Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-06-25
NEBRAskAN DECLARES THAT 1T
is ANTi-ROoSEvELT AND THAT
PARTY DESERTED PRESIDENT
AT CHICAGO CONVENTION
ISSUES AN APPEAL
TO THE NEGROES
CHOICE OF DEMOCRACY FOR
PRESIDENT DECLARES THAT
BLAc kREPUBLlcANS HAND
coLoRED BROTHERS "TAFFY"

Ing the Republican platfrOm as a ST.
lent reputation of almost every Roos-
eveltian principle, William j. Bryan
last night completed an editorial sum-
mary of the work of the Chicago con-
vention.
"Have you read the Republican plat
form?" he writes. "If not, you ought
to read it. The contest in the Republi.
can party between the reformer and
the standpatter is for the present at
an end, with the standpatter in the
saddle. The platfrom is silent repu-
| diation Of nearly every promise of re-
form that the President and his fol-
lowers have given to the country.
ut begins with an eulogy of the
President. in no other period since
the days of Lincoln according to the
platform, has there been such mighty
progress in those ideals of government
which make for justice, equality and
fair dealing among men,
High Praise for Roosevelt.
''The highest aspirations of the
American people have found voice y
"a reflection is here implied on pre-
yious Republican presidents, who have
failed to furnish a voice for the "high-
est aspirations of the American peo-
ple.")
Their most exalted servant repres-
ents the best aims and worthiest pur-
poses of all his countrymen. Nothing
is said of the conspiracy formed
among the Republican leaders in the
senate to defeat the Presidents rail
road rate bill; no intimation is here
given that he sent several messages
to congress in vain endeavor to get
the lower house to take up the re-
forms which he was urging.
| "The President must resent the fact
that the platfrom expresses no graft
tude to the Democratic members and
senators for supporting him. Not only
does the platform fail to give the Dem
ocrats credit for helping the President
in every effort to lift up American
manhood to noble sense Of duty and
obligation but it actually condemns
the flibuster which the Democratic
minority instituted and carried on for
the purpose of compelling Republicans
to carry out the Presidents recon-.
mendations.
Usual Taffy for Negro.
The negro comes in for his quad
rennial quota of taffy. He is remind
ed that the Republican party gave him
freedom and citizenship and in this
then is the implied warning that he
must not use his citizenship against
the party that gave it to him. 1t
boasts that he is indebted for his
political right, and for his progress in
intelligence, industry, etc.
| "The Ren1h1ican nartv hae made
political capital out of the negro for
more than third Of a century. In the
northern states the Democrats without
receiving any suppirt from the negro
vote, have been as friendly to him as
the Republicans. 1t the south the
Democrats have furnished large
part Of the money to provide that edu
cation Of which the Republican plat
form boasts. If the Democrats have
done anything that they ought not tc
hcve done, why have not the RepuIi
cans In control of the courts for
fifty years prevented it?
Negro Thinks Of Economics.
tThere is scarcely Republican
platform that does not approach the
negro with the assumption that his
only interest is in the suffrage laws
of the south. No Republican speaker
discusses economic questions before 6
colored audience, and yet the negro is
interested in every economic question
that affects the white man.
with most Of the negroes raisins
cotton and scarcely any emplayed in
factories high tariff would be hare
4 to justify before negro audience. Il
is an insult to his intelligence as vel
as to his patriotism to suggest, as the
Republican leaders constantly do. tha
he thinks of no questions except those
that arise between the races
Attack on Currency Law.
"The writer's of the platfor especial
ly commend the passage Of the emer
gency currency bill, bill which com
bined two features. one of which hat
been rejected by the senate and tn
other by the house. So long as TIL;
was a chance for discussion thtre wa,
sufficient Republican opposition t,
condemn both features of the bill. b,l
under the influence of few fnancier
a (COnfiniiad M, papa "a