The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-24
A CANDIDATE FROM THE SOUTH,
Representative Meyer TnII<s of the
Presid eIEtiaI Campaign of 1901

| The next Democratic National Couven-
| ton may nominate a Southern man for
| President and L am sure We have a num-
| Der Of Southern Democrats of Presidential
! calibTe." Representative Adouh Meyer of
| Louisiana said this morning. Take my
| State. for instance There IS Senator Eos
| ter, who served with conspicuous ability
/ as Governor f Southern man is to
| head the ticket in 1904 Louisiaaa will have
/ claims to command the attention Of the
| convention. There is no good reason for
! the prejudice against the nomination of a
man simply because he is from the South
and because that section has always been
| true to the teachings of Democracy.
Its Impossible to say on just what is
sues the next campaign viii be fought and
on the issue may depend the candidate.
am pretty sure, however. the questions of
silver and expansion will not figure. In
deed I doubt if silver will be mentioned in
| the platform The people have twice de-
claCed against the free coinage of silver
at Is to l, and as the Democratic party is
the party of progress and reform it goes
without saying that we will not attempt
to revive a corpse. The currency qucs-
ton, 1 take II. will not figure as a politi-
cal issue for some years to come, at any
rate not as long as the present output of
gold continues"
DO you think the Republicans will at
tempt any tariff legislation next win
ter?" MIR. Meyer was asked
In my opinion" replied Representative
Meyer. the Republican leaders will not
fool with the tariff 1t is not improbable
that some Republicans for the effect it
may have in their respective districts,
will introduce bills to repeal or modify
certain schedules of the DingIey tariff
act, but they viii know beforehand that
their little bills will not be reported from
the Ways and Means Committee IN my
opinion the bill introduced last winter by
Representative Babc0ck to place trust
made products on the free list would not
have attracted the attention it did had it
not been that the author of the measure
was no less a parsonage than the Chair
man of the Republican Congressional
Conmjttee- No doubt many thought that
his bill had the endorsement Of all the
Republicans in the House. But 1t seems
from most interviews with prominent Re
DubliCans who hold high positions in the
party on the floor of the House that the
BabcocI< bill is in bad odor, and 1 also
note that there is quite a diversity of
sentiment touching the reciprocity trea-
ties that failed Of consideration in the
Senate last session
The Republicans. believe, viii want TO
go slow on the reciprocity treaty ques-
ton You see after the first OF July the
revenues will be reduced, it is estimated.
something like 80, go, COO without any
corresponding reduction in the running
expenses of the Government For this
reason. among others. the Republicans,
think. VIII treat gingerIy any proposition
to further reduce taxation and the reye-
nUcs'
In reply to a question Mr.. Meyer. who
was a member of the Committee on Naval
Affairs in the last Congress, said that the
next Congress would C0btless authorize
the construction Of four warships-two
battleship and two cruisers.