Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-07-23
THE ISSUES AND THE MAN
orators at Democratic National Convention Talk
Eloquently About False Pretenses of the
Opposition and Bizarre Personality
of Republican Candidate.

reductions in the existing tariff rates,
but not free trade He continued
"The true democratic position on the
tariff is this: Recognizing the fact
that a large portion of our revenue
has always been raised from customs
duties or taxes, democrats divide all
imports into three classes-neces-
saries, comforts and luxuries-and
contend that the tariff taxes should
be highest on luxuries, lower on COM
forts and lowest or none at all on the
necessaries. They furthermore say
that taxes should be uniform on all
articles belonging to one class.
That Is the democratic partys posi-
ton, from which it will not be driven
or coaxed or bullied No amount OF
Misrepresentation will cause them to
bulge from that position"
The chairman then devoted his at
tention TO former Attorney General
Philander c. Knox. He declared that
Mr.. Knox had been made attorney
general through the influence OF the
trusts and was afterwards transferred
to the United States senate as reward
for his protection Of the trusts. On
this subject he said, in part:
People will open their eyes in as
tonishment and begin to inquire as TO
the why and wherefore Of his appoint
ment when they learn that the transfer
of Mr.. Knox from the attorney gener-
alship to the senate was procured by
the earnest and successful efforts OF
Mr.. Frick, Mr.. Cassatt, and Mr.. Donald
Cameron to induce United States Sem
ator Boise Penrose, the new republican
boss Of Pennsylvania, to permit Mr..
packer, who nominally made the ap-
pointment, does not appear to have
been considered at all in the premises.
"The amazement Of the people will
grow like JOnah's gourd vine when
they learn that Mr.. Frick Is the heavi-
est stakeholder in the steel trust; that
Mr.. Cassatt is president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad company, which is
one OF the defendants in the coal trust
suit now pending, and that Mr.. Gamer
on represented the Standard Oil trust
and Wall street interests in persuading
Boss Penrose to let Mr.. Knox 90 to the
senate.
Here We have the strange spectacle
the mystifying anomaly-of three
Of the chief trust magnates in the land
securing the appointment to the senats
Of Attorney General Philander G.
Knox, who has been exploited far and
wide as the greatest trust buster on
terra firma.
Folks who still dare to think, will
be forced to one of two conclusions:
First, either that Mr., Knox is the only
lawyer in America capable of conduct
ing suit against trust-which is
absolutely preposterous-or that the
Knox antitrust crusade has been
bunko game from the beginning"
Concluding his address, Chairman
Clark said:
HAS the president changed his
views, or have the trust magnates
changed theirs?
plain people cannot be blamed for
being bewildered by all this kaleido-
scoplc performance.
They cannot be censured because
by an old process they figure it out
that two and two make four and that
the transfer Of Mr. Knox from cabinet
to senate at the behest OF Messrs.
Frick. Cassatt and Cameron, taken in
connection with the change OF feeling
in Wall street in favor of the presi-
dent. has sinister meaning.
"The trust magnates who secured
the senatorial toga for Mr.. Knox, since
they have established the entente cor
dale with that famous trust buster.
ought to compel the young ruffianly
scions of great trust houses who some
time ago insulted and assaulted Mr..
Knox in public restaurant to 20
down on their knees and make him the
amende honorable. Then all will be
lOvely--away with the trust and the
trust buster"