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Ilie Commoner.
NfUNE 2!, .19.04.
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New York Democrats Protest
Now York democrats who are op
posed to the nomination by democracy
of a candidate friendly to the men
who control the great trusts and cor
porations, and who are not in sym
pathy with a meaningless platform,
such as was adopted by the New York
state democratic convention at Al
bany, met in convention at Cooper
Union Monday evening, Juno 20. It
was not the purpose of the convention
to question the regularity of the dele
gates selected by the Albany conven
tion, or to name a contesting delega
tion. Its purpose was to appoint a
committee to go to St. Louis and pre
sent to the convention a protest
against the action of tho Albany con
vention. The call for Monday night's
convention was. published in The Com
moner last week.
The following report of tho Cooper
Union meeting Monday night was sent
broadcast over the country by tho As
sociated press and appeared in the
newspapers Tuesday morning:
New York, June 20. Cooper Union
was crowded tonight at the anti-Parker
convention called by some of those
Who do not acquiesce in the Parker in
structions given at the New York state
convention.
William J. Bryan was the principal
speaker and when he appeared on the
platform he was enthusiastically ap
plauded. Before matting his address
he said he would not name his fav
orite candidate for president, but he
made a savage attack on tne "reor
ganizes," and vigorously opposed the
nomination of Judge Parker, who was
held up as the candidate of the cor
porations and not of the people.
Judge Samuel Seabury of the city
court, who presided, spoke of Parker
as the candidate of the "plutocracy."
He advised the meeting to repudiate
Parker and urged the sending of a
delegation to St. Louis to protest
against his nomination, and to assure
the convention that if nominated Par
ker could not carry the state of New
York.
The platform adopted at the meeting
opens by condemning the expansion
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policy of tho republican administra
tion. In speaking of the recent demo
cratic state convention, tho platform
recites that the convention Instructed
for Parker by a voto of 301 to 149 and
that many of those who voted against
this resolution of instruction repre
sented the democratic districts of the
state where' enthusiastic support of
the nominee is essential to party suc
cess. Tho platform goes on to say that
Parker's candidacy is discredited by
the character of his sponsors and that
neither he or those who speak for him
have presented his candidacy so as
even to deserve success. The plat
form continues:
"Judge Parker is silent. Senator
Hill speaks for him. Wo know Sen
ator Hill's record. As governor of
the state of Now York ho blocked the
secret ballot. As senator he opposed
his party's position on the tariff and
the incomo tax. Tho people of New
York expressed their opinion of Sena
tor Hill when he was beaten for the
office of governor in 1894 by 150,000
votes. Neither harmony, confidence
nor success can now follow his dis
credited leadership."
The platform adopted tonight de
nounces protection or monopoly by
tariffs and concludes:
"Be it resolved, that a committee of
twenty-one, of which the chair shall
be one, shall be appointed by the chair
to present this protest to the St. Louis
convention.
In the course ofthe resolution Oils
declaration is made as to a candidate:
"The candidate of the democratic
party must be a man who has stated
his principles and can be trusted to
apply them with firmness and cour
age," When Mr. Bryan arose he was given
an ovation. In part he said:
"I want to say that until you have
an election at which Judge Parker
gets more votes than I did I shall in
sist on coming back here. I am en
titled to say that the doctrines we
cherish in the west are not so unpop
ular here.
"I believe that the national conven
tion should not nominate the man
Whom your state convention has rec
ommended. The great question this
year is not the money question, but it
is whether we are to have a plutocracy
or a democracy. My own position has
been and will be that I shall not at
tempt to decide upon tho availability
of Mr. Hearst or others. All I ask is
that we have a man on whom there is
not the taint of monopoly.
"I want to give some reasons to my
opposing Mr. Parker. I believe that
he would be a weak candidate in the
campaign and if elected a great disap
pointment to the people. Mr. Parker
goes before the country on a cowardly,
straddling platform. The democrats
of this country are brave men. It re
quired brave men to stand up for dem
ocracy in 1896. I knew in that year
men in every state who were threat
ened with bankruptcy for being dem
ocrats. "Where ,docs Parker stand on im
perialism ?We don't know.
"Where does he stand on the money
question; is he for gold? We don't
know. Is he for silver? We cannot
tell. Maybe he is for radium who
'can tell.
"I charge here that while Parker
has concealed his views from the peo
ple he has made them known to men
behind him.
