The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-24
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL
CANDIDATES ARE AGAINST
PROTECTION
REMOVE TARIFF FROM
MADE ARTICLES
Administration and Republican Con.
gressmen Condemned for Their Atti-
tude Against Tariff Revision and
Charged With Lending Government
to Corporate interests as an Instru-
ment of Extortion.

Equal rights to all and special priv
1leges to none is the slogan of the
Minnesota Democratic candidates fof
congress who yesterday took up the
gauge thrown down by the Republican
campaign managers, who have declar-
ed against tariff revision in the next
congress.
me Democratic nominees for con-
gress met yesterday at the state GEN.
trai headquarters, GilfilIan building,
and by unanimous agreement took
square issue with the continuation of
nigh protective tariff doctrine advance
ed by the Republican campaign man
ayers and definitely sounded as the
Republican position by the presidents
speech at Cincinnati.
An address to the voters of Minne-
sofa was promulgated. 1t is a ring
ing declaration against the trusts, fos-
tered by high protective tariffs and
puts the Democratic candidates SQUARE
ly before the people uneouivocaIlv
pledged against government shelter for
monopolies. 1t directly accuses the
Republican party Of lending itself to
the giant corporations as an instru-
ment of extortion piled upon the COM
mon people.
Plan Thorough Campaigns.
The meeting was probably the most
enthusiastic gathering of Democratic
candidates for congress ever held in
minnesota. The candidates feel that
the people are with them and with the
national Democracy in an earnest de-
sire to relieve the working people Of
the crushing burdens imposed by the
tariff-protected trusts.
Every man of them has reason to
believe in his chances of success at
the polls. Every one of them has def
mite plans for his campaign and has
already put the wheels in motion. All
have competent and energetic commit
tees at work and the coming congress
sional campaign promises to be mem
orable in the political annals of the
state. The candidates present were:
Peter McGovern, Waseca; C. N. An
drews, Mankato; c. C. Kolars. La
Sueur; John L. Gieske, st. Paul: DR..
j. A. Du Bots, Sank Center; Capt.
Marcus L. Fay. Virginia.
The Candidates Platform.
Against the doctrine enunciated by the
managers and standard bearers of the
republican organization, as expressed in
thef speeches of the past few days, to
the effect that the tariff shall not be re-
vfsed &c! even to the extent of the removal
OF tariff protection from the trusts. the
Democracy Of Minnesota as of the ma
sue.
We stand upon the Democratic doctrine,
that the tariff laws of this country should
not be source of protection and subsidy
70, 70 ths trusts mat are expressing the peo-
pie, both workingmen and consuIpers
ion nP ,oI-
simple fundamental principle of equal
rights, to all and special privileges to
none, cannot do injury to any legitimate
American interest; and it is the Violation
or that law, on the other hand, that to-
day makes the American people, and most
of all, the American workingmen, the
political Industrial subjects of corporate
control.
Tariff Instrument of Extortion.
When the so-called "infant industries"
dollar trusts; when they have risen to
the stature and power, that they not
only overcome foreign competition abroad,
but defy the American people at home;
when the tariff laws enacted for their
protection, they make use of to tax the
American people 25 per cent to 100 per
cent higher prices than they levy upon
the consumers abroad; when, protected
by these tariff laws, they Cypress labor
and even deny it the common right of
organization; when the taxes levied by
them upon the neceSsarieS of life far ex-
coed in volume and hardship all the direct
taxes levied for the support of the gov
ernment; when in order to maintain this
unjust tax power they exercise all the
power which capital and business in
fuences can command to dominate con-
gress and the national administration.
And now, after an era of the highest
and most liberal protection ever known to
the history of nations, they announce
through the leaders and managers OF
the party in power that the tariff can
not and shall not even be revised-We sub
nit, in the name of Democracy and in
the name of the people regardless Of
government ceases to be their shelter and
instrument of extortion, and that the
trust, like the common citizen, submit to
the universal principle of equal rights
to all and special privileges to none"