Show I I JUDGING BY CHARACTER I Assuming that the characters of the i chief candidates are canal what arc the impelling forces behind them We arc i told that the power controls the I Republicans I that were true then what would he the effect The mOle power cannot prosper unless the men i who work prosper 1 If the men with 0 money merely trade among themselves the result Is thai a few obtain the plunder plun-der and the rcsl are all broke All wealth comes from labor 1C tile rich would grow richer they must provide places for the poor to work that they I may make n prollt from their labor Which is best for the laborlngmen of the country the Carncglcs and Goulds or the Schures and Sulzers But we arc told that these cormorants grind the faces oC tho poor But looking over the country we find that never was labor la-bor S well paid before and never were so many laborers employed What 0 then is there in the oppression cry as applied to laborers Again tho Republican party is charged with imperialism with a I purpose to rule some colonies beyond the sea first and gradually to steal the liberties of the people at home This Is the plank that holds the ilrst plac on the platform When such angels as David Da-vid B Hill Boss Croker Senator Tlll mun Congressman Richardson and the Governor of Missouri put out a cry of 0 that kind hoW do such men as Senator Sena-tor Lodge Senator Fryc Senator Uev eridge Speaker Henderson and Senator Spooner show by comparison Which class would a man intrust his business with hoping for an honest accounting The wickedness of what has been done and what is being done In the Philippines Philip-pines is perhaps the most tearful plank In the platform There are 0 people all unused to selfgovernment n mongrel mon-grel unsteadybrained people who came under the care of the United 0 States as If by fate Most them want peace and a chance to live without fear A few are brigands who only want the policy of Mr Bryan carried out In order or-der to plunder and kill those who resist them What Is duty in that case And who can decide best what Is duly toward that people Such men as Admiral Ad-miral Dewey and the soldiers and civilians ci-vilians there 01 some gentlemen at home who never had a glimpse of Spanish Span-ish I rule or of the demoralization of all people who have for centuries been subject sub-ject to the exactions and cruelties of the Spanish officials and laws They have been offered peace and a share in the government schools for their children dren the proceeds of their own work and the earnings of their capital Does that mean imperialism Was It Imperialism Impe-rialism and oppression when California was settled its marvelous resources brought to light and n glorified State created Of all the silly Inventions of a desperate political part was there ever one before so reasonless s shameless shame-less so degraded and insulting as this which claims that the agents of the people elected for a brief term to serve the people as their clerks are really breaking all former precedents and seeking to undermine and throw down this Republic 0 Is there anything to the whole hubbub hub-bub except thatthe outs want to get iq l IQI will be remembered that Mr Bryan favored the treaty with Spain Was he an imperialist then 0 Take away the appeals to the prejudices preJu-dices the evil passions and the ignorance ignor-ance of voters and will some one tel 0 us platform what would be left of the Democratic |