The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-28

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
BALTIMORE, June Pin nomi
mating Speaker Champ Clark, Senator
James A. Reed, of Missouri. said:
We are here not to nominate q
candidate, but to select a president.
We are about to dissolve the part
nership between monopoly and gov
eminent.
Sixteen years this partnership has
levied tribute under the forms of law
1t has taxed the crust upon the lips
of the hungry. 1t has fiiched from
the pockets OF poverty.
Monopoly has financed the cam
paigns of republican presidents. II
has been rewarded by immunity from
punishment for violation of the Grim
inal statutes The people turn to
. the democratic party for relief
Republican candidates have resort.
ed to every form of false pretense, ev-
cry trick of demagoguery. In order
to delude the people, one of these
candidates has not hesitated to attack
the courts of law, and to assail the
fundamentals Of our government
The principles of the American
constitution will soon pc accepted as
the fundamentals of all civilized gov
ernments.
The democratic party has always
been the friend of the constitution. Its
immortal principles we're first blazed
into the night of tyranny when the
hand Of Jefferson held aloft the Dec
laration of independence.
The same great democrat insured
the perpetuity of liberty when he
wrote the bill Of rights.
The democratic party Las made
mistakes. but it has always held fast
to the constitution. 1t has always de-
clared that free government must be
government OF law
We recognize the truth that all
laws and the constitution itself should
when necessary be amended to
meet changed conditions. But we re-
fuse the structure of our government,
Or to incorporate intellectual yagaries
and fantastic experiments into our jur-
isprudence.
We stand for government by law
It is for this very reason We insist
that The law against illegal combina-
tions must be vigorously enforced.
Under Roosevelt the trusts flour
ished as a green tree Under the
tree has grown and spread its
branches, until the shadow covers all
the lspd.
.Rooseyelt's policies. In all their
fundamentals. have been perpetuated
by Taft. If either is elected these
policies will continue Yet each
loudly proclaims himself a progress
siye.
In recognizing the fact that the
people condemn their official acts,
these gentlemen seek to shift the is-
sue from comparison of perform
ances to program OF promises.
THE republican contest is only
battle between the great interests. 1t
is contest of syndicates.
The truth is at last manifest. and
democracy viii triumph.
The situation is epic. The contest
will not be a summer day excursion.
1t will not be won in single cam
paign. Special privilege is entrench-
ed; its emissaries sit in nigh places;
its resources are incalculable; it's
allies are legion. 1t fights to retain
the right to plumber the greatest ma
ton on earth. The prize is enormous
It will not be yielded without the
most desperate resistance
Facing such a contest, we are
about to select a leader to whom we
must entrust the party, and the ma.
tional honor.
Half of every battl is the gener-
al No army of men ever fought we'll
behind a leader whose loyalty the
rank and file doubted. No army wac
ever well generated by a raw recruit
or did its best behind novice who
tripped UP on his own sword.
Let me have for general him who
has suffered the hardships of tho
camp, the tolls of the march, the dan.
gers of the field; who has stood at the
bloody angle; who has proven his
rnettle in the baptism of fire.
Let me tell YOU of such leader.
He was born in that good democratic
state of Kentucky.
There his eyes first opened to
behold the love light shining in the
race OF democratic mother. Mingled
with the notes of her lullaby the
myriad sounds of farm life were
borne to his baby ears. About the
next thing he heard was his demo
cratic father reading democratic
ever since.