The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-19

Regarded Of paramount Importance
was the keynote speech to the Demo
cratic state convention today by Gov
ernor Ralston.
Beginning with the declaration that
the value Of a political party, like
that Of a man, depends upon its char
acter and record, Gov. Ralston said
the Democratic party recognized its
obligations to the people. declared
that 1t had not failed to give good
service, or to give an account of its
Stewardship to them. He congratu-
lated the Democrats Of Indiana upon
tho deserved favor with which their
party ia received in the state and ma
ton. He declared that the people of
the country recognized their obliga-
ton to theDemocratic party for giving
them that scholar and statesman.
woodrow Wilson, for president: re-
ferred to his unprecedented record in
remedial and constructive statesman
ship the past year. to his high char
acter. his sincerity, his thoroughness,
his patience and his practical wisdom ::
praised the members of his cabinet
and referred to the fact that many
reforms have been achieved for which
tie Democratic party long under that
masterful man" William Jennings
Bryan. He also referred to the high
~ honorable" party the Indiana dele
CATION in Congress, had taken in the
legislative work Of the past year; and
closed that part of his speech by a
recognition Of the valuable services
Of the Hon. Thomas Taggart, Indiana s
national committeeman.
The Tariff Act.
The Governor then took up the
tariff and income tax, the currency
and proposed antitrust legislation
He said it is no longer necessary to
argue the now admitted fact that
the tariff is tax and the consumer
pays it: referred to the Republican
promises of tariff reduction and their
reception Of the people by passing
the Payne Aldrich law with it's monop
olistic abuses which led to that
party's ignominous defeat in 1872;
contrasted with this the Honesty OF
the Democratic course after their
success, by the passage of the Under
wood tariff law, which, he said, aside
from the liquor and tobacco schedules
fixes rates lower than the wise Wal
ker tariff of 1916, and defended the
income tax feature by the statement
that if the citizen had not an income
above the cost of the comforts of life
he does not have to pay it, and if he
has such an income. it is not burden
some for him to pay it. He conclud
ed his tariff discussion with the dec
laration that if the Republicans who
are critising the Underwood law eX
pect to get bact into power on high
protective platform, they would be
working at the job when Gabriel
blows his horn
Currency.
The Governor referred to the Otter
repeated promises made by Republic
cans to reform the money and banking
system. until the people became
weary Of broken promises: how Presi
dent Wilson, in nine months gave the
country as a Christmas gift the Glass
Owen currency and banking law
and how under that law confidence
and business already were reviving
because of the general feeling Of
safety and assurance of an ample
supply of money for all demands Of
legitimate business, and prophesiet
a prolonged era of commercial pros
perity for the entire country.
Antitrust Legislation.
Referring to the proposed anti
trust legislation. and giving the presi
dent credit for wisdom in bringing the
subject forward after the tariff ant