The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-07-26
By Associated Press.

Grand Island, Neb., July 26.-C. J
smythe. temporary chairman of ths
democratic state convention, in bis
address to the delegates, said In part
There never was time in the his
ltory of our country when the people
were more anxious to accept demo
cratic principles than at the present
moment. The mask has been torn
from the republican party by some oi
/ the purest and best OF its own mem
lbers. For years that party has mas
Queraded >as the friend OF the people
and has deceived many into believing
that it was, but no one who desires to
know the truth may be deceived any
longer"
Referring to William j. Bryan, but
without mentioning his name, Mr..
ISmythe said: SIN considering the
great questions that may come before
us today, let us be tolerant of each
others views. Impute unworthy mo-
tives to no one except on the most
conclusive proof. Deny to no man
that liberty of opinion which you claim
for yourself. 1t may be necessary to-
day for some of us to refuse to follow
a leadership which for almost 20
years has given lustre to our party
in the state and the nation, If 1t
should let no man say that it argues
any abatement in the esteem Of him
who embodies that leadership When
this convention shall have adjourned
our differences, I am sure, will be for
gotten, and we will all fall into our
accustomed places. the leader in his
and the subordinates in theirs, to fight
for our platform and our party"
In beginning his address Mr.. Smythe
said: For many years we were told
that the tariff was passed in the in
terest of the Iaboring man, and the
laboring man believed it, but he knows
better now. He knows that millions
upon millions of dollars are extracted
yearly from the masses Of the people
on the pretext that it is done for his
benefit, but he knows now, and so do
the merchant and the. farmer ana the
people in general, that not one dollar
Of the fund raised through the tariff
goes to the Iaboring mans benefit;
that instead, it is used to create multi
and purchase rotten titles
of a still more rotten nobility for silly
American girls.
eThe iaboring man will not soon
forget the attitude of President Taft
and his chief henchmen in congress
with respect to the democratic amend
ment exempting labor unions from the
operation of the Sherman antitrust
law. The president opposed the
and used all the influence
Of his great Office to defeat it. But
he was entirely willing, yes anxious.
that the railroad pool should be ex-
ampt from the operation Of the Sher-
man law. Yes, condemn the laboring
man for combining to maintain his
wage at a living scale. but permit the
great transportation lines OF the coun-
Try to combine that they may increase
he burden of the shipper, whether
merchant or farmer. Such is republi-
IAN doctrine and such is the way In |
which that party serves the laboring
nan and the people in general?
The last republican national plat
'orm declared for a revision of the
ariff. The people demanded to know
whether the revision was to be up
ward or downward. The national can
lidate, interpreting the platform, an
iwered downward" The people were
'ontent, and voted Mr.. Taft into Office.
rhe country knows how well Mr.. Taft I
N dhis party have kept the promise /
rhe tariff bill passed did not work
downward revision, but placed the
ates on the necessaries Of life higher
han they ever were before. The
mount which the farmer, the artisan
nd the citizen generally contributes
trough the tariff to the swollen for
unes of the special interests and un- !
ustly rich have been increased. Never
vas a more fragrant betrayal of a /
reat public trust. Does any one be-
leve that if the republican party had