The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-29
CHAMP CLARK OPENS THE
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
Republican Hypocrisy on the Tariff Question Fully
Exposed
Reciprocity of Mckinley Dead-SIOgan of the Democracy
Tariff For Revenue Only

NHI ASHINGTON, March 2s.-Repre-
wv sentative Champ Clark of Mis-
souri, today added a comprehen-
sive chapter 10 the campaign material
OF the Democratic party in the deliv-
cry Of carefully prepared speech on
the tariff question in the house. Mr..
Clark said in opening:
We go forth to battle with tariff
reduction and genuine reciprocity in
scribed on our banners"
He then drew a line of demarkation
between the tariff ideas of the two par
Ties and dwelt at length on the stand
pat declaration of the Republicans.
He called attention to the dissenting
element Of that party, who, he said,
marched under the banner of the
Iowa idea" and inferentially he
Classed this element as Democrats.
Republican harmony, which they
spell with a big, big H, said Mr..
Clark, lis only on the surface, while
Republican dissensiOn pervades the &.
o. p. through and through. They may
be able, by hook and by crook, to get
together for this election. but that
there viii be a sloughing off Of the
party which will amount 10 a split in
the near future is indicated by all the
signs OF the times.
Republicans Are Sullen.
That Colonel Roosevelt will be nom
mated appears TO be a certainty, but
hundreds Of thousands of Republicans
viii support him under protest. The
stand patters' viii make the platform.
but a large majority viii receive il
sullenly- 1t fact. the reading out proc
ess of the tariff reform Republicans
has already begun"
Mr.. Clark referred TO Representa-
tives Hepburn and Grosvenor as ''lu-
uinaries Of the first magnitude in the
congressional galaxy, and high priests
in the temple of protection"
Hepburn Taken to Task.
He took Mr.. Hepburn to task for
saying in a speech that the production
% pig iron in this country had in
creased from 100000 tons ten years
ago TO $4,000, 600 tons in 1902. Mr.. Clark
declared that, in 1902, the production
in the United States was 1881. 800 tons.
He then quoted Mr.. Hepburn's state
ment, in this same speech, I live in
county of $4,000 people, a farming
community. There is not a protected
industry in that county, and com
n'ented on IL as follows:
BY that one declaration. inviting
j. uttered, no doubt the gentleman
from Iowa answers completely all the
Republican speeches. editorials and es-
says as 20 how the high tariff helps
Inc farmers.
Mr.. Hepburn's claim that the price
or steel rails had been reduced in the
United States from 1856 a ton under
the Wilson tariff TO S24 a ton now,
through an industry built up by a Re
publican tariff and American ingenu-
fly was an assertion. said Mr. Clark.
which might satisfy Republican mem
bers of congress, but would not deceive
any intelligent man elsewhere as to
the cause Of this reduction in price
or steel. which was the discovery OF
the Bessemer process Of manufacture.
Republican Reciprocity.
The reciprocity speech of Represent
alive DalzelI. delivered in the house
recently. was given considerable atten-
ton by Mr. Clark. The keynote OF
that speech he declared to be his SEN
tence. Republican reciprocity is reci-
procity in non-cOmpeting articles and
nothing else"
This doctrine. he said. differed very
widely from Mckinley reciprocity, the
foundation principle of which was eX-
pressed by President Mckinley at Buff
falo in these words:
We must not repose in fancied Sc
curity that we can forever sell every
thing and buy little or nothing"
President Roosevelt had endorsed
this Mckinley idea of reciprocity, Mr..
Clark asserted. by sending TO the sem
ate an extension of time for the rati-
fCatiOn OF the reciprocity treaty negO-
1iated with France under the direction
OF President Mckinley. This treaty
contained scores and scores of articles
produced in France and Algeria and
also in the United States on which a