The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1904-08-27
SENATOR BAILEY SCORES
ROOSEVELT FOR SUP
PORTING LYNCH LAW.
TEXAS SENATOR BRINGS PRES
lDENT TO BOOK FOR UTTER
ANcE IN PUBLISHED WORK
DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL BE
CALLED UPON TO MAKE GOOD
FOR REPUBLICANS WASTE.

FOR REPUBLICANS WASTE.
New York, Aug. 25.-The campaign
IN Brooklyn was opened tonight by a
meeting held under the auspices of the
Kings County Democratic Club, at
which Senator Joseph w. Bailey, Of
Texas, was the principal speaker. Res
olutions indorsing the nomination OF
Parker and Davis were read, and after
an Introductory address. in which he re-
viewed the political situation, Edward
M. Shepard, chairman OF the meeting.
introduced Senator Bailey, who was
greeted with prolonged applause.
1T has never happened heretofore. >"
sald the Senator, "and it will seldom
happen hereafter, that the personal
opinions and conduct OF candidates have
determined or will determine the suf-
frage OF so many voters as in this cam
paign."
Taking up the tariff question, Senator
Bailey said:
sour Republican friends profess an
indignant surprise at our declaration on
the tariff question, and their Campaign
Committee have done us the honor to
partially incorporate our platform on
that subject in their campaign book.
They did not, however, have the candor
to repeat it in full, and did not even
print the complete sentence which they
pretended to quote. They seem to be
fiercely aroused because we have de-
cided to say that "protection is a lob
berry of the many to enrich the few.
"As for my part, don't hesitate
single moment to declare it as my be-
lief that any law which leyies tax not
for the purpose of raisiug revenue to
support the Government, but for the
purpose of compelling an American citi-
zen to pay more for the goods he must
buy, is a perversion of governmental
power and downright robbery. Our
Republican friends are constantly affirm
ing that the Democratic party favors
absolute free trade. Whatever any in
dividual Democrat or, indeed, what all
Democrats might think about free
trade as theory, the dullest man in all.
this audience knows perfectly well that
absolute free trade is an utter impossi.
bility in this Republic.
"With the expenditures OF the Federal
Government already no enormous as to
stagger the imagination, and growing
greater every year under the reckless
extravaganza Of those now in power,
they cannot hope to materially reduce
the present rate Of duty; and even when
the Democrats are called by the voters
Of an outraged people to administer this
Government, we will find it impossible,
however much we may desire TO do 80, to
reduce the average tariff duty below
point that will still be higher than the
most extreme OF the earlier protection
lists ever claimed was necessary and
higher than any moderate protectionist
of to-day believes essential for the pro-
lection of any legitimate industry. un-
der the necessity OF raising revenue to
support the Government the Democratic
Party will continue to levy tariff duties,
and it perfectly understands that these
tariff duties will afford protection to
American manufacturers against their
foreign competitors. That, however, is
an incident with us and not an object.
"Not content with having nominated
candidate who had taught by his per-
sonal example the pernicious doctrine of
social equality between the Anglo Saxon
and the African races, the Republican
Party has gone stillfurther, and as If
bent upon the mischieyous design Of ag-
gravating racial antagonism, 1t has de-
liberately proclaimed its intention to
reduce the representation Of certain
States in Congress, and in the Electoral
College because the people OF those
States will not consent to be represented
by ignorant and inferior men. Do the
men who made and who adopted that
platform not know If their threat should
be carried into execution the South
would not be the only suffererp Do
chose men not know that this country
is so closely and so firmly knit together
that the whole must suffer for every in
jury inflicted on any part9 The millions
invested in Southern railroads are prac-
tically all, except the foreign holdings,
the property of Northern and Eeastern
men,
"But there is another and higher
standpoint. This attempt to resurrect
sectional differences is in painful con-
trast with the teachings Of that great
and kindly man who was elevated to the
presidency by an election, and not by a
tragic accident. AS this nation stood
with uncovered heads around the mar
tyred McKinley's grave, men OF every
section blessed his name and memory,
because he had restored good will be-
tween the brothers who had been es-
stranged by civil war. The sorrow
over his untimely death was as uniyer-
sal and as genuine in Mississippi as II
was in Massachusetts,. And yet his sue
cessor, who promised to follow In Nc
Kinley's footsteps, has reversed Nc
Kinley's policy and is now fomenting
discord where Mckinley had brought us