Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-04-27
FROM WASHINGTON


ashington. April 20.
The republicans are doing their
level best to deceive the people as
10 the real conditions existing in
the business world. They are
pouring speeches into Congress
for use in the coming campaign,
the tenor of which is stand pat, f"
"all is well, prosperity is still
rampant despite few facts to
the contrary. They would have
the country believing that we are
RAPIDLY recovering from the set
back to industry which occurred
from October last to January,
when wage reductions became
general, and when nearly half the
mills in many Industries had to
close.
Although there never was more
important business for Congress
to attend to than ut present. in
order TO bring relief from the
tyrannical trusts which have put up
prices and increased the cost of
living TO the highest point ever
known, while reducing wages in
all directions, yet it is the aim and
policy of the republicans TO ad-
iourn Congress just as soon as the
appropriation bills can be rushed
through.
They will then begin to circulate
their stand pat" and prosperity"
speeches. hoping to lulu TO sleep
the great mass of voters and to
keep them ignorant of the real
facts as to the industrial depression
which is on still and which cannot
be vanquished, even by republican
rhetoric. The republicans know
that every day they remain in
Washington will not only bring to
light new scandals in their admin
istration, but that il will add new
evidence cf the depression which
is now running its course. They
know that the democrats hesitate
to picture conditions as bad as they
really are and that. If Congress
adiOurns mt once, the democrats
will practically be without frank
able speeches TO offset the frank
able prosperity speeches of the
republicans. This, they think,
will give them another opportun-
ity to fool the voters of the coun-
try, and | am sorry to say many
of them are fooled. This accounts,
also, for much Of their unseemly
haste 10 adjourn Congress.
National politics of the demo-
cratic brand is still holding the
boards as the one great attraction
here in the national capital. The
action of the New York state con-
vention, ON last Monday, in en-
dorsing Judge Parker and instruct
ing for him has been the chief
topic of political conversation
around the capital and in the dem
ocratic cloak room. There are di-
vergent opinions as to the effect of
this action on the respective can
didacies of Parker and Hearst.
Many of the rampant Parker men
are pleased at this action, and say
that 1t practically settles the mat
ter and assures the nomination of
Parker. On the other hand, the
friends of Hon. William Randolph
Hearst say that this action on the
part of the Democrats controlled
by Hill, will have exactly the OPP
posite effect expected by the
friends of Judge Parker. They
claim that this is case of the tail
wagging the dog. In other words,
the upstate end of the democratic
party in the state of New York
which Is utterly pOwerless in an
election, that end of the state al
ways giving an overwhelming
republican majority, has dictated
to the city democratic end of the
state, the city of New York and
ITS environs. The delegates from
Greater New York simply asked
to be allowed to 90 to the conven-
ton uninstructed and to be allowed
to make the best nomination in the
interests of the party which the
exegencies of the situation at that
time demanded. They claimed
there are many things that can
happen between now and the 9th
day of next July, and that the
hands of the great New York de-
mocracy should not be tied when
the country needs it to put the
o.