Arizona republican., 1904-08-15
HUNT FOR AN ISSUE
Democrats Casting About
 in Various Directions
The Manufacture of the Campaign Book Turning Out to Be Serious Literary Effort.


 Washington, August 14.-Democrats in Washington are looking forward to the publication of their campaign book, which is to be out in a couple of weeks to define what they are expected to re- gard as the issues of the campaign. They declare that they are now receiv- ing different instructions each day. They were at first informed that the personality of the president was to be made the issue. The speeches of Rep resentatives Kitchin, Patterson and Fitzgerald were supplied to them, and they Were told to study them for epi- thets and opprobriOus descriptions of MT. Roosevelt. This they did but they no sooner found themselves load ed with this sort of material than they were informed that the personality is sue gave signs of proving a failure, that Republican editors and speakers were asking the Democrats to prove their assertions that the President was unsafe" and that they were unable to make good"
 Then Representative Gaines went on the warpath and promised develop ments with regard to the Tobacco Trust which would serve as destructive ammunition everywhere, but especially in the border states. Unfortunately, just as the Democratic editors and the few speakers who have taken the stump had mastered the details of Mr. Gainess allegations, information leak ed out from the Department of Justice which put the Tennesseean in a most unfortunate light, and instructions went out to drop the tobacco issue for the present.
 Representative Cockran of New York induced the congress committee to believe that his speech on the tar fir furnished the keynote for numerous campaign addresses, and great uuanti- ties of copies of that speech were promptly printed and distributed. es- pecially in Massachusetts, which Rep resentative Sullivan had described as on the eve of a free trade landslide but Senator German learned of the distribution, and caused it to come to a sudden end, punctuating his com ments on the subject with some sar- castle references to men whose intelli- gence was SO diminutive that they were unable to distinguish between the tenor of MT. CCckran's free trade extravagances and the tariff plank of the Maryland platform.
 MT. Germans remarks on the up- building of the navy and the increIs~ ed military power of the nation were next tried, but with equally preiddi- cial effect. Democratic editors from all over the country wrote to the com mittee, advising it that the more tina was said about the upbuilding of the navy and the reorganization of the army the more republican votes there would bein their sections. The demo- cratic faithful, therefore, are in q quandary and anXiously await the is sue of the campaign book, hoping that it will define some issues whish will not prove harmful to the party.
 It is announced at democratic head quarters that Representative Cow herds alleged refutation of the recent bulletin of the Bureau of Labor on wa ges and the cost of living will receive wide circulation, but when it is re- hected that Mir Cowherd unblushihgly repudiates the testimony of retail prices as an indication of the cost of living and asserts that the consumer is more concerned with the wholesale prices of the commodities which he