Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-06-24
BRYAN HAS
{ SECOND FIT
Takes Another Fall Out Of
the Republican National
Platform
As Usual He Appeals TO
Prejudice and Race
Differences

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q as a silent reputation Of almost ev-
cry Rooseveltian principle, William
j. Bryan today completed the sum-
{ mary Of the work Of the Chicago
convention. Mr.. Bryan says:
4 1.-THE contest in the Republican
party between the reformers and
standpatters is for the present at an.
end, with the standpatters in the
saddle. The platform is silent re-
pudiation Of nearly every promise Of
reform that the president and his
followers have given to the country,
although it begins with a eulogy of
the president. In no other period
since the days of Lincoln, according
to the platform. had there been such
might progress in those ideals Of
government which make for justice,
tquality and fair dealing among
men. M H III .5s
This most exalted servant repres-
ents the best aims and worthiest
purpose of all his countrymen.
American manhood has been lifted to
d noble sense Of duty and obliga-
ton. Without asking why the Re
publican party has held Office and
divided the official salary among its
partisians SO long without giving us
a president who represented the
best aims and worthiest purposes
Of the people, without asking why
no other Republican president in re-
cent days has lifted American man
hood to a noble sense Of duty and
obligation, we may ask why it is
that the Republican convention
i spends SO much time on extolling
the president and gives SO little at
tention to the specific Endorsement
Of the things he has advocated. But
the president must feel that he is
the only Republican deserving OF
praise. Recent congresses, accord.
ing to the platform. have been full
of patriots and eRpublican legisla-
lures have been keeping step in the
forward march to better govern
ment.' What does the president
think Of being bracketted with Re
publican senators and members Of
congress IN this indiscriminate
y praise? Nothing is said Of the con-
spiracy formed among the Repub-
lican leaders of the senate to defeat
the presidents railroad rate bill. No
intimation is here given that he had
sent several messages to congress in
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 Dem
ocratic members and senator's for
supporting him when Republicans
deserted him. Not only does the
platform fail to give the Democrats
credit for helping the president in
every effort to lift up American man
hood to noble sense Of duty and
obligation, but it actually cond emns
4 the alibuster which the Democratic
minority instituted and carried on
for the express purpose of compell-
ing the Republicans to carry out
the presidents recommendations.
Mr.. Williams, leader OF the mi
nority. time and time again called
upon the Republicans to furnish
4 thirty votes in support Of the presi
dents policies and pledged the Dem
ocratic minority to furnish the re
& naming number Of votes necessary
to carry out several of the presi-
dents recommendations Yet the
men who cut out the platform pre-
sume upon the ignorance Of the pub
lie and complain that the filibustel
prevented the enactment Of many
wholesome and progressive laws.
1The writer's Of the platform es-
pecially commend the passage Of the
currency bill, bill which combined
two features, one Of which had been
rejected BY the senate and one by