Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1904 — HIS OWN PLATFORM [ARTICLE]

HIS OWN PLATFORM

(From Mr. Bryin’s Commoner, May 13th.) If we were sure of securing a candftSate whose opinions were known t* be right and whose record would be a guide to the voters, we might possibly get along without any platform at all —although that would he a confession of hopeless disagreement. But the most prominent candidate among the reorganizers is Judge Parker whose position on public questions is wholly unknown but whose attitude can be surmised from the company he keeps. Mr. Hill is the manager of the Parker boom, and August Belmont is its financial representative. When Mr. Hill was in the senate he opposed the income tax and went even farther in defending the insolent demands of Wall street than Cleveland did. Mr. Belmont is as noted for his apostacy from Democratic principles as for his connection with the Rothschilds. The New York Parker club has published a list of the supporters of their candidate for the purpose of showing that he will be acceptable to the “conservatives,” and August Belmont’s pame appears first in the list, with Mr. Hill’s second. Mr. fienedict, who exerted such a baleful influence on the Cleveland administration, is prominent in the Parker contingent in Connecticut, and you will find in your own state and throughout the country that the most enthusiastic champions are the men who openly opposed our ticket in 1896. The trust magnates, the ‘great bankers and the railroad attorneys would not be so unanimous in his ' support if they did not have secret assurances in regard to his position.