Evening star., 1902-08-06
G. RIGGS ON BABC0CK.
he QUOTES FROM SEVERAL PUB
LIsHED INTERVIEWS
Thinks He Has Surrendered His Tariff
Devision Belief-Denies Differences
of Democrats on Issues.

What Chairman Babcock of the republi-
can congressional campaign committee is
reported to have said at various times since
1901 on the subject of the tariff was yes
terday arranged in parallel columns and
given to the press by Chairman Griggs of
the democratic congressional campaign
committee.
The conclusion Mr.. Griggs draws from
the selections he has made of Mr.. Babcock' S
utterances is that the republican chairman
has recently surrendered his views that a
revision of certain schedules of the Dingley
tariff is necessary and that his last utter
ance ''is the white flag of surrender"
Mr.. Griggs then asks two questions, first,
If this is the "scuttle'' policy "of which we
have heard so much;'' and, second, will the
friends of tariff ever reform 1t except in
the interests of the trusts?'
Mr.. Babcock Quoted.
The first quotation from Mr. Babcock Is
calculated to show him as a tariff reformer.
Il maintain" he is quoted as saying in
Wisconsin in the summer of 1901, that it
is part of the policy Of protection to pro-
tect the consumer Shall we continue a
tariff he proceeds. "on articles that are
in fact articles of export? If Congress
maintains tariff on such articles, the
whole theory of protection falls to the
ground and it simply nures to the benefit
of those who may secure the control of any
such commodity, since by it's aid they can
fix eXorbitant prices in the domestic mar
ket. How can such a policy be defended?'
Mr.. Babcock is quoted again from an in
tervieW printed February of this year to
the effect that he will urge and use every
effort to get action on his bill removing the
tariff from raw material used in the man
ufacture of iron and steel products All of
this is paralleled with what Mr.. Babcock
said in The Star on his last visit to Wash
ington, July %:
The tariff is an issue we gladly espouse
with everybody at work, with money and
clothes and food and enough money left
over to have some kind of a good time on
with prosperity on every hand-the result
of republican policies-we are not afraid to
ask the country to continue the republican
party in power in order that those policIes
may be continued in effect
Mr.. Griggs' Denials.
After dealing with Mr.. Babcock, Mr.
Griggs gets back to his own troubles and
takes occasion to deny that there is any
difference of opinion between himself and
his associates on the committee on the
question of issues. This statement follow
ing the declaration of principles of Senator
Carmack the day before, is evidently in
tended for the instruction of all democrats
in any statement they may make regarding
what are and what are not the para
mount issues of the coming fall campaign
Senator Carmack said he had never tried IN
minimize the trust and the tariff as inn
portant issues, and then went on to show
by argument why the Philippine question
was "a most serious consideration at this
time"
Mr.. Griggs says: at has never been the
policy Of this committee to ignore the Phil
ippine question or push it in the back
ground in this campaign"
With this statement from the chairman of
the committee, Mr.. Carmack NAV iustlv
feel vindicated in his Philippine predilec-
tions. and some democrats who have had
the temerity to say that the Philippine
question ought not to be mentioned. but
that the fight should be made before the
voters Of the country on the question of
the regulation Of the trusts through a re-
vision of the tariff, should escort some Of
their own ideas on the question to a seat in
the rear.