The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-10


inquiring into or caring for the needs
of American labor. T" The convention
endorsed the Aldrich plan of nation
al reserve association and an elastic
system of currency and credit.
When the convention met today the
first order of business was the ac-
ceptance of the report of the commit
tee on permanent organization which
recommended that the temporary or
ganization be made permanent. thus
continuing DIR. Nicholas Murray But
ler as presiding officer.
When the plank referring to Presi-
dent Taft was read, it was marked by
applause and cheering which lasted
for one minute. Senator Root, speak
ing in favor of the platform, said:
Il shall confine what | have to say
to single subject That is the at
tempts to interfere with the independ-
cnce and destroy the authority of the
judicial department of our government.
This Is of overshadowing and great
Importance
The founders of our republic We're
wise In more ways than one. They
lpnderstood human nature They were
students and they were men of affairs
They founded our government on two
/ fundamental bases. They learned that
our natures are weak, prone to err,
| subject to being led astray by impulse.
All of the history of religion, NOR
tality, government and of man teens
with proof of this great fact, upon
which the foundation of which our civil
society rests. There Is one way ia
which man can control his proneness
to error and that is by adapting prin.
ciples to govern and restrain impulse
The principle which today makes
the people of Mexico one great seeth-
ing mass; is failure to impose limita-
tions upon mob rule. To threaten a
judge. with the recall, you make a
coward of him. 1t is not human ma
ture that judges can make decision
which they know will make them
sacrifice. You must say here today
that there Is such a thing as Justice
/ that is independent of popular rule.
Whoever rejects the eternal prin-
ciples upon which this country was
based, flies of necessity to anarchy
and despotsm'
Prendergast Speaks.
/ Comptroller Prendergast of New
York, followed with a vitrolic denunc-
iation of the platform.
/ nM,r Sapco of d,,t,, O ,.apuhl;,or
4 he said leads me to believe that |
would not be fulfilling my whole duty
to the party, if | did not refute the
speeches already made | am going to
vote against that platform
Here a storm of applause came from
the gallery and some of the delegates
shouted Clear the galieries.'
The people are sometimes In the
galleries" shouted Pendergast
Then some one shouted: What's
the matter with Illinois?'
Because men are prone to differ
+ with you and believe in the initiative
: and referendum is no sign they are
anarchists and socialists or agitators,"
resumed Pendergast Il am going to
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} do not believe in the denomination OF
President Taft.
There is widespread unrest every
where. Look at Germany, where the
, socialists have taken almost complete
control of the government. This
, means that the people are determined
i to remedy the existing abuses and that
is the exact state of affairs every
where in the United States today
Prendergast declared that the action
. of the English parliament in granting
minimum wage in the coal indus
try meant simply that the rights of
the people must be respected by the
law-making bodies.
I'VE resent the declaration that we
are socialists, he said. Socialism
has made great headway in this coun-
), try simply because the two great
! parties have been unresponsiye TO the
e popular demand that the peoples
u rights be respected.
e You will not stop the spread OF
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