The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-25
SITUATION IN DELAWARE.
Congressional Campaign Speakers
Find Serious Republican breaches.


Congressional Campaign Speakers
Find Serious Republican breaches.
Washington, D. c., Sept. 24.-Hon.
Henry D. Clayton of Alabama, who
has just returned from a weeks cam
paigning in Delaware, where he and
Chairman Griggs of the Democratic
Congressional Committee made
speeches on the occasion of the meet
ing of the Democratic State Conven-
ton, was at Democratic headquarters
yesterday. and 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 deter
mined never to support Addicks or any
other member of his gang for the
United States Senate. The Democrats
Will carry the next Legislature and
VIII elect, in my opinion, those two
splendid young Democrats, R. r. Ken
ney and Willard Salisbury, to the
United States Senate.
AS to the declination of Speaker
Henderson, 1 have to say that 1 be-
ileVe his public utterances are true, in
so tar as he states his and other old
Tune Republican opposition to the pres
ent pretended Republican cooperation
with the real purpose Of the Demo-
Gratis to revise the Dtngley tariff. He
knows that his party leaders in the
present campaign mean one of two
things-that they merely intend to as
sumo the same position as the Demo-
Gratis have all alnnp hold in, ND
ing a revision of the present iniquit-
Gus tariff. If they are sincere in this,
the Speaker is brave enough and Re-
publican enough to say that he is OPP
posed to them. If they are merely
pretending to be in favor of tariff re-
vision, then the Speaker is too honest
man to lend his influence and high
character to such pretense. BE what
you seem to be-" l have no doubt is
the Speakers motto. He is not in
favor of playing the Republican game
of how to fool the people.
THE President has delivered many
short lectures on evolution, the Mis-
sissippi levees, and good citizenship,
and in praise of some little book and
so on. He has interspersed these lee
lures with very strong denunciations
of the trusts, but has wound up all his
speeches by saying that he had no
remedy to propose, except some sort
of publicity which at most could ben
ent only investors and gamblers in in
dustrial stocks, and except that
through some sort of constitutional
amendment, the trusts must be con-
trolled in some way or other. He owed
1t to the country to make some specific
utterance and some particular recon-
mendation, but had he done so, he
could not have gotten any considerable
number of his party to have agreed
with him upon any constitutional
amendment looking to the real control
of trusts, and any feasible plan for
their suppression would have been met
by strenuous opposition from trust
magnates and other influential Repub-
licans. The President seems to have.
known that glittering generalities
would not alarm the trust milllonaires
and his party leaders acquiesced in
his utterances, knowing that they were
harmless and might result in helping
out Republican congressman in close
districts, where the people demand a
revision of the tariff for the benefit of
taxpayers and consumers.
Speaker Henderson's utterances but
for the fact of his high party position.
would have attracted no more atten-
ton than the recent speech of Senator
Lodge at Portland, Me-, in which he
said in defense of the steel trust, that
it was organized to compete in every
market of the world, and it would not
be harmed by a revision or an aboli-
ton of the protective tariff-it would
simply become an international trust.
He also said in the same speech by
way of threat, that the wooden trust
would probably close every one of its
mills in the country Senator Lodge
also said in the same speech that he
thought the method of regulating
trust by putting them into the control
of the public through the government,
is the silliest remedy suggested. This
does not square with the supposed wis
dom uttered by the President in his
speech at Boston, when he said he
hoped TO see the power given the ma
tional legislature to control the trusts.
This seems to be silly, in Senator
Lodges opinion"