The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-26
Senator Bailey Speaks in
 Brooklyn.
TEXAN SCORES ROOSEVELT
Quotes the Presidents En-
 d0rsement of Lynching.
As ts the Tarln Question, He Says tha' the Democrats Will Be Com
 pelled to Continue Protection.

 meeting held under the auspices or the Kings County Democratic Club. at which Senator Joseph W. Bailey or Texas was the principal speaker Res olutions endorsing the nomination r Parker and Davis were read and after an introductory address, in which he reviewed the political situation. Ed ward M Shepard. chairman of the meeting, introduced Senator Bailey, who was greeted with prolonged applause. Tt has never happened heretofore, said the Senator. land 1t will seldom happen hereafter. that the personal opinions and conduct of candidates have determined the suffrage of so many voters as in this campaign"
 He would not utter one syllable about the private character or habits of the President.
 we sought to nominate a candidate, he continued, ''who, in his private and domestic life, is as much like Roosevelt as possible, and in all other respects as much unlike him as we could find." Taking up the tariff question, Sena- tor Bailey said:
 The Tariff Question.
 Our Republican friends profess an indignant surprise at our declaration on the tariff question, and their cam paign committee have done us the hon.
  on that subject in their campaign book. They did not however, have the candor to repeat it in full and did not even print the complete sentence which they pretended to quote. They seem to be fiercely aroused because we have dared to say that protection is robbery of the many to enrich the few
 "As for my part. l don't hesitate single moment to declare 1t as my be- lax xyh not for the purpose of raising revenue to support the government but for the purpose of compelling an American citizen to pay more for the goods he must buy Is a perversion of govern mental power and downright rob bery. Our Republican friends are constantly affirming that the Demo- cratic party favors absolute free trade Whatever any individual Demo- crat or, indeed. what all Democrats might think about free trade as a theory, the dullest man in all this audience knows perfectly well that absolute free trade Is an utter impos- sibility in this republic.
 Enormous Expenditures.
 With the expenditures of the Federal government already so enorm- ous as to stagger the imagination, and growing greater every year under the reckless extravagance of those now in power they cannot hope to materially reduce the present rate of duty; and even when the Democrats are called by the voters of an outraged people to administer this government. we will find 1t impossible. however much we may desire to do so, to reduce the aver age tariff duty below a point that will still be higher than the most extreme of the earlier protectionists ever claim ed was necessary and higher than any moderate protectionist of today be- lieves essential for the protection of any legitimate industry.
 Under the necessity of raising revenue to support the government tho Democratic party will continue to levy tariff duties and 1t perfectly under stands that these tariff duties will af- ford a protection to American manu- lecturers to their foreign competitors; that, however. is an incident with us and not an object.
 The Negro Question
 Not content with having nominated candidate who has taught by his personal example the pernicious doc Urine of social equality between the Anglo-Saxon and the African races the Republican party has gone still further, and, as if bent upon the mis- ehievous design of aggravating racial antagonism, it has deliberately pro- claimed its intention to reduce the rep hesentation of certain States in Con- sress, and in the Electoral College because the people of those States will not consent to be represented by igno. rant and inferior men. Do the mer who made and who adopted the plat form not know that If their threa, should be carried into execution, the South would not be the only sufferer Do these men not know that this coun. try is so closely and so firmly knit to- gether that the whole must suffer fol every injury inflicted on any part The millions invested in southern rail roads are practically all, except th' foreign holdings. the property O. Northern and Eastern men.
 But there is another and highe standpoint. This attempt to resurrec sectional differences is in painful con trast with the teachings of that grea and kindly man who was elevated t' the Presidency by an election and no by a tragic accident As this natioi stood with uncovered heads aroun' the mar.a red McKnley's grave men O every section blessed his name am memory. because he had restored goo' will between the brothers who ha' been estranged by civil war.
 Sorrow over Mckinley.
 ."The sorrow over his untimely deatl was as universal and as genuine T Mississippi as it was in Massachusetts And yet his successor who promises to follow in Mckinley's footsteps ha reversed McKinley's policy and Is nov fomenttng discord where Mckinley ha brought us peace.
 ''The race problem which now con fronts the Southern people will ta their highest wisdom and their mos unselfish patriotism in this solution Except for a single and nameless crlm against the women of our land, ther is no thoughtful man in all the Sout who does not deprecate lynch law, O who doubts that it must and will b suppressed.
 If, however there are amongst man who justify the lawless spiri which sometimes expresses itself in !. public lynching, they could not fin {. in all the range of English literatur