Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...became a Democrat, like the majority of Harvard graduates of that time; but not long after, like many other of these same men, he became a Republican. There were two reasons for his becoming a Democrat: the political economy then taught in College favored free trade, and the Democratic platform was "mathematically correct." Later he realized that idealism enters politics as everything else, and that mere mathematical precision is not practical. Among other arguments for a protective tariff he argued that a country should be self-supporting...
...opened by describing the versatility and changeability of the Democratic nominee. Speaking of the Democratic platform, he said, "Its incarnation is in its candidate for the presidency." Mr. Bryan changed his ideas three times while trying for office; how often will he change in office...
...Parker discussed the three chief points of the Democratic platform: tariff reform, the guarantee bank deposit, and the legislative control of our courts. He claimed that the first would be changed, as soon as a sufficient need had arisen, by the same party that had instituted it. To force all depositors to pay tithes was an obvious injustice. As for the third contention, any such legislation as Mr. Bryan desired showed a suspicion and doubt on the part of the people, of the integrity of the United States courts. Such a suspicion would be of the greatest injury...
...Treasury, and Mr. T. M. Osborne, of the Committee on Public Utility in New York; in December, Mr. E. B. Baldwin, the Arctic explorer, and Mr. A. H. Woods, of the New York Police Department; in January, Dr. Charles A. Eastman, the only North American Indian on the lecture platform; in March, Hon. Samuel W. McCall, Representative from Massachusetts, Hon. J. B. Scott, Solicitor for the State Department, Mr. John Kendrick Bangs, the noted humorist, and Attorney General Bonaparte...
...Public Speaking S3.--Platform Speaking. Professor I. L. Winter and E. M. Lewis...