Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-10-07
DAVIS ON THE ISSUES
Iocratic Vice Presidential Candidate
AcceItS Nomination.
LETTER NOT A LONG one.
,euditures of the Government and Increase
pf the Army-The Panama Canal and I'm
yperiallsm Opinions on the Tariff and
the Trusts-PIea for Local Sengoyernment
Fraud 10 the Public Service.

Elkins, w. Va. SPECIALIZATION.
henry Gassaway Davis has written
he following letter accepting the
Democratic nomination for vice presi-
bent of the United States:
Hon. John Sharp Williams, Chairman,
and Other Members of the Com
mittce:
Dear Sirs-In accordance with Gus
tom, and my promise when notihed
by your committee at White Sulphur
Springs, OIL August II, OF my nomina-
zion for the office, of vice president,
/ submit the following observations
upon some of the questions now be-
fore the country:
The times are propitious for the re-
instatcment of the Democratic party
in control OF the government. The
public mind is being disilusioned oil
the pretension Of the Republican party
so long and so arrogantly made, that
the material prosperity Of the coun'
2try depends upon its own ascenency
Thoughtful and patriotic people are
becoming more and more distrusttu
pf the heady and personal element Of
he present administration, and are
eore than willing to see it replaced BY
ne that better recognizes constitu
onal and other lawful restraints
hey demand that the present waste
extravaganza in the expenditure
the money drawn by taxation iron
industry of the people shall cease
that economy and honesty IN the
bic service shall be again regarded
virtues in the high places of the
eminent
Expenses of Government.
he expenditures per capita of the
ernment are increasing at al
ming rate. When the present ad
stration went into power there
large surplus, but, notwithstand
the enormous taxation, the rev
therefrom are not now ade
TO meefNhe demands made by
SIS appropriations. The revenue:
hort during the last fiscal yea
Ter $4o,ooo,ooo. In the first Of
of this fiscal year the expendi
exceeded the receipts by SEA,
o. and if this rate of cxceS:
continue, the deficit for tht
1t fiscal year would be in he
borhood Of $4,000 900. This
ess deficit is due TO the extravA
Of- viz. --I.,>;.,.etaNtinn and car
be met by imposing additional
or selling bonds, thereby in.
ng the Understanding debt o.
pvernment. Which course viii
epublicans adopt? The cost o.
lment during the fiscal year was
Der capita, which means that tht
e tax paid in some form or an
by every family of five persons
the support of the national ad
ration of public affairs was over
|hich, in the case of wage-earn
a considerable percentage o.
Entire earningsfor the year. Nc
money should be taken from the
by taxation, direct or indirect
is necessary for the needs Of q
nment economically admins
Power of the Trusts.
is estimated that there are in
United States between two and
hundred combinations of CAPT
nd corporate interests, known as
5, which have grown up in the
lew years under Republican rule
of them are so conducted as
pernicious and harmful to the
raj interest. With the power they
able to exert they can lessen COM
ion, control prices and regulate to
own advantage the law of sup
and demand. Individual effort is
less against such strong rivals,
the natural right of all persons
arter and trade is unnaturally re-
ted. The effort of these trusts
control or monopolize, and these
bpolies, when unrestrained, seem
reduce conditions which bring
strikes and disorders and dis
- the business affairs of the coun-
raud in the Public Service.
: llation and fraud in the public
under the present administra-
specially in the Postoffice and
Departments, reached such pro-
bs that knowledge of the evils
ed became public property.
ttipns naturally followed, but
pugh and impartial investiga-
Congress, proposed and urged
Democratic minority, was re-
the Republicans at the man
is believed, of the admins
Congress sadjourned earlier
any long session for many
for the purpose, it is believed,
|enting further agitation of the
a, and in an effort to curtail
undated trust in the efficien-
,he cardinal principles of Our
hrty, when applied to the prae-
ministration of government, to
the blessings of peace and
lty for all, and believing that
,ple will correct the present
of administration by change
in power, / await with con-
the result of their judgment at
S. Very truly yours,
H. G.. DAVIS.
Leaned Prom Train