The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-10-26
HERBS STRONG ARGUMENT.


on the success of the meeting held in
the Lyceum ON Wednesday evening.
An excellent opportunity was given
the voters present to study and com
pare the rival candidates. 1t was a
striking contrast On the one hand
there was a speaker who studiously
avoided the main plank of his plat
form. the silver question, and gave a
rambling discourse on imaginary evils
of the trusts and so-called imperial
ism. On the other hand was man
all the issues and answered with un-
disputable logic the very questions
with which his opponent sought to
conceal his unsound views on the
money question.
The first trust he spoke of, the coal
trust, has never existed except in -the
honorable gentleman's Imagination.
He must have forgotten that the
Democratic attempt to establish the
local combine in this State met
with ignominious failure. He admit
ted that the sugar trust was destroyed
by law, but he carefully avoided
mentioning the fact that it was by a
law introduced and passed by Repub-
licans. He was greatly handicapped
on the trust question by the fact that
along with the rest of the Democrats
in the House he voted against pro-
posal to have the Constitution amen
ded so that Congress would have
power to regulate combinations of
capital He said that Democrats are in
favor of destroying the trusts By
enforcing the law. That is an in
correct statement. Mr. Salmon, as
lawyer, must knew that there is no
trust in existence in the legal sense
of the word, and that there is no law
in restraint of the combination of
capital.
An illustration of the working of
the tariff, which Mr.. Salmon spoke so
bitterly against, may be had in the
iron mines of Morris County. Four
years ago, under the Wilson law, red
or Spanish ore was brought to this
country on the free list, and the iron
mines of Morris County were idle.
Today, under the Dingley tariff, the
miners are at work on full time AL
together Mr.. Salmon made a very
sorry appearance. His lodging the
silver question has provoked great
deal of unfavorable comment, not on
ly among Republicans and Gold Demo
Gratis, bat among the Silverites, who are
beginning to wonder whether their
pet theory will find enthusiastic sup
port fro political trimmer like Mr..
Salmon. They need not worry much,
because Mr.. Salmon is silverite to
the backbone.
Judge Herr, while he did not hear
Mr.. Salmon's speech, made magni-
ficent answer to every point in it, as
reference to the report of the meeting
will show Unlike his opponent, he
lodged no issue, and spoke clearly
and forcibly in favor of the mainten-
ance of the gold standard and against
the free coinage of silver. He also
exposed the hollowness of the cry of
imperialism, and made the strong
point that with all the cry the Demo-
Gratis have made, their platform, in so
far as it refers to the Philippines
means practically the same as that of
the Republicans. The question really is
whether the carrying on of the govern
ment should be entrusted to a man
who has'proved to be able, good and
true as William Mckinley has, or to
mere orator and rhetorician like
Bryan, who lacks Judgment, and whose
every prophecy and forecast has proved
false.
Judge Herr won the sympathy and
respect Of his audience, even of his
opponents, by his strong and manly
statement of the issues. IT the Republi-
can party is untiring in it's work,
Judge Herr will be the next represen-
tative from the Fourth New Jersey
Distri ct.
JOHN SHERMAN DEAD.