The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-06

UOOJUOWOW VI 61Ou
FLAYED OPPOSITION
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republican ship and sail under false
colors on 1t, compare 1t with their
platform and with the platform
adopted at Baltimore and then I will
ask you to judge u faith by our
works. want you to look at my adj
ministrstion while I was president.
YORK. n I want you to look at
Hiram Johnson's record as governor
Of California. (Applause.) Now I
nave been a governor myself. Mr..
Wilson Is a governor. Mr.. Marshall is
q governor. n I wish to state as my
sober and deliberate Judgment that
no governor of any state since tho
such a record Of achievement to his
credit as Hiram johnson has had as
governor of California. and the ma
tional progressive platform is large
~ a demand for just what johnson
actually has done Al governor Of Cali
fornia. IT you print his record of
achievements as governor-the record
OF achievements made under his ad-
ministration-you will find that you
have just about printed the national
progressive platform. The worth of Il
platform. The worth of a platform
is-exodus a small bull moose Gas a
rather removed a crying baby from
the audience.) You know my views
on the baby question.
Sincerity Demanded.
Now the worth of a platform must
. e guaged by Its sincerity. The capt.
tai crime that can be committed
against the people is the crime on the
r OF q public man OF saying one
thing and doing another. and tina;
crime Is OF curse an aggravated
crime when it takes the shape of q
party platform being i~nsincere.
want just to touch on the platforms
OF the two old parties first-and as
regards m republican platform il
Will literally be only a touch. Be
cause when a convention is organized
anything that that convention puts
lortn In the way of a promise. the
homily-a homily upon honesty by
a ptckpocket detected with the goods
upon him doesn't tend toward edifica-
ton. And the republican platform
isn't worthy of serious discussion, be.
cause the men who adopted it were
at that moment engaged in the sue
cessfui theft from the people Of the
peoples rights. Now mind you, nom.
inally they stole the nomination from
me. That is Of no earthly conse.
quence to anyone. The real fraud
was that they stole the nomination
from you. now they did me the hon.
or @ dislike me. but after all that
wasn't their real feeling. I could
nave gotten them over to my side bs
70 90 was to let them know I would
play their game. 1t would have come
to me like that . (snapping his fin.
ger.l Was it me that they really
minded? Thos whom they dreaded
were you. and you. and those like
you. The reason they were bound tc
defeat my nomination. even IL Il
wrecked the republican party, was
because 1t happened that I stood Al
to give to the people themselves thu
real control of the agencies Of gov.
eminent, the control Of their nomin.
attng conventions. as we'll as the con.
troll of he legislative and executive
ofncers. They knew the Penroses
the Barneses, the Franklins and Muir,
phys: the Cranes. the Guggenheims.
-"SS NleW eHdI II we WIN incl
power was at an end in the repub'
iican party, More than that friends
II We won in that party the bosses o.
the other party knew that their pow,
er was coming to an end, and all o.
the bosses. all of the b~enefciaries O.
big privilege, were banded together
to see IT they couldn't beat us in an,
way. In Ohio. for instance, I wa:
struck by the fact of the machine
L 0en0CTQffN non0Ro NHyAnA l~f.- $1,000,
thing they could in the primary t.
help the regular republicans to bea,
u.s.: and the big representatives o.
privilege were Joined hands to sec
If they couldn't beat the new party
They are doing that same thing now
shall come to 1t later on.
Democratic Platform,
N so much for the republican
platform. Now for the democratic
and here I want your special atten.
ton. Some days ago Mr.. Wilson
stated-it was in his letter Of &C.
ceptance-that the democratic plat.
form was not a program and he die
not expect to see it adopted by the
people of the United States. Well
II 1t wasn't a program why was Il
put up? Our platform is a program
n 1t isn't only a program, it is 6
covenant. There isn't a promise VT
%Ho AZ SidS pldlluTm winch we O(
not hold ourselves bound to execute
exactly as an honest man in private
life executes his business engage.
ments with his neighbors. We hay,
promised nothing We cannot perform
Instead of making loose promises Il
try to catch votes and then not in.
tending to keep them after election
We have promised not one thing which
We cannot perform: and If any mar
| elected nm fhat r1o<fN~-n
gressive fails to do his utmost II
good faith to see that every promise
therein made is kept, l will take thu
stump against him myself. Nov
friends. contrast that with the atti.
tude of u democratic foes. Mr.
Wilson says that the platform is no,
q program. You men Of the civil. wal
VIII remember that n 1864 the dem
ocrats announced in their platform
that the wal was a failure. You re
member. And the candidate had t.
hustle and explain that that wasn'
a program either. Mr.. Mcclellan
was a high minded. upright maj
who had rendered service to the com
munity just as in the Ease of Mr.
Wilson. but Mr.. Mcclellan stood a.
MI. Wilson stands on a platform
that he had to repudiate. had to sa,
wasn't a program. because otherwise
he couldn't get before the American
people. And I do not believe tina,
the American people will. and 1 know
that the American people ought no
to expect to put in power any part,
which initiates a declaration Of prin,
ciples which must be Immediately re,
pudiated by the party's candidate, O,
which the party's candidate must i'm.
mediately announce is not a program
before he appealed for the suffrage:
Of the people.