Evening star., 1902-08-04
CARMAOK'S COMMENT
FIRST PARAGRAPH OF REPUBLI-
CAN TEXT BOOK.
He Thinks That Party Promises What
It Does Not Intend to
Perform.


the Republican Text Book, just issued for
Tennessee, who is the chairman of the lit
erature committee of the democratic cam
paign committee, gave to Star reporter
this afternoon what may be taken as the
general democratic view of this newest pro-
duction of literature on the part Of their
political opponents.
The first paragraph of the book seems to
be given In the nature of a text for the
whole. 1t reads:
"You do not have to guess what the re-
publican party will do. The whole world
knows it's purposes. 1t has embodied them
in law and executed them in administra-
tion.'
This is quoted by the republicans as
President McKinley's definition Of the re-
publican party before he was elected Pres
ident
Senator Carmack's Comment.
Senator Carmack says
Il 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
1t has not yet fully embodied them In
law and executed them in administration.
There is pretty safe rule to follow in de-
termining what the republican party will
processes to intend, and that 1t will do
what it seems most anxious to avoid.
'If the world knows the purposes OF the
republican party 1t does not gather It's
knowledge from republican platforms. IT
had always professed to be ardently IN
favor of bimetallism up to the very time
that it finally enacted the gold standard.
The world may have known what the pur-
poses of the republican party were, but the
republican party certainly never intended
that the people should know.
The same is true of it's record on reci-
procity. If Mr.. Mckinley were living today
he would probably confess that he himself
was mistaken as to the purposes of the re-
publican party on this question.
Perhaps the world knows what the re-
publican party intends to do on the tarin
and trust question. 1t probably knows that
it has no thought of passing Mr.. Babcocks
tariff bill or Mr.. Littlefelds antitrust bill.
but 1 am very sure that the managers OF
the republican party have very strong hope
that the people of the United States do not
know.
Simply for Campaign Purposes.
"When Mr.. Littlefield's antitrust bill
went through the House of Representatives
at the first session of the Fifty-s!xth Con-
g;ess did the world know that 1t was the
purpose of the republican party to use that
bill simply for campaign purposes, and then
let 1t die without one effort to save 1t at
the next session of Congress? There is GER
tainly very considerable 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 genuine revision of our tariff schedules.
There are others who are equally as conf
dent that these schedules will not be
touched
Sometimes the republican party en-
bodies an alleged purpose in law, and does
not execute it in administration. The Sher-
man antitrust law, for instance-that law
has its periods of activity, during cam
paigns, but always relapses into tnnocuous
desuetude when the campaign is over.
docs the whole world, do the Ameri-
can people know what are the purposes Of
the republican party in the Philippine Is
lands? The party leaders evidently think SO,
and they therefore consider it unnecessary
to make any public statement on the ques-
ton. 1t has emphatically declined to say
whether it intends to hold the Philippines
permanently as vassal province; whether
1T intends to incorporate them into the
Union, or whether 1t intends at some time
or other to give them freedom and nde-
pendence. You will find among the party
leaders and supporters of the administra-
tion men like Spooner, who think that a
colonial policy would entail vast burdens
and dangers upon the United States men
like Beveridge, who think 1t Is our destiny
and duty to go forth conquering and to
conquer; men like the President, who like
this kind of thing because 1t is warlike:
men like Secretary Shaw, who think there
is money in the business of seizing territory
and killing the inhabitants; other men who
think We ought to get out of the Philip
plLes. but don't know how to do It, in fact,
all shades and varieties of opinion. You
might take dozen republican senator's at
random and no statement of the purpose
or the republican party in the Philippines
could be written that would command a
majority of their votes.
If the people of the United States are to
look into the legislative record of the re-
publican party for the future indication of
What may be expected Of 1t, where will
they look, and what will they fnd-nothing
consistent in any line"