Arizona republican., 1901-05-28
JIM HAM LEW IS.
His Pink Whiskers and His Tariff
 Views

The Hon. Jim Ham LeWlS or Wasn- | ington. whose pink whiskers are among | the most famous of the most remark able works of nature in that state, came to town yesterday to see how things are going in the east. Mir. Lew l is whiskers are more profuse and more beautiful than they were when he was | m Congress and he has the same strong | liking for publicity that was observed when he was in Kansas City, Mo. la. | July to nominate the democratic l. | cate for the presidency. M: L"%.s | said that he was well. and tna l., had | just come from Washir ton. D. C., where he had been f. ag the pulse Of the nation, and ir entally attend- | ing to a little law business in the su- premc court of ( Unitel States. Mir. Lewis had alre y laid out the lines on which the tional campaign of 1904 | is to be 'c ht.
 "The tariff will be the main issue in the next campaign for the presidency" said MT. Le'r's "I am in favor of | free trade, 6. | l think it would be best i for the entire country. We have trade balance now in our favor of over s500,- GOO GOO a year and think that 1t Is mistake to keep out the raw and manu l factured products of other countries by prohibtive tariff. What we should 1 do is to let our products be sent to the other side to be sold ther2 in competi- ticn with the products of the world
 There we can undersell all the other countries, because there is no nation in | the world whose mechanics and arti- sars have the facility in ;he production of all kinds of manufactured articles that ours have. There are no men who work in all the world who are as pro- fcient as the American workmen, and they are capable of holding their own with any others they may meet. By cutting down the tariff we would in- crease the trade of the nation, and in- evitably bring about an increase in the wages of the men who are employed in the production of all classes of goods in i this country. I am of the opinion that 1 there will be a great demand for the revision of the tariff for the next few years. and that this matter will be the one on which the fight Of 1904 will be decided.
 'The cry or militarism is dead except as 1t may be brought in regard to the troubles between capital and labor TAe great combinations of capital, such as those that now control the iron and ,oal trade, are in a position to demand | the presence of all the country's troops for the protection of their prop erty in case there Is any trouble be- tween them and their employees. They can call on the troops to fight their bat l are on the eve of the day when 1t will no longer be possible for the labor or ganizations to dictate the rate or wages that workingmen are to receive from their employers. If thsy do make an attempt to, the trusts will tell them that they will fight them he bier end. and they will do so. The military will be invoked and the question of an army may come up again in that way. ! think that very soon all the labor unions will amount to will be in the nature of social and benevolent orgar- izations. That is what they are com ing to.
 The money question will no. be an Is .. sue in the next campaign. The encr- nous production Jf gold fin the iast few years has decided that. The question will not even be raised in 1904. The in- crease in the output O" gold was en tirely unexpected. but 1t has silenced thoce who thought that the silver or tho country should b. minted in order to provide a sufficient circulating me- d'Im
 'T saw Colone' Bryan recently, and he tc'1 ma he was not a candidate for the democratic nomination at the next convention, that he did not want to be candidate. and that he did not want to be talked abou as a possible candi- dae. If the convention was to be held tomorrow David Emmett Hil of this state and Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleve- land would be the nominees for presi- dent and vice-president Mir. Hill rep resents the old fashioned conservative democracy of the country, and he is very strong through the west. Mayor Johnson represents the new and pro- gresive democracy of the nation. and his course in the city of Cleveland has won him great many friends in addi- ton to those he had before. Such a ticket would be very strong one If 1 the democracy Is successful at the state
 
 the man who Is elected governor is likely to be a formidable candidate in the convention. The democrats all over the nation would remember 1884, and would be very likely to think tEat his tory might repeat itself. Who is likely to get the nomination here next year among the democ:ats3"
 MT. Lewis was informed that the friends of the Hon. John E. Stanchfield thought that he ought to have it, but that no one krew what might happen in the democratic party during the next two years.
 Gould he beat Odell?' asked MT. 1 Lewis. He was informed that no one had ever thought so and that Governor Odell stood very high in the estima- tion of the people of the state.
 "Odell is fine man." said Lewis. II admire him. I think he is man of a very strong personality. He is a man of force and of strength. It is quite plain that he thinks for himself. Why, way out where live and that is a long way from this state, the people have heard of him and think that he is a great man. Odell is q man of much the same stamp as Hanna. admire Hanna for his strength and for his force He is very strong personality.