The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-21
Indiana Instructs Delegates to
Baltimore Convention
To Cast Their Vote for Gov
ernOr Thomas r.. Marshall.
FIRST AND ONLY CHOICE
OF the Democratic Party of the
HOOsier State.
He Is. Made Temporary Chair
man of the Convention.

indianapolis, March 21.-The thirty
delegates from Indiana to the Demo
cratic convention were instructed IN
the platform adopted by the state
convention today to present that body
the name of Governor Thomas r.
Marshall as the first and only cholce
of the Democracy of Indiana Tor the
nomination of president
The convention chose as delegates al
large to the national convention Sen
ators John w. Kern and Benjamin u.
sbtvelv National Committeeman IhoS.
Taggart and G. V. Menzies- Governor
Marshall who called the convention 10
order as temporary chairman was
cheered when he concluded his address,
Senator Kern was permanent ehdtI-
man. Samuel NJ. Ralston. of Lebanon
was nominated for governor by az
clanation. The platform condemns the
protective tariff and lauds the national
house for passing the Sherwood PEN
sion bill.
The following state officers We're re
nominated bv reclamation: Secretary
of state, Lew G. Ellingham OF Oecd-
tur: auditor, w. H. O'Brien OF Law.
Vincennes: attorney general, T II.
Honan of Seymour; superintendent
nubIic instruction, Charles A. Great
house of Indianapolis II
Governor MarshaII's Address.
Governor Marshall, temporary chair
urged Democrats to go this year 70 the
people on a platform the cardinal prln-
chile of which is opposition to SPECIAL
privilege.
Governor Marshall said in part:
with Republican quarrels and con-
troversies, we have nothing TO 40 we
dare not rely upon the weakness o.
our opposition and it would be coward
" to do so did we dare. Sixty years IS
but a point in the cycle of civilization.
vet the last so have produced two men
whose views will leave an impress
,,pon all time No liberty lover Will
ever care to forget the name of Lincoln.
and none will be able to forget the
name of Roosevelt. Lincoln held 1t to
be the inalienable right of an unsuc-
cessful htigant to go down TO LIS
tavern and cuss the court. 1t Is the
theory of Roosevelt that it is the right
of an unsuccessful htigant to go down
to the tavern and overrule the court
Bitterness of spirit and Indignation d
what l deem to be judicial ln1usuceS
seize me. Even now l am channS I'M
der what conceive to be the unWar-
ranted interference of the courts with
NV prerogatives. But my sober juds-
ment looking to the permanent sood
C,f the people impels me to insist that
the courts must remain free ana I'M
trammeled, that we must first seek r0-
lief through the remedy we now have
ana patiently dDluS luC 1o'AA
sal of judicial injustice.
ODposed to L. and r.
Until the provisions of our present
constitution with reference to officials
are tried, and until graVer evils arise
than have thus far arisen, there is
hut slight demand for the Initiative
referendum and recall,s [ am myself
not in favor of these changes now
Let US get in power before we make
too many demands of allegiance TO
sundry policies. A man may sit in
Democratic councils, he may even help
formulate Democratic platforms, ne
NAV vote for Democratic candidates
but he cannot be a Democrat if he be-
lieves in special privileges. Every spec
ial privilege in this country is either
the legitimate offspring or the godchI4o
of the protective principle
Let US recall some of the argu-
ments:
to nav the war debt; we must have
il to supply the deficit in the revenue
caused by the repeal of the profession
al and stamp tax; we must have II 10
foster our infant industries and to
make us a world power; we must nave
it for the protection of the American
working man, the kind of protection en-
joyed perhaps by the working men OF
Lawrence Mass, and now we must
have it because we have always had
it.
Are we not the richest people on
earth? Are not these captains OF IN
dustry all trustees under God?
Divine Right of Schedules.
viii they not see to it that if the
people ask for bread they. shall be
given book. and If they ask for
fish, they shall be given a university?
How easy it is for one man to imagine
that he can better manage the affairs
- .z1xr
one drop into the belief that it is
legitimate to have the taxing power
of the government so adjusted as to
work for his private benefit. How
readily does self-interest induce him
to think that the yardstici1 of life is
not the Golden Rule but the Payne
Aldrich bill. He would resent the
doctrine of the divine right of kings
but he readily yielded to the divine
right of schedules. For the Ynainte-
nance of such divine right it is per-
fectly legitimate to support Hobbies
and corrupt legislators.
1.-The Democratic party believes in
genuine tariff reform. 1t wants no
more taxes of that kind levied upon
the people than are necessary to pay
the expenses of the government hon
estly and economically administered
1t holds that reform of the tariff
not mean driving away the fat
hoes that the ruTits may get at the
swilI. 1t means kicking the tariff
trough over and letting all men. do
what you and 1 do, root hog or die
me democracy is not opp0s.1 |
corporations, however large they may
be. 1t does insist, however, that cor
porations shall confine themselves to
the purposes for which they are Gre
ated by the law or that they shall
yield up their lives to the author of
their being.
"A tariff for revenue, opposition to
every special privilege and deter
mination to strike it down, economy
in public expenditures, enforcement
and strengthening of the law, and the