"What is Mr. Belmont's considera
tion in the Parker, candidacy? He is
too shrewd a financier to invest his
money without being sure of the goods.
If Mr. Parker dealt honestly he would
say to Mr. Belmont what he says to
others, that his lips are sealed and if
he did so ho would not be ivfr. Bel
mont's candidate.
"Parker is traveling as a negative
quantity. Ho stands for nothing posi
tive. Ho reminds one of tho story of
tho man in praiso of a child who said
that it looked and breathed. So Par
ker looks at tho great financial lights
and breathes."
Too Zotxlous & Scientist
Senator William A. Clark attended
a banquet of scientists. In tho course
of this banquet the sonatoi said:
"Science is an admirable thing. In
these latter days, indeed, it Is a thing
as interesting and marvelous as a
fairy tale. I have but ono fault to
find with it. It irabue3 some or its
votaries with too profound a zeal.
"I have in mind when I say a scien
tific zealot of ScotlaiiG a professor
waoso especial delignt was insects
aau bugs. There onco visited this
Scottish professor a younger scientist.
Tho visitor remained over night, and
in tho morning his nost said to him:
" 'And how did ye sleep tho nacbt?'
"'Not very well,' tho visitor
answered. 'It was a strange bod. per
haps, but,' ho venturea, i must con
fess "'Ah!' said the professor, encourag
ingly, 'ye wero juist bitten by some
thing, eh?'
" 'Well, to tell the truth, professor,
I was,' tho visitor admitted.
" 'Juist think of that,' cried tho pro
fessor. 'Bitten, war ye ; Noo, man,
can ye say it was anything at all note
worthy that bit ye?
'"Fleas, I think said tho other.
'But such fleas for biting 1 never met
in my life before,'
" 'I should think so, indeed.' said
tho professor in great glee. "They're
Sicilian fleas. I imported them my
self.' "--Washington Post.
He Took Brooms
The old fellows in New Hampshire
wero the sharpest things in the way of
bargaining, says the Columbu,. P o
ord. Cy Pettingill maae brooms sr
a living and Ezra Hoskins kept a
store. One day Cy came In with a load
of brooms and the dickering began.
Cy was a man who could see a bar
gain through a six-inch plank on a
dark night, and Ezra could hear a dol
lar bill rattle in a bag ol feathers a
mile off. Well, they began, and their
conversation was something like this:
'Ezra, I want to sell you these
brooms."
"All right, Cy, I'll take them."
Cy said: "I don't want any store
bargains. I want cash for them."
They talked and gadded for a while
and thsn Ezra said: "I tell you what
I'll do, Cy, I'll give you half cash and
half trade."
Cy took a fresh cnew or tobacco,
pulled a straw out of one of the
brooms and said: "That'll m bo all
right, Ezra."
After he had put the brooms in the
store, Ezra said: "Here s your money,
Cy; now what do you want In trade."
Cy looked around for a spell, cocked
his eye up to the ceiling, stuck his
cud in his cheek and said:
"Well, if it is all tho same to you,
Ezra, I'll take brooms. '
Menkes Us AH Tired
Tho Rev. Dr. Jamea writes an article
inquiring, "Do You Wt?rk too Hard?"
We are "worked" too hard. But the
No. What we complain of is different.
Paper Trust doesn't seem to feel bad
about it at all. Johnstown Democrat.
Liberty Only for the Fit
Theodore Roosevelt'f Gettysburg
speech was a remarkable output. It
is more remarkable than it otherwise
would bo from the fact that it is so
different from that other Gettysburg
speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln held and announced at
Gettysburg and elsewhere that liberty
is an inherent and inalienable right.
Mr. Roosevelt holds that liberty is
only or "the fit." He tells us that
"fjeedom is a gift which can be en
Joyed ave by those wno show them
selves worth' of it.'"
This is exactly the doctrine of
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tyrants under the shield of -which the
greatest crimes against liberty have
been committed. There never 'hob a
usurper in tho world who did not be
lieve that some people should havo
perfect liberty. There never was a
king who did not hold that he had tho
divino nght to do as ue saw lit. There
never was a more dangeroua doctrine
than the one that some should be free
and that those who are free should
pass on the limitations of others.
But the speech ol the president is
very useful in that it points out, mora
clearly than has been done before, the
fact that wo are drifting rapidly
towards imperialism.
"Liberty only for the lit," Indeed.
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