The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-20
Is Charge Brought Against the
Republican Party
BY GOV. THOMAS R. MARSHALL
In Accepting Democratic Nomination for
Vice President, the Indiana Executive
Attacks Republican Party on Ground
1t Had Fostered Special Privilege.

indianapolis, Ind, Aug 20.-Gov.
! Thomas X. Marshall of Indiana, in his
| formal speech of acceptance OF the Dem
pcratic vice presidential nomination, de-
| liz cred to the notification committee
here TODAY. attacked the Republican
party on the grounds that it had fos-
tered special privilege to the point of
| making men everywhere soeialistic in
theory, if not in conduct
In this connection. he said:
1T is idle for thoughtful man in
America, whether millionaire or paupei,
to longer play the ostrich. Safety does
not consist in hiding ones head in the
sands of either sentiment or hope 1t
is foolish for the vastly rich to keep on
insisting that more and more shall be
added to their riches through specious
sy stem of special legislation ostensibly
enacted to run the government, in real
ity enacted to loot the people,
ut is worse than ignorance for them
to smile at the large body Of intelligent
Americans who regard themselves as for.
tunate if the debit and credit accounts
at life balance at the end Of the year;
and to assume that the mighty many,
who are becoming convinced that that
social system that we call democracy is
but glittering generality, will long en-
dure the industrial slavery being pro-
duced.
whether voting the ticket or not,
men everywhere looking upon the awful
injustice OF this economic system are
becoming soeialistc in theory, il not in
conduct.
And shall any fair-minded man say
that II it rebounds to the interests of
the people of this country that hun
dred men shall control its business to-
the good of everyone, that there is any
thing fallacious in the theory that gov
ernment instead of transferring business
to favored few for the benefit Of all
should itself discharge that business for
the benefit of all.
u do not hesitate to say that If it
be impossible to restore this republic
TO its ancient ideals. which do not
believe, and | must make the ultimate
choice between the paternaiism OF the
few and the socialism OF the many.
count me and my house with the throb
bing heart of humanity
THE discomfort in Republican ranks
is democratic discomfort. How much
OF it has reached the point whore, wear
led with the bad workings of good
system, it is willing to topple that sys-
tenn over and try something new, / can
not prophesy.
"But | am quite sure that whatever |
badges men may wear in America this
year, whatever ballots they may cast |
and whatever battle cries they may ut |
ter. there are but three grades of citi |
zens
The first grade is made up Of the
favored few, their hangers.on and their
who think the eagle is upon |
the dollar. not as an emblem OF liberty, |
but as an emblem OF power, and who
look upon government as an annex to
their business affairs; these are they
who in the past years of Republican
misrule have turned the temple OF CON-
stitutional freedom into a money chang I
ers' mart and have made of the CO
ordinate branches of the government I
obeisant laekeys of the iingling guin,A.
"The second grade consists of those
whose outlook upon life has been en-
larged by the civilization under which
we live, who have been taught by the
school and the college by the press and
lIlt thdEfhiHts VIM hHpAtAidtt lht EOOh
things OF life, whose horizon has been
enlarged and whose capacity for JOY and
sorrow has been increased.
Conditions have become unbearable
10 them They have reached the point
where. in the struggle for that which
they believeSto be right they are will
ng to destroy the ideals Of the republic.
How many of these there are, I do not
know, but do know that special privi-
ege in the republic is breeding them day
BY day like rabbits in warren.
"The third grade Of citizens it pleases
me to call old fashioned constitutional
Democrats. These are they who believe
hat the equality of mankind does nod
'onsist in an equality Of brain and
,rawn, but in an equality whereby every
nan, native and foreign born, has an
ralienable right to exercise all of his
lbility in getting on in the world; just
70 he realizes that in getting on he owes
( to himself, to his family, and to the
'cpubic, to see to it that he gets OH
lonestly and that he does not prevent
my other man from obtaining the re-
ward of his honesty and enterprise.
"These old-fashioned Democrats believe
n making money, but they believe every
iollar should be so clean that an infant
nay cut its teeth upon it. And they
lold that it is no part of government !