Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-13
v. ]. BRYANS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
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This arraignment is fully justified.
| The reform republicans in the house
of representatives. when in a minority
in their own party. are as helpless to
obtain a hearing or to secure a vote
upon measure as are the demo
Gratis. In the recent session of the
| present congress, there was a con-
siderable element in the republican
party favorable to remedial legisla-
ton; but a few leaders in control of
the organization, despotleally sup
/ pressed these members, and thus
forced a real majority in the house to
submit TO a well organized minority
The republican national convention.
instead of rebuking this attack upon
popular government eulogized con-
gress and nominated as metropolitan
candidate for vice president one of
the men who shared In the response
bility for the coercion of the house
Our party demands that the house of
representatives shall again become a
deliberative body, controlled BY a ma
jority of the peoples representatives.
/, and not by the speaker" and is
pledged TO adopt "such rules and reg
/ ulations to govern the house of repre-
sentatives as will enable a majority OF
its members to direct is deliberations
and control legislation
Shall the people rule? They cannot
do SO unless they can control the
house of representatives, and through
: their representatives in the house.
give expression to their purposes and
! their desires. The republican party is
! committed to the methods now in
vogue in the house of representatives
the democratic party is pledged to
such a revision of the rules as will
!, bring the popular branch of the fed
/ eral government into harmony with
] the ideas of those who framed our
constitution and founded our govern
ment
other Issues Will be Discussed Later.
/ 'Shai the people rule?" repeat,
! is declared by our platform to be the
oyershadowing question. and as the
| campaign progresses, shall take oc-
casion to discuss this question as ii
| manifests itself in other issues; for
/ whether We consider the tariff ques-
| ton, the trust question, the railroad
| question, the banking question, the
/ labor question, the question of imper-
! ialism, the development of our water
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| problems which press for solution, we
shall find that the real question in
i volved in each is, whether the govern
ment shall remain mere business as
set of favor-seeking corporations or be
an instrument in the hands of the
people for the ADVANCEMENT of the
common veal
Democratic Party Has Earned Conf
;
4 If the voters are satisfied with the
record of the republican party and
4 with its management of public affairs
we cannot reasonably ask for a change
\ in administration; if, however the yot-
ers feel that the people, as a whole,
: have too little influence in shaping
the policies of the government; If they
i feel that great combinations of CAPT
\ tai have encroached upon the rights
! of the masses, and employed the in
strumentality of government to secure
an unfair share of the total wealth pro
1 dgced, then we have q right to expect
. verdict against the republican party
! and in favor of the democratic party !;
for our party has risked defeat-aye,
suffered defeat-in its efforts to
4 arouse the conscience of the public
j and 10 bring about that very awaken
: ing to which Mr. Taft has referred.
] Only those who are worthy to be
intrusted with leadership in a great
4 cause, who are willing TO die for it,
! and the democratic party has proven
j its worthiness by its refusal to pur-
u chase victory by delivering the peo-
4 pie into the hands of those who have
!, despoiled them. In this contest be
tween democracy on the one side and
4 DIutocracy on the other, the democrat.
|, ic party has taken its position on the
: side of equal rights, and invites the
opposition to those who use politici
to secure special privileges and gov,
u ornamental faYoritism. DodgiEg the
: progress of the nation, not by the hap
: piness or wealth OF refinement of q
. few, but "by the prosperity and ad,
: vaneement of the average man." the
t democratic party charges the repub
) lican party with being the promoter
: of present abuses, the opponent of nee
essary remedies and the only bulwarb
: of private monopolies. The democrat
! ic party affirms that in this campaign
4 ii is the only party, having prospect
/, of success, which stands for justice
II in government and for equity in the
: division of the fruits of industry.
Democratic Party Defender Of Honest
Wealth.
: We may expect those who have com
: mitted larceny by law and purchased
4 immunity with ter political influence
4 to attempt to raise false isues, and to
Z employ the livery of Heaven to con
: ceal their evil purposes, but they car
? no longer deceive. The democratic
: party is not the enemy of any legiti
D mate industry or of honest accumuia
e ton. 1t is, on the contrary, a friend
= of industry and the steadfast protec
Il tor OF that wealth which represents q
: service to society. The democratic
Il party does not seek annihilate all cor
] porations: 1t simply asserts that as
' the government creates corporations
! II must retain the power to regulate
? and to control them and that It should
: not permit any corporation TO con
; vert itself into a monopoly. surely
: we should have the cooperation OF al
: legitimate corporations in our EFFORT to
2 protect business and industry from
! the odium which lawless combination
5 OF capital, will. il unchecked cast up
: on them. Only by the separation o.
: the good from the bad can the good be
2 made secure.
r The democratic par seeks not rev
4 olutiou but reformation, and | need
4 hardly remind the student OF history
: that cures are mildest when applied
: at onces that remedies increase IN Sc
3 verify as their application is postpon
ed. Blood poisoning may be stopped
by the loss Of the finger today; i
! may cost an arm tomorrow or lie