Gunnison news-champion and tribune., 1904-11-25
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ar - be pssre -F-ses.4..Esaa. .bs.s here .-
~nas the New fors Worid SAYS
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disaster rsss txo commanding ~
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JosepL " folk has Won. aexi q
President Roosevelt. the se-s extEs
ordinary personal rraamph ot thas
whole t<~sidessax esectson Mr.
Roosevelt has ridden on the CREST o;
a republican tsasi-wsve- wase
RAISED. II 10 true. IN great para by hl~
o~n popularity. but still OWING nach
io other influences But Mr. tolk :
s,ctory Was purely individual The
Was the only man on his ticket who
carried las state lie carried It
pgrely IN hls own record. nod on a Aai
Of bis party or on general 'nclna
tson to let well enough alone. He
carried Il against the bitter onmIty
# the principal leaders Of his own
party. lie was elected a. a refarnser
who had actually reformed things
e prosecuting attorney who had sent
pa bic rascals O. the peniientiary
Mr. talk career Is an inspiring
demonstration If the value of un-
comprising. aggressive honesty t0 o
pshhc man Folk persouihes uus
& Che 9rershadaWing ISSUES If pre-.
sent and future politics CRUSH
CORRUPTION.
The triumph Of William l.. D1u-
glas ia Massachusetts is even more
spectacular than that Of Folk.
although not quite 50 strictly per
-1uai. Scanning a republican land
slide ia a state which even in plrmal
wears is q republican stronghold and
which gave Roosevelt oftHn piu
ralliy Mr. Douglas wins the COVER
norship by a majority that would be
handsome one even Tor candidate
1l the dominant party, and by tins
triumph commands national atten-
zion. lie is individually strong with
the masses. and he had the acuteness
to seize upon an issue that Massachu
setts clearly approves. Nv e.e
ton. saws the Goverpor-elect to the
World, means the first gun IN a
battle for reciprocity and tariff re-
lief And that gun fred in Mass
aehusetts Will be heard round the
| world.
Mr. Douglas explains:
made the fight solely on the
/ proposItinn that we should have
reciprocity and that al trusts
which sell their products abroad
cheaper than we can buy them
here should not be permitted TO
enjoy protection have given
them practical examples of the
working of the tariff instanced
recent purchase of S55O,OOO of
leather which bought from tie
trust, ON which there was a duty
Of $4,000 | gave concrete illus
trati6ns in the woolen. cotton and
other trades.
Ii was an issue that touched a
popular chord. They said in the
national campaign that we had no
issue We had the greatest, the
most vital of issues. For some
reason it was subordinated in our
national campaign 1t was the one
issue Of all others to have pressed
We made our people understand
that the tariff and trust question
is the same-that it is idle to talk
Of solving the trust question SO
long as we are sheltering these
giant paupers under our protec-
ton system.
| told our people that Massa-
chusetts put SO in the protection
pool for every dollar it took OUT,
thar our Gj0.O00 homes contributed
S65,O90,OOO a year to the trusts
that the Steel Trust alone reaps
SoU,OO0,OOO a year out of protec-
ton, and pockets it, selling abroad
cheaper than we can buy from it.
And yet they have the assurance
to tell us that the trust question
has nothing to do with the tariff.
Two million plurality for Roose
welt viii not hide the handwriting
on the wall Of trust protection re
vealed by the vote Of Massachusetts
for reciprocity and tariff relief" II
Folk and Douglas the democrat
have two fine examples of the typ
of leaders to whom the party mus
: turn if it means to form an Opposi
ton that will oppose-to rally dem
ocracy that shall be true to the his
t0r-ic uriDciplas and traditions Of tb,