The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-24
Complete Summary of
 Their Convention.
GIVES OPINION OF PLATFORM
lakes Up Proposition of the Negro
 Vote.
ghs Nebrasixan Declsres That the Re- pubs Platform Is silent Repu- aiation of Almost Every Roose-
 veatian Principle.

Lincoln, Neb.. June 23.--Announcing the republican platform as silent re- pudiation of almost every Rooseveltian principle. William J. Bryan today com pleted a summary of the work of the Chicago convention. MT. Bryan in this summary said:
 Have you read the republican plat form7 If not. you ouhtg to read 1t. The contest in the republican party De- tween the reformer and stand-patter is for the present at an end, with the stand-patter in the saddle. The plat form is a silent repudiation of nearly every promise of reform that the presA ident and his followers have given to the country. It begins with an eulogy of the president, in no other, period since the days of Lincoln according to the platform has there been such nigh ty progress in those ideals of govern ment which make for justice. equality and fair dealing among men,
 "The highest aspirations of the American people have found voice GA reflection is here implied that pre- vious republican presidents have fail- ed to furnish a voice for the highest aspirations of the American people,
 ssTheir most exalted servant repre- sents the best aims and worthiest purposes of all his country. American manhood has been lifted to a noble sense of duty and obligation.
 'swithout asking why the Republican Party has held office and divided the official salaries among It's partisans so long without giving us a President who represented the best aims and worthiest purpose of the people,; with out asking why no other Republican President in recent days. has lifted American manhood to a noble sense of duty and obligation we may ask why 1t is that the Republican convention spends so much time in expressing praise Of the President and gives so little attention to the specific endorse ment of the things he has advocated. .4 But the President must feel that he is the only Republican deserving of praise. The recent Congresses. accord ing to the platform. have been full of patriots and the Republican legislat- ors have been keeping step in the for ward march to better government What does the President think of be- ing bracketed with Republican Sena- tors and Members of Congress in this indiscriminate praise7
 Nothing is said of the conspiracy formed among the Republican leaders of the Senate to defeat the Presidents railroad rate bill; no intimation is here given that he sent several messages to Congress in q 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 platform expresses no gratitude to the Democratic members and Senators for supporting him when the Repub. Iicans deserted him. Not only does the platform fail to give the Democrats credit for helping the President in ev- cry effort to lift up American man. hood to noble sense of duty and ob- ligation," but it actually condemns the flibuster which the Democratic minor ity instituted and carried on for the express purpose of compelling Repub- licans to carry out the Presidents re- commentators.
 Democrats Aided President.
 MT. Williams, leader of the minority, time and again called upon the Repub- licans to furnish thirty votes in sup port of the Presidents policies and pledged the Democratic minority to furnish the remaining number of votes necessary to carry out several of the Presidents recommendations, and yet the men who wrote the platform pre- sume upon the ignorance of the public and complain that the ilibuster pre- vented the enactment of many whole some and progressive laws"
 "The writers of the platform espec- ially commend the passage oh the emergency currency bill-,a bill which combined two features. one of which had been rejected by the senate and the other by the house. So long as there was q chance for a discussion there was sufficient republican oppo- sitioh to condemn both features of the bill. but under the influence of few fnanciers. the bill was rushed through during the closing hours with all of the bad features restored and all of the good ones eliminated. How proud the