Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-23
OUR BEST TALKER"
GRIGGS APPROVES PRESIDENTS
ANTITRUST SPEECHES.
Telegraphic Correspondence Between
Mr.. Griggs and Speaker Henderson
on Latter's Retirement.

president Roosevelt Is our strongest
speaker in the field" This was the smiling
remark of Chairman Griggs of the demo-
cratic congressional campaign committee,
when asked what he thought Of the Presi-
dent Cincinnati speech in which the tariff
question as it relates to trusts was dwelt
on at length.
THE President is crystallizing the popular
belief which Is just at this time electrifying
the minds of the people of this country that
the trusts should be regulated. At the same
time that the President is crystallizing this
belief he is telling the people in almost d.
rect language that they can expect nothing
from his party in the way Of remedial leg
islation, at least not for years.
with this in mind, the people will realize
that the democratic party is the party and
the only party ready for action now. There
is absolutely no ground for the President s
warning that the democratic party would de-
stroy both the trusts that do Ill and the trusts
that do good, as he terms them, as well
as the general prosperity Of the country.
The democratic party will be just as care
full in administering its trust medicine as
the republican party can be. We shall
neither destroy the business interests of
the country injure the wage-earners.
We are as patriotic as the republican party,
and we are not opposed to vested rights OF
to property such. We simply favor CIV
ing every man an equal chance in the race
the trusts, as we know 1t does, we propose
to SO modify it as to remedy the evil.
THE President admits that the removal
Of the tariff from some of the trusts that
that this would be remedy, and the more
the President talks along these lines the
better will the democrats be satisfied"
Republican Confidence Questioned.
In commenting on Chairman Babcock's
confidence of republican success in the fall
elections Mr.. Griggs said that he could
not exactly figure out Mr.. Babcock's phil
osophy. Though he Is confident that the
republicans will control the Fifty-eighth
Congress-, he at the same time predicts
that they will lose some members. Mr..
Rabcock may know more about sliding
down hill than do, but / never yet have
been able to understand how man who
point on the hillside above the bottom at
which he will or can STOP"
Griggs on Henderson.
Mr. Griggs ascribes no other reason for
Speaker Henderson's withdrawal from the
race in his home district than that assigned
by the Speaker himself in his declination-
the tariff
IT regret very much that 1t should have
been stated that the democratic campaign
managers have been contemplating any
personal attack on General Henderson"
further from our intentions. 1 believe Mr..
Henderson retired from the race because
Of the reasons he gave. To believe any
thing else 1t seems to me would be a re-
Election upon his integrity as a man and
his standing a republican. I believe
what he says, whether his professed friends
believe 1t or not.
This only accentuates the fact that
tariff reform is coming In spite Of anything
the republican leaders may do or say.
The people are tired of fostering indus
tries, which, in the language Of Mr.. Pou,
treat us not only worse than they do for
eigners, but worse than they do savages,'
by charging us higher prices for Amerl-
can-made goods than they charge aliens
for the same class of goods. This is Great
ing strong sentiment in favor of proper
revision of the Dingley tariff law, as II
ought to do
The correspondence which passed between
Chairman Griggs and the Speaker on the
publication of the rumor that a personal
attack was to be made on Mr.. Henderson
was conducted by telegraph and was as
follows:
Hon. David B. Henderson, Dubuque, Iowa.