The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-24
STAND PAT TER IS
IN SADDLE AGAIN.
Republican Platform Is Silent Re-
pudiation Of Presidents Poll
cies, Bryan Declares.
COMPLETES HIS ANALYSIS
Raps Party for Showing Such
Great Concern for Negro "At
Voting Time"

1 LINCOLN, NEB., June 23-Denounc-
ing the Republican platform as a silent
repudation of almost every Roose-
veltian principle, William Jennings
Bryan to-day completed an editorial
summary Of the work OF the Chicago
convention. He says:
4 Have you read the Republican plat
form? II not you ought to read It.
The contest in the Republican party
between the reformer and tand-patter
Is for the present at an end, with the
stand-patter in the saddle. The plat
form is silent reputation Of nearly
A every promise of reform that the
President and his followers have given
to the country. 1t begins with a
eulogy of the President. In no other
4 period since the days Of Lincoln ac-
cording to tho platform. has there
4 been such mighty progress In those
| ideals Of government which make for
Justice, equality and fair dealing
|among men,
Praise, But No More.
without asking why the Republic
can party has held Office and divided
the official salaries among its parti-
suns SO long without giving us a Pres :
ident who represented the best aims
and worthiest purposes of the rsople,'
Without asking why 10 other Repabli-
can President in recent days has lift
! ed American manhood, to u noble sense
| OF duty and obligation we may ask
why 1t Is that the Republican conven-
ton spends so much time in praising
the President and gives so little atten-
ton to the specific endorsement of the
things he has advocated. But the Pres
1ay fr1 n ttN,t L. HlHp CDa-
\ publican deserving OF praise. The re-
Icent Congresses, according to the plat
form, hava Leen full OF patriots, and
| the Republican Legislators have been
keeping step in the forward march
to the better government What does
the President think of being brack-
cited with Repubaican Senasors aad
members Of Congress In this indis-
terminate praise?
formed among the Republican leaders
Of the Senate to defeat the Presl-
dents railroad rate bill no intimation
1 Is here given that he sent several mes
sages to Congress in a vain endeavor
to get the lower house to take up the
reforms which he was urging. The
| President must resent the fact that
the platform expresses no gratitude
TO the Democratic members and Sem
ators for supporting him when the
Republicans deserted him.
''Mr. Williams. leader of the mi
nority, time and again called upon
the Republicans to furnish thirty votes
in support of the Presidents poll
cies and pledged the Democratic mi
nority to furnish the remaining num-
her of votes necessary to carry out
several of the Presidents recommends
: tlons. and yet the men who wrote the
platform presume upon the Ignorance
OF the public and complain that the
fllibuster prevented the enactment OF
many wholesome and progressive
laws.'
Some Disappointments.
Tine writer's of the platform. 'espe-
cially commend the passage of the
emergency currency bill'-a bill which
combined two features, one OF which
had been rejected by the Senate, and
: the other by the House. So long as
) there was a chance for discussion
: there was sufficient Republican oppo-
sition to condemn both features of the
bill. but under the influence of a
few financers, the bill was rushed
all of the bad features restored. and
: all of the good ones eliminated.
The plank demanding a permanent
change in the currency system is gem
. eral enough to permit the Republican
: ora tors to advocate in each section of
e the country the system most popular
f there and sufficiently indefinite to en-
able Congress to do whatever 1t please
or nothing without violating any
: pledge. The trust plank must prove
a disappointment to every Republican
who has come to understand the mi.
guilty OF the trusts.
There Is no demand for a, rigid en-
forcement Of the law: there Is no sug-
gestion that the criminal clause
Q which has not yet brought the trust
malcfactor within the walls OF a
penitentary-siould be called into use.
The platform says that the law can be
strengthened by amendments, which
!. will enlarge the supervision of the
general government but these amend
: ments are not intentionally there
is nothing In this plank OF the plat
form that can be appealed to to secure
. any real improvement in the law II
the President with all OF his strenuos-
! ity. has not been able to enforce the
criminal law against single trrf
! what progress with such an antitrust
plank as that inserted in the Republl.
n can platform? Th-re Is a plank in
the Platform In favor of such legisla.
tion and supervision 'as will prevent
the future overissue of stocks and
boHuS Dy interstate, carriers. s
This Is good, but it Is coupled with
the advocacy of a pooling arran gemen,
which makes a large concession to the
Railroads without eNactlng any security
to the public, for the convention voteG
: down an amendment prepared by Sen.
Iaior LaEollette's followers authorizing
an endorsement OF the powers OF the
! Interstate Commerce Commissions.
Negro Gets His Tnfry.
r THE negro comes in for his quad.
lrennial quota OF taffy. He5is reminded
that the Republican party gave him
q freedom and citizenship. and in this
TIE implied warning that he must no,
use his citizenship against the party
that gave It to him. The Republican
party has made political capital out
of the negro for more than third
8 ot a century
In many of the close States 1t has
won its elections by the negro vote,
and In the States where it has had
power It has never treated the negro
Eany better than lie has been treat ted by
the Democrats. In other words, III
the Northern States the Democrats.
/ without receiving any support from
the negro vote, have been as friendly
i Ito him as the Renuhlica MS Ia tha