The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-28

mo honest citizens can let down
the bars of Office to such an Ali
Baba's band of boodlers and braves.
NO prudent citizen will support
combination to which Taggart sup
plies candidate and Parker a plat
form. for which Ryan will pay the
freight and the people will pay the
penalty.
Back of both parties and under
weighing each are those Captain
Kidds of industry. those highway
men of high finance who realize that
to plumber safely the peoples purse,
they must first possess the peoples
government.
when / was running for governor
in New York an emissary of one of
the biggest men in Wall street called
upon me and said that his client
offered to contribute 100000 to nv
hundred thousand more if my views
were reasonable in regard to honest
business.
II told the emissary that the offer
was declined with thanks. 1 said the
gentlemen making it were merely
proposing to waste their good money,
for whatever business was honest
would deem it my duty as a public
official to promote and encourage ii
without any hundred thousand dollar
brides and wherever business was
dishonest not all the money in Wall
street would influence my attitude
toward it.
II merely mention this incident to
show what I believe should be the at
titude of any honest candidate and
the policy of any honest party.
Discusses Platforms.
mo lawyer would serve his client
honestly who had received a retaining
Zee from the opposite side, and no
party can honestly represent the citi-
zens where their interests conflict with
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been contaminated by campaign fund
and subsidized into silence and sub
serviency.
II urge our party to take a broad
business enterprises of the country.
but to distinguish between honest
business everywhere and those GRIM
inal concerns which plumber through
political pull and pay for political
protection.
81 urge our party therefore to be
intelligently and courageously con-
structive, not merely obstructive like
the Republican party, nor destructive
like the Democratic party.
THE Republican platform says
nothing and means nothing. 1t is
PLATFORM of statistical invention and
political evasions. 1t Is obviously the
product Of party whose sole purpose
is to stand pat and whose sole desire is
to stay pat.
1.-The Democratic platform contains
some good and original things, but as
has been said, the original things are
not good and the good things are not
original.
st was built by political jackdaws
who feathered their nests with the
plumes of others without understand
ing of their significance or intention
as to their performance. 1t is the
habitation of a hermit crab which has
no shell of its own and invades the
first convenient one without regard to
property or propriety.
''It is a platform, too, of reconciiia-
ton and retraction. Of atonement and
apology, of harmony and hypocrisy
for in compliance with a former COM
pact, Parker has pronounced peace,
Bill Bailey has poured Standard oil
upon the troubled waters and Bryan
has killed. not only the fatted calf.
but the goose that laid the golden egg.
mo man can serve two masters,
and no man can conciliate the conflict
| ing elements of the Democratic party.
HE who tries must serve one and
deceive the other; must make public
pretense to the people and private
compact with the trusts.
<"Our party is not party of fac
tions, or cliques or classes. We have
no warning wings to paciry. no contra
dictory declarations to modify. no cor
rupt bosses to satisfy.
Let us act boldly and speak plainly
Let us make a platform so clear
and so sincere that every citizen will
understand our position and have con-
fdence in our intention.
Let us nominate candidates from
among the many men here present
, whose lives and deeds are a guarantee
| of the genuineness of their attitude
! "a pledge of the sincerity of our pro-
| fession.
Then let us go forth to an honor
able effort for righteous cause, to
battle and to victory"
La Toilette Railroad Plank.
Chicago. July 2S.-The subcom-
mittee which has in charge the draft
ing of the platform announced that 1t
would be prepared to report to the
full committee at II o'clock today.
| during the early part of the morning
| as the members of the subcommittee
after a hard nights work had not re-
assembled at 10 o'clock and their re-
port had not then formulated.
Clarence j. Shearn, chairman of the
subcommittee. which is preparing the
tentative draft of the platform for
presentation to the full committee
said today that the platform as a
whole would follow closely the de-
claration of principles made at the
February meeting of the Indepen-
dence party. The only new planks
which it is expected will be incorpor-
ated are those relating to anti-injunc-
ton, Asiatic immigration and for a
stronger navy. A proposition from
the society of equity to nationalize
farm mortgages by allowing farmers
to borrow money direct from the ma
tional treasury by offering their land
! as security was rejected. The COM
| mittee, however, gave extended con-
sideration to the request of the So
ciety of equity for federal inspection
of grain,
| A plank providing for the physical
valuation of railroads and closely fol-
| lowing the La Toilette plank rejected
by the Republican convention will
probably appear in the platform
| draft.
Two-thir6is Rule Adopted.
Chicago, July 28.-The committee