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Show STIRRINGADDRESS Delivered by Chairman Clarke of the Democratic National Convention The Democratic convention now in session at St., Louis is striving hard to retrieve lost'ground. Tammany: braves are in the background, whilst their bivouac makes way for southern eloquence. elo-quence. Chairman Clarke bids fair to rival the- great orator of the Platte. ; His speech yesterday is like that of , Marc Antony to the citizens of ancient an-cient Rome. A plain, blunt man is he who, without dismay, says what he feels. His scriptural quotations are very apropos, and must have a telling-effect telling-effect upon the pious delegates. We give the chairman's speech as reported in The Herald: I "In. his haste, King David said that all men are liars. Had he been in Chicago Chi-cago while Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was reading the Republican platform he would no doubt have pronounced the same opinion more leisurely, for surely there never was more. mendacity packed into the same space in any document doc-ument purporting to be a grave 'state paper. Shakespeare says: " 'Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel quar-rel just. And he but naked, though locked up in steel. Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.' cor-rupted.' 1 "In the impending conflict our quarrel quar-rel is just and we are in the right beyond be-yond all cavil. Democratic Contentions. "To state it in a general way, our contention is that the government shall be restored to the Democratic-Republican basis on which the fathers oi the republic intended it to rest and shall be made once more a government of the people, by the people and for the people, instead of a government of the , classes, by the classes and for the I ciarses. I "To state it with more particularity. ' we insist that exorbitant taxation shall be reduced ,to just and reasonable rates; that extravagance in appropria-; appropria-; tion shall cease; that economy shall pre-ail in all the transactions of the government; that all the departments shall be thoroughly investigated from top to bottom by congressional com-1 com-1 mittees; that all evil-doers of any degree de-gree shall be driven from the public service and properly punished; that the trusts shall be proceeded against by in-. dictment as common and smaller criminals; crim-inals; that the constitution accompanies accompa-nies the American flag into our new-possessions. new-possessions. Roosevelt Not the Country. "The i proposition that we must support sup-port President Roosevelt's Philippine i policy if he has any, right or wrong is the veriest rot a tale told by an idiot. id-iot. I am willing to go as far as anyone any-one in patriotism; I will" support my country in any emergency, but President Presi-dent Roosevelt is not the country. The j time has not yet arrived. I pray Al-j Al-j mighty God that it will never arrive, ) when the American people will accept j the arrogant dictum of Louis XIV if repeated by an American president 'I am the state.' President Roosevelt, if at all worthy of his high position, must entertain a supreme contempt for those political supplejacks, partic-I partic-I ularly for those claiming to be Democrats, Demo-crats, who go about with sanctimonious mien, saying: 'The president is wrong in his Philippine policy, but we must support the president.' Cringing Idiocy. "Out upon all such cringing idiocy! Suppose that when George III undertook under-took to force our fathers to pay the stamp tax Patrick Henry, instead of delivering that great lyric speech before be-fore the Virginia house of burgesses, which precipitated the revolution and which still stirs the heart like strains of martial music, had arisen in his place and said gently as a sucking ! dove: 'His most gracious majesty is ; wrong about this stamp tax business, i but we must, as loyal subjects, support ' him, right or wrong.' and suppose j Washington, Jefferson, . AVarren, Ad- i ams, Lee, Hamilton all that glorious .' host of warriors and sages? had weakly weak-ly agreed to that, what would we be today? Instead of being the richest republic in all the flood of time, we would still be British colonies, ruled by British pro-consuls and governor generals without any voice whatever in the government under which . we j live. "Those immortal state builders were ! reared on the fiction that 'kings can do no wrong,' but when he did wrong they boldly trampled the falsehood under their feet and, wresting a continent from his iron grasp, dedicated it as the home of freedom and to the twin proposition prop-osition 'that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the ; governed,' and that 'all men are creat- I ed equal.' President is "Wrong-. "There were men in the land in 1776. And there are only manikins now. I do not believe such a monstrous libel. George III did wrong. Our fathers fought and conquered him. Theodore Roosevelt does wrong. We will oppose and overthrow him. Support the president's pres-ident's policy? Will some gentleman ' please tell us