The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-10-28
Tariff the Issue.

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but they recognize that there arr
places where Democratic discussion
of the tariff does not help the Dem
ocratic ticket. Last week grea
aggregation of Democratic orator:
invaded West Virginia with Ex
Senator Henry G. Davis, for a
whirl. wind campaign, and, while
they were all tariff reformers they
did not mention the tariff while in
the State. There was Senator
Bailey who insisted on having the
phrase, "protection is robbery OF
the many for the benefit of the few
again made a part of the Demo
cratic platform; but while in West
Virginia, he did not mention the
tariff. He discussed White House
expenses. Just think Of Bailey, the
constitutional lawyer confning his
speeches to the domestic expenses
of the President.
David Bennett Hill was also in
West Virginia for week and con-
fined his speeches to personal abuse
of the President because he was not
allowed to discuss the tariff in that
State. But as soon as Mr.. Hill
crossed over from West Virginia to
Indiana he changed his tune and be-
gan to talk tariff reform. Chair
man Taggart did not put tariff
muzzle on Mr.. Hill as did Mr..
Davis, the candidate for vice presi-
dent. Mr.. Davis does not believe
in tariff revision of the Democratic
kind. He dare not advocate Dem,
ocratic tariff revision in West VIr-
gina because the people of that
State believe in protection, since
they have seen their coal output
double since the election of Presi-
dent Mckinley and the enactment
of the Dingley tariff law.
The tariff lodging by Bailey and
Hill in West Virginia and their
tariff revision speeches in New York
and Indiana show the methods OF
the Democratic party in this CAM
paign. They are going about the
country talking what they think may
influence the voters to embrace
Democratic doctrine regardless of
what it stands for. But in the
election of Congress there is only
one issue and that the tariff.
Throughout the first session of the
5Sth Congress John Sharp Williams
tried to keep the Democratic mem
bers from making tariff speeches
and he succeeded until Bourke
Cochran came to take the seat of
Mayor Mcclellan, and he could not
keep silent. The Democratic lead
ers did not approve of that speech
advocating free trade but the rank
and file of the Democrats went wild
over it. They were betrayed into
approving what, for policy, they
had kept in the background.
The position of the Democratic
party is now just the same as that of
Grover Cleveland in his message of
1887, the same as that of the Wilson
tariff bill, the same as expressed by
Bourke Cochran. They do not
proclaim their views where they
know that they will invite hostility,
but the Democrats who will frame
tariff bill for a Democratic Con-
gress are all free traders. There is
not a protection Democrat on the
Ways and Means committee. They
are all avowed free traders and
Bourke Cochran is their most elo-
quent spokesman.
There is just one way to prevent
another panic through loss of con-
hdence. That is the election of
Roosevelt and Republican con-
gress. A Democratic victory would
bring doubt and business distress.
The experience of one Democratic
Administration, from 1895 to 1897,
should be enough for one gener.
alton.