The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-06

welt is a military man. an autocrat
and usurper. He would make a
good Car, if he had been born IN Rus
sia; but he was not the type of a
man to be President of a great repub-
lie. He lacks these qualities of equi-
poise and good judgment that have
characterized all of the Presidents of
the United States. He then referred
to his failure to enforce the laws
against the trusts. when the Supreme
Court had said the laws on the statute
books were sufficient to drive every
corrupt organization of capital out of
business. Mr.. Roosevelt lacked cour-
age and wisdom.
IF you elect Roosevelt President,
1 will not say that, for l know that If
he is elected you will not do it-but X
Roosevelt is elected President, the
South will not have a friend in the
White House. You will not have a
friend there. 1t will mean four years
more of discrimination against YOU. 1t
will mean four more years of forcing
the negro upon you. 1t Will mean the
re-opening of those issues settled by
the constitutional amendment. If Par
ker is elected President. the State will
have a friend in the White House. She
will cease to be Disseminated against.
She will have her representation In
the Cabinet. She will be once more
recognized as a part of the Union.'
He said that judge Parker stood for
equal rights to all: for justice to the
South He then told of Judge Parker's
to the people of North Caro-
lima, through him: Il appreciate more
than l can express their loyalty and
support of me as a candidate. / ap-
preciate their conservatism; but say to
them, as a special message from me,
that when / contemplate the possibil-
ity of my election to the Presidency of
the United States one of the sweetest
thoughts to me is that I will have the
opportunity of making the Southern
States feel like they. are at home
again" The applause throughout the
speech was frequent, but at this point
t was tremendous.
The tariff was discussed at length.
He stated his position to be that the
producer is entitled to a fair profit
and that the consumer is entitled to a
fair price; and that the balance be-
tween these great and scales IN
-erests should / be evenly balanced,
hat the Dingley tariff did not do this.
AS to the Republican cry of prosper
ty he said that the PopulisI party
vas organized in the very middle of
Harrison's administration as protest
against the hard times. The great
panic of 1898 commenced twelve
before Cleveland's election.
Other countries are enjoying the same
prosperity that we are. Some of them
ire free trade countries. and some pro-
tective tariff countries. '"They wag
their heads and say, we do not know
who brought prosperity to Others ut
the Dingley tariff brought it to u.s.
It's the sanRe old story of a lie we'll
told and we'll stuck to-
Determinations Against the Many.
After contrasting the candidates,
Mr.. Simmons said:
Passing. llow-citizens. from the
to the issues-the persist
ent misuse and abuse by the Republi-
can party of the governmental poWet
to tax the people is a sufficient rea-
son, if there were no others. why that
party should be removed from power.
That party has used. and is today
using, this great and dangerous,
though necessary power, to oppress
the people for the benefit of a favor
ed few, towards whom it sustains the
of quasi business copart-
nership.
1.-The tariff laws of that party dis
criminate against one class of our peo-
pie in favor of another, and the mo-
nopolies which these laws tave Gre
ated discriminate against all our peo-
rle who buy their goods in favor of
their foreign customers.
are needed for protection; if any one
doubts that they are frequently used
to extort constituencies profits from
the domestic consumer, and to dis.
criminate against him in favor of the
foreign consumer, let him examine the
tables showing our ex-
ports of protected products, and COM
pare the published list of home and
foreign prices of our trust and tariff
protected goods.
''These government tables show that
our manufacturers are annually sell
ing about 100000 worth of their
goods outside of the United States
most of them tariff and trust protect
ed goods, largely the products of such
concerns as the steel trust and agricul-
tural implement trust, the barbed wire
trust These published lists show that
the trusts are selling their products
abroad at a discount of from % to so
per cent upon the. domestic price.
They show that the steel trust is to-
day selling steel rails in this country
for $2S a ton while it is selling the