Show THE CAUSE OF IT ALL while many democratic sheets are attempting to account for their bartys defeat on november ath it might bo well for them to consider an article in the new york tribune in which murat halstead makes pertinent comment on the election result he says that the seeds of death 0 the democratic party were in the composition and conduct 0 the st louis convention the ob occurred on november 8 1904 william jannings bryan and william randolph told the truth about the nomination of parker and the formation of the pusillanimous platform sir parker accurately represented alie character of the tri insular democracy of manhattan since fernando wood confronted abraham lincoln and construed the constitution to mean it had no force to save itself and proposed to keep the peace by destroying the union and honoring the state of new york by her dismemberment that onto the ruins of the state and nation should be reared a free trade city that destroy the protection of the industry of the nation and buy our goods as the colonists did from england nothing has occurred comparable with the st louis platform of no principles and the candidate of no convictions vict ions and they have been overwhelmed because they did not know the american people the departure of the democratic party was decreed when the opposition to the republican administration in the great western and southern sections bad no declared policy but submission 40 the will of the island of manhattan the true inside meaning was the gold brick plank to be paid tor with gold to purchase the presidency and incidentally to capture congress this combination was pitted against the prosperous business of the country andaas been beaten and buried when the democratic party approved the policy of giving up the philippines to the padrones ladrones La drones and the isthmus of darien forever to blackmailers and instead of creating an english speaking nation in the greater archipelago ol 01 the greater ocean of the earth shrouding in gloom the destiny of the empire of liberty moving westward shutting the gates of the pacific at panama against our southern people and deserting the public duty of expansion pan sion the party for belittling our country pronounced its own sentence of death |