The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-29
BEVER|DCE OPENS
INDIANA CAMPAIGN
Democrats Wouldn't know What
to Do II They Got III
AFTER JUDGE PARKER
SAYS HE PLAYED WITH BOTH
SIDES nv fso6--iN3tSTs THAT .s
REDUCING TARIFF CAN'T
STOP TRUsTS4sN
by the Associated Press

| ly tHe Ahs0EiIteu lfFeSH+
| indianapolis, Sept. 2S The FIRST
Republican meeting ef the campaign
In indianapolis was held In Tomlinson
hail tonight An illum mattel process
sicn escorted Senator Albert j Bos-
cridge and GGpgrc sman 0yerTtreet
to the hall. which was well filled
Congressman Oyerstreet presided
and introduced Senator Beveridss.
who spoke Iii part ais fellows:
What Is The campaign about?
| What business man but wishes that
no election were necessary this year,
The administration policies are cue
ccsefni at home and abroad The best
that the oppositiea's ablest man,
Grover Cleveland can say for II
Ii that 1t shows signs Of returning
anity. Yet this poll ieal Gonzales
cent demands control Of the govern
ment, declaring thar II could not now
undo much that the Republican par
| ty has dine If II woulI, and would no.
undo much that the Republican par
fty has done II it conid
AS to the Tariff.
THE frs result of Parker's eIec-
lion would be q tariff agitation with
out rdtllt, Since Mr.. Parker him.
self tells us that Republican senate
would prevent legislation. Such agi-
tatlon spells business uncertainiy
anl business uncertainty spells bltsi.
ness disaster
Even If the opposition controlled
the house. Senate and the president,
l EEflsey theng elyes could not tell what
Ikind of tariff law they would pass.
For some OF them. like Mr. Bryan.
| are free traders: some, like Mr. Cor
man, are protectionists Think Of an
engineer trying to run his engine
| backward and forward al the same
lime; what would happen to that en-
gine is what would happen to the
country. with the opposition In power.
As to the Trust Question.
"The organization of industry
should neither be prosecuted nor IA
voreJ They should have ample JUS
tice like everybody else. All men.
law according as they do right or
wrong-this is Republicanism In
sentence, Americanism In phrase.
How would the opposition's RENE
dy OF free trade In trust-made arti
Giles hurt the Standard oil company
There is no tariff on oil Or the an
thraci,e coal combination II there rs
one? There is no tariff on anthracite
coal
"1f trusts necessarily raise prices
why has the price Of sugar steadily
fallen for more than thirty years; II
Is said here T. a sugar trust. And
why has the price of beans gone up?
There is no bean trust Or the price
Of wheat; there Is no wheat trust
So free trade will not prevent trusts.
and prices rise and fali with and with
ou' trusts
so far as legislation can remedy
the evils of trugts Republican legisla-
linn-the Sherman law. the Rebate
law. the Department of Commerce
and Labor law-the only legislation
ever enacted on the subiect-Sill do
il II enforced And Roosevelt's cleo
ton means enforcement OF those
laws and all laws.
Goes After Parker.
1896 was no more a time for ST.
lence and hiding than 1861 was a
time for cowar.Iice and evasion. II
was not only a political Struggle. hut
on both sides II was moral struggle.
on both sides men who had for years
trimmed and compromised threw
aside eNprdieucy aud spoke and act
ed on principle. Was Grover Cleve-
land silent then? Did he by his vote
condone what he declared with hts
voice 10 be a crimel Was Senator
Teller and the band Of life long Re
pubiicans who marched GU Of the 81.
Louis convention silent them Ind
they condone hy their votes what
their tongues proclaimed would be
crimee was John NJ. Palmer and
Gen Buckner and the host cf gold
Democrats silent thsaf Thousands of
lifelong Republican, left their par
". thousands Of lifelong Democrats
eit their plrtv. Among eighty NIL
ions Of people. there va a nev align
nrnf hundreds # thousands chang
nc sides. and al because cf a pfin-
.iple which they believed would jetsT
nine the future Of the Republic yet
II This hour when men we're destroy
ne heir political fsture for pTinci-
,le's sake. Whfr brrfber turned
-ainst brother rather fhsn fcrsake
NV tietion-. a7d even fsailies Vere
ariicsl-st this supretse worai hour
n the history ~ the kmerican people
1usiied tn its fervlr and Rufsy %
5 hy that O.hcr moral auskehihe
hat r5nred hr,thCr aEtinst bfvtheF
n batflCfelds forty ycers sro. n tals