what that policy is? Has he any? If so, why doesn't he say so? The truth is he has none. He is an opportunist, waiting for something to turn up. He is letting things drift and 1 they are drifting to the deuce. Mean- time our soldiers are being killed and i dying of disease in shoals. For .what j purpose? Will anybody undertake tcf say? I defy any jingo to stand up and ; declare with a straight face what the piesident's policy or the Republican policy pol-icy is. No one will say so, no one san say so, but some say, 'more's the ritv and the shame.' New-Fangled Jingoism. "The president is wrong. Bt ve must support the president. To this complexion has it come at last by reason rea-son of the new-fangled jingoism that we must shut up our thinkers, close our "mouths and chloroform our consciences in order to be considered patriots. Col. Roosevelt is better than his party. It j is to be hoped most fervently that he ! is, a great deal better; but, truth to -tell, a president cannot be better than j his party. Even if he tries to be he I is ruined politically. "NTo man ever found himself in worse ' political company than does President ' Roosevelt in this year of grace. He is in the hands of "Republican Philistines Philis-tines and they will bind him with their withes. Republican False Pretenses. "In every state in the union it is i felony to get property of anv sort otto ot-to attempt to get it, by false pretenses. pre-tenses. If the same rule applies to the getting of offices or to attempt to gef them the whole Republican parly could be sent to the penitentiary. "One of their false pretense? nic one on which they harp the mo:.t-ix the Democratic party is in favor of free trade. "The charge is utterly false a' lie made of whole cloth'. There are individual indi-vidual Democrats who are free faa- ers lust as thero nr-i ini;,.M....i r.- pubheans .who are atheists, but -t ' I .would be precisely as true and fa-r t ! denounce the Republican party as the ! 1 party of atheism as to denominate the 3 trade001"31'0 P3rty aS the party oi free 1 "It was never a free traie party and H t The man whoP charts if that it is does so because of his iguoi- i ance or of his mendacity. Tariff Should be Modified. j "Democrats favor the cutting down 1 S -bleXharb,,t.tarifE rates 10 a reason- H eA Sls- hey beheve that in Many fcchedules of the present law the rat"s 1 i;n?nhfteh; that .are twS rf.wre,m favor of cutting down. q tlrr JlV,r,any modification of the ti : tariff scheduler that maf fa, rcquut-J to prevent them becoming a shelte- f jr monopoly. : "I wonder if Mr. Secretary Sha v ever heard those words before? T iey are taken verbatim from theKeyubb-can theKeyubb-can platform of 1901. The ecrew:1. who opened it up at a great 'rat for Governor Cummings and ,othens nominated nomi-nated on that platform. .?o'ornfnlij ';e-fers ';e-fers to it as 'the dead Iowa idea.' Put it was a righteous declaration borrowed bor-rowed from Democrats and is dead not even dying. "Where tariff rates are so high that they enable American manufacur-:r;; to sell their wares abroad cheaper tiwn they do to Americans here at homf: c eay that they ought to be reduced. "If this is anarchy or treasoi., mal:r the most of it. Explanation in Order. "Let Republican spellbinders and editors explain why tai American farmer should pay from a third t one-half more for an American p;ow j than his competitor in farming pay- i for it in Australia or South America. or the ends of the earth. De-.iocrat say it ki wrong and they stand by th. American farmer.' "Choose ye between us m November. , Not quite all Republican statesmen : believe it right. Once in a while n ray of light breaks in upon the benigiueo. intellect of a Republican. For example, ex-ample, a year or two ago, J. W. oab-cock oab-cock of Wisconsin, chairman of the : Republican congressional camps i,5n committee, had a lucid interval and advocated in several interviews the cutting down of tariff rates when J!iey I are so high as to encourage Ihe tr'.'.-ts; and "when they unable;, t.ie ma; ufa.--turer to scil his wares cheaper abioad than at Lome. He went farther and '.n-troduccd '.n-troduccd bills to that effect, but the Republican leaders got hold o: L-ib- i cock and by coaxing, bullying o- other means checked his ardor as a tariff reformer, since when he has been as dumb as an pysLer. "I am citing Rabcock's perfoi man.:" ' in his moment of lucidity to show that I to advocate, the cutting down of out-I out-I rageous tariff rates in tne foiego'rg cases does not prove that a man is t: e enemy of his country as the standpatters stand-patters would have you believe. Republican Mendacity. "The stand-pat organs and speaVeia claim that only antiquated sorts of our manufactured articles are r.old abroad cheaper than to Americano at home. That theory is very ingenious, but unfortunately it is not true "or steel rails are sold abroad at 5.8 per io.i less than they are sold at home mm the fashions in steel rails remain the same or substantially so. Will he or some other stand-patter explain why Americans should be made to pay one-third one-third more for American steel :ail than the citizens of ether nations f.