Show pROM pROMISE SE A AND D Reaffirming allegiance of r the prin principles principles ot of the Republican party and condemning combination in restrain of trade the National League of Republican Bean lican clubs chloo ended its convention In Philadelphia on Tuesday Incidentally the league paid tribute to Fremont LIncoln and Roosevelt To the stud nt of Dr history it seems eminently that Ute scene Beene of this m should be held In the home of the steel trust and the Pennsylvania railroad the scene of the Stand Standard rd Oils first conquests the abiding place of the coal barons and the most corrupt corn com commonwealth in the American republic With the of the Gettysburg speech before them and the echoes of the Pennsylvania and Standard in still ringing in their ears the delegates must have regarded their own declarations on the trust question With a sardonic sardon e humor tempered by some for forebodings as to the future fate of the Few things could be more pitiably contradictory than the res resolutions against Illegal megal combinations in re restraint restraint ot of trade adopted by the league The party owes its polItic cal strength to these and properly so Successive I though amply empowered by law to destroy illegal have permitted d the trusts to thrive on mop mon monopoly and tat fatten ten on robbery made possIble only by the iniquities ties of a tariff And sue suc successive administrations h have ve perpetuated perpetuated the Wrongs in return for finan cia aId in national natIon I and state cam furnished by the trusts and their allied s Imagine tl the e Irony ot of resolutions by bya a Republican convention In denunciation tion of the tru trusts ts Beginning with the steel teel trust the oil trust the co coal l trust the beef beel trust on down through the JaS er t every one ona of If them has be n a beneficiary iary of the Re Republican publican party perty until It Is small x to say th t but for the trusts there would be no real can an organization The convention s well have denounced the In Insurance mp which whick gave policy policyholders policyholders holders funds to Mr Cortel Cortelyou ou for cam a seB es and aDd expected the country to take them seriously Or Orin Orn in n its lighter mod It cou as properly have dwelt upon the political history of ff Pennsylvania and as examples of w What t the great Republican can party h had achIeved ed in the way ay of ind nd cleanliness In public life lite Was there a word of ef positive s selve elve constructive policy In the resolutions resolutions Was the platitudInous stand pat declaration on the tariff a sign of hope to an oppressed l people Was there In the Whole uh Ie declaration an hon honest est eat expression or of a purpose to remedy gre great t eviLs which have grown up through Republican admin adminIstrations Hardly The R Republican party had its origin In a determination to free freean freeall an all men from Injustice an 00 oppression Its cardinal creed was the belief that no man has the right to take from an another another other hi work Ork or ids his proPerty without just compensation that no man can justly hold another ill in bondage That was faith it was what Grant fought for tor with the hundreds of thou tiou thousands sands who followed him In lila his day Lincoln foresaw the danger of Illegal accumulations of wealth and nd warned the people against the r result Since his time overy word of hJ his prophetic warning has been boen the party he brought to r has hes been responsible Today It stands as as the sponsor for sp special lal privilege crIminal W corruption In public life Ufe an all the attendant evils growIng out of tariff abomInations The wiser Rep Republicans realize the drift of vents events and recognize fact that unless these special privileges are abolished soon the people will abolish them by electIng rien wh are aro under no obligation to the trust or to the themen themen men who farm oUt government bone in th the g guise of prote protectIon Uon If 11 there ther Isone is one in American poU it is j th the approaching day ot f for r The ians s stand for tor licensed plunder by the trusts Just as Lincoln was I greater than his party ever was so the sentiment in favor of a a new Indus Industrial Industrial trial freedom is greater than the R Re PUblican party Darty of today All its sup support support port from organized ci all Its t tremendous emen ous patronage all i harking back to traditions will not iVal aiL to avert the ju g ent when the the d dy y comes and that day is approaching fast |