The Washington times., 1902-09-25
RETURNS FROM THE
DELAWARE CAMPAIGN
Hon. Henry D. Clayton Talks
National Politics.
PRAISES GEN. HENDERSON
Thinks Speaker Honest ine Reasons
Given for Withdrawal - Discusses
Presidents Attitude and Utterances
on Question of Trusts and Tariff.

Hon. Henry d. Clayton, of Alabama,
who has recently returned from the Del
aware campaign, where he and Chairman
Griggs, of the Democratic Congressional
committee, made speeches at the State
convention Of that party, yesterday said:
THE situation in Delaware is all that
the Democrats can desire. The breach
between the Addicks Republicans and the
regular Republicans is wider than ever
1t does not seem possible for them to
unite on one candidate for Congress, and
the regulars are determined never to
support Addicks or any other member
of his gang for the United States Senate.
The Democrats nominated Mr.. Houston
a sterling Democrat, of good ability and
high character, for Congress. and he will
receive the enthusiastic and undivided
support of the party. He is native Of
Delaware. and this makes him unusu-
ally strong in the rural districts.
1.-THE Democrats will carry the next
Legislature and will elect, in my opin-
ion, those two splendid young Demo-
Gratis. X. R. Kenney and Willard sauls-
bury, to the United States Senate. These
two young men are excellent leaders
and campaign managers. confidently
expect Democratic Congressman and
two Democratic Senators from Delaware
as result Of the November election.
1t does not seem possible for Republi-
cans to get together and reconvene the
Legislature prior to November. After
the November election the present Leg
islature passes out, except as to the
hold-over Senators, majority OF whom
are Democrats.
Action of Speaker Henderson.
"As to the declination of Speaker
Henderson, l have to say that believe
his public utterances are true in so far
as be states his and other old-time Re-
publican opposition to the present pre-
tended Republican co-operatica with the
real purpose Of the Democrats to revise
the Dingley tariff. l do not believe that
the miserable reasons which have been
assigned by some Republican enemies
of the Speaker for campaign purposes to
tion can be true. For about six years I
have known and observed him. He has
made good presiding officer, has been
upright in the conduct of his Office and
courteous to the members of the House
when he was in the Speakers chair and
elsewhere
Il have heretofore voted for thanks to
him as a presiding officer. / now feel
like adding vote of thanks for his
honesty and manhood in declaring tina.
he is not in accord with the false pre-
lenses being urged by some of his party
associates. He knows that his party
leaders in the present campaign mean
one OF two things-that they merely in
tend TO assume the same position as the
Democrats have all along held in de-
mandinga revision OF the present in
iquitous tariff II they are sincere in
this, the Speaker is brave enough and
Republican enough to say that he is op-
posed to thom. If they are merely pre-
tending TO pe in favor of tariff revision,
then the Speaker is too honest a man to
lend his influence and high character to
such a pretense. BE what you seem to
be- | have no doubt is the Speakers
motto. He Is not in favor of playing the
Republican game of how to fool the peo-
pie.
Says Republicans Are Insincere.
That the Republicans are not sim
cere in their pretended opposition to the
trusts has been demonstrated all along,
and particularly SO for the last four
years, when they have been in absolute
control of the Presidents Office and both
branches of Congress They made two
efforts or pretenses against the trusts
within the last six days of the first ses-
sion of the Fifty-sixth Congress, and
these two efforts were confined to the
House Of Representatives. Nothing was
ever even attempted to be done in the
Senate. where they were and are in
control by a large majority. Their ef-
fort to pass a constitutional amendment
was fully exposed at the time. Even
some of their House leaders, like the
Roman augurs of old. would laugh
v hen they met each other over the gam,
Of deception that they were attempting
10 play.
THE President has delivered many
short lectures on evolution. the Missis-
sippi levees, and good citizenship. and
in praise of some little book. and so on.
He has interspersed these lectures with
very strong denunciations of the trusts.
but has wound up all his speeches by
saving that he had no remedy to pro-
pose, except some sort of publicity.
which at most could benefit only invest
DTS and gamblers in industrial stocks, |
and except that, through some sort of a
amendment, the trusts
must be controlled in some way or other |
Debt to His Country.
HE owed it to the country to make |
some specific utterance and some par
ocular recommendation; but had he done |
80, he could not have gotten any con-
siderable number of his party to have |
.greed with him upon any constitutional |
amendment looking to the real control |
If trusts, and any feasible plan for their
would have been met by
strenuous opposition from trust mag
lates and other influential Republicans. |
The President seems to have known that |
differing generalities would not alarm |
he trust millionaires, and his party
eaders acquiesced in his utterances.
moving that they were harmless and
night result in helping out Republican
congressman in close districts where .he
,eople demand revision of the tariff |
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