The Irish standard., 1908-07-11
clayton IN CHAIR
Sees PARTY VICTOR
CONGRESSMAN IS PERMANENT
CHAIRMAN OF DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION.
DELAY IN COMMITTEE
CAUSES NIGHT SESSION
Unable to Receive Reports Of creden.
tials and Resolutions Bodies Dur
Ing Daylight Meeting, Delegates
Scan Platform, Later in Evening.


! cratic national convention held brief
session Wednesday and met again
Wednesday night. when stirring scenes
and highly colored incidents took
| place.
The delay was made necessary by
the inability of the committee on Gre
dentials to have its report ready for
the convention in the afternoon. The
resolutions committee, too, made slow
progress, and 1t being certain that the
delay must come at some time, it was
decided that it should take place
Wednesday,
1t was eight o'clock in the evening
when Temporary Chairman Bell raped
for order. Then the reports of the
credentials and resolutions committees
were read. Permanent organization
| was then perfected and with 1t came
the installation of Congressman Henry
D. Clayton of Alabama as permanent
chairman.
This event was the signal for anoth.
er long round of cheers. and Congress.
man Clayton commenced his speech
as chairman amid the shouts Of the
Democrats assembled in the conven-
tion hall. 1t was late at night before
the delegates adjourned and retired
to their hotels for well-earned rest
preparatory to the placing in nomina-
tion of names for the presidential can
didacy on the morrow.
Congressman Clayton's speech was
greeted as enthusiastically as was that
OF Temporary Chairman Bell Of the
day before, when the latter sounded
the party keynote for the campaign of
1908. Congressman Clayton was in.
terrupted repeatedly by cheers.
Chairman cIayton's Speech.
He said in part:
This is a Democratic year. Demo.
cratic ideas are now popular. Doc
trines always taught by our party and
scoffed at by our opponents are now
urged as gospel of their own. Meas
ures and policies Of Democratic origin
are now pretendedly advocated by the
leaders Of the Republican party. 1t
Is no longer anarchistic to declare pri.
vate monopoly to be indefensible or
that the great transportation com
panies should be governed and con
trolled by public law. Former ques
tioning of the decision Of bare ma.
jority of the supreme court in the In.
come tax case cannot now be heard
because of the greater noise Of the
vehement and embroidered denuncia.
ton Of judges and judicial acts that
have shocked the country. A de,
mand for revision of the tariff ID
no longer threat to destroy
our Industrial system. Trusts are
not to be tolerated even by the Re.
publican party. We need not now en-
large on the list Of Republican ad
missions and promises for election
purposes only. The Republican party
has made marked progress in prom
ises to the people and much greater
progress in aiding selfish interests and
special privileges. This party. guided
by expediency and campaign neces
sity, would camp this year on Demo
cratic ground.
Accounting Demanded.
"The Republican party having had
full control of the federal government
for more than a decade, must give an
account of its stewardship. Its pre-
tentious claims. largely without
foundation, and largely exaggerated
will not suffice. Let honest investiga
tion reveal the bad and defective
laws passed by that party; vicious pol
icies maintained; reforms rejected
the recent panic and It's consequences
promises broken; discrimination prac
ticed; incompetency confessed by It'll
failure to meet urgent public needs
and exhibiting this incompetency BY
the appointment of junketing com
missions for the alleged purpose o1
advising that party so long in con
troll and OF such boasted legislative
wisdom what legislation is required
by the country Against the Repub
lican party, so degenerate and crafty
is capable, determined, homes
democracy, in sympathy with all JUS
public demands and asking II
its behalf the candid public judg
ment To this judgment the is
sue must be committed, and w
unhesitatingly submit our cause tt
that fine and true sense for the righ
we know distinguishes the American
people.
"1n this quadrennial contest Mr.
Roosevelt has identified himself will
Mr.. Taft. Mr.. Taft has identified him
self with Mr.. Roosevelt. The Repub
lican party has inseparably identified
the two together. To praise one 20,
must praise the other: to CRITICS,
one is to criticise his pursuing shadow
And so, must say, II it should ap
pear to any one that in noting and de
nouncing abuses and favors on tn,
part Of the present administration an,
license is assumed, urge the impos
sibility OF separating the present oc
cupant Of the White House from hi
own anointed one.
Democratic Ideas Appropriated.
ITO recall Democratic platforms
aDoachoe and meacureu }c N ,or,,,no.