Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-12
'bRYAN FLAYS REPUBLICAN PARTY
IN SPEECH Or ACCEPTANCE
Shall the People Rule is Cry Of Demo-
cratic Candidate for
President
POINTS 0UT.ALlEGED ABUSES IN PRESENT ADMINISTRATION
Promises to Garry Out Every Reform Advocated in Denver
Promises to Garry Out Every Reform Advocated in Denver
Platform If He is Elected..-Accepts
All Challenges

form which is not satisfactory to him
ne must, II candid, either decline the
nomination. or. in accepting 1t, propose
an amended platform In lieu of the one
adopted by the convention. No such SIT
uation, however, confronts your cand
date, for the platform upon which
was nominated not only contains moth.
, ing from which dissent, but it specifi
cally outlines all the remedial legisla.
tion which we can hope to secure dur.
ing the next four years.
Republican Challenge Accepted.
"The distinguished statesman who
received the Republican nomination
for president said in his notification
speech: The strength of the Republi-
can cause in the campaign at hand is
the fact that we represent the policies
essential to the reform of known
abuses, to the continuance of liberty
, ana true prosperity, and that we are
determined as our platform uneuuiyo.
cally declares. to maintain them and
carry them on
In the name of the Democratic par.
ty, accept the challenge and charge
that the Republican party is responsi-
BILE for all the abuses which now ex.
ist In the federal government, and that
1t is impotent to accomplish the re-
forms which are imperatively needed.
Further, | cannot concur in the state.
ment that the Republican platform un.
equivocally declares for the reforms
that are necessary on the contrary.
affirm that it openly and notoriously
disappoints the hopes and expectations
OF reformers, whether those reformers
be Republicans or Democrats. So far
did the Republican convention fall
short Of its duty that the Republican
candidate felt it necessary to add to
his platform in several important par
ticulars, thus rebuking the leaders of
the party, upon whose cooperation he
must rely for the enactment Of RENE.
dial legislation.
"As shall, in separate speeches,
discuss the leading questions at issue,
| shall at this time confine myself to
the paramount question, and to the far
reaching purpose of our party, as that
purpose is set forth in the platform.
Shall the People Rule?
Our platform declares that the ov-
ershadowing issue which manifests IT,
self in all the questions now under dis.
cussion, is Shall the people ruler No
matter which way we turn; no matter
to what subject we address ourselves.
the same question confronts us: Shall
the people control their own govern
ment, and use that government for the
protection of our rights and for the
promotion of their welfare? or shall
the representatives of predatory
wealth prey upon defenseless public,
while the offenders secure immunity
from sub-servient officials whom they
raise to power by unscrupulous meth
DDS? This Is the issue raised by the
i, known abuses to which Mr.. Taft re-
fers.
Presidents Indictment Against the
Party.
TN a message sent to Congress last
January, President Roosevelt said:
THE attacks by these great corpor-
tions on the administrations actions
have been given wide circulation
throughout the country, in the news.
papers and otherwise, by those writer's
and speakers who, consciously or un
consciously, act as the representatives
of predatory wealth-of the wealth ac-
cumulated on a giant scale by all the
forms of iniquity, ranging from the op-
preston of wage ~arners to unfair and
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