-them? f.-them? "He may answer a? did Mr. Rpp.e-sentative Rpp.e-sentative Olmstead of Ren:.s lvmia that the railroad companies pa fo-the fo-the steel rails and thac it is the business busi-ness of nobody else how much they pay for them, but Olmstead had more courage-than - information, for everybody every-body with two ideas above a Hottentot knows that everybody that travels on a railroad, everybody that snips anv-. anv-. thing on one, everybody tl.at uses anything any-thing so shipped, helps pay for the steel rails. The railroad comp?nies foot the bills in the first instance and then make their customers repay them with interest at the highest rat the traffic will bear. , True Democratic Position. "If a piece with the foiegymg false pretenses- is that other one that Democrats Dem-ocrats would destroy " American n-dustries. n-dustries. There is not a svllable of truth in it. Why should thev desM-e t., destroy industry? . They arc vilaliv interested in maintaining them and they wish to see them all prosper hv giving to them all an equal ehanr r: and not by fostering some at the expense of others. "TJle. lrJi? Democratic position on the tariff ' i thrs: "Recognizing the fact that a large portion por-tion of our revenue has alwavs been raised from customs duties or taw Democrats divide all imports into three classes necessaries,. ! comforts and luxr "J1-".' ad oli.tend ',i)at the tari" taxei should be highest on luxuries, lower on comforts and lowest r nnw at all on the necessaries. They furthermore sav that I taxes should be unifoim on all nrtic'ies belonging be-longing to one class. That is the Demo cratic party's position, from which it will not be driven or bullied. No amount of misrepresentation will cause it to budge, from that position. We rav furthermore fur-thermore that not one dollar more in the shape of tariff taxes or anv other sort of taxes should be taken from the people than Is necessary to pav the expenses ex-penses of a government economically administered. ad-ministered. On these proposition. we believe be-lieve we are right and on them w con- i fidently rely in the approaching election in November. Our Merchant Marine. ' 1 "When Napoleon signed the i.tlc deeds in this vast country west of the Mississippi Missis-sippi he turned to the American commissioners commis-sioners and said: 'Now I have given England a maritime rival." and .-. htThad. until insatiable greed and criminal maladministration mal-administration crowdtd the .-t.ifrv bannpr of the republic from the high peas and abdicated the rich domain oi' the ocean. In 3 M0 we had the second largest merchant mer-chant marine- in the world; our sails whitened every harbor ;irul r,ur fla floated in every breeze under th? havens. How sadly all this hLs changed after thirty-five years of Republican misrule. J.ast year of all the merchantmen that i wont through the Suez Can.nl, not a single vessel, great or small, except battleships, bore the American flog at its masthead, and our flag is seen in foreign waters only when flying over a man-of-war. Humiliating Spectacle. "Worsn than this more mim'iiating than this a few years ago when congress appropriated a large sum of vr.unev to buy corn and wheat and meat to send to the farnine-stricken E;tst Indias, we could ! not .vend it in an American ship for the all-sufficient reason that there was none : to send It in, but to our great humiliation j had to hire a foreign ship in which to j f'-end our charity to our starving fellow 1 men. When an American soes abroad he. must a!ute a foreign flag, on a foreign ! ship, a foreign officer. "Why have things come to this shame-I shame-I ful, this pitiful complexion irr a country that has the linest material for ships and sailors in the world? Because our ex orbitant tariff system has made it impossible im-possible for' an American to build a ship in competition with tiie British shipbuilders ship-builders on the river Clyde. "Vet the Republican gang h is the infinite in-finite gall to prate about its patriotism. "Our boys are rushing to face death in search of sold in the Klondike region, when the oceans of the world i-ontain a million Klondike if the Republican party would only permit them to work the waterway. Straws. "Republicans claim in public to be the great and only trust, busters, notwithstanding notwith-standing the fact that under Republican misrule trusts have sprung up like mush-I mush-I rooms in a damp cellar and have become plentiful as berries in June, "it is said that 'straws shoWwhich way I the wind blows.' Here is a ' straw' whicn .indicates that the trusts have nothing to fear from Republican trust busters. It is tho appointment of Attorney General Philander C. Knox, Republican trust blister par excellence, to succeed the late Matthew Stanley Quay.' There would have beep, nothing strange or suspicious were jt not for the influence which secured se-cured the appointment lor Mr. Knox. There can be no question about bis intellectual in-tellectual Qualifications for thi