The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-10-06
Accepting Democratic Vice
Presidential Nomination
MADE PUBLIC AT ELKlNS
I Ex-senator Deprecates Extravaganza
in Administration Affairs-Jumps
on the Trusts and Discusses
Other Live Issues.

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 tbs
pretension of the republican, arty, so
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 d1strustful OF
the heady and personal element or tne
present administration, and are more
than willing to see it replaced by one
that better recognizes constitutional
, and other lawful restraints. They de-
maud that the present wasteful extraV'
agance in the expenditure OF the mon
ey, drawn by taxation from the indus
try Of the people, shall cease, and tina:
economy and honesty in the public
service shall be again regarded as VII
tues in the high places of the govern
Aent.
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 the
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 STA per capita, when
means that the average tax paid in
some form or another by every family
Of five persons toward the support oil
the national administration Of public
affairs was over $35, which, in the case
aof wage-earners. is 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 government economical.
Ely 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 deprecate
!, 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 in
forwarding that great enterprise. Ter
ritory OF a neighboring republic, with
which we are at peace, was seized by
q band of revolutionists, protected Dy
theiguns of the United States navy and
1erected into a state overnight, which
the. president promptly recognized as
an independent nation. A gross Of
fense against q, friendly republic which
: It was helpless to resent.
These and many other unwarranted
things that belong more to an empire
than q republic, have occurred under
the present administration and brought
deep concern and alarm to thoughtful
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 controyerted. The tariff is
undoubtedly too high upon such arti'
cles as enables the manufacturer to
sell his products abroad cheaper than
at home.
It is estimated that there are in tho
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 disappearing race
issue, at a time when every effort
should be made to promote rather than
iretard the progress which was being
made in the states where slavery had
existed, toward kindlier relations be-
tween the two races. The revival ot
l4h:. ;ec,,o with oil ;fc 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
\ " interferes with the industrial prog
ress of both races.
CANDIDATE HERRIcK NOTIFIED.