The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-08
Former United States Senator from Washington Who May Be
the Nominee for Vice President

TEEN with corruption, as we'll as other
departments suspected of harboring
corruption and the punishment of as
certained cOrruptiOnists without fear
or favor or regard to persons. The
persistent and deliberate refusal of
both the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives to permit such investigation
to be made by either branch of Con-
gress demonstrates that only by a
change in the executive and in the
House of Representatives can COM
plete exposure, punishment and COR
rection be obtained.
"In broader furtherance of that end,
the federal government should not per-
NIT itself to be robbed by entering into
contracts with convicted trusts or un-
lawful combinations in restraint Of in
terstate trade, existing in violation of
law. We believe that one of the best
methods of procuring economy and
honesty in the public service is to have
public officials, from the occupant of
the White House down to the lowest
of them, return, as nearly as may be,
to Jeffersonian simplicity of living.
No Tyrant for President.
Third. We favor the nomination and
election of a President trained in the
ways of the constitution, who shall set
his face sternly against executive
usurpation of legislative and judicial
functions, whether that usurpation be
ruled under the guise of executive con-
struction of existing laws, or whether
it take refuge in the tyrant's pleas
of necessity or superior wisdom.
Down With MOnOpOIies.
"Fourth-The Democratic party has
been, and will continue to be, the con-
sistent opponent of that class of tariff
legislation by which certain interests
have been permitted, through con-
gressional favor, to draw heavy trib-
ute from the American people. This
monstrous perversion of those equal
opportunities which our political insti-
tutions were established to secure, has
caused what may once have been in
FAINT industries to become the greatest
combinations of capital that the world
has ever known. These publicly fav-
ored enterprises have, through trust
methods, been converted into monopo-
lies, thus bringing to an end domes-
tic competition which was the only
check upon the extravagant profits
made possible by the protective sys-
tenn. These industrial combinations,
by the financial assistance they can
give, now control the policy Of the Re-
publican party.
I'VE favor a wise, conservative and
business-like revision and a gradual
reduction of the tariff by the friends
of the masses and for the common
veal and not by the friends of its
abuses, it's extortions and its discrim-
nations, keeping in view the ultimate
end of equality of burdens and equal
ity of opportunities, and the consti-
tutional purpose of raising a revenue
by taxation, to wit: the support of the
federal government in all its integrity
and virility, but in simplicity; and
keeping also in view, as men of COM
mon sense should, existing conditions,
however wrongfully, mistakenly or un-
justly brought about, and the danger
to the cause of tariff reform itself of
abrupt and revolutionary reversal of
policy.
1--WE should bear in mind, in short,
these two things: First. the general
principle that the sole derivation of
the power of taxation is the support
of the federal government economical
ly, effectively and constitutionally adj
ministered; and, second, the equal
truth that in the assertion of any gen.
eral principle and i'm reaching any ul-
innate end, however sacred and log
icaly unavoidable. due regard. but
only due regard, must and should be
paid to actually existing conditions.
The Tnrin Plank.
Fifth. We favor the reduction of
tariff taxation upon trust-produced ar
ticles to the point where foreign COM
petition may enter the American mar
ket whenever trusts and combines,
seeking monopoly raise their prices to
the American consumer above rea-
sonable and just profit, by such reduc-
tion depriving trusts and monopolies
of the power to extort from the Amer
ican people, under shelter of American
law. prices higher than those charged
foreigners for identical articles.
The Money Question.
"The discoveries of gold within the
past few years and the great increase
in the production thereof, adding two
thousand million dollars TO the worlds
supply, Of which seven hundred million
falls to the share of the United states.
has contributed to the maintenance OF
a money standard of value no longer
open to question, removing that issue
from the field Of political contention.
The Isthminn Canal.
"Our party having long earnestly ad-
vocated the construction Of an inter-
oceanic canal for the purposes Of ma
tional defense and commerce between
the states and with foreign nations. we
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