The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1903-10-09
Washington Correspondence.

There is considerable adverse com
ment going on here anent the at
tempt of prominent Republican pol
iticians 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 presidency by the Democrats
There is no shrewder or more adroit
politician in the Congress of the
United States than Mr.. Cullom. He
said in that interview that Il am
convinced that German has the real
welfare of the nation deeply at heart.
| learned that at the time the Wilson
tariff measure was up for passage.
It was he who saved our amendments
to that bill" The Democrats who
few days are. commenting on this
statement by the leading Republican
from the state of Illinois, and saying
that it is pretty good Democratic POI
icy to do the things that 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 nomi-
mated, then the Democracy is in a
pretty bad row of stumps, and would
do well to either repudiate Republ;.
can suggestions or else go into the
hands of a receiver. The nomination
of Democrat with the above in
dorsen1ent from one of the leading
Republicans of the country would
place the Democracy on the explain.
ing bench from the start to finish Of
the campaign. If the trusts and the
tariff questions are to be uppermost
in the coming campaign, then the
above suggestion may give the Dem
ocrats 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 and corporation greed, OF
nominate man who stands for all
the trusts want and who must be
to get the influence of the
trusts as we'll as their money? The
Democrats of the country may an
swer the question.
The recent action of the prominent
of the country make it
clear that all the talk indulged in by
some of their leaders anent tariff re-
form and revision is the merest
"guff." The Iowa idea" was ram
pant some time ago, and Governor
Cummins of that state was standing
upon his hind legs and wildly wav-
ing his ears and bowling for some
measure of relief from the exactions
Of the tariff wall, and demanding it
at once. He now is cooling like a
sucking dove as mild as a May morn,
and he says that the revision should
not be made in the face of a national
but that we should wait
until 1905 before attempting any.
thing like tariff revision. This
should make it as gross to the sense
A. 40 OF fhar
the people of the country unhorse the
party they will wait un.
til the trumpet of the angel Gabriel
blows before they will obtain relief
from the clutch of the corporations
It is up to the people to do a little
thinking.
The idea has just begun to perco-
ate through the hair of the RepubIi.
cans that there is going to be an in
vestigation by Congress of the mas
.inass in the Postoffice Department,
pr at least it will be up to them to
refuse to have one. The Democrats
ire determined to press the matter
ind the responsible party for the re-
'nsal will be the Republicans. If
hey refuse all will know the reason
Why. If they do not, then there will
De an attempt to whitewash some
BODY and something, but the Demo
,ratic members of the committee will
,ome out with some powerful good
campaign material The Republican
,arty is between the devil and the
ieep sea.