nositlon. The same can b said of some other Pennsylvania Republicans Congressman John Dalzcll and Joseph C. Siblov for instance. in-stance. "Work of the Trusts. "People will open their eyes "in astonishment aston-ishment and begin to inquire as to the why and wherefore of his appointment when theyNlearn that the transfer of Mr. Knox from the attorney generalship to the senate was procured bv the earnest efforts of Mr. Prick, Mr. Cassatt and Mr. Donald Cameron to induce United States Senator Boies Penrose, the new Republican Republi-can boss of Pennsylvania, to permit Mr. Knox to be senator, for Governor Penny-packer, Penny-packer, who nominally made the pppoint-ment. pppoint-ment. does not appear to have, been con- I sidered at all in th- premises. The amazement ot the people vVi!i grow like Jonih's gourd vine wntn they learn that Mr. Frick is the heaviest stockholder in the Steel trust; that Mr. Cassatt is president of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, which is one of the members of the trust. -and that Mr. Cameron represented repre-sented the Standard Oil trust aiid Wali street interests in persuading Iirss Penrose Pen-rose to let Mr. Knox go to the L-enate. "Here we have the strange spectacle the mystifying anomaly of thri-'e of the- chief trust magnates in the land, securing the appointment to the .senate of Attorney General Knox, who has been exploited far and wide as the greatest trust buster on terra firma. Reward For Mr. Knox. "Folks who still dare to think will be forced to one of two conclusions either that Mr. Knox is the onlv lawver In America capable , of covi.Jucting- a suit against a trust which is absolutely preposterous, pre-posterous, for there are thousands of lawyers as abie as he and that the trusts were anxious to get him out of the attorney general's office because th'-v fear him more than they do any ,thT per$on: or. two. that thev know that the anti-trust crusade has been a bunco game from the beginning and that Messrs Frick, Cassat and Canifron. together with those w-hom they represent, procured pro-cured him the senatorship as a reward for favors already rendered the trusts secretly while in the cabinet and to be : ! hereafter rendered in the senate. "According to the press reports. Tresi- dent Roosevelt stood by consenting tn the transfer of Knox from the cabinet to : the renate just as Paul stood by consenting consent-ing to the stoning of Stephen. "One paper says: -Th" president i--'reatly pleased that Mr. Knox will accent ac-cent the position.' which looks like he is glad to got rid of him. Wall Street Behind Roosevelt. "Here is another straw, it has iet'.i told ,'n Gatii and proclaimed on the st;--tH 'f Askalon by the Roosevelt shom-rs folio fol-io these mmy months that the trust niar-tiates-eneciUIy those whose habit, :t iairs is Wall trret are bitterly opposed to the president. A change appears to have com.-- river the sniri- ot their rlream. 1 if Francis B. .oomis, assist int seerr-iarv cf state, can be believed. Th't illuusi ri-ous ri-ous public functionary recently "swung around the lirch' in NVw York and elsewhere else-where to view the situation. On returning return-ing to Washington be delivered himself of an interview in wiii -h. inter aba. be sa ys : "' 'While in New York I spent two days in Wail street, chatting with mar.v representatives rep-resentatives of the financial interests and I find there is no longer anv disposition to make a fight. And in accepting ihe situation the fepijng toward Mr. Roo.-o-velt seems to have undergone ;) change, and I hernl many friend! v comments. I I confess was surpr.-ti' at the extent of this change. "Yes. indeed, 'the feeling toward Mr. Roosevelt seems to h-ive undergone a change' among the Wall street trust m-iT- nates, and P.rother Looniis "hears, many friendly comments' by the aforesaid trust mtfgnatcs. . Open to Suspicion. "Mr. I.iomis docs not vouchsafe to nr. eager and inquisitive world the reasons why Wall street feeiinp has undergone such a change as to cause Wall street magnates who were erstwhile abusing le president as a menace to the republic to make many frind!y comments upon bun now. Has the president changed his views, or have the trust maenaus changed theirs? "Plain people cannot be blamed for being be-ing bewildered by all this kaleidoscopic performance. They cannot be censured because by an old "process they figure H out that two and two make "four, and that the transfer of Mr. Knox from the cabinet to the senate at the behest of Messrs. Frick. Cassatt and Cameron taken in connection with the change of feeling in Wall street in favor of the president, has a yinister meaning. "The trust magnates who secured the senatorial loga for Mr. Knox, since th-.-have established the entente cordiale with that famous trust-buster, ought to compel com-pel the young ruffianly scions of great trust houses who some tjme ago insult "d and assaulted Mr. Knosrin a public restaurant, res-taurant, 'o go down or. their knees and make to him the amende honorabl". "Then ail will be lovely with the trusts and the 1 rust-buster." |