The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-28

eral opinion is that the second place
on the ticket will be awarded to some
presidential candidate who runs strong
for first place and just fails to land
the prize.
The reports of the various commit
tees and the consideration of the plat
form occupied the greater part of the
day anG no nominations are likely be-
fore the night session. .
Hearst's Opening Speech.
In his speech. opening the convention
last night, Mr.. Hearst, as temporary
chairman, said:
This is the first national convention
of the Independence Party. Whether
it shall prove an historical event or
merely a passing political incident de-
Ponds upon the wisdom and patriotism
with which we shall deliberate and act.
Il believe that if any party is neces-
sary in this country to preserve the
government as the fathers framed 1t,
a new party Is necessary; IL any party
Is necessary to promote progress and
prosperity, to encourage the honest
business man and protect the honest
worklngman, a new party is necessary;
II n party is necessary to represent,
the typical American citizens that con-,
stitute the people in their struggle with
the tyrannical monopofes which con-
stitute the trusts, a new party is neces-
sary.
The Republican party rs the open
and avOwed handmaiden of the trusts.
1t scorns those who would rescue it,
repudiates those who would reform 1t
and glories brazenly in its profitable
infamy
The Democratic party is merely en-
vious of its sordid sisters ill-gotten
fnery. 1t upbraids her at one election
and initiates her at the next.
Pays His Respects to Bryan.
THE Republican leaders are the
political attorneys of trusts and
monopolies, the representatives in pub
lie life of those giant corporations which
have superseded the people in this re-
public as the source of power and the
seat of authority.
The Democratic vanguard Is a Fal-
stairs army. 1t is led by a knight ar
rayed in a motley of modified profess
sions and compromised principles, of
altered opinions and retracted state
ments. 1t Is differed by such soldiers
of fortune as Sullivan and Hopkins and
Murphy and Mcclellan; by Tom Tag
CART, the roulette gambler, and Tom
Ryan, the Wall Street gambler, and
Belmont. the race rack gambler. 1t is
composed of such political mercenaries
as Bailey. of the Standard Oil, and
Williams, of the Southern Railway, and
g1inky-Dink and Bathhouse John and
Red Duffy, and Niger Mike-all har-.
mohized at last and all marching to-
gether in a rhythmic cadence strongly
suggestive of the lockstep.
Assuming that Mr.. Bryan himself
is all that his most ardent admirers
claim hii to be. o great lawyer, an en-
lightened statesman, an inspired
patriot, stiii a man Is known by the
company he keeps, and no decent
Democrat can tolerate his free COM
panions.
Urges Conservatism.
II urge our party to take a broad and
liberal stand toward the legitimate bust
ness enterprises Of the country, but to
distinguish between concerns which
plumber through political pull and pay
for political protection.
II urge our party, therefore, to be in
diligently and c~ourageously construc-
tive, not merely obstructive like the
Republican party or destructive like the
Democratic party.
THE Republican platform says moth
ing and means nothing. It is a plat
form of statistical inventions and po-
litical evasions. The Democratic plat
form 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"