THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
PAGE I
AUGUST 25, 1904.
dent in constitutional law. It was
new. And the greatest novelty about
it was that the railroad attorney, 01
ney, was able to force a democratic
president into a position vastly more
undemocratic than that which Alex
ander Hamilton and Daniel Webster
had ventured to take when similar
crises occurred in the administrations
of Washington and Jackson.
They tell us that Judge Parker Is a
man of judicial temperament calm,
meditative, : circumspect, dispassionate
and yet in his speech of acceptance
he prejudges the laborers of Colorado,
assumes as proven the unestablished
accusation that union men resorted to
dynamite and thus demonstrates that,
if elected president, he will go into
office with his mind made up against
the laborers upon one of the most se
rious and doubtful problems of the
day. ' - .7
Who has supplied Judge Parker
with trio nroofs that the union la
borers committed that dynamite out
rase? Where has he listened to wit
nesses whose testimony ; was given
under the solemn obligation of an
oath? Surely Judge Parker eminent
jurist and just judge did not find
these men guilty until they had been
proven so. Surely, as a lawyer ana
a judge, he presumed that even a
union laborer of Colorado hounded
and driven and bull-penned and ban
ished by the Peabody and Bell combine
tn hfi innocent till proven to be
guilty? '
No. He could not presume lnno
in such a case. He-could not
eive the accused the benefit of --any
doubt. Upon the oner-sided statement
of their bitterest enemies, the demo
cratic nominee for the presidency pre
judges the case of the laborers, and
gravely declares that to their use of
dynamite must be traced tne norriDie
conditions in Colorado.
I am not here to say who is to blame
for the lawlessness in that distracted
state. It may have been the federa
tion. it may have been the alliance!
I simDly do not know. But this much
I do say: the conduct of the legisla
ture of Colorado in refusing to 'enact
the eight-hour law after the people
had" sanctioned and demanded it by
ballot, was in its very essence far
more destructive to republican gov
ernment, far more demoralizing in
' its influence and tendency than any
mere dynamite outrage that ever was
known in Colorado.
When corporations can corrupt the
law-making power to such an extent
-that the will of the people as legally
expressed at the polls, is nullified,
then the end of popular government Is
at hand. It is revolution nothing
less. Judge Parker, while condemn
ing the laborers for the alleged use of
dynamite, utters not one word of cen
sure against the unscrupulous monop
olists who debauched a legislature into
a base betrayal of it3 trust. !
So much for the democratic plat
form, and for the nominee who stands
, upon it. Again I ask, what is the
issue between Parker and Roosevelt?
The Hon. Henry G. Davis came up
to New York soon after his surprising
nomination for the vice-presidency,
and in the first gush of his exultation
told the truth. He declared that the
platforms of the two old parties "were
almost identical," and that the issues
were narrowed down to a choice of
persons. What a pity it was that the
politicians got hold of the old gentle
man and inoculated him with the
"don't talk" policy which prevails at
Esopus!
The two platforms almost identical?
Certainly they are. Boiled dpwn to its
real essence, sifted to its real mean
ing, the democratic campaign of 1904
is a mere unscrupulous hunt for of
fice. They have no fixed and certain
creed. They, have no articles of faith
bv which democratic loyalty can be
tested. A party, like an individual,
. should seek to build up character. And
without convictions there can be no
character.
By convictions I mean essential be
liefs which. become a part oLa man's
very life; convictions by the light of
which he . works; , convictions - for
whkh he would die. Has the demo
cratic party any such character? Can
you measure, it by a standard like
that? Stf aline the platform of the
people's party in 1S0G; stealing that of
the republicans In 1904, how can demo
cratic loaders now pretend to lead a
partv based upon convictions? ;
I can not see 1n the management of
the national democratic party any
thing on earth. except an effort tp.find
out which la the best lialt to put on
the hf'Kik, It Is merely a question of
ratchlns.thfe voter, and winning the
office. . ;.. : ' J. ! ' :
"A few years ago they were clamor
Inn for the lncom tax. What ban
become, of that demand?, Whr told
them to drop It? The., plain people of
America did not. Tb rnaap of our
Pot1 are In favor of uch a tax. at
moRt twanlmoualr. The corporation
kings who are financing the Parker
campaign are naturally opposed to
the income . tax. It has dropped out
of sight. By whose orders?
