The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-28

the mills are running overtime to fiii ........................ ity, to encourage the honest business man and protect the honest workngman, a new party is necessary; if any party is necessary to represent the typical American citizens in their struggles with tn tyrannical monopolies which consti ute the trusts, a new party is neces- sary.
 Party Founded.
 "In 1792 Thomas Jefferson who had penned principles of the Declaration of i Independence, founded the democratic- republican party to perpetuate those ] principles.
 "In 1s4O this party founded, to be the i party of the people, had become the l party of privilege and the democratic 1 party came into being and crystallized 1 about the personality and principles of 1 Andrew Jackson. In 1854 the democratic party had become the property of an ar rogant aristocracy, which denounced the l self-evident truths of the Declaration of l Independence as 'self-evident lies.' Then | the republican party was born to re- store the action of the government to the principles of Washington and Jefferson | and Abraham Lincoln led it to victory.
 "Is 1t not time, is there not need for i new party which shall take up the work of the parties of Jefferson, of Jackson, of Lincoln, and preserve for us and for the citizens of the future the rights and liberties which these parties in their hour of usefulness preserved for 1 the citizens of their time?
 "The old parties in this day of their | decadency are no longer equal to this work, for they have become unfaithful to the principles which inspired them, and unworthy of the patriots who found | ed them.
 Friend of Trusts.
 "The republican party is the open and avowed handmaiden of the trusts. It scorns those who would rescue it, repu- diates those who would reform it. and glories brazenly in it's profitable infamy.
 'The Democratic party is merely en- vious of its sordid sisters ill-gotten fin | cry It upbrads her at one election and initiates her at the next.
 "The republican leaders are the political attorneys of trusts and monopolies, the representatives in public life of those giant corporations which have superseded | the people in this republic as the source of power and the seat of authority.
 "The democratic vanguard Is a Fal- staff's army; it is led by knight arrayed in motley of modified professions and compromised principles. of altered opin- ions and retracted statements.
 Mir. Hearst, at this point in his address mentioned the names of Sullivan, Hop kins, Murphy, Mcclellan, Taggart, Ryan Belmont, Bailey and Williams describing them as officers of the demogratic van guard, and designating them in uncompli mentary terms. He then resumed as fol lows:
 "A Falstaff's army, whose banner bears on one side a watch-word for the people and on the other a password for thu trusts, whose only object Is office at any
 "old Dog Tray"
 Assuming that MT. Bryan himself il | all that his most ardent admirers clain him to be- a great lawyer and enlfght ened statesman, an inspired patriot stil man is known by the company h' keeps and no decent democrat can tol | crate his free companions
 1 "No honest citizen can let down thu bars of office to such an Ali Baba's bant of hoodlers and braves.
 "No prudent citizen will support com bination to which Taggart supplies can didate, and Parker a platform. for. whicf Ryan will pay the freight and the people will pay the penalty.
 Back of both parties and underwriting each are those Captain Kidds of indus try. those highwaymer of high finance who realize that to plunder safely th' peoples purse they must first possess thu peoples government
 When I was running for governor II l New York an emissary of one of the big gest men in Wall street called on me ans said that his client offered to contribute $100,O00 to my campaign rund and to ra1s' | several hundred thousand more if m. I views were reasonable in regard to homes | business.
 Bribe Turned Down.
 q told the emissary that the offer wa I declined with thanks. I said that tn | gentlemen making it were mereiy pro posing to waste their good money, TO I wherever business was honest l Woul' l deem it my duty as a public official | 1 protect and encourage it without an. | hundred -thousand-dolar bribes an' 1 wherever business was dishonest not al the money in Wall street would infuenc | my attitude toward 1t.
 T merely mention this incident to shov what believe should be the attitude l any honest candidate, and the policy o l any honest party.
 NO lawyer would serve his chen ] honestly who had received retafninl 1 fee from the opposite side, and no part l can hon estly represent the citizens wner | the interests conflict with the exaction | of the trusts, if 1t has been contaminate l by corporation campaign fund and sun sidized into silence and subserviency. =. q urge our party to take broader Iip