Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-07-29
|CLAYTON OPENS FIRE
ON ADMINISTRATION.
In Convention Speech He Attacks
Republican Party and Leaders
ship Of Roosevelt.
TAFT TEDDY,s aANo1NTEDD ONE
Chairman Asserts that q. o. r. Has
Made Many Promises but Full
filled Few Of Thorn.

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The speech Of Permanent Chairman
Clayton In the Democratic national con-
vsntion was forceful presentation Of
party aspirations and severe arraign-
sment Of President Roosevelt and the Re
publican Congress. Frequent demonstra-
ttons Of wild enthusiasm came from the
listening thousands, suggestions Of the
name Of Bryan being the unfailing signal
for tumultuous applause. Mr.. Clayton
said In part:
dss ss .rs now poDaa sws
taught BY our party and scoffed at BY our
opponents are now urged as gospel OF
their own. Measures and policies Of Dem
ssd y e sSs nes aS
~. 1t Is no longer anarchistic to declare
private monopoly TO DO indefensible or that
the great transportation companies should
Former questioning of the decision Of a
bare majority Of the Supreme Court In the
Income tax case cannot now be heard, be.
cause OF the greater noise of the vehement
denunciAtlon OF Judges and judicial acts
that have shocked the country. A demand
for the revision of the tariff Is no longer
threat to destroy our Industrial system.
Trusts are not to be tolerated even by the
large on the list of Republican admissions
and promises for election purposes only.
Republican Promises Not Kept.
The Republican party has made marked
progress In promises to the people and
much greater progress In aiding selfish In
terests and special privileges. This party,
Guided by expectancy and campaign neces-
ground II It = APPARENT recent progress
u to continue It does not require very
great sweep Of the Imagination to see writ
ten into Republican platform four years
hence these immortal words Of Thomas JEFF
ferson, Equal rights to all, special priyi-
.leges to none"
In this quadrennial contest Mr.. Roose-
Welt has identified himself with Mr.. Taft.
Mr.. Taft has identified himself with Mr..
Roosevelt. The Republican party has in.
separately identified the two together. TO
praise one you must praise the other; to
crittcise 70 to criticise his pursuing shadow.
And 30. l must say, II 1t should appear to
abuses and failures on the part Of the pres
emit administration any license Is assumed,
I urge the imposslbillty Of separating the
present occupant of the White House from
1t has been made evident In the pending
campaign that the Republicans will seek to
conjure with the name of Roosevelt and will
rely upon the Presidents policies as Q
prlzed asset. h
s.AIy Policies" Under Fire.
The President has advertised himself and
that surpasses the best efforts Of the
shrewdest press agent A distinguished Re-
publican, a former Cabinet officer, once pub
licly proclaimed the President to be the
greatest exponent Of the art Of advertising
The country has been told and not al.
lowed to forget that, In his opinion, his
energies have been devoted to the accom-.
his work is yet incomplete it Is 90 only
because his undertakings were too vast to
De carried to success during his term OF
cmce Ny policies must continue. So
and power to his fayorite Cabinet minister,
apd his spear Is to have a fellow. The
pretense Is that the fight must go ON under
the leader designated BY him until the last
GUS In the dust. The nomination Of HIS
would-be successor was largely accomplished
BY the use q oaiciai patronage and coarse
@ nS,s9 methods and has delighted the
same time, has not perturbed the conscience
Of the one-time civil service reformer, now
the boss. an adept in the bestowal Of pub
lie plumber and forgetful Of ali his resonnd-
ing moral commonplace.
Steam Roller Trips Cited.
No fair-minded American could read the
daily accounts Of the recent political doings
at Chicago without feeling modification and
regret: modification that the President
should have SO abused bis power in die
cessor, and regret that that party should
have submitted go cowardly to humilia-
tion that was as manifest as 1t was de-
grading.
what are the policies which constitute
the capital Of the Republican party in this
campaign and that are relied upon to sup
port the candidacy of Mr.. Taft
Recalls President's Message.
Itmust be admitted that the republic can
not long survive II fraud and corruption
become material factors In our elections.
No man has said more than the President
about the corruption Of elections You re-
call his message to Congress in December.
1905, where he said:
1T has been only too clearly shown that
certain men at the head Of these large cor
porations take but small note Of the ethical
distinction between honesty and dishonesty
they draw the line only this side Of what
may be called law-honesty, the kind Of hon
esty necessary In order to avoid falling into
the clutches Of the law
We have. here the condemnation Of the
practice. Has he proved his faith by his
WORKS 10 1t true or not that four years
ago he selected for his campaign manager a
novice In politics whose principal quaiifica-
tion for the position was the power he held
over the corporations Of the land? Is It
true or not that the oficial place as Sec
rotary OF Commerce and Labor gave full
knowledge Of these business secrets and re.
lations OF corporations to this campaign
manager, and clothed him with power with
the assent Of the President, to punish or
reward them by publishing or withholding
their secrets that he had collected as such
Secretary
Republican Campaign Funds.
IL It true or not that, with his power
held In terror. over the corporations, he
solicited or had his agents solicit campaign
contributions from them? Is 1t true or not
that such request under such circum-
stances was demand upon the corpora
tions--a demand that they acceded to, know
Ing that the man who made 1t had the pow
Or to punish them In case they refused Can
1t DO doubted that In this way vast sums
were raised 7 II so, how much Of these
contributions were used for legitimate ex-
penses and how much for corruption pur-
poses we do not know Notwithstanding
savage ante-election denial we know that a
subsequent Investigation of certain insur-
ance companies uncovered the fact that
large amounts were contributed by these
companies to the Republican campaign fund
not the money of the men who gave 1t,
but money coyertly taken without consent
of stockholders or policyholders and entered
on the books in a way calculated to conceal
the embezzlement.
Republicans and Publicity.
All this was done in the interest of the
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