The sun., 1908-09-07
THE DEMOCRATIC TEXTBOOK
ROCKEFELLER PLUCKING ROSES
ONE or TIE EXHIBITS.

Platforms Lined Up Side by Side with
Blanks TO Show Republican Omissions
The Democratic national committee
issued yesterday it's campaign textbook.
which Ia for the use OF campaign orators
and anybody else who wants to put up
rs cents. II is somewhat shorter politi-
cal encyclopedia than that Of the Republi-
cans. has a red paper cover and contains
q number Of cartoons. One shows John
d. Rockefeller plucking roses from
bush labelled standard OH" and giving
this extract from a speech Of John d.
Rockefeller. Jr.
'The American Beauty rose can be
produced in all Its splendor only by sacri-
ficing the early buds that grow up around
it.
The book contains the two platforms
side by side, the two speeches Of accep-
tanoe Of Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Kern. and all
Of the other speeches delivered by Mr..
Bryan since his nomination.
In foreword the textbook committee
quotes from one OF Mr.. Roosevelt's
speeches against predatory wealth in
which he said that these forces had banded
together Ito work for a reaction.
aThey succeeded says this foreword.
sin an important step In the policy Of
reaction by compelling the Republican
party to beat a retreat at it's national
convention at Chicago when 1t defeated
the resolution offered pledging the party
to the reform measures that predatory
wealth opposed and despised. II the
voters should sanction the abandonment
Of the reforms needed by ratifying the
Republican platform the mighty strug-
gle of the people caused by the moral
Weakening Of the last ten years will come
to naught or be deferred for another
quadrennial period. II Mr.. Roosevelt
lacked the power. with Republican ma
jorities In both Houses Of Congress, to
remedy these known abuses how can
the American people expect them to
be corrected by the nominees Of con-
vention that repudiated by test vote
the very measures necessary 70 correct
the known abuses'?"
The two platforms are side by side
with blank spaces to show the Repub-
lican platforms omission Of declara-
tions on such matters as the income tax,
rights Of States. guaranteed deposits
and publicity Of campaign contributions.
In q chapter headed "The Republican
Party in Full Retreat moro attention
Ia called to President Roosevelt's ad-
vocacy Of such measures as an inheri-
tanoe tax for swollen fortunes and the
failure OF the convention 10 inooree
them and also to its rejection OF the La
Toilette planks.
po,n,ara. tbaro 1. tbia exclamation OF the
no.,a -. n,s. a,,;,uda In ra-
Do'i,ooi p"C -
garo 10 the money queSuon'
Nowhere In the Hepuoiican platform
does partisan p'as snow tseu more ciea,'y
than In the attempted enumeration OF Ine
o,ietenees oe'ween .s. n.o, 1ms W. p .s,ood for
piaioin pu $40 ~ ~ pao,,h,,con nortv for
eeoaseu ouiIen'. .ne ~ 60 si,v.r ~.
honeo. ~ ouiie ieno, .ue ~. 80 ,h.
o.ner ioi ... eouu .s ad Sar dahs sad
tne Deniooia"u Von,,h,;oa, nartv
ouiIeuoy y, a % 80 snmrd than that
s'oou ior . CUT eIS. uoIe soa -. 7. ,oos
s.. earoea.eu uy -, W.. h,,D.,aH,sn, hp. ,hs Renwh-
49, ~. ..t, ras n,.d.ed to International
hcan pnrV VOC r nara,,n 49,,
o'ne' n, ~. ;naan.adsnt himetai,ism
was nu pieusu W ..,, ,,..d ,hs ,,sdaa ~
me nepuonoan a.,.,;,.a p 80 ~ dao.iva Wsst ;
nteina'iEna. ,a.n'. .a ~ andon.d ,,s .rorts
erh hepuon. .n, ,o.,nn.I anra.oort coon
70 seeuo oh .'N Tn.,.d,,, ~ r.
, ai.eu 'ne ,I Dsnoo.ats an ,noraos "a
puonoano 20 10 - -,,ono, ~ =
IN the p pIouu.'o" y. sou go ~ roIiD
money auee.on a,.n 80. .sn. ho,a toi :
,cs. out 'ne =" ~ vs,,,,,a =, ,,onay
,oWeo an l ,ho, eaee ~ ~ ' noa,i, ros,,,on
-. than ,ha pan,,bIican nosjtion And
IL ~ was not che Republican party but the un- :
looked for discoveries Of the yellow metal
,ho, cave the hi OH nrioes which have fol-
,a.d ,nas saI an jnnrease in ths Volume of money,
As to the charge In the Republican
platform that theirs Is an opstr,iot,onist %
party the Demooratsshave this 70 say:
TIL. Demooratio party has been strong
,a"oh IN deteat N coerce the Republican
enousu ;,. ~ uo's ra,rotont sdvocacv of some
pa,.s ,,.iIoo;s,a,ion III The nemocratic nortv
.elheuls, e. s,s. y, ,rona anomeh to furnish
mas huo pu'poso esos ho.s saforn,. tha
inspiration lot Nna'o pnamSua.r
President mas at.emptea. .he hepuoh.sn n ,sn
party has been the oostruc.iohist ana the
Democratic party has been the constructive
party.
Equally false is the statement that the
Democratic party believes in government
ownership and the Republican party in
regulation. The Democratic party insists
nnon regulation. and the Republican party,
dnminated by predatory corporations. will
uot onnssnt evan IN eirectiye regulation.
TS ~. p,nstdon, hinsoI, and evan SECRETARY
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