Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-04-08
So Says Prominent Democratic
Senator in Washington.
FIGHT UPON THE TRUST QUESTION
Popular Election Of United States Senator's
Another Prominent Plank.
Washington, April Z.
Special Correspondence Of the COURIER.

Inv /OiiOSi dbiS party can WIN
and will win in 1904, if the conven-
ton is guided by common sense"
said one of the leading Democrats
of the nation to me few days ago.
As | said in my last letter, | can
not give his name at this time
because he is not ready to be quoted,
but he nevertheless wants his opin-
ions filtered through the press of
the country in order that the peO-
pie may think them over.
The Democratic party should
not surrender to the so-called reOr-
ganizers, continued this distin-
guished gentleman. BY that /
mean that we should not nominate
man for the presidency who boil
ted the party organizations in 1896
or in 1900. There are fundamen-
tai principles and tenets of faith in
the Democratic party which are
immortal, and which will forever
keep this land free and indepen-
dent republic, and to which the
vast majority of the people of the
country subscribe, and when they
are not beclouded 10y fanciful' and
eXtraneous theories the result will
show itself in great Democratic
majority, popular As well rs in a
the electoral college. The Dem
Ocratic position on the money queS-
ton in 1895 and 1900 was a policy
adopted at that time in order to
relieve the necessities of the peo-
pie and of the business world that
were clamOring for more money to
do the business of the country.
1t simply Involved the quantitative
theory of money, and our every
-tention in that regard has been
amply proved by subsequent
events. We wanted and needed
more money in circulation and
advocated bi-metallism as the
remedy. The remedy came. but
il came in the shape of one metal
only, superinduced by the failure
of crops in the old countries. by
the war with Spain, and by the
flood of gold from the mines of
Alaska. The result was the same
Prosperity returned to the country
just as we said it would if we could
get more basic money on which to
do the business of country.
I'VE now have three times the
volume of money in circulation
that we mad in 1896, and the result
is that we have comparative pros
perity where then we had stagna-
ton in all lines of business. There
fore, the money question is no
longer an issue.
The question of special privil-
eye, the parent of monopoly, and
opposition to which is fixed prin-
ciple of the Democratic party, is
one upon which all Democrats can
unite, fight under the same banner
and bring victory. On this plat
form, constructed as above indi-
Gated, | think it will be wise for us
TO place young and vigorous
young Democrat whose Democracy
is known by his works, whose name
will appeal to the laboring masses
of the country as well as to the
business interests acceptable to
both. We must take into consid-
Grafton the conditions that confront
US. The farmer has not yet begun
TO feel the fact that the trusts are
charging him more for everything
he buys than they do the foreign
buyer of the same article, and the
majority of the farmers are ''stand-
patters, " and while those who are
Democrats probably would not vote
the Republican ticket, they might
not realize the significance of the
election, In tho face of this we
must nominate a man who has the
confidence and can carry the vast
labor vote Of the country. An
overwhelming majority of this vote
will turn the scale in many of the
pivotal states of the union, especi-
in the East and the middle West,
and bring victory to the Democra-
tic party. With that kind os leader
on platform that denounces mon
opoly and special privilege in all
its notifications and demands tariff
revision, trust control and, where
necessary, trust extinction, an
income tax and election Of United
States Senator's by vote of the PEG;
pie direct, we can and will VIM