The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-07
SEES DEMOCRATIC
VICTORY AHEAD
PEOPLE DEMAND A CHANGE.
TOO MANY BILLION DOLLAR CON-
CROSSES SAYS GOV. TERRELL.

Republican Extravaganza and
Wnstefulness Have Run RiOt-A
Reduction In Expenditures De-
mRnded-Tarin and the Trusts the
Main Issues-GOv. Terrell Does Not
Discuss Candidates-WOuld Like
to See Provision of Georgia Plat
form Incorporated in National
Platform.
Atlanta, Feb. Gov. Joseph NJ.
Terrell of Georgia sees bright chances
of Democratic success in the coming
national election. He does not discuss
candidates, for he does not think the
time has arrived when it can be said
that any particular man among those
most prominently mentioned can be put
forward as the man of the hour-the
necessary Democratic leader. He has
been quoted as saying that German,
Parker and Hearst are all good men
and would make good presidents, any
of them.
When asked for his views on the
national political situation, Gov. Ter
rell said: THAT the Democratic party
has an excellent chance of winning the
national fight this year there is no
doubt in my mind. Everything points
to a desire in many sections of the
country for a change in the manage
ment of the nations affairs both be-
cause of things the Republican admin
istration has done and because of
things it has left undone. Its policy
has produced a state of unrest despite
general business conditions. The peo-
pie of communities heretofore undoubt-
edly Republican have been giving
thought to affairs of state, and their
conclusion. as 1 gather it, is not fav-
orable to the party in power.
Republican Extravaganza.
THE people are becoming more i'm
pressed than ever with the WaStefui
extravaganza of the Republican ad-
ministration, an extravaganza that has
grown and spread in almost every de-
partment of the government until it is
| nothing short of startling. 1t was only
! a few years ago that the whole coun-
try was shocked by the announcement
that a single Congress had spent bill
| lion dollars. The last Congress spent
more than a billion and half Both
of these were Republican Congresses
by good majorities, and so the in
crease has been going on under Re-
| publican rule while the increase in
population and necessities of the coun-
try have not moved forward with a
| pace to justify it. At the same rate
and with the same conditions of gov
eminent, it is evident that a $4,000, 000,-
900 Congress will be a fact of the not
very distant future. This would mean
tax of more than $25 annually on
| every man, woman and child i'm the
United States, which is several times
as much as the very highest state,
county and city tax paid in any state
| in the Union. The democrats are
| pledged to cut down these enormous
and extravagant expenditures, and they
have already shown that they mean
! to do 1t.
Tariff and Trusts the Issues.
| 1.-THE tariff and the trusts will. as
they should, constitute the main issues
before the people. That they go to-
gether is evidenced by the admission
| of Mr.. Havemeyer, the head of one of
| the greatest of all trusts, who has told
us that the tariff is the mother of the
| trusts. Instead of checking or maxi
| ing any attempt to check the power
| of the trusts, the Republican party has
| let them grow rank attempting now
and then, by some subterfuge, the de-
| ception of the public. But they can
| 10 longer wear the mask; the oppres-
| Sion of the trusts has been felt keen
| ly in the home and on the farm, and
| against this oppression the protest has
| grown more general and widespread
until 1t has aroused the indignation of
| the great mass of the voters through
out the Union. The people are no
longer ignorant of the fact that be-
cause of the tariff, trust made goods
are sold abroad from 20 to 40 per cent.
| cheaper than the prices at which they
| can be bought at home, and they know
now that the Republican party is re-
| sponsible for this condition. They
know, too, that it is the increased
price of the clothes they wear and the
food they eat that pays the enormous
per capita tax which is expended ev-
cry year, often for party purposes, by
the extravagant Republican admins
tration.
Must Meet Condition..
while it meets the conditions on
these lines in favor of the people, the
Democrats will let no temporary divi-
sions of the last two campaigns on
questions not now confronting us, d.
vert the party from the traditional
policy of meeting all questions as the
best interests of the people demand.
Every assurance is given that it's
platform of principles will comport
with the situation as 1t exists to-day.
There is much in the Kansas City plat
form which corresponds with existing
conditions, and yet it contains fea-
lures which are more or less obsolete,
and which do not meet present re-
quirements. OF course, upon all pend
ing questions that platform is the law
of the party until the next convention,
but there is no more reason why the
Kansas City platform should be re-
affirmed in it's entirety, than that
such action should be taken upon the
Democratic platform Of twenty years
ago. Each fulfilled conditions as the
party saw them then: each is just as
sacred in the principles 1t announced.
But platforms must be made to meet
the demands of the day, to conform to
the present needs of the country. The
country's financial needs are constant
~ changing, in small degree, it may
be, and the financial system should be
made as near as possible to correspond
to those needs.
transportation Rate Question.
1.-THE provision in our last Georgia
state platform advocating the extern
sion of the powers of the Interstate