The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-10-01
DEMOCRATIC HOPES
In Tariff Revision, and Light is
Shining in the West.
ROOSEVELT ON THE TRUSTS
Is Doing Effective Work for Demo-
Gratis Because of Failure to
Suggest Plan For Their
Control.

president Roosevelt is our strong
est speaker in the field " This was
the smiling remark Of Chairman
James NJ. Griggs Of the Democratic
congressional campaign committee.
says the Washington correspondent Of
The State, when asked recently what he
thought of the presidents Cincinnati
speech in which the tariff question as
it relates to trusts, was dwelt on at
length.
THE president is crystalizing the
popular belief which IS just at this
time electrifying the mindSof the peo-
pie OF this country that the trusts
should be regulated. At the same
time that the president is crystalizing
this belief, he is telling the people in
almost direct language that they can
expect nothing from his party in the
way Of remedial legislation, at least
not for years.
with this in mind, the people will
realize that the Democratic party is
the party, and the only party ready
for action now. There is absolutely
no ground for the presidents warning
that the Democratic party would de-
stroy both the trusts that do i'll and
the trusts that do good, as he terms
them. as well as the general prOSperi-
ty Of the country. The Democratic
party will be just as careful In admin
istering its trust medicine as the
Republican party can be. We shall
neither destroy the business interests
of the country nor injure the wage
earnerS. We are as patriotic as the
Republican party and we are not op-
posed to vested rights or to property
as such. We simply favor giving every
man an equal chance in the race OF
life, and wherever the tariff shelters
the trusts as we know it does, we
propose to So modify it as to remedy
the evil.
THE president admits that the re-
moval of the tariff from some OF the
trust products you'd be a remedy, and
the more the president talks along
these lines, the better will the Demo-
Gratis be satisfied"
In commenting on Chairman Bah
cocks confidence Of Republican sue
cess in the fall elections, Mr.. Griggs
said that he could not exactly figure
out Mr.. Babcock's philosophy.
Though he is confident that the Re-
publicans will control the fifty-eight
congress" he at the same time pre-
diets that they will lose some mem
bers. Mr.. Babcock may know more
about sliding down hill than l do, but
1 never yet have been able to under
stand how a man who begins to slide
down can know exactly the point
above the bottom at which he will or
can stop"
WILL ATTACK THE TARIFF.
Mr.. Griggs ascribes nc other reason
for Speaker Henderson'S withdrawal
from the race in his home district
than that assigned by the speaker
himsel in his declination on the tariff.
Il regret very much that it should
have been stated the Democratic cam
paign managers have been contemplat-
ing any personal attack on Speaker
Henderson," continued Mr.. Griggs.
Nothing has been further from our
intentions. l believe Mr.. Henderson
retired from the race because Of the
reasons he gave. To believe anything
else, it seems to me, would be re-
hection upon his integrity as man
and his standing as Republican. l
believe what he says, whether his pro-
feSsed friends believe it or not.
''This only accentuates the fact
that tariff reform is coming in spite OF
anything the Republican leaders may
do or say. The people are tired of
fostering industries, which, in the
language Of Mr.. Pou, treat US not
only worse than they do foreigners,
but worse than they do Savages' by
charging US higher prices for Amerl-
can made goods than they charge
aliens for the same class Of goods.
This is creating a strong sentiment
in favor Of proper revision Of the
Dingley tariff law, as it ought to 90. >"