The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-17
NO CAMPAIGN BOOK
 NEEDED BY DEMOCRATS
Republicans Have Furnished Plenty of Ammunition by Their PrOduct--AnalySeS of Portions
 Of the Remarkable Publication.

Washington. Aug. 16-fSpe cial. Ut will not be necessary for the Democratic Con- gressional Committee 10 prepare a cam paign book this year, if the managers wi only take time to use the document al. ready prepared by the Republican Com mittee. The campaign text book issued by the Republican Congressional Commit tee is one of the most remarkable docu- ments that was ever contained between covers and furnishes the most effective kind of material for Democratic consump- ton. It is a perfect illustration of the fact that the gentleman who exclaimed, "Oh, that mine enemy would write a book" knew just what he was talking about and appreciated the value of print ed efforts to bolster up waning cause.
 Great skill has been shown in the com pilation of the book that is to be used as a guide for the Republican spellbind- CTS in the coming Congressional cam paign. It is an artistic triumph in some respects. It may be read from cover to cover without discovering that there are any questions pending before the voters this year on which the Republicans are divided. Take the tariff and the protec- fion of trusts, as an example. MT. Bab- cock Chairman of the Congressional Committee and author of the document now being circulated, came home from
  his indignation over the discovery that the trust manufacturing establishments of the United States were selling goods in Flu rope at less cost than they were being sold to the American consumer. He threatened to bolt the Republican Party unless the tariff on trust goods was re- duced and carried on his campaign in Wisconsin on that issue. At the opening of the last session of Congress he in nla Of ha steel trust on the free list. He was so enthusiastic over the matter that he was feared by the Republican leaders in the House and was practically kept out of their councils until he weakened in his attitude. Strange to say. or, perhaps, it isn't strange at all, there is not line in the Republican Campaign Text Book about MT. Babcock's desire to have the tariff nurtured trusts dealt with by Con- gress not a word about the issue over which he has been talking and writing for more than year, the issue that came near disrupting the party at several stages in the session of the late Con gress. There is not line in support of Babcock's claim that the Dngley rates should be revised. nor is there word tend ing to support the contentious of the high tariff men that the Dingley law is sacred and must not be touched. Many pages of
 
 their purpose is to show that the country is more prosperous now than it was in low tariff days. Of course the tariff, ac- cording to Republican arguments, is re- sponsible for everything that has contrib uted to making the people prosperous.
 During the last campaign, it will be remembered, the Republican orators waxed eloquent in telling of what the party had done for Cuba, how its pledges had been redeemed and the little island made prosperous and happy under the wise and beneficent laws passed, or pledged, by the grand old party. That all sounds pretty, and funny, when com pared with the record of the last Con- gress. There is not a line in the Text Book to show that Cuba is on the map There is no explanation of the failure of the Republican Congress to carry out it's pledges to grant reciprocal trade relations to Cuba. a promise made by President Mckinley and reiterated by President Roosevelt. There is no hint in the pages of the book that the Republican Party is split from Dan to Bersheeba on the Cuban question: that the Sugar Trust prevented legislation in keeping with the party's pledges and that the islands which was recently rescued from Spanish tyr amy Is now being used as a political football by Republican politicians. There is nothing to show that the Democrats of the House, aided by a few Republicans | passed a bill granting tariff reductions to Cuba and delivering a staggering blow at the Sugar Trust by removing the diff | ferential on rein d sugar. There is | nothing to show that the Republican Sen | ators who are controlled by the Sugar | Trust prevented any action in the Sen | ate on that question and practically serv- | ed notice on President Roosevelt that | there could be no legislation, even to the | disruption of the party, that promised to work any harm the beloved Sugar Trust. There is ominous silence in the | text book concerning the real facts about | the Cuban reciprocity legislation. There is whole lot of extracts from Presi- dent McKinley's speeches in favor of gen eral reciprocity, but nothing about the partys refusal to deal with specific case to which it was pledged in it's national platforms.
 MT. Babcock. editor of the Republican Campaign Text Book. has never posed as a humorist. but he is evidently trying to break into that class. On no other theory can his literary efforts on the trust question be explained. The Repub liCan orator who seeks to draw material for trust-denouncing speeches from the text book will have to be mighty careful or he will find himself in an awful mud de. Mir Babcock has introduced some tables into his work that are fearfuily and wonderfully made, clearly calculated to deceive and certain to mislead the or ator who attempts to draw conclusions from them For instance there is a set of figures showing that the number of men employed in certain number Qt factories has increased within the last few years and that their wages have in- creased about Is per cent. Then the next table is fixed up to tickle the farmer 1t IS a remarkable showing of what fat OK will buy now compared with four years ago. It is pretty trap and fur nishes fine argument for the Democrats The table shows that a fat OK today will bring about three or four times as much as it would four years ago and that all of the products of the farm have in- creased in value from 50 to 400 per cent That IS mighty fine for the farmer. but how does the laboring man like it? By MT Babcocks own figures the iaborin9 mans wages have been increased but is per cent. while. by tho same eminent au- thority he is compelled to pay from So to 400 per cent more for his meat, his vegetables. and his food stuffs from the farm than he did four years ago If Mir Babcock were seeking to defeat the Republican candidates in the coming Congressional canvass he could not sum