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Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902

"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"

It pledged the party to do this, with as little
disturbance and interference with present conditions as possible, "but
fully recognizing the danger of State interference, we place human life
above money profits, and human health above annual incomes, and shall
use the law to its utmost to protect both." When it appeared in the
platform, there was an addition that charged the failure to obtain
legislation "which should have rendered impossible the recent terrible
lesson in New York City" to "the obstruction in the last legislature in
the interest of the moneyed classes and landlords, by the Republican
party." That had not been in Peter's draft and he was sorry to see it.
Still, the paragraph had a real ring of honesty and feeling in it. That
was what others thought too. "Gad, that Stirling knows how to sling
English," said one of the committee, when the paragraph was read aloud.
"He makes it take right hold." Many an orator in that fall's campaign
read the nineteenth section of the Democratic platform aloud, feeling
that it was ammunition of the right kind.


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