The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-11
Democratic Congressman Renomin-
ated, Defines the Burning
Issues Of the Campaign.


When the Congressman reached the
clubhouse the folding doors were thrcwn
open and Democrats who do not belong
to the County Committee were admitted
to the convention room. Mr.. McDer-
motifs appearance was a signal for loud
cheering.
An introduction was hardly necessary
for the Congressman was among friends
and neighbors who have known and re-
pected him for years.
( Mr.. AlcDermott saGi:-'.Two years
ago l was nominated for Congress at
your hands. l made certain promises
and have kept my pledges. accept the
nomination which you have given me
and am deeply grateful for the honor
conferred upon me-" He dwet for a
few minutes on the subject of the G. o.
rs local organ, saying that twenty
years ago the Journal started in to
abuse him and kept it up until he got a
Judgment against the paper. He taught
them that there was a law of libel, but
the paper resumed its abuse ana has
kept it up ever since.
AS TO CORPORATIONS.
"It has been charged continued Mr..
McDermott, that l am identified with
corporations. want to say that | am
not connected with any corporation in
this county or State that can be affected
by legislation. This ought to be an an
swer to any honest minded nan of any
party. Corporations are necessary to
conduct great civic affairs. Yoii couldn't
build a railroad or accomplish similar big
undertakings without them. The trouble
is not with corporations bu. with the
power they get by combining. TIC result
Of combining is tbis:-Cnner the old
system the head of biz concern knew
he men whom he employed. Tho rela-
tons between the employer and employed
ere different now. T:e eri Of comma
tinns has wiped out the Individuality of
the employed. The pressdcilt ct the
American Sugar Refining Company
don't know his men. Mr.. Matthiessen,
who owned the plant. used to know the
men who worked for him.
when they want to form a sugar or
bicycle trust, agents go to the different
manufacturers and offer to take their
plants into the combine in exchange for
stocks or bonds. Then they shut down
some of the plants acquired and that
wines out competition.
IF tomorrow it was shown in England
that the pcoplc had to pay higher figure
for certain goods manufactured there
than is paid for the same kind of goods
shipped here, there would be a reyolu-
ton. Yet you have to pay more for a
sewing machine here than for the same
machine III England. Why should you
shut out competition with tariff that
| makes it possible for manufacturer to
get 4 higher price abroad for his goods
tEan III this country? The American in
; dustrics arc protected4 by the lobbyists.
rARlTF REFORM.
oh I'm,
paign, Tariff Reform Make tariff re-
form effective bs elccting a Democratic
Congress. The Cry OF protection and the
''fuil dime: psil' will not fool the peo-
pie. AS Abraham Lincoln said:-'You
may fool all of the people some of the
/ time, you may fool some of the people
all Of the time, but yon cannot fool all
of the people al the tjr.c.'
Mr.. McDernjd.t referred to the en-
forced withdrawal Of Speaker Henderson
from the race for reelection in Iowa and
said that the people wouldn't tolerate a
trust system which made millionaires
and beggars.
Last February when the people began
to feel the effects of the big combine
which put up the price of meats, | intro
duced bill in Congress which provided
that there should be NO duty ON meat
I brought into the United States. If that
bill had been passed by Congress it would
have reached the trust. But they
reason why Canadian mutton shouldn't
come over our line without paying a du-
ty? If you can't even obtain a hearing
what liability is there of obtaining relief
against the tariff system? The President
said: Wen reform it Let's see what
| have the Republicans done in this direc-
tion. We have had five years of Re-
publican Legislature and six years of a
Republican President If it has taken
six years for them TO say We'll do some
| thing, how long will it take them TO real
| ly do something? If it takes six years for
them to get where they can think about
getting ready for tariff reform, when will
they be ready to act?
ssMr Havemeyer once said before
| Congressional investigating committee
! that the tariff system is the father of the
trusts in the United States. That is
| true.
DEMOCRACY'S HOPE.
fThe result of the election is problem
atical. But I believe that we will elect
1 Democratic House of Representatives
! that will be able to enact legislation that
! will restrain the trusts and will restore
prosperity There is such thing as
| greed of gold which is beyond human
rights. We are making millionaires by
/ leEfSlatloD. a man VINO makes ullll-
! ion by his efforts has right to do so.
No man has right by legislation to go
| into the ranks of millionaires.
"There is one thing that Congress has
no right to legislate for-the differences
between the operators and the miners in
i the Pennsylvania coal fields.
"a bill for a natural board of arbitra-
I tion was introduced. 1t wasn't a new
idea. / drew it up. Ut provided for one
representative to be named by the EN-
ployers, one by the employees and FIVE by
the President They were to make an
investigation into but one difficulty affec-
ting interstate commerce and report to
the President. Speaker Henderson gave
it an advantage over 1900 bills, and il
was referred to a committee Of which
Congressman Gardner, Of this State, il
4 chairman. 1t was put on the calendar
! in the quickest time on record. II il
/ hadn't been for Burke, of Pennsylvania
! there wouldn't have been any strike. Ths
bill is ON the calendar for December, and
give notice that in the first week Of Tho
session will press Its enactment Ths
ill originally came up two months aftel