The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-13

tween democracy on the one side and plu- tocracy on the other, the democratic party has taken it's position on the side of equal rights, and invites the opposition of those who use politics to secure special priVi- leges and governmental favoritlsm. Gaug- ing the progress of the nation, not by the happiness or wealth of refinement or few, but "by the prosperity and advance ment of the average man." the demo- cratic party charges the republican party with being the promoter of present abuses the opponent of necessary remedies and the only bulwark of private monopoly The democratic party affirms that in this campaign it Is the only party, having a prospect of success, which stands for jus tice in government and for equity in the division of the fruits of industry.
 Democratic Party Defender of Honest
 Wealth.
 We may expect those who have commit ted larceny by law and purchased .immun- ity with their political influence, to at tempt to raise false issues. and to employ ''the livery of Heaven to conceal their evil purposes, but they can no longer de- ceive. The democratic party is not the enemy of any legitimate industry or Of honest accumulations. It is, on the con- trary friend of industry and the stead
 
 sents a service to society. The demo- cratic party does not seek to annihilate all corporations 1t simply asserts that as the government creates corporations, 1t must retain the power to regulate and to control them, and that it should not per init any corporation to convert itself into a monopoly. Surely we should have the cooperation of all legitimate corporations in our effort to protect business and in 4 ry fron ba ndfi1n which Ia yylpgS binations of capital will, if unchecked, cast upon them. Only by the separation of the good from the bad can the good be made secure.
 Not Revolution But Reformation.
 The democratic party seeks not revolu- tion but reformation, and l need hardly remind tho student of history that cures are mildest when applied at once; that remedies increase in severity as their ap- plication is postponed Blood poisoning may be stopped by the loss of a finger today; 1t may cost an arm tomorrow or life the next day. So poison in the body polite cannot be removed too soon, for the evils produced by it increase with the lapse of time. That there are abuses which need to be remedied even the re- publican candidate admits; that his party Is unable to remedy them has been fully demonstrated during the last ten years. l nave Sucn commence III the lHtelllBchCe as well as the patriotism of the people that cannot doubt their readiness to &C., cept the reasonable reforms which our party proposes rather than permit the continued growth of existing abuses to hurry the country on to remedies more radical and more drastic.
 Our Party's Ideal.
 The platform of our party closes with a brief statement of the partys ideal It favors such an administration of the gov ernment as will insure, as far as human wisdom can, that each citizen shall draw from society a reward commensurate with his contribution to the welfare of society,""
 Governments are good in proportion as they assure to each member of society, so far as governments can, return com mensurate with individual merit.
 The Divine Law of Rewards.
 There is divine law of rewards. When the creator gave us the earth, with its fruitful soil, the sunshine with its warmth, and the rains with their mois- ture, He proclaimed, as clearly as if His voice had thundered from the clouds, "Go work, and according to your indus- try and your intelligence, so shall be your reward" Only where might has over thrown, cunning undermined or govern ment suspended this law, has a different law prevailed. To conform the govern ment to this law ought to be the ambition of the statesman, and no party can have a higher mission than to make 1t reality wherever governments can legitimately operate.
 Justice To All.
 Recognizing that I am indebted for my nomination to the rank and file of our party, and that my election must come, If it comes at all, from the unpurchased and unpurchasable suffrages of the American people, I promise, if entrusted with the re- responsibilities of this high office, to conse- crate whatever ability I have to the one purpose of making this, in fact, govern ment in which the people rule-a govern ment which will do justice to all, and of fer to every one the highest possible stim-