The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-28
HAS NO STOMACH
TO MEET CLARK
Hanna Declines to Meet Com.
Pstitor For Senatorship.
MAKES SPECIOUS PLEA
DICK TRIES TO JUSTIFY BOSS
BACKDOWN.

COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 27-The reply
of Chairman Dick Of the BepUP-
lican state committee TO Charles
Salem of the Democratic state commit
tee. declining the challenge Of John II.
Clarke. the Democratic nominee for the
United States senate. to a joint debate
with Senator NJ. A. Hanna. was given
out tonight Chairman Dick says in
part:
81 regret that caudor compels me To
say that / find some rather serious OBJ
Jections to the conditions of your pro-
posal. There ought to be some separate
quality as mutually I'm Joint discus
sion. ] fear you have overlooked that
phase of the case. Let me particular
ize Mr. Hanna's party has but one
set of principles, while Mr.. Clarke's
party has vast assortment of prin-
ciples, sounding the entire gamut from
doctrine 90 dogma -DcmocratiC, POpu-
list, Agrarian and Socialisticy
There is "A tariff How does NJ.
Clarke stand on that issue? His party
stands all over IT, In New England it
IS for free raw material and for pro-
tected finished products: in Texas TT is
for protected raw material and for free
finished products. Does Mr.. Clarke
favor q tariff for revenue only or a
tarih for revenue with Incidental pro
lection: is he "a German tariff Demo
crat OF Johnson no-tariT Democrat?
If he favors any kind of a tariff let
him debate with Mr.. johnson. who is
an absolute free trader and would re-
peal every tariff and Internal revenue
law and sell all the custom houses.
What Chance Has Hanna?
MIR. Clarke has all these strings on
his bow. and more, too. What chance
a.
string to his bow. have i'm disputatiou
with such man? Mr.. hanna stands
pat When Mr.. Clarke joins a party
that stands pat on anything Mr.. Hanna
viii talk with him
Then there is the coinage question.
How does Mr.. Clarke stand on that
The absUlutiOn Mr.. Bryan gave him
would argue that ne is not a stand
patter. Indeed. Mr.. Bryan says he is
not. Then. if Mr.. Clarke is really on
The Kansas City platform and is bound
70 have a debate with somebody. let
him hunt up the Palmer and BuCkneT
platform and debate with that. IF. on
tho other hand. ne is still a goldbug,
NE has no quarrel with Mr.. Hanna on
that score-eX- Senator Charles A
Towne is the man ne is looking for
or the Hon. John J. Lentz might do in
pinch If AIr. Clarke were elected
10 the senate. would he vote on the
currency question with the gold Demo-
Gratis or with the free silver Demo-
crats7
The Republican state platform de-
ClGres that every one of the war
amendments is binding in honor upon
every American citizen. Why did Mr..
Clarke say I'm his Akron speech that
that platform winds Up with the
declaration that amounts TO a multi
fication of the fifteenth amendment?
Where does Mr.. Clarke stand on the
war amendments Does ne believe in
them or viii he favor their repeaI2 Is
he i'm harmony with Senator Tulman.
who has boasted that whenever colOred
voters attempt to exercise the elective
franchise i'm South Carolina ne win
meet the attempt with a shotgun? II
elected TO the senate. will Mr. Clarke
Join his colleague from Tennessee. Mr..
Carmack. and vote for his resolution
10 repeal the fifteenth amendments Is
Mr.. Clarke willing to explain his posi-
ton on these vital questions?
Last Series of Reasons.
Where does Mr.. Clarke stand on
the Philippine question? Does M
stand with Mr.. Bryan when ne was
lobbying at the capitol at Washington
for the ratification of the treaty that
coded the islands TO us2 or later when
in the campaign Of 1900 he advocated
an American proteCtOrate'2 Or when
still later ne declared for their 'abso-
lutte Independence Does Mr. Clarke
stand for any or an three OF these
propositions Does Mr.. Clarke side
with the eastern Democrats. the 're-
organizersE Democracy today wears
50 many colors. appears under so many
different shapes and forms. assumes so
many DISCUSSES that 7 feel IL would be
unfair to Senator Hanna TO ask him
Co meet Mr.. Clarke i'm "a joint debate
until ne is advised more fully as to
Ar Clarke's position on the subjects
above alluCPd TO, until ne learns wha.
particular brand of Democracy Mr..
Clarke claims as his, until he knows
whether he is expected to debate with
AIR Clarke, the corporation lawyer. or
Mr.. Clarke. the candidate for United
States senator"