Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-10-07
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondence Of the CoUnrEa.

Washington, October 8, 1908.
There is considerable discussion
here over the fact that the pluto
cratic press of the country. is es-
.pecially enamored of the remark
made by Gov. Durbin, of Indiana,
the other day, that, ''the man who
violently assails, by word or deed,
the laws of the country such as
ours commits crime not only of
infamy but of insanity,
The opinion exists here that the
above comes with rather poor grace
from Gov. Durbin, who has refus-
ed to honor the requisition of the
state of Kentucky for one of the
men accused of the murder of
Gov. Goebel, when the law and
the constitution requires the per-
petrators of such crimes to be de-
hvered up to justice. Is he hardly
a fit man to read lectures on what
is right and wrongj 1t is admitted
that to violently assail law that
is robbing the people of the United
States, such as the Dingley tariff
law, is a crime to the trust mag
nets who profit by it. To denounce
the laws in several states that tax
the small home and the little per-
sonal property of the poor man on
its full value, and let the corpora
tons and millionaires off with only
paying 90 or 30 per cent. is insan-
ity according to Hanna and the
republican leaders in Ohio. To
all such the law of their own max
ing is too sacred to be tempered
with, and Gov. Durbin only echoes
the cry of the trusts and corpora
tons who, in most cases, have
paid for the unrighteous laws they
hold so sacred. The most of the
laws passed recently have been
passed by republicans, and the
shoe is beginning 10 pinch when
the people are crying out against
them, and hence the howl by the
governor of Indiana, who stands
for everything the trusts demand.
If the people. of Indiana like that
sort of thing and that sort of gov
ernor, they may continue to wor-
ship their own fetish, and the
thinking people IF this country
will draw their own conclusions
concerning the mental condition of
Indiana's population.
There is considerable adverse
comment going on here anent the
attempt of prominent republican
politicians to select the democratic
nominee for the presidency next
year. Not long ago the Hon.
Shelby NJ. Cullom, of Illinois,
United States Senator, came out
in an interview and proclaimed
that Senator German was the ideal
democrat To nominate for the pres
idency by the democrats. There
is no shrewder or more adroit pol
itician in the Congress of the United
States than Mr.. Cullom. He said
in that interview that Il am con-
WINGED that German has the real
welfare of the nation deeply at
heart. / learned that Mt the time
the Wilson tariff measure was up
for passage. 1t was he who saved
our amendments to that bill. !" The
democrats who have been in this
city in the past few days are COM
menting on this statement by the
leading republican from the state
of Illinois, and saying that it is
pretty good democratic policy to
do the things those kind of re-
publicans repudiate and not do the
things they advocate. When the
democrats of the country have to
take their nominees from among
the men republicans want to see
nominated, then the democracy is
in a pretty bad row of stumps, and
would do well to either repudiate
republican suggestions or else go
into the hands of a receiver. The
nomination of the democrat with
the above Endorsement from of the
leading republicans of the country
would place the democracy on the
explaining bench from start to
finish of the campaign. 1t the
trusts and the tariff questions are
to be uppermost In the coming
campaign, then the above sugges-
ton may give the democrats of the
country some food for thought.
Will you nominate a man whose
whole life and action in the past
have been a protest against trusts