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Show DAILY 4 UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. FRANK EDITOR. J. CANNON, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET For President ALTON B. PARKER For of New York. Vice-Preside- nt HENRY G. DAVIS of West Virginia. SAFE AND SANE DEMOCRACY. The satisfaction with which the Democratic platform and the Democratic candidate are greeted throughout the United States, invokes a serious resurvey of the political field. Eight years ago at Chicago and four years ago at Kansas City, the radical element of the Democratic party was in control. A platform representing radicalism and a candidate devoted to the platform were placed before the people as the work of both those conventions. The Democratic utterance of 18 was true and appropriate for that time; and no man could have better represented that agThe gressive truth than William J. Bryan. 1900 Democratic utterance of was true and for William J. and that time; appropriate Bryan was of all men the proper choice for a standard bearer. As a matter of abstract declaration the platforms of those years might be reiterated today with few emendations and they would still express the truth. But the American people demonstrated that they were not ready for such extensive reforms as were proposed by the platforms of eight years ago and four years ago, nor were they ready to entrust the government to Mr. able as he is; because, Dryan patriotic-anas to the platform, it comprehended too many reforms, and, as to the candidate, he was regarded as an extremist and therefore unsafe. The only disaster was in the fear of disaster. Mr. Bryan would have been a safe man in the presidency and the policies of the platform upon which he stood would have been inaugurated into law and public action with wise discretion. But the people said no; . and the Republican party has carried us to a more dangerous extreme than any ever proposed by Bryan or the Kansas City and Chicago conventions. What was the duty of the Democracy this year? To declare a set of high sounding principles, most of which could not be made effective by law even if the party were victorious and the aggregate of which, in their presentation to the public, would cause the defeat of the ticket? Or to declare for safe and sane Democracy, proposing only such steps as we may reasonably hope to take during the next four years if the people shall entrust the government to our hands? There is but one answer and the convention at St. Louis gave that answer with emphasis. This year there is to be no rainbow chasing. We are for the reforms which are most needed and which it is possible to achieve. What candidate should have been nonji-aate- d on such a platform? Any man who, rightly or wrongly, is believed by the people of the country to be fanatical and dangerous? Or the man who represents in his career the assurance to the voters of the United States that he is moderate and therefore trustworthy? There is but one answer; and the convention at St. Louis gave that answer. It would have been a misfortune to spoil this safe and sane Democratic platform by one undue radicalism. The conservatives had possession of the convention at St. Louis in the year 1904, just as the radicals had possession of the conventions at Kansas City and Chicago in 1900 and 18. By every right of majority rule the conservatives were entitled to write the platform this year and to name the candidate. They have done so. The issues are just as sharply defined and there is just as wide difference between the Democratic party and Republican party in this year of our Lord 1904, as in 1900 or 18. The Republican party as above stated has led us to an extreme far more dangerous than any proposed by Bryan and his followers in the preceding campaigns. During the eight years past we have been steadily changing the intrinsic character of this government. From a republic in fact, we are degenerating into a republic only in name, with colonial policies whose effect is to make of us an oligarchy no matter by what name we may be called setting up the rule of one man against the rule of the people, substituting executive will for legislative expression, casting aside the old UTAH STATE rules of wisdom established by the fathers and presenting in their stead' the dangerous whim of a dangerous moment. Mr. Bryan would not have led the country one-ha- lf so far from the old land marks as it has been led under Republican rule during the past eight years. The first great duty of the voter is to restore our republican form of government to make of this a republic in fact as well as in name. All others reforms must wait on this. The issue is as big and as broad as all other ROOSTVELTISM" JULY 18, 1904. AS AN ISSUE. (From the Salt Lake Herald.) The Washington Star.seeking to discredit the Democratic platform, takes occasion to center its attack on an utterance of Senator Frank J. Cannon. After asserting that the platform had no central keynote utterance, it saya: "But this year the Democracy heard uttered in the privacy of its key-noa committee room, behind the doors that shut off the crowd from the wrangling delegatee struggling to build It wu former United a platform. Cannon of Utah, he Senator State who walked out of the Republican convention eight yeara ago because of hla devotion to a cherished principle, who uttered it. The reports of the committee's proceedings contain this sentence: Mr. Cannon, in closing, that the paramount issue in this campaign was victory, and that the issue shduld be Rooseveltlam." "A close reading of the platform and scrutiny of the candidate named early this morning will show that so far the Democratic party has Joyously adopted Senator Cannons sentiment as Its watchword for the campaign." Exactly so. And why should not the Democratic party Joyously adopt that watchword T Doesnt "Rooseveltlam" express enough of an issue? Doesnt It, in tact, comprehend all the issues and plenty of them to spell success for the Democratic party? Is not "Rooseveltism" the most obnoxious thing in public life today, and doesnt it Include a platform broad enough to afford a footing for every lover of American liberty. Including a large number of Roosevelt's own party? To begin with, Rooseveltism means autocratic power, seised In defiance of the most cherished principles embraced In the federal constitution. It means personal aggrandisement, one-mrule, the Interpretation of executive te its battle on that issue, and to Senator Cannon ia due the fortunate coinage of a watchword signifying the essence of the principles on which the party wlU make its light. Around It will rally every American who loves his country tog well to approve of a policy of aggression In foreign lands and oppression at home; every man who ha tee a tariff which ia designed to protect monopoly, extortion and greed; every man who believes the mission of this nation Is the extension of freedom, not the thraldom of weak and alien peoples. Let the issue be "Rooseveltism" as the Republicans seem to wish, and let It be fought out on that line. Na gage could be more acceptable; none more certain to lead to victory. V01PLL HAVE TO HUjr" Only Four Days More OF THE Grand Mid-Summ- er Clearance Sale AT THE NcKANNON BROS ' ' issues combined and therefore it is not necesMUSIC CO. consider to other. any sary 2283 Washington Avtnui, Every member of the Republican party who is possessed of reasoning powers must be aware that if the present tendencies of his Lyceum Family Theater As there are only a few day mort inthe shown been J. H. 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Inside the presidents own party, it means disregard of the men who have hitherto been its guides and main strength. It means the exaltation of special privilege and abasement of individual liberty. In a word, it represents a force, the mailed hand, international discord and the abandonment of all the landmarks which have guided the destinies of the republic since the days of 76. The Democratic party can well afford to Accept the challenge and make 1420 816 1405 1404 2543 H vice-presiden- him. Shoved him into what was believed to be to get him out of the' realm of a living politics. Placed him on the ticket with McKinley because it was afraid to have him any longer for governor of New York. Made him a nominee because he was known to be such an erratic, dangerous, implusive, foolish, flamboyant, egotistical, grand-stau- d player in politics that it would do not to have him any place else than embalmed as a mummy in the chair. 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Possibly some other able and strongman will be found to take up and continue the good work. If so, then there is a bright future for Mexico. Unlike some of the empty railway talk, Senator Reed Smoots project for an electric line, connecting the principal cities of central and northern Utah, proposes to take form as a substantial and beneficial public improvement. The suspicion that the boys want it in operation this fall so that they can get to him quick at Provo has nothing to do with the real merits of the case. A good many of the papers are meddling with Senator Clark's marriage announcement. If the affair suits the senator and his wife and the baby what business is it of anybody else? Even billionaires and their wives and children have some rights in this world. 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