The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-08
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SOME POINTS NOW AT ISSUE ]: $ I =
Thus Far New Roosevelt Plat
form Is More Demo cratic s8s
Thar, Republic

yYASH1NGTC)N, D. C Re b. u 2 ron:
lied Is the term II llayc heara
WED with each other recently II aii.do1rs.
Wing the course tho President Is ptirsulllln,g
II towards railroads, trusts, aiid In tho nut
Is ter sof nppo intmctlts IN the sou tl g.
Il states. The term was Used first by q Re.
publican who lias BECOME CONSPICUOUS y 9, Y,
about tho Capitol @wl,lle Con gress is S sii
\ session Iii recent years ns-St he re prcsen-
tqtiye OF q prominent 5ih lr6nd W 81 EN-;
rho second tine5tlle expressio on tgsls used
tony knowlc 70 rsas IN, tho cor ersiftl2i
NJ Of SDcmocratSw who held 10 high place IN
the, government few year q 80, ~ ~ y
s5whoshaa for some time been re pre- tirg
y; largo RI lrOnd interests at thn national
h capitol The third TING I heard tho term
w 4 was used bybn4 der1ocra t. repre-
Tive from d. FAR Southern Stat o1,eswlioG
\ In the years Immediately, preccdl ng the
War between the States, would have been
Vi termed "fire-eat err. q Il;
Attitude Of Democrats. i
8lSs The three mon who used the term re
typlcn! III OF SS llie5g clusses ~ no. llsnpproyc
II the Endorsements which. tho President Is
which opposed him 30 bitterly In the CAM
paign last fall. III The limo Repu 81 leans,
tho ext Democrats who q clare they left
Il the party because It ccased a, 30. the
& partygor Jefferson and ~ nck son, and III
tra sectionallsts from the sotitl,.trepre,-.3
sent those who opposo5tlle attitude winch
Is me Democratic party has assumed to-
3 wards Mr.. Roosevelt. The Soutl i = has
learned in the past 70 IA TT mere
vate5 life who are q 81 ersiye ii and as.
lurtfuls 10 that section as are y he Edesceri-t
ii dan,s of the old bolit lonlsts'' 30 New
AZ England 3 Whose waving OF tho bloody
shirt has kept the South In darkness I, 8.
q concerning many important political Is!
A sues. XIII ii5ysl
'Ity is dilicult 10 see how the Demo-
Gratis could have escaped ENDORSING the
v President Mr.. Roosevelt has not yet bc-
N gnn 10 serve the four years for which
u lie: was elected last fall, but In the months
4 since the election 3hrs has dc clared poll
n cies. and entnclated principles n as dis
X tlnctly democratic as any ever pr claimed
X by; Andrew Jackson OF Grover G eYeinnd.i
Is and many Of those which Mr.. Cleveland
NJ laid down while IN the Nv lite II otise fare
Vt believed by q large scctlo of no Y, emo-{
cratic party to have been less der1ocrltlc
n principle than those which Mr.. Z Oosc-i
Welt advocnte s. When & WI lam = enry
Il Harrison He'd IN ls4l . fter ving 6ccli-
Il pied 4 the presidential chiiir cxnc I'll " one
month, he Wings rs slin1cd 81 Of course,
Il that John r ylcl, would carry ont the prin.
zScinles Of tho plat form on which he ana
.tJIppeca NOE had been elected .S But IN
ii al mon th's time u Na evident that Tyler g
was as much II a Democra as Jolin 81
X Calhoun. ,whosa 4 posi- Ion on null location
X lie had Endorsed Y ten years fjefo an 2,
a ~ tho time Tyler had vet oed two bll lis
#Te- stablishlng5 the national ba nk. nc
IVfiigY realized that they had ~ LOST = he
ia Tyler Wings and the p IS " dtd MOI
4 endure beyond his term and NJ he III OF
del11arcationgb be tween the two parties was
" ;s distinct thereafte as evcrtt had neeil.
When President Tyler vet ed i tho bill TO
IT re-egtnblsh3t the Bank OF the United States
against which, Jackson had made ~ ighti
swtfch has become historic and whfen,
NJ Inc spite of the most b ca tlon n, y
In
stood firm and 3vetoed al second BILL ere;
atinr a@,national IS bank which en- used
u every member Of his cabinet to- resign
81 his port folio save Daniel Webster could
the Democrats have done mo re nan q p
" prove indorse. and SUPP port q N "
Tho President ';hns declared for re islon
.giofS tariff schedules, for which Democratic
platforms have been ID clarin q Tor DC
eales ana on which ihe i9S ga bas
I sclared that the a1ntcrsta ties Commerce {
" Commission should "A have q the power q 70
regulate the charges of railroads Tor ser
vice n, a9a penocpdts
ana more. He has shown a dis postlo,n
q TO brea !, away from the pro essl onal Fed !
i oral A officc-holder z of the South repre-
senting in the main the negroes. ana = INC
polnt either respectable epublieaalnls or
4 Democrats. N si9 SSysf &
e Cannot Oppose Him.
Democrat t. would lose heir IDENTIFY {
they should such octPasSid af
How "a, can may opp man "a as Thomas
Mason ais ns.P Page when he Is nsiderlng n y,
plicants IL VtrEinias; ana s,
lens adytee,, gly en-, h' Dy spe =
ffS 81 Wli;lt t can they say w 81 ne up q
points a Democrat like Thomas y Go9de
Jones, OF fAlab ama.S to tho Federal 6en rs
fcdcrate, tho army comrade Of John w.
81 Daniel? 5f ", , . 9, ~.
III fact that one Of his uncles fired thc last
Etriiria from the Alabamn whom she sunk In
Gherbourg 5harbora in 1854 and that an
4 other was an officer OF the Confederate