The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-07
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN BELL
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pledge his honest support to those
great principles of democracy that
have given the president the place he
occupies in the hearts of the people.
The events of the last few weeks have
demonstrated what everybody should
have known, that no man can transfer
his personal popularity to another. A
great personality cannot, even with
the aidaid of hereditary law, be COM
municated from father to son; and
genealogy discloses that natural chill
dren, as well as proteges, often suffer
a distinct loss from their relation 10
greatness. Especially in America will
the people do their own thinking and
make their own choice of presidents.
''The idea seems to be creeping into
the popular mind that if the nominee
of the Chicago convention shall be
elected in November we will have u
bisected presidency at the head of our
affairs. The American people are
sticklers on some things. and one Of
the things that they will not stand for
is a divided responsibility in the White
House. They will demand, and they
have a right to demand, that the heart
and the hand that executes shall be
directly answerable to the sovereign
power that built the White House and
selects one man at a time to fill it,
Revision of Tariff.
with the power and opportunity
to carry out democratic principles, we
will be called upon to revise our tariff
10x in, fhn infn of he hot
| people. This issue cannot be disposed
| Of by the assertion that the republic
| can party also stands for tariff re-
| form. Republican revision and demo-
cratic revision are two different things.
| There has always been some doubt
as to the exact meaning of the eX-
| preston, The republican believes that
! the tariff should be reformed by cts
| friends It is difficult to determine
| whether it means that revision shall
| be made by the friends Of the tariff
or by the friends of the republican
party, but in the light of present con-
ditions the decluaration should read as
follows: The republican party believes
| that the tariff should be revised by
the friends Of the republican party,
who are the special beneficiaries of the
tariff
"There are still other reforms press
| Ing upon the attention of our people
| and demanding action at the hands Of
| the political parties. The corrupt use
of large sums Of money in political
| campaigns is largely responsible for
| the subversion of the peoples will at
the polls. The masses are awakening
n Of #
gold in contests that ought to be de-
termined according to the character
of the nominees and the soundness and
morality Of political issues: and there
| is a general demand for publicity in
the collection and use of campaign
| funds so that our citizens may know
whether a palitical parry has pur-
chased its way into Office or has won
| it's victories by honest means.
| "In the Chicago convention a mi
nority report of the committee on res
| olutions, containing a declaration in
favor of campaign publicity, was over
whelmingly defeated upon a roll call
of the convention, and the republican
party placed itself squarely upon rec
ord in favor of cOncealing the names
of the contributors, and the amounts
| of their subscriptions. By a vote of
| 50 to 1 in the committee, and vote
| of more than 10 to 1 in the body Of
the convention, they confessed their
guilt. They thus admitted the charge
so frequently made by our party that
| republican success in the past has
largely depended upon the vast sums
of money collected from the great mo-
nopolies of the country and corruptly
used in the conduct of it's campaigns.
The people have a right co know
whether or not any political party is
| maintained from the treasures of the
corporations for it is not to be pre-
sumed that large appropriations for
| campaign purposes will be made by
corporate interests unless there be an
implied or expressed agreement to
protect and serve them in their law
less exploitation of the people. Let
the voters of this country seriously
consider whether the refusal of the re-
publican party to disclose the sources
and amounts of it's election finances is
not a confession Of the debasing and
corrupt use of money in its cam
| paigns.
Transportation Rates.
TT is eminently proper that this con-
| vention should define the democratic
| attitude toward the regulation of
transportation companies and call the
attention of the country to the indis-
rutable fact that it was only after
years of democratic effort that an
amendment was made to the interstate
commerce law authorizing the commits