The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-04-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


Washington, ID. e., April 4, 1903.
"The democratic party can win and
will win in 1904, il the convention is
guided by common sense" said one of
me q few days ago. ] cannot give his
name at this time because he is not
ready to be quoted, but he neverthe-
less wants his opinion filtered through
the press of the country in order that
the people may think them over.
"The democratic party should not
surrender to the so-called reOrganiz-
ere." continued this distinguished gen.
tlcman. BY that l mean that we should
who bolted the party organizations in
1896 or in 1900. There are fundamen-
tai principles and tcncts of faith in
the democratic party which are i'm
mortal, and which will forever keep
this land a free and independent re-
public, and to which the vast majority
OF the people VI the country subscribe,
and when they are not beclouded by
fanciful and extraneous theories the
result will show itself in q great demo-
cratic majority, popular as we'll as in
the electoral college. The democratic
position on the money question in 1896
and 1900 was a policy adopted at that
time in order to relieve tho necessities
of the people and OF the business world
that were c%lamOring for money to do
the business OF the country. 1t simply
involved the nuantitative theory Of
money, and Il every contention 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, hut it came in the
shape OF one metal only, superinduced
by the failure of crops in the old cOun-
tries, by the war with Spain, and by
the flood of gold from the mines in
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 the country.
"We now have three times the vol
ume of money in circulation that we
had in 1896, and the result is that we
have comparative prosperity where
then we had stagnatiOn in all lines of
business. Therefore, the money ques-
ton is no longer an issue.
1.-The question Of special privilege,
the parent Of monopoly, and .opposi.
the democratic party, is one upon
which all democrats can unite, fight
under the same banner and bring vic
tory. On this .platform, constructed
as above Indicated I think it will be
wise for us to place o young and Wig
OrOus democrat whose democracy is
known by his works, whose name will
appeal to the laboring. masses of the
country as we'll as to the business in
terests and acceptable to both. We
dition that confronts 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 dem
Ocrats probably would not vote the re-
publican ticket, they might not realize
the significance of the election. In
tho face of this fact we must nominate
q man who has the confidence and can
carr the vast labor vt:o OF the cities
OF the country. An overwhelming ma
iOrity Of this vote will turn the scale
in many of the pivotal States of the
union. especially in the East and mid
die West, and bring victory to the
democratic party. With that kind of
leader on q platform that denounces
monopoly aud special privilege in all
It's qualifications and demands tariff re-
vision, trust control and, where neces-
sary, trust extinction, an income tax
and election of United States Senators
by vote of the people direct, we can
and will win"
l have repeatedly stated in this cor
respondence that the so-called ''anti-
trust" bills which the republicans per-
United to become laws last winter will
in no way benefit the people or curb
he trusts. There is nothing in the
except the titles. that forebode evil to-
the trusts. 1t will, therefore. ~snrnriea
few mon to know that the real authors
OF the bills are tho trusts themselves
the very ones that tried to hOOdwink
the people by sending kilograms to the
Senators ordering them not to pasa the
"anti-trust" bills. The New York
Journal Of Commerce and Commercial
Bulletin of March 25, contains the story
bate bill. A dispatch,to that paper of
that date from Chicago says that at a
meeting of western railway executive
officials to discuss the Eikins law. it
was stated that A. j. Cassatt, president
OF the Pennsylvania; Paul Morton, Sec
ond Vice. President of the Santa Fe
and E. D. Kenna. First ice-President
and general counsel Of the same road,
are authors OF the bill. It is stated
that the frat draft of the bill was made
OF the three men named. This draft
was submitted to the President, the
Attorney General and the chairman Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
and subsequently wae amended. AS
finally introduced, however,, the bill
was essentially the bill prepared from
the suggestions made by Messrs. Cas-.
conferences at the White House. Mr..
Morton says of the law: ~ believe the
act. will C the maintenance of
freight and passenger rates, and this
will! be of inestimable benefit to the
entire country. the railroads, the ship
pers and to cOnsumers."
There is no doubt in the mind of any
sane man that the bill will benefit the
railroads. but his statement that it will