The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-10-05
Accepting Democratic Vice
Presidential Nunination
MADE PUBLIC AT ELKINS
Ex-senator Deprecates Extravaganza
In Administration Affairs--Jumps
on the Trusts and Discusses
other Live Issues.

At Elkins, West Virginia, SUNDAY
night, former Senator Henry G. Davis
made public his letter accepting the
democratic nomination for the vice
presidency. In part it is as follows;
The times are propitious for the re
control Of the government. The pub
lie mind Is being disillusioned OF the
pretension Of the republicans atty; 50
long and so arrogently made, that the
material prosperity of the country de'
pends upon its own ascendancy
Thoughtful and patriotic people are be-
coming more and more distrustful OF
the heady and personal element OF the
present administration, and are more
than willing to see 1t replaced by one
that better recognizes constitutions
and other lawful restraints. They de-
rnand that the present wasteful eXtraV'
agance in the expenditure of the mon
ev. drawn by taxation from the indus
try Of the people, shall cease, and that
economy and honesty in the public
service shall be again regarded as VII,
tues in the high places Of the govern
ment
The expenditures per capita of the
government are increasing at an alarm
ing rate. When the present admins
tration went into power there was
large surplus, but Notwithstanding tina
enormous taxation, the revenues there
from are not now adequate to meet
the demands made by. reckless appro-
priations.
The cost of government during the
fiscal year was $714 per capita, which
means that the average tax paid in
some form or another by every family
of five persons toward the support OF
the national administration of public
affairs was over $35, which, in the case
of wage-earners. is a considerable per-
centage of their entire earnings for
the year. No more money should be
taken from the people by taxation, d''
rect or indirect, than is necessary for
the needs of a government economical
~ administered.
We all hail as the harbinger OF the
new era in the commerce of the world
the inception of the great work OF
building the canal that is to join the
two great oceans, but we deprecaIe
the action of the present administra-
ton, which inflicted wound upon our
national honor by its disregard Of the
rights of a weaker nation, in order to
gain a doubtful credit for energy i'll
forwarding that great enterprise. Ter
ritory of a neighboring republic, with
which we are at peace, was seized by
a band of revolutionists, protected by
the guns of the United States navy and
erected into a state overnight, which
the president promptly recognized as
an Independent nation. A gross oil.
Tense against friendly republic which
it was helpless to resent.
These and many other unwarranted
things that belong more to an empire
than a republic, have occurred under
! the present administration and brought
deep concern and alarm to thoughtfu|
and patriotic minds.
That many of the existing tariff
rates are excessive and enable power
full combinations to extort unjust and
oppressive tribute from the people
cannot be controverted. The tariff is
undoubtedly too high upon such artf
cles as enables the manufacturer to
sell his products abroad cheaper than
at hCTne.
1t is estimated that there are in the
United States between two and three
hundred combinations of capital and
corporate interests, known as trusts,
which have grown up in the last few
years under republican rule. Some OF
them are so conducted as to be per-
nicious and harmful to the general in
terest. With the power they are able
/ to exert, they can lessen competition,
control prices and regulate to their
own advantage the law of supply and
| demand.
All lovers of their country must de-
precate the rehabilitation by the re-
publican party of a disappearing race
issue, at time when every effort
should be made to promote rather than
retard the progress which was beinS
made in the states where slavery had
existed, toward kindlier relations be-
tween the two races. The revival 81
this issue, with all its attendant evils
must of necessity retard the develop
ment of the southern states, whose
people are struggling manfully with
conditions left by the war. and serious
II interfares with the Industrial prog