Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-05
Points to Program
of Constructive
Reform.
TEAR DOWN ONLY WRONG
LAWS" is AIM OF PARTY
Declares Neither of Old Parties
Can Honestly Garry Out
Pledges.

publican convention today outlined {
party of constructive re
form in an eloquent speech whicf
stirred his hearers to great enthusi-
asm. He assailed the shifting inter
pretations of the Sherman law, urg-
ing its annulment so that the honest
business mar can know just what he
can do and what he can't do. Inn
mediate tariff reform and a genuine
permanent tariff commission, re-
moved from political influence. he
said. was one of the new party's
aims.
Mr.. Beveridge said in part as fol
lows;
I'VE stand for a nobler America.
We stand for an undivided nation,
We stand for a broader liberty, a
fuller justice. We stand for social
brotherhood as against savage in
dividualism. We stand for an intelli-
gent cooperation instead of a reckless
competition. We battle for the actual
rights of man.
ITO carry out our principles we
have a plain program of constructive
reform. We mean 10 tear down only
q -
that which is wrong and out of date;
and where we teal down we mean to
build what is right and fitted to the
times. For this party comes from
the grass roots. Abuse will only
strengthen it, ridicule only hasten
it's growth, ~falsehood only speed its
victory.
Party Forming for Years.
For years this party has beer
forming. Parties exist for the people,
not the people for parties Yet tor
years the politicians have made the
people do the work of the parties
instead of the parties doing the III
of the people. The people vote for
one party and find their hopes turned
to ashes on their lips; and then
to punish that party they vote for the
other party. So it is that partisan
victories have come to be merely the
peoples vengeance; and always the
secret powers have played their
game.
So there is no nationwide unity
of principle in either Repuo-
or Democratic party, no stabli-
ity of purpose, M clear-eut n SIN
cere program of one party at frank
open war with an equally clear
cut and sincere program of an oppos-
ing party.
This condition makes it impossl-
BILE most of the time, and hard at
time, for the peoples legislators
believe il the same broad poll
cies to enact them into logical, COM
.prehensive laws. 1t c~onfuses the pub
lie mind. 1t breeds suspicion and
1t enables such special in
terests as seek unjust gain at the
public expense to get what they want.
1t creates and fosters the degrading
BOSS system in American politics
through which these special interests
work.
This boss system is unknown and
under any other free gov
in the world. In its very ma
it is hostile to the general well
fare. Yet it has grown until it now
IS a controlling influence in American
public affairs. At the present mo-
nent notorious bosses are in the sad
lie of both old parties in various
States which must be car
ried to elect a President. This Black
Horse Cavalry is the most important
5orce iii the practical work of the
Democratic and Republican parties
the present campaign. Neither of
The old parties nominees for Presi-
lent can escape obligation to these
)ld-party bosses nor shake their prac-
teal hold on many and powerful
members of the national legislature.
Under this BOSS system, no mat
.er which party wins, the people sell
win; but the bosses almost al
vays win. And they never work for
he people. They do not even work
'or the party to which they belong.
Bosses Menace Nation.
1T is his invisible government
which is the real danger to American
Institutions. Its crude work at Chi
in June, which the people were
to see, was no more wicked than
is skilful work everywhere and al
which the people are not able
% see.
THE root of the wrongs which hurt
the people is the fact hat the peoples
government has been taken away
them. Their government must
be given back to the people. And so
party is to make sure the rule of the
The rule of the people means
that the people themselves shall nom
mate, as well as elect, all candidates
or office, including senators and
Presidents of the United States. What
profiteth it the people if they do only
the electing while the invisible gov
eminent does the nominating?
THE rule of the people means that
when the peoples legislators make
a law which hurts the people the peo-
pie themselves may reject it. The rule
Of the people means that when the
peoples Legislators refuse to pass a
law which the people need the people
themselves may pass it. The rule of
the people ear that when the peo.
pies employees do not do the peoples
work well and honestly the people
discharge them exactly as a
business man discharges employees
who do not do their work well and
honestly. The peoples officials are
the peoples servants, not the peoples
masters.
To-day these problems concern the
living of the people. In the present
stage Of American development these
problems should not exist in this
country. For. in all the world there is
no land so rich as ours. Our fields
can feed hundreds of millions. We
have more minerals than the whole
of Europe. Invention has made easy
the turning Of this vast natural
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