The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-28

government to maintain morality and to maintain morality 1t must interfere to secure a business morality as well as personal morality,
 Ut Is a legitimate and proper func- ton of the government to promote conditions that will Increase wealth and bring about just distribution of wealth that will secure Increased prof its for honest business men and Insure fair division of profits for honest workingmen.
 "We all want prosperity, and, what is more, we want prosperity for all,
 "I urge our party, therefore, to pc intelligently and eourageously con structive, not merely obstructive, like the republican party or destructive | like the democratic party.
 "The republican platform says nothing and means nothing.
 Ut Is a platform of statistical in- ventlons and political evasions.
 stand Pat and Stay Put.
 "It is obviously the product of a party whose sole purpose is to stand pat and whose sole desire Is to stay | put,
 "The democratic platform contains some good and original things, but, as has been sald, the original things are not good and the good things are not original
 Ut was built by political jackdaws who feathered their nests with the plums of others without understand ing their significance or Intention as to their performance.
 Tt is the habtation of a hermit crab which has no shell of It's own and lnvades the first convenient one without regard to property or proprie- ty.
 Ut Is a platform. too. of reeoncilia- ton and retracton, 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 on upon the troubled waters. and Bryan has killed. not only the fatted calf, but the goose that laid the golden egg.
 No man can serve two masters, and no man can conciliate the con flictIng elements of the democratic party,
 "Ie who tries must serve one ant deceive the other must make public pretense to the people and private compact with the trusts.
 "Our party Is not party of factior or sections of cliques of classes. WC have no warning wings to pacify' nc coltradictory declarations to modify, nc corrupt bosses to satisfy.
 Let us act boldly and speak plainly
 "Let us make a platform so clear and so sincere that every citizen will un- derstand our position and have conid' ence in our itention.
 Let us nominate candidates iron among the many men here present whose lives and deeds are a guarantee of the genuineness of their. attitude, q pledge of the sincerity of our profes' sion.
 "rhen. let us go forth to an honora' lilo effort for n righteous cause, to bat tie and to victory"
 Mir Hearst delivered ms auures' with intense earnestness, drivint home his points In an emphatic man ner that carried the convention w'tf him from the start to the close. A the end he was cheered for severa minutes.
 II was announced that all tho com mittees would meet immediately afte' the adjournment of the convention There are no contests for seats. an' the business before all the committe with the exception of that on resolu iions, was expected to he largely Of perfunctory character,
 After an address by C. A. Windle o Chicago, the convention adjourned until 2 o'clock 10 morrow.