The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-29
Democrats Not at All Dismaycd
BY Mr.. Rooscvc:lt's Cam Cam
paign Platform.
CLAIM PART. OF CREDIT
FOR STRIKE SETTLEMENT I
There Is a Strong Disposition
Among Republicans to Break Break
With the Administration
Because OF the Presi-
dents Course iii Deal
ing With Panama.
q, -, ,nr Rer,,Iar Correspondent,

fFrom our Regular Correspondent
Ks WASHINGTON, p. c., Jan. 2s.--it s.-s5 Is
learned authoritatively tonight that mat
President Roosevelt recently told friend
who Is very close TO him that II ne Is Is
nominated for the presidency ne VII
mako his campaign on three issues. ihcS
will be the following:
His course in the Panama canal matter az
His course in compelling the owners OF
anthracite coal mines and the miners
ou. On strike TO submit their differences
~ arbitration in the winter of 1905
His course in the case OF Miller. whose Y'pss
dismissal from the Government Pflnllhs
once. when demanded by the organized '1
labor OF the country. on the ground that
he was not a union man, the Presloehe s'' ea'l
would not allow. 81 +. Z.
r The foregoing is absolutely rclla o1c, e et'uu =
Ia believed to be exactly the SUBSTANCES
OF tho utterances Of the Presiuent H'u'- ny
self. 5. 4 g .Sa5 y n. ~,
The Democrats of the country will not not
~ III all dismayad by a study 2of the
platform on which tl1s President VIII
stand. The strongest is that referring 70
the coal strike. but the Democrats ana
thc people OF the country generally kno"
that Judge George Gray, of Delaware.
a Democrat, who was the president OF me
hoard Of arbitration. was the controlling
shirt In bringing about tho adjustment
os the great coal war Of last year.
There is a strong disposition manifest
In the Republican party to breaK WIN
the administration because OF me course
OF the President as regards panama, ana
while Republicans generally are IN laSor
OF voting for the ratification of the treaty
with Panama. by which We get Inc rient 10
buiId the canal, they explicitly express
their ahhorrence of thu methods oS "nic"
the right was obtained
Convict Labor.
Several persons appeared before ne
House Committee on Labor to-day In OPP
nosItion to or TO advocate the BILL prohib-
iting the purchase by the govarnment
|; of any convict-made gods and the trans
portation OF such goods from one state
ia another. An argument in FAVOR OF ths le
hin was made by E. ]. Roche, repres'enntt- I
ing the American Federation OF LABOR:
He said that mall sacks wera made = ~
the government by the convicts IN the
ncnltentiary at Trenton, N. j.
~ M. Toomer. who has a contract for
the labor of five hundred convicts III the
Georgia .penitentiary. opposed the bill.
In the course Of his argument he stated
that the State received from 500 to 500
a year for each one of her conv1cts.
It is asserted that a greater number
of convicts are hired out by Virginia
q than any other State. The probability OF
the pussag, OF the bill, Of which Repre-
sentative SIbley, Of Pennsylvania, Is the
author. is regarded as good. It's enact
ment would mean the eventual annulment
OF the contract which the Davis Shoe
Company has with Virginia for the en-
p.,ylrent OF thu greater number Of the
convicts In the penitentiary.