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The Commoner.
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 25
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PENNSYLVANIA vmiOOIlATB
Tho Associated Pross makes this
report of tho Pennsylvania demo
cratic stato convention hold at' Har
rishurg, Juno 27 i
John G. Harman was nominated
for stato treasurer by today's dem
ocratic stato . convention on a plat
form confined to stato issues.
Stato Treasurer William H. Berry,
who claims tho credit for having un
covered tho capitol scandal, was
chairman of tho convention, and
made a spoech advocating the elec
tion of a democratic treasurer as a
check ,on tho republican stato offi
cials. Ho commondod tho cn.nit.nl
investigation commission and said
that,' much of the testimony taken
by tho commission has substantiated
the charges he mado in tho last cam
paign. .
; t At. tho mooting, of tho resolutions
cqmmittoe, S. M. Soibort took excep
tions to tho silence of tho platform
on national matters. Mr. Soibert
said ho could seo no reason why a
democratic party should bo afraid to
endorse Mr. Will Jam J. Bryan.
There wore cries for a vote on
tho platform, but Mr. Soibort stood
his ground and offored the following
resolution:
"We aro heartily in accord with
tho beliefs and position taken by bur
peorless leader and statesman,-William
Jonnings Bryan, tho Jefferson
and Jackson of tho democratic partyr
of today and ondorso his candidacy
for tho democratic nomination for
president in 1908."
, Tho resolution was laid on tho
table after which the platform as
drafted was adopted;
.Aftor tho platform had been read
on the floor of . the convention Mr.
Selbort asked permission to submit
mnority report. Tho chairman of'
l noresbVutiona .'committee held that
no minority renort wrr mnrin. in ,
SPJUHritts'd aufl' therefore' no mino'rlty
j-uuurt couiu oe coneldorod by the
convention. He moved the previous
question and the platform was unan
imously adopted.
Tho platform is devoted entirely
to state issues, the revelations of the
legislative commission which is in
vestigating the expenditure of nine
million dollars in furnishing the
state capitol forming the feature
"Believing this to bo the vital'
question in this state," it says, "we
are not to bo led astray by the per
functory endorsement of r.ny candi
date for president in 1908, or the
declamatory laudation of the pres
ent administration.
"Wo recall with shame and repro
bation the official acts in regard to
the building ajid furnishing of tho
state capitol, of governors, state
treasurers, auditors general and su
perintendents of -public grounds and
buildings; and with special notice
condemn the conduct of a represent-
atiVo in congross, who whilst draw
ing his salary at Washington, was
helping to loot tho treasury at Har
risburg. Wo suggest that .his resig
nation would bo a fitting end of his
congressional career.
"Noting that tho republican plat
form disclaims any responsibility
for tho capitol graft, we claim and
assume all responsibility for discov
ery and complete disclosure of tho
grail and further claim that tho only
means of securing completo restitu
tion of tho loot and punishment of
tho looters is to elect a second Berry,
a man who knows no party in the
performance of his duty except that
of honest citizenship, and who when
graft and greed shamefully dis
graces the stato is alert to detect
and discover wrong-doing and ca
pable of punishing wrong-doers.
"With the proof In hand so clear
that all honest men are convinced
of the guilt of many in high places,
wo demand of tho present adminis
tration speedy prosecution of the ac
cused, both civilly and criminally,
so that the taxpayers may regain
their own, the honor of the state be
vindicated and, finally, that no guilty
man may escape."
TAET ATTACKS .
The initiative and referendum are
oponly fired upon by Secretary Taft's
brother, the owner and editor of the
.Cincinnati Times-Star. He is presi
dent also of the Cincinnati gas mon
opoly In a double column e'ditorial
in his, paper" entitled "Mr. Bryan's
Embarrassment," he says:
"Wjould Mr. Bryan advocate the
submission of-a law passed by con
gress to a vote of the people?"
FfThls idea horrifies Mr. Taft. But
.itSttaesn't frighten tho voters: and
fthoyhould bear in mind that Ed
itor TaTt is.a monopolist and is
fr'htonod at ttho prospect o losing,
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of them to sufforers on trains, and do
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Mr. Taft further asks: "Would
Mr. Bryan advocate that a small per
centage of the people of the United
States should have the power to
originate federal legislation and all
the people have .the rierht to vnta
upon It and be protected in that
right?"
Tho objection to such a system
which Mr. Taft publicly voices are
as follows : . , ,
First, it would clothe the colored
men with the power to originate and
vote upon legislation.
What is the objection to this, Mr.
Taft? Throughout the south con
stitutional amendments provide that
voters shall nossess an ediicntimml
qualification, and within the limits
thus prescribed the majority should
rule, otherwise there is machine rule.
Southern statesmen assent to this
view, as is evidenced by tho large
number of them who have publicly
signified their adherence to majority
rule; namely, four members of the
national house from Virginia, five
from Tennessee, two from Kentucky,
four from Arkansas, three from
Texas, one from Florida, two from
South Carolina, three from North
Carolina, making a total of twenty
four. In the words of the Hon. R.
N. Hackett, of North Carolina, elect
ed in place of Representative BJack
burn, who refused to pledge for the
people's rule: "I am unqualifiedly
in favor of majority ru?o In this
country, 'unawed by power and un
bribed by gain' by whatever honest
fair means it can be obtained."
This data has been published by
the National Federation for People's
Rulo.
