The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-10

I While the cheering was at it's heigh
white dove was let loose from tn
gallery and flew across the convention
hall, while the delegates hailed
with great enthusiasm and cheere,
as long as it was in sight.
Mr.. Dunn said:
Crises arise in the life of nation!
which endanger their institutions and
at times, imperil the advance of civi
lization.
Every people that has left it's i'm.
crises. In most instances, where grave
dangers have threatened the safety O.
the state, some great character. some
master mind has been eound, pro
duced as it were by tn conditions
themselves, with capacity to di-
rect Alright the energies of the people
This Wasatrue Of the ancient world
it is true of this republic
Crisis to Meet.
I'VE have such a crisis to meet today
The favor seeking corporations have
gradually strengthened their hold upon
the government until they now men
ace popular institutions.
The question is. whether this gov
ernment shall be restored to the con-
troll of the people and be administered
in the interest of all, or whether it shall
remain an instrument in the hands OF
the few for levying tribute upon al
the rest.
In his special message to congress
last winter President Roosevelt de-
clared, substantially, that certain
wealthy men who have become enor-
mously rich by expressing the wage
Garner defrauding the public and prac-
ticing all forms of iniquity, have band
ed together. and by the unlimited use
Of money. endeavor to secure freedom
from restraint and to. overthrow and
discredit all who honestly administer
the law.
Control Republican Party.
THAT the methods by which these
men have acquired their great for
tunes can only be justified by a system
of morality, that would permit every
form of criminality, every form of vi
olence. corruption ana fraud.
For many years, and especially dur
ing the last u years these very men
have been in control of the republican
party; they have financed every cam
paign of that party for a quarter of a
century.
These exploiters of the people, whom
the president has so scathingly de-
have given their enthusiastic
support to the republican candidates
and policies They laid their hands
upon the trust funds of insurance COM
panies ana other corporations and
turned the plunder over to the republi
can committee. The money thus flched
from the innocent and helpless, to pur-
chase republican victory, has not been
repaid.
And where DO we find these men
today? Where are the swollen for
tunes" of which we have heard so
much? Just where we would expect to
find dthenn-supporting the republican
ticket and furnishing the sinews of war.
"The platform adopted by the late
shows what the republican
party in truth represents. In framing
the platform, every genuine reform
which the president has advocated was
scorned and repudiated. The Wiscon-
sin delegation asked that one or two
reform planks be placed in the plat
form. and for its pains was denounced
as democratic. The convention by
vote of eight to one refused to approve
those policies which the president for
four years has been urging upon his
party. The mask of hypocrisy has been
torn from the face Of those who pretend
to favor the reforms advocated by the
president and it is now apparent
why the system admires Taft and
hates the senator from Wisconsin
When compelled to choose between an
appeal to the conscience of the nation
m defense of it's platform and candl-
lates. on the one hand and the millions
that the special interests may be de-
pended upon to contribute on the other,
that convention rejected the people
and continued its alliance with Mann
non.
.eIf the charges made by the presi-
lent are true-and they are true-we
ire indeed face to face with sltua-
ion as grave as any in our history.
How shall it be met? The good sense,
patriotism and united action OF the