A few years ago the democratic
party went back to its historic posi
tion upon the question of national
banks, and proclaimed the old doc
trine of Jefferson and Andrew Jackson
that the government ' Should retain in
its own hands the sovereign power to
create money.
What has become of that doctrine?
What did they mean when they re
proclaimed it in 1896? Controlled as
they are by Wall street bankers, they
meant in 189G, when they made the
declaration, just what they mean at
the present time when they do not
make it. They mean to uphold the
powers and the privileges and the
profits of the national bankers, over
whelming proof of which is to be
found in the fact that when the na
tional banks came to congress in 1902
asking to be rechartered for a term
of years not a single democrat in
either house or senate made an at
tack upon that system which Thomas
Jefferson solemnly declared was of
greater hostility to the spirit of re
publican government than a standing
army. -"" '
. You may ask why do I consume
more time discussing the democrats
than in speaking of the republicans
My reply is: It's an easier and quick
er job to strike an open enemy right
between the eyes than it is to tear
off the mask from the face of a pre
tended friend and, show him to be the
hypocrite that he is.
The great mass of the people from
whom I have entertained the hope
of support are in no danger of voting
the republican ticket. They know that
the republican party stands for class
legislation. They know that it stands
for national banks, corporate wealth
and special privilege. ,
Hence I have no fear that the peo
ple to whom I shall appeal will make
any mistake about the republicans.
For I know they will do as I shall
do fight the republican party with all
the power that is in them. But the
national democratic leaders, pretend
ing to be in favor of Jefltersonian prin
ciples, when at heart their purpose is
the same as that of the republicans,
hope to mislead, those millions of vot
ers who will always be found vot:ng
for Jeffersonian principles unless they
are deceived
I speak tonight for the populists
a people who have been ridiculed, mis
represented, vilified in , every way
known to political warfare. The ar
tist with his picture, editors with their
pens, book writers and pamphleteers
have pursued us with a persistent
cruelty which has not been known in
this land since the passions of the
civil ' war died down, r Our leaders
have been ; , caricatured until , they
seem to be monstrosities. Our pnhi
ciples have been burlesqued until they
appeared to be the vagaries of mad
men.-headed for chaos. -
Tonight I shall do what I can to
make you understand us better. I do
not speak for the lordly magnates o
class legislation. . I do not. speak for
those who for one hundred years have
stood at the doorways of national leg
islation begging for special favors
No! ; - . ..
The men whose cause I would piead
before the bar of American public
opinion are chiefly those who toii in
the hundred different fields of Indus
try, and who have never lifted , their
voices to ask anything of this govern
ment except just laws and honest ad
ministration. ,
They are the men of the mine, the
mill, the shop and the field. They are
the obscure toilers who in time of
peace send pulsing through the veins
of commerce the rich blood of pros
perity.. They are the . men who in
time of war spring Into the battle
line at the tap of the drum and with
patient feet follow the march and
with fearless heart make the tnarge
upon which is based and bullded th
world-wide fame of your comuianders
to whom you rear monuments in the
open places of your cities. 1 am not
ashamed of, these men, You will not
find them as a rule housed amid the
luxuries and elegances of life, but as
a rule you will find them in the hum
ble walks where men are still earn
ing their dally bread in the sweat
the face. ,
You will find them In the sho
where the anvil rings; in the , rul
where the. spindle hums. Yon wi
find them In the wheat fields of the
west, where, as far fu . the eye n.ay
reach, runs the, yellow harvest In
waves of gold. Yon will find them
on thi farm In the scith the dear,
old south! where the cotton bJo
mm, whlt and b-dlamnned with the
morning dew-drop, blush' and bo
come a pink a the rose under the
klasca of the mid-day tun. Nn, I am
proud to speak for these men tand
o) fo) P1"
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