The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-09-15
CARMACK ON GUESSING.

On the fly leaf of the campaign book
recently issued by the Republican Con-
gressional committee, these words APP
pear:
You do not have to guess what the
Republican party will do. The whole
world knows it's purposes. 1t has en-
bodied them In law and executed them in
administration"
Senator Carmack of Tennessee, COM
menting upon this statement, recently
gave out the following interview:
II think there is a measure of truth in
this quotation. The whole country, if
not the whole world, is beginning to
know the purposes of the Republican
party. though it has not as yet fully en-
bodied them in law and executed them in
administration. There is a pretty safe
rule to follow in determining what the
Republican party will do. and that is that
1t will not do what is processes to intend,
anxious to avoid.
"If the world knows the purposes of the
Republican party it does not gather its
knowledge from the Republican plat
forms. 1t has always professed to be
ardently in favor of bimetallism up to
the very time it finally enacted the gold
stdandard. The world may nave known
what the purposes of the Republican
party were, but the Republican party
certainl ynever Intended that the people
should know.
THE same is true of its record on recip-
ciprocity. If Mr.. Mckinley were living
today he would probably confess hat he
himself was mistaken as to the purposes
of the Republican party on this question.
Perhaps the world knows what the
Republican party intends to do on the
tariff and trust question. 1t probably
knows that it has no thought of passing
Mr.. Babcock's tariff bill, out / am sure
that the managers of the Republican
party have very strong hope that the
people of the United states do not know.
'When Mr.. Littlefeld's antitrust bill
went through the House of Represen-
tatives at the first session of the Fifty
sixth Congress, did the world know that
it was the purpose of the Republican
party to use hat bill simply for cam
paign purpose and then let it die with
out one effort to save 1t at the next ses-
sion of Congress? There is certainly very
credible doubt in the minds of some very
prominent Republicans today as to what
should be the purpose of the Republican
party in dealing with the tariff at the
next session of Congress. There are some
who actually believe that it will effect
a enuin revision of our tariff sched
ules. There are others who are equally
as confident that these schedules will moi
be touched.
Sometimes the Republican party en-
bodies an alleged purpose in law and
does not execute 1t in administration. The
Sherman antitrust law for instance
that law has it's periods of activity dur.
ing campaigns. but always relapses into
innocuous desuetude when the campaign
is over.
Does the world or do the American
people know what are the purposes OF
the Republican party in the Philippine
Islands? The party leaders evidentl,
think so, and they therefore consider Il
unnecessary to make any public state
ment on the question. 1t has emphati
cally declined to say whether it intend.
to hold the Philippines permanently a,
q vassal province; whether it intends t,
incorporate them into the Union, o.
whether 1t intends at some time or othe,
to give the people freedom and indie
p~endence.
You will find among the party leader.
and supporters of the administration mer
like Spooner who think a colonial polio,
would entail vast burdens and danger,
upon the United States: men like Rev
veridge who think 1t is our destiny ane
duty to go forth ~conquering and to con