills were condemned Elmer
gency currency, it was declared, should
be ISSUED and controlled by the fed
| eral government Immediate revision
| of the tariff was emphasized as a ne
cessity, the stand pat policy being
| riddled in terms that made the dele
gates shout with laughter.
A straight declaration in opposition
to Asiatic immigration and clause ia
voring the eight hour working da.
were decidedly popular. So, too, wer
| the paragraphs favOring extension o
irrigation and reclamation projects.
An Endorsement of the drago doctrine
in SO far as that doctrine applies to tn
| United States navy, and a declaration
that jury trials should be granted de
PENDANTS in contempt cases where tn
| alleged offense was committed outsid
the presence of the court, caused som
notice. One of the well applaude
clauses was that dealing with anarchy
| There was no reference to govern
ment ownership in the platform; Meth
| err was there personal liberty" claus
therein.
A declaration in favor of the issu
ance of $500, 600. 900 in government bond
in order to provide funds with whic
| to prosecute public works, thus gfvin
work to many unemployed persons, wa
| also carried.
These delegates at large to the ma
tional convention were chosen:
1. J. Dun, Omaha; D. V. Stephens
Fremont; F. w. Brown, Lincoln, an
| Felix J. Hale.
Delegates from the six congressiona
districts were also chosen.
DR.. P. L. Hall Of Lincoln was electe
| national committeeman to succeed Jas
Dahlman, mayor of Omaha, who de
clined to serve again.
| The Platform.
The platform says in part:
I'VE rejoice at the increasing sign
of an awakening in the United States
The various Investigations have trace
graft and political corruption to tn
representatives of predatory wealt
and laid bare the INSCRIPTIONS method
by which they have debauched cleo
lions and preyed upon a defenseles
public through the subservient off1cia
whom they have raised to place an
power.