The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-18
THE FIGHT IN NEVADA
NEWLANDs HAS GOOD CHANCE
 TO GO TO SENATE.
Republicans of the State are Not Un- usually Active and They Have Been Left Alone by
 the Outsiders.

Washington, Sept. 17.-(Special. )-Ad- vices from Nevada indicate that as the Republicans are not making an unusually active canvass and are receiving very lit- tie help from the outside, the State has been substantially abandoned to theDemo- crats who. under leadership of Represen- tative Newlands. their candidate for the Senate, are putting up a vigorous fight.
 Should Mir. Newlands be elected to the Senate he proposes to make antitrust legislation an object of special considera- ton. He maintains that the President and his party are not in accord and that sooner or later the trust magnates who control the Republican party will leave tho President because of his antitrust views.
 In letter to one of his party mana gers, discussing the Nevada campaign, Mir. Newlands says:
 .'I believe that the truth of our con- tention that the Republican party is the party of privilege, of monopoly. of favored legislation for the few rather than for beneficent legislation for the masses. is becoming clear to the minds of many Americans who have been identified with the Republican party and look for q gradual and conservative reform, secuf- ed through Democratic instrumentality.
 T regard Mir Roosevelt as pre-eminent in the Republican party for sincerity, earnestness and courage. But MT Roosevelt is not the platform of the Re publican party. He was never elected President of the United States. He was Governor of the State of New York. and there he sought to bring the great wealth of the State into some reasonable degree of contribution to the State expenses. New York Republicans favored MT. rid of a reform Governor. Their action was not in the interest of reform, but against it. They hoped to put him into d position of absolute inaction. The action of the assassin and not the action of the Republican party. put Mir. Roose- welt into the Presidential chair.
 Outside of the radical question of party differences. Democrats must conccde that President Roosevelt has conducted hin- self well and that he Is an American of whom every American should feel proud, But the question is not what MT. Roose- velt's views are, but what the views or the Republican party are on this question President, but whether the Republican party is a reform party-and above all, what the action of the Repuollcan party has been during it's six years ol power. I contend that the Republican party is against the President So far as its action is concerned. whatever may be it's verbal expressions. 1t IS against the President and is not m sympathy exploit them before the public for the purpose of securing an extension ot power.'
 MT. Newlands contends that the anti trust sentiment is not hostile to wealth as such. Tt recognizes the fact that there must be inequality of fortunes, he says, that there must be inequalities of fortune arising from difference Tn ability and oportunity. But it does seek to obliterate inequality as far as the law is concerned and to prevent the mach:ncr of the law from being used in such way as to unduly promote the wealth of te" at the expense of the many. The anti trust sentiment is not organized against law abiding wealth. but against the law less wealth of the country; the wealth which seeks exemption from taxation, which evades ard perverts the law in order to cypress the people.
 Mir. Newlands reviews the history or legislation in the past six years and claims that the Republican party has done nothing Tn the way of legislation to meet these evils "On the contrary" he says, 1t has iegislated to promote them. Among other indictments which MT. New lands draws against the Republican party he points out that Hnen the census hi.i was pending in the Senate Senator Du- bois offered an amendment providing that the inquiry should be extended to trusts and that published statements of thelr affairs should be made. His amendment followed exactly the recommendation message" writes MT. Newlands. but when Senator Dubois insisted on vote the Republicans lined up against IL ana the Democrats for ii and the amendment was beaten
 'The Republican party protects the trusts. Ot course, before the people: they will quote the sayings of the President, but when they want campaign funds from the trusts they will point to their Congressional action.