NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering TWO party platforms were written last week that have aroused deep interest throughout the nation. One was written and adopted by the Republicans of New York; the other by the...
...a parcels post system, and wise conservation of natural resources...
...No man who has opposed this movement in Wisconsin dares to urise and oppose his voice to any single measure which we have advocated...
...No specific primary law is pledged, but there is a general declaration for the enactment of a primary law for the direct election and direct nomination of "party officers, and party candidates...
...There was scarcely a corporal's guard of tories in attendance, and these few, recognizing the futility of opposition, lifted no voice of protest...
...These two promises proved somewhat inconsistent, in that immediate revision conforming to such a plan was impracticable, because the information needed was not at once available...
...Other states have come to look to Wisconsin as a pioneer and a pilot now, for we have gone far enough and demonstrated enough so they no longer call it the "radical" state but the "pioneer" state;—the state that proves every step it takes, that writes neither a platform pledge nor a statute that does not represent sound economic principle and the idea our forefathers embodied in the Declaration of Independence...
...I cannot tell you how fortunate I think you are, and as I regard myself, in being part of this great movement that is to write in the pages of history the most important chapters written since the days of the civil war...
...He gave credit to Mr...
...And in this platform adopted here today—a platform that shall be like a torch in the darkness to light the way for other states—in this platform there is not a single declaration that does not mean^ just this: the will of the people shall be the law of the land...
...the other by the Republicans of Wisconsin...
...And out of this body of men, nominated directly by the voters, there came a party platform that is an expression of the will of the people...
...It is a noble work...
...But analysis and time have justified every measure we have offered up to the present time...
...opposes ship subsidies...
...And when they fail,—when constitutions and statutes and all of the agencies employed to execute constitutions and statutes, fail, they must be changed to make them carry out and express the judgment, the well-formulated and mature judgment of the people...
...Paul, made an effort to have the National Irrigation Congress, meeting in Pueblo, Colorado on the 28th, condemn federal activity in irrigation work...
...He was elected to the temporary chairmanship with a majority of 125 votes over Vice President Sherman...
...The tariff board, is praised and revision of the tariff, a single schedule at a time, is favored...
...The platform attacks Mr...
...That platform is printed in full on another page of this magazine...
...He said"in part: "Permit me to congratulate you upon the great campaign you conducted in this state, putting above all else the principle to which we are devoted and receiving in support of that great principle an unprecedented and overwhelming endorsement by the discriminating voters of this great state...
...Stimson for Governor On the following day, Mr...
...The tariff is praised on the ground that it "reduced the rate of all duties 11 per cent," increased revenues by raising the duties on luxuries...
...approves conservation and state control of trusts...
...The withdrawal of Mayor Gaynor left an cpenf field for other Democrats seeking political honors...
...Democrats Denounce "New Nationalism" Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Hal...
...It comprehends the aspiration of the human race in its struggle from the beginning down to the present time: the will cf the people shall be the law of the land...
...After all, it is a simple matter...
...A Conservative Platform The platform declares "'relentless warfare against official and legislative wrongdoing in the state...
...He was not well, but he put vigor into his words when he declared that the people are supreme over the agencies of government...
...Governor Hughes was lauded for his administration of the state's affairs...
...Roosevelt's party ticket and platform were accepted by the convention...
...enthusiastically endorses "the patriotic and statesmanlike leadership of William Howard Taft," detailing the progressive laws enacted under his administration...
...There is no power expressed in any state document of our government that is not derived from the people...
...Roosevelt for arousing the nation to revolt against political corruption and the malign influence of corporations holding unjust privileges...
...As to the tariff he said: "Our platform promised to revise the tariff immediately and also to revise it to accord with the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad...
...condemns extravagance in campaign expenditures...
...Without substantial opposition the state ticket, made up by Murphy and headed by John A. Dix, was endorsed...
...His speech dealt largely with what has been accomplished in legislation under the present administration, and an outline of the work that the next Congress will be called upon to do...
...The platform also declares for the election of U. S, Senators by direct vote, the amendment of the constitution to permit the levying of an income tax...
...And that is all that the struggle in Wisconsin and California and New Hampshire and Kansas and every other state in this Union mean s—that government shall be brought back to and committed to the needs of the people...
...Governor Hughes is given credit for arousing the people to an interest in direct primaries...
...Gaynor Refutes Nomination Cn September 27 a letter written by Mayor Gaynor was made public, and it became certain that "the best mayor New York has had" would not accept the Democratic nomination for Governor, if it were offered to him...
