Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1902-10-08
MR.. HAY ON THE ISSUES.
Opened His Campaign In Char
vile Friday Night.

SSut'Vecthhu Jaults nay. VI tue
Seventh Virginia district. opened his
campaign IN Charlottesville last Fri.
day night. He discusses the tariff
and the trusts, which be called the
leading and paramount issues. and
showed Roosevelt's attitude to them
as One that was tvpicslly Republi.
can. since he admitted the possibility
of bad trusts while maintaining that
there were good ones, and proposed
remedies either futile or SO remote
10 their results that they could not
result in relief
Referring to the nominee of the
Luray cow enti"u-Dr. Hoffman
the popular Congressman expressed
the opinion that the opposition would
not be of very serious character or
prevent him representing the Seventh
District in the Fifty Eight Congress.
Yet, AT the same time he wanted his
hearers to go to the polls and cast
their votes on the 18th of November
next. He said in part:
The greatest question which cou-
fronts the Democratic party today is
the question of harmony. Harmony
must exist if we expect to win in
1904. The tin,. has come when we
can get together upon the great issues
which will confront us. In 1896 we
insisted upon tn" free coinage of sill.
ver. Now the free coinage of silver
aud the silver question is no longer
an issue upon which the Democratic
party can undertake to fight. Ii has
been rrlegated To the rear admire
Bryan-1e is an honest, able mau-
but circumstances are at present such
that we will 60 elsewhere for can
didate-One who can unite all forces
of the party. | am not prepared to
say who that candidate should be, but
some man like Chef Justice Parker,
of New York, who could harmonic
the party. Harmony is the watch
word of the hour. The present poll
cies of the Republican party will
result in greatest injury to our
country aud people. The Democratic
party agrees on all great principles,
and must lay aside side Issues.
1.-The great issues upon which we
have got TO win our battles are the
issues OF che tariff aud the trusts.
The Republican party is divided on
the tariff. Heuderson's withdrawal
from the race for Congress is siguif
cant. The great Northwest is in
favor of some revision of the tariff.
while the leaders of the party still
intend that the tariff shall not be
revised, but shall continue to live
under the Dingley act. The time
has come when there must be tariff
revision"
The Congressman then commented
upon the iunketing trip of Roosevelt,
whom, he said, was trying to fix him
self for the nomination, and ri licul-
ed the Presidents addresses in regard
to trusts. At first, he said, he spoke
in favor of curling them, hut the
further he went and the more
speeches he made the more he was in
favor of the trusts, knowing well that
he could not afford to risk his nomi-
nation.
Continuing, the speaker said, that
those trusts have become what they
are, by reason of hi gh tariff. Reduce
the tariff,a you will do away with
their control over what We eat and
wear. The congressman said that he
was not advocating free trade, but a
fair, businesslike revision of the tariff
which will help the people of the
country, and which will not attend
to arouse any fear on the part of
business men that their business is
going to be hurt.
Reserting to the trusts, Mr.. Hay
said that while they we're on the high
tide of prosperity, aud the country
was on boom, with everybody invest
ing money, yet the tiWe will come
when these trusts will be unable to
pay the dividends they have promised
and the same disasters which have
met this country periodically will
come again unless their power is
curbed. If We wait unul a constitu-
tional amendment is passed, as Presi-
dent Roosevelt suggests it will not be
in our day. 1t takes three fourths ofthe
States of the Union to adopt such an
amendment. And then-how many
Legislatures do the trusts control ?
Certainly one-fourth. Then, too, 1t
must be remembered that the trusts
are growing in power. Such a
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