Second, the other objection which
Mr. Taft presents is tliat should na
tional issues bo determined by the
will of tho majority of tho congres
sional districts it "would deprive the
big state of tho compensating influ
ence which they possess in tho house
of representatives and make it pos
sible for twenty-three smnli nfnf
to outvote twenty-two large states
with five to ten times greater pop
ulation." ,
On tho other hand Mr. Taft de
clares should national issues bo de
termined by tho will of tho majority
In a majority of the states it "would
deprive the small states of the dis
proportionate power which they now
enjoy in the senate and tho electoral
college and which, is explicitly guar
anteed to them by the constitution."
Mr. Taft's conclusion is, "Before
Mr. Bryan coos vorv far wth Ma
new-fangled toy ho will find himself
embarrassed as badly as he was over,
the railway matter."
Mr. Taft is simply exposing his
ignorance. The proposal in this
country for a national system, and
to which 110 members of the na
tional house are pledged, is for a
double majority; that is, a national
measure voted upon shall not pass
unless in a majority of the states
and in a majority of the congres
sional districts it receives a major
ity of the votes cast for and against
it. Switzerland uses this double ma
jority in national affairs, and each
measure that has received the ap
proval of the voters in a majority
of the districts has also been ap
proved in a majority of the states.
'This objection by Mr. Taft is quot
ed from the New York Tribune, and
we invite it to apologize for itsig-
uwruuee. n it refuses, the natural
Inference will be that it intentionally
misled its readers. New Haven
Union.
cuses which he makes for yielding
are mere accidental accompani
ments of a physical desire. There
has been a vast amount of temper
ance literature published lately, es
pecially in England. Perhaps the
best thing that can be said about
books of the better class, dealing
with the subject, is that they com
pel the hard drinker to indulge his
appetite with his eyes wide open to
the consequences. New York Even
ing, Post.
WORLD'S MEANEST SWINDLER
Give Denver another championship
medal and crown her afresh with
laurel. Once more she has proved
her supremacy. This time she jumps
into the calcium of fame as the abid
ing place of the champion among
all the champion mean men of the
world. There have been past mas
ters in the art of meanness pro
duced by of.h,er cities, but Denver
chIms that her" champion has all
other men so completely outrivaled
that, in comparison, they are really
not mean men at all.
The now sovereign of meanness is
an individual who is cheating small
children out of their costly Teddy,
bears. The champion mean man
wanders around town until he sees
some scrap 'of humanity about four
years old clutching a beloved Teddv
iM ltt uuuuuy nana. Then Mr.
Champion walks up.
"Look," says he, holding up a
shining twenty-five cent piece. "I
will give you all this sugar-stick
money if you will give me your Ted
dy bear."
The bait is too alluring for' the
children to resist and they hand over
k.?1 ?3nd $4 bears for e "two
bits. Then Mr. Champion disap
pears as fast as he can walk. There
were today six complaints to police
headquarters.- Denver Dispatch in
Chicago Record-Herald.
REACHES THE TENDER SPOT
If one can correctly judge from a
man's writings, that chap, Maupin,
on Bpyan's Commoner, is one of the
noblest souls that ever used print
er's ink for reaching the tender spot
in a man's heart. Donham's (Le
Suour, Minn.) Doings.
"PSYCHOLOGY'
Everything, bad' or good, must
now have ' its "psychology." There
is tho psychology of tho criminal, the
artist, the doctor, the musician, and
the religious fanatic. A book" has
just been published on the psych
ology of alcoholism. But the rea
sons why men drink are so various
that It is, almost impossible to in
clude them In a scientific classifica
tion. Besides the difficulty of pene-
trating the motives of a drunkard,
there is the fact that physiological
or pathological causes work at the
root of his appetite; and the ex-
THE VOTERS ARE LEARNING
As to the voters, they are learning
to detest the exorbitant Dingley rates
because they fortify the trusts and
increase the cost of "living. The
rarmers were fooled for a long time
by such chimerical sops as the duty
on wheat, but they understand the
matter better now. They know that
the tariff does not add a single cent
to the price of wheat they sell, while
it makes dearer almost everything
they buy. No voter is pleased to
discover that our protected Indus
tries habitually sell - goods abroad
cheaper than at home. The Ameri
can consumer can not understand
why he should be taxed to reduce 'tho
cpst of living in Europe.- These rea
sons, with many others, make tariff
revision an absolute necessity for the
republican party if it desires to keep
control of the country. Portland
Oregonian.
LIABILITY FOR ACCIDENTS
The railroads ought to accept the
abolition of the present legal rule
which frees an employer from re
sponsibility for. accident caused to
one employe by the carelessness of
another employe. Modern conditions
of industry make this unjust. It
should be altered. The railroads
will accomplish nothing by a long
legal struggle against this change
which has come in every other civ
ilized land and must come in this.
It is a misfortune that at a time
of great public unrest those respon
sible for railroad management do
not seek a wise compromise, instead
of resisting each reform. Philadel
phia Press. "
OUT OF THE LONG AGO
Ajax, laughing, was defying tho
lightning.
"This Js a cinch after trying to
buck Roosevelt."
Warding off a particularly vivid
flash, he took a chew of Peerless.
MilwauEee Sentinel.
"THE WISTFUL RICH"
It was one ofthe faces of the wist
ful rich, unsatisfied from every ful
filment of desire, hungry for hunger.
Margaret Sherwood in the Atlantic
Monthly,
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