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Texas Senator Opens Demo-
cratic Campaign in Brooklyn.

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Texas Senator Opens Demo-
cratic Campaign in Brooklyn.
New York. Aug 25.-The campaign
In Brooklyn was opened tonight by q
meeting held under the auspices Of the
Kings county Democracy, at which
Senator Joseph W: Bailey. of Texas,
was the chief speaker. Resolutions in.
dorsing Parker and Davis were intro.
duced. and after an Introductory ad-
dress, in which be- reviewed the po-
litical situation, Chairman Edward W.
Sheppard introduced Senator Bailey
who was greeted with prolonged ap-
p]ause, He said:
1t has never happened heretofore and
it will seldom happen hereafter that the
personal opinions and conduct Of candi-
dates have determined or will deter
mine the suffrage Of so many voters as
in this campaign.
He would not utter one syllable
about the private character or habits of
the president. He continued:
We sought to nominate q candidate
who. in bis private and domestic life, is
as much like Roosevelt as possible and
in all other respects as much unlike him
as we could find. Our Republican
friends profess an indignant surprise
ct 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, how
ever, have tho candor to report it in full
and did not even print the complete
sentence which they pretend to quote.
They seem to be fercely aroused be-
cause We have dared to say that "pro-
lection Is q robbery of the many to en-.
rich the few" =
As for my part do not hesitate sin.
gle minute to declare it as my belief
that any law which levies a tax. not for
tho purpose of raising = revenue to sup.
port tho government, but for the pur-
pose of compelling the American citizen
to pay moro for the goods which he
must buy, is 4 perversion of govern.
mental power and downright robbery.
Our Republican friends are constantly
affirming that tho Democratic party
favors absolute free trade. Whatever
any individual Democrat or indeed.
what all Democrats might think about
free trade as a theory, the dullest man
in all this audience knows perfectly we'll
that free trade is 40 utter impossibility
in this republic. If congress could
raise revenue to support the federal
government by levinR an I'D valorem
tax Of uniform rate on all the property
Of this country, then the question of
free trade would become a debatable
one. But as the constitution stands to-
day We can never levy a direct tax
without such great inequality as to
render such tax impossible except in
extraordinary emergencies.
With tie expenditures. of tho federal
government already 80 enormous az to
staeesr the imagination, and growing
greater every year under the reckless
extravaneance 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
votes of an outraged people to-
administer this government w will find
it impossible, however much We may
desire to do 60, to reduce the average
tariff duty below a point that will still
DO higher than the most extreme of the
early PROFESSIONALS ever claimed was
necessary, and higher than any mode
rate protectionist of to-day believes e.
sentlal for the protection Of any leRiti-
mate industry. Under the necessity OF
raising revenue to support the govern
ment the Democratic party will continue
to levy tariff duties and it perfectly un-
derstands that those tariff duties will af-
ford protection to American manufac-
turers against their foreign competitors.
The speaker denounced the efforts of
the president to produce social equality
of the white and black races and the
announced purpose of the Republicans
to reduce Southern representation in
congress. He said Mr.. Roosevelt, un.
like Mckinley. was fomenting discord