The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-06-26
ASSAILS G.. o. P. PLATFORM,
Nebraskan Declares that the Chicago
Platform is Silent Reputation
of Almost Every One of the
Roosevelt Reform Prin-
!. ciples.

- clples.
Lincoln, Neb., June 23.-Denounc-
ing the Republican platfrom as sill
ent reputation of almost every
Rooseveltian principle, w. j. Bryan
today completed an editorial summary
OF the work of the Chicago convcn-
ton.
"Have you read the Republican
platfromq If you have not you ought
to read it. The contest in the Re.
publican party between the reformer
and stand-patter is for the present
at an end, with the stand-pattcr in
the saddle. The platform is a silent
reputation Of nearly every promise
OF reform that the president and his
followers have given to the country.
1t begins with an eulogy of the pres
ldent. AT no other time since the
days Of Lincoln according to the
platform, 'has there been such NIGH
ty progress in those ideals Of govern
ment which make for Justice, equal
lty and fair dealing among men,
Without asking why the Republican
party has held Office and divided the
official salaries among its partisans SO
long; without giving us a president
Rwho represented 'the best aims and
Hworthicst purpose of the people
without asking why no Republican
president in recent days 'has lifted
American manhood to a noble sense
Of duty and obligation,' we may ask
why it is that the Republican con-
vention spends so much time on prais-
ing the president md gives so little
attention to the 'iiic endorsement
Aof things he has au, ocatcd
"But tho president must not feel
Ehat he is the only Republican dcscrv-
Hng Of praise. The recent congresses,
&ccordin@ to the platform, have been
lull OF patriots and the Republican
Slators have been Keeping step in
prward march to better govern
What does the prcsidcut think
hg brarkcttcd with Republican
Us and members Of congress in
Scriminatc rrHisc? NOTHING is
80 pc conspiracy formed among
lean leaders of the senate
Athc presidents railroad
Abill; no intimation is here
''''" f'|'J 'scnt several messages to
, .n,Sahine &. laiu pnu,avvr Il, u,,
the lower house to take up the re-
forms which he was urging. The
president must resent the fact that
the platform expresses no gratitude
to the Democratic members and scn~
Republicans deserted him. Mr.. Will
liams. leader Of the minority. time
and time again called upon the Re-
publicans to furnish thirty votes in
support of the president $ policies
and pledged the Democratic minority
to furnish the remaining number of
votes necessary to carry out several
of the president s recommendations
and yet the men who wrote the plat
form presume upon the ignorance Of
the public and complain that the fill
buster prevented the enactment Of
many wholesome and progressive laws. ,
"The writers Of the platform 'cs-
pecially commend the passage Of the
emergency currency bill.-a bill
which combined two Features. one of
which had been rejected by the scn-
IN MI 1o ,tl h, II
lon" as there was chance for dis
cuSsion there was sufficient Rppubli-
can opposition to condemn both ica-
lures of the bill. but uAdrr the iuflu-
cncc of few tinanclrr> the bin was
rushed through during the closing
hours with all of the bad features re-
stored and all Of the good ones eli
minated.
"Thc plank demanding a perman-
ent change in the currency system is
general enough 10 n"rm't we n"ruh-
ican orators to advocate in each sec
ton Of the country the system most
popular there, and sufficiently indie
finite to enable congress to do what
ever it pleascs or nothing without
violating any pledge,
"Thc trust plank must prove Il
disappointment to every Republican
who has come to understand the ini-
guilty Of the trusts. There is de-
mand for rigid enforcement of the
law; there is no suggestion that the
criminal clause, which has not yet
brought The trnSi malcfnctOr within