Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-07-19
THE ISSUE IN SIGHT.
Vigorously Combatcd by the
Democracy.


One year from now the campaign
for the election of the Fifty-eighth
congress will be under way and the
neople will decide by the political af-
fliation of those they then elect to
represent them what the future policy
of the government shall be on the inn
portant issues that are now being dis
cussed.
Hon. James d. Richardson, chair
man of the democratic congressional
committee, gives to the Baltimore Sun
his views on some of the momentous
questions, as follows:
The development of issues,' he
said, ''is much more rapid than that
of candidates for either party in the
1904 contest. In the discussion of can
didates it must be borne in mind that
we have the congressional campaign
of 1902 to reckon with before we en-
ter upon the business of president
making in 1904.
"Out of the earlier contest may
grow conditions which will indicate
more clearly candidates available for
the presidency. The only excuse for
the discussion at this time of candi-
eagerness of some men of greater or
less prominence to begin a canvass in
their own interests
s'The national issues of the near fu-
ture seem to me to be more clearly in
dicated than at the close of our latest
contest it seemed possible they could
be so soon. True democratic princi-
pies have great vitality. Whenever
he fry foa1S hot fo1
and dangerous policies are leading the
government from the observance of
right principles democratic doctrines
are appealed to for rescue and safety.
s'The tariff question, which the re-
publican party declared a few years
ago to have been settled finally and
forever in favor of high protection,
will be found to be very pressing in
the next presidential campaign.
Trusts, the offspring of the republican
policy, have grown so great that they
overtop the parent and Dame Protec-
ton can no longer conceal them at her
back by spreading her skirts or en-
veloping them in the black smoke of
the factories. Even the trusts them
selves demand something more than
simple home products to feed on, and
lI1C uOSI EODuSU OIL CHoIH are LOOKING
for an open way to foreign markets.
Within the very ranks of the repub-
lican party there is discomfort at the
continuance of the system which shuts
us out of our proper place in the
worlds commerce. There is reluc-
tant Acknowledgement that the old
democratic tariff doctrines furnish
means to open markets to our prod
ucts. It may be clearly seen by one
who looks ahead that the tariff ques-
ton will enter into the campaign of
1904 an important issue, and that
the democrats will be found standing
where they have always stood.
Cali the old articles of faith which
have given the democratic party en-
during life will be found boldly en-
blaZoned in the next national cam
paign. The preservation of the faith
of our fathers will make the great
comprehensive issue of the campaign.
'sThe jeopardy in which the Monroe
doctrine has been placed through the
short-sighted policy of the Mckinley
admins tration is likely to attract very
wide public attention and may even
become an overshadowing issue. I do
not know whether it is fully realized
by our people that the agitation over
| the Monroe doctrine at this time is
| due to the fact that the administers
ton is seriously embarrassed by the
| anticipated purpose of foreign gov
ernments to acquire coa1ing stations
| in the proximity of South and Central
| American ports.
s'Prior to our adventure in the Phil
| ippines and before we had become a
world power to use that term as the
| advocates of empire use it, the desire
of foreign governments to establish
| fish bases of supplies within the
| sphere of American republics would
| have occasioned no serious embar
| rassment. There were no doubts eX
| cited by foreign entanglements and
| complications of conflicting policy
| There was no question of our right TIC
object, and it was silently acknowl
| edged by all the world. But the
| new policy of the administration has
! placed this government in such a posi-
| ton that to maintain sovereignty ove1
| remote islands the United States must
acquire the right to establish coaline
! stations within the sphere where the
| influence of foreign powers is recog
| nized. How can this government deny
to other powers a privilege within the
sphere covered by the Monroe dictrint
| while it seeks similar privilege within
/ their dominions? This is the question
| which embarrasses.
/ 1.-The administration does not know
/ how to refuse privileges similar tt
those it must ask; yet to grant then
would be at least a modification of the
Monroe dictrine, and would threaten
our stability a nation through per
hitting the establishment of bases O.
supplies at our very ports, from which