The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-28

ence Hall, In philadelphia, on the Att
H OF July, 1875, had had within them TIL
8 ttfeeling OF hesitation or any disposition
toward compromise or concession, tina
q day wonld now pas as any other da.
4 upon the calendar.
"But the patriots who assembled
q there had courngu In their hearts, de
termination In their minds, high pur
pose In their souls, and the 4th of Jul,
Is saluted throuEhott the world u
the birthday OF liberty for oil men.
.'It is5too much to say that our con
kventfon can ever reach the ilnportanc
OF the second Continental Congress
but the principles they met to declnr
we have met to preserve, and TIL,
liberties they assembled to secure W,
have assembled to protect.
The Two Parties.
u believe, therefore, that we will dt
service to our fellow-citizens. SECOND
only to the inestimable service rem.
dered by the founders of this govern.
ment II we shall found n party, which
will remain unfailingly faithful to the
cause OF the plain people. to the prin-
# ciples oftthe Declaration OF Independ.
ericeand TO the fundamental American
ideas ofrllberty, equality and oppor-
tunit: for all.
II believe that II any party Is neces-
+ sary in this country to preserve the
government as the fathers framed It.
new party Is necessary; II any party
1 n necessary to promote progress and
teOsperity, to encourage the honest
business man and protect the honest
working man. a new party is neces-
eHry;if any party is necessary to repre-
5ysent the typical American citizens which
constitute the people in their struggle
with the tyrannical monopolies which
constitute the trusts. new party Is
necessary.
THE old parties in this day of their,
decadence are no longer equal to this
work, for they have become unfaitl1-
full to the principles which inspired
them and unworthy OF the patriots who
founded them. ~
THE Republican party is the open
and avowed handmaiden of the
trusts. 1t scorns those who would res
cue 1t. repudiates those who would
reform 1t, and glories brazenly in It's
profitable infamy.
."The Democratic party is merely
envious Of It's sordid sisters ill-got-
ten finery. 1t upbraids her a t one
election and Initiates her Mt the next.
Band OF Boodlcrs md Brnvoes.
..The Republican leaders are the po-
litIcal attorneys of trusts and monopo-
i1es the representatives. in public he
OF those giant corporations which nave
superseded the people in this repup-
lie as the so,frce OF power ana TUG
seat of authority.
"The Democratic vanguard is ta
stairs army; it is led by a knlsht
:, v,,nf1n,. ne dafied PROBES.
sions and compromised principles. OF
STARED opinions and retracted STATE
ments. hin,se,f
q all that his most ardent admirers
claim him to be, a great lawyer, ah
frightened statesman, an lnspii ~ ~
5trInt still a man is known by tne
s,n,nany he keeps and no decent Dell.-
ocrat can tolerate his free companies.
No honest citizen can let aoM ~. ,,a,s
hars Of office to such an An - PC 49,.
hand Of boodlers and braVoes. ,, ~ r.
dsnt citizen will support eoiD oar
ton to which Taggart supp ,.sarn, for
aidate and Parker piatlorn.'
WI. Rwan will pay the freight anu
NE neonie will pay the penalty.
..pacr Of both parties ana unae
zach are those Captain hiaus
az industry. those highwayinen =, Isl =. 3 :.
unance who realize that to piuhost 1
safeIy the peoples purse they mus
f,rst possess the peoples government 'i' s' =
no Take Brond Stand.
.1 nree our party to take broaa
.,a .1iheral stand toward the legitimate
business enterprise of the country, hut
10 distinguish between honest busl.
ress everywhere and those criminal
e .orcerns which plumber through politi-
cal pull and pay for political protec-
tion. Good wine needs no bush and
honest business needs no bride. Honest
business and prosperity are almost
. synonymous terms. AS one develops,
the other increases; when one is un-
duly disturbed, the other fails
III "Reforrns must be made as the coun-
try develops and the people progress.
but these reforms should be carried
out by those in authority without
prejudice, without egotism or sensa-
tionalisn,, without a brass band or
big stick.
Not all who ask to be let alone
really want 40 be Iat alone, The thief
may well:ask" to be let alone in his
thievery, but the legitimate business
man should ask for all the encourage
ment that an intelligent business adj
ministration can properly provide.
I'VE all want prosperity. and, what IS
more we want prosperity for all
II urge your party. therefore. to be
intelligently and courageously con-
structive. not merely obstructive like
the Republican party. nor destructive
Ike the Democratic party
The Two Platforms.
The Republican platform says moth
ing, and means nothing 1t Is a plat
form Of statistical inventions and po-
litcal evasons. 1t is obviously the pro-
duct OF party whose sole purpose is
to stand pat and whose sole desire is to
stay pat
The Democratic platform contains
some good and original things. but as
has been SAID, the original things ara
not good and the good things are not
original. 1t is a platform Of recon
citation and retraction, of atonement
and apology, OF harmony and hypocrisy,
for in compliance with a former COM
pact, Parker has pronounced peace, Bill
4 Bailey has poured Standard OIL upon
Bl