Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-10-01
DICK MAKES ANSWER
The Ohio Republican Refuses to Let
Hanna Debate with Clarke.
DEMOCRATS DISAGREE on PRINCIPLES
Democracy, Chairman Dick Says. Assumes
% Many Disguises That IL Would No
y Unfair 10 Senator Hanna 70 Let Him
Meet Mr.. Clarke In Debate

Unfair 10 Senator Hanna TO Let Him
Meet Mr.. Clarke In . Debate.
Columbus, O., Sept. 2s.-The repl
6f Chairman Dick. Of the republican
state committee, to Chairman Salen
q the democratic state committee, de
dining the challenge Of John II
Clarke, democratic nominee for Unitet
Etates senator, to q joint debate witt
Senator M. A. Hanna, was given GU
. last night. Chairman Dick says II
part:
II regret that candor compels me t.
nay that find some rather serious OBJ.
5ections to the conditions of your pro
posal. There ought to be some sepa-
rate quality as mutually in a joint
discussion. fear you have overlooked
that phase Of the case. Let me par
fscularize. Mr.. Hanna's party has but
one set Of principles, while Mr..
Clarke's party has vast assortment
Il principles, sounding the entire
gamut from doctrine to dogma-demo-
cratic, populist agrarian and social
lstic.
"There is q tariff. How does Mr..
Clarke stand on that issue? His party
stands all over 1t. In New England
It Is for free raw material and for pro-
fected finished products; in Texas 1t is
Tor protected raw material and for
free finished products. Does Mr..
Clarke favor a tariff for revenue only.
or Q tariff for revenue with incidental
protection? Is he a German tariff
democrat or johnson no-tariff DEM
ocrat? II he favors any kind Of q
tariff let him debate with Mr.. john
son, who is an absolute free trader
and would repeal every tariff and In
ternal revenue law and sell all the
custom houses.
'sMr. Clarke has all these things to
his bow and more, too. What chance
does Mr.. Hanna. who has only one
string to his bow, have in disputation
with such q man? Mr.. Hanna stands
pat. When Mr.. Clarke joins a party
that stands pat on anything Mr.. Hanna
will talk with him.
"Then there Is the coinage question.
How does Mr., Clarke stand on that?
The absolution Mr.. Bryan gave him
would argue that he is not stand
patter, indeed, Mr. Bryan says he is
not. Then, II Mr.. Clarke Is really on
the Kansas City platform and Is bound
to have a debate with somebody, let
him hunt up the Palmer and Buckner
platform and debate with that. If,
on the other hand, he is still gold
bug he has no quarrel with Mr.. Hanna
on that ex-senator Charles A.
Towne Is the man he is looking for,
or the honorable John J. Lentz might
do in a pinch. If Mr.. Clarke were
elected to the senate would he vote
on the currency question with the
gold democrats or with free silver
democrats?
1.-THE republican state platform de-
clares that every one Of the war
amendments are binding in honor upon
every American citizen. Why did Mr..
Clarke say in his Akron speech that
that platform winds up with the dec
iaration that amounts to notification
Of the fifteenth amendment?
"where does Mr.. Clarke stand on
the war amendmentsr Does he be-
iieye in them or will he favor their |
repeal? Is he in harmony with Sena-
Tor Tillman, who has boosted that
whenever colored voters attempt to ex-
ercise the elective franchise In South |
Carolina he will meet the attempt with |
b shotgun? II elected to the senate
mili Mr.. Clarke Join his colleague
from Tennessee, Mr.. Carmack. and
cote for his resolution to repeal the
ilfteenth amendment? 10 Mr.. Clarke
willing to explain his position on these
gital Questionsf
''Where does Mr.. Clarke stand on the |
Philippine question:. Does he atand
With Mr.. Bryan when he was lobbying |
= the capitol at Washington for the
ratification Of the treaty that ceded
ne islands to usf Or when later In |
me campaign Of 1900 he advocated an |
American protectoratef Or when
still later be declared for their 'abso-
ints independencef Does Mr.. Clarke
stand for any one or all three Of these
''Does Mr.. Clarke side with the east |
em democrats. the 'reorganizersi'
Democracy to-day wears 90 many col
orr. appears under 90 many different
uhapes and forms, assumes 90 many |
dissuises that feel II would be unfair
10 Senator Hanna to ask him to meet
Mr.. Clarke In Joint debate until he
b advised more fully as to Mr.. Clarke's
position on the subjects above alluded
10; until he learns what particular
brand Of democracy Mr.. Clarke claims
~ his; until he knows whether he is
expected to debate with Mr.. Clarke,
The corporation lawyer, or Mr.. Clarke,
The candidate for United States sena-
'or."