...Roosevelt in Full Control New York's Republican convention met on September 27...
...From the opening of the convention, when Chairman Owen said, "Before another six months we ought to see to it that never again can Money come into the state and contest with Men for the control of the lawmaking body of the state," until the close of the session, when Senator La Follette declared, "The will of the people is the law of the land," the convention manifested a singleness of purpose and a consideration of public interest that reflected the courageous and intelligent progressiveness of the people standing behind the candidates...
...You are troing into the campaign now which means not only everything tor Wisconsin, but also for this great movement everywhere...
...The candidate for Governor is Henry L. Stimson of New York, who as federal district attorney forced the sugar trust to pay several million dollars into the United States treasury in reparation for the importing frauds...
...Go, my friends, into the great work that has been committed to you...
...It can be expressed in a single sentence...
...declares for tariff for revenue only...
...There are some who have sought to make it appear as an assault upon business, upon industrial prosperity, upon the foundation and integrity of our whole system...
...And permit me to congratulate you on having so completely and so perfectly embodied in the platform declarations the ideas and the principles that are so important in the next progressive step to be taken by the people of this country...
...The American Mining Congress which met in Los Angeles, California, on September 29, adopted resolutions attacking and condemning Louis R. Glavis and Horace T. Jones, prominent in the Cunningham coal land claims case as opp:-nents of Secretary Ballinger's policy of "conservation" and fellow "'conspirators" with Pinchot...
...approves of a graduated income tax and direct election of Senators...
...New York's platform is characterized as "safe and sane...
...Roosevelt, the "new nationalism," the Republican party for extravagance, and for its tariff policy, which is declared to be responsible for the excessively high cost of living...
...The advocates of states' rights were as unsuccessful at Pueblo as they were in St...
...Taft Speaks on Tariff President Taft on October 1 spoke at a meeting of the League of Republican Clubs, in New York City...
...Progressives Control in Wisconsin In Wisconsin the Republican convention was controlled by progressives...
...He stated that hereafter it is probable that the tariff will be revised one schedule at a time...
...For over all and above all and greater than all, and expressing the supreme sovereignty of all, are the people...
...favors freedom of educational institutions, industrial insurance and good roads, approves the initiative, referendum and recall...
...People Are Supreme" At the close of the session Senator La Follette made a brief address...
...For the progressive legislation that has been enacted he gave credit to the whole Republican party, declaring...
...held the convention "in the hollow of his hand,'" and his machine worked with exceptional smoothness...
...The rights of the separate states are exalted, and "federal usurpation" of power denounced...
...As temporary chairman he made the keynote speech...
...but the inconsistency was met by the provision of a tariff board to report the necessary facts...
...An Advanced Platform "You have written into the platform of the Republican party of this pioneer progressive state that which shall be of great value to the movement now sweeping over the country from coast to coast to restore representative government—a movement not to destroy representative government, but to make those safeguards which shall insure to the people true representative government...
...State-wide primaries are endorsed, and corrupt practices and bribery acts are favored...
...Roosevelt laid most stress upon the necessity for the passage of a state primary election act, and for eliminating graft...
...that the people are supreme over legislatures, over governments, over presidents, over constitutions...
...Wisconsin's as "the most progressive and advanced platform ever promulgated by Republicans...
...That is but expressing what Abraham Lincoln declared when he said that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth...
...Paul...
...increased the free list, and caused no disturbance of business...
...Wisconsin Democratic Platform The platform adopted on the 27th by the Wisconsin Democratic convention denounces the Payne-Aldrich tariff...
...and opposes county option...
...Theodore Roosevelt was in absolute control...
...The President said that the board already has done much work that will be of help to Congress when the tariff is revised again...
...News Notes The same interests which attempted to control the recent Conservation Congress at St...
...Wisconsin the Pioneer "Now that is simply saying in modern phrase what Washington said when he declared the inherent right of every people to make and alter their laws, their constitutions and their institutions of government...
...It is not the work of one man or of one faction...
...and corrupt politics were denounced...
...Conservation "under conditions, however, that will protect and safeguard the rights of the state," is favored...
...It is not the work of the executive alone, or of Congress alone...
...So I say to you that every step of the struggle in Wisconsin has meant just that—nothing less, nothing more...
...Constitutions, statutes, and all of the complex details of government, are but instruments to carry out the will of the people...
...denounces postal savings bank law passed at last Congress...
...To President Taft he gave high praise for the progressive legislation enacted during his term...
Vol. 2 • October 1910 • No. 40
