Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-12-21
THURSDAY. DEC. 81, 1905.
DEMOCRATS DISAPPOINTED.

DEMOCRATS DISAPPOINTED.
The Democrats continue to show that
they are keenly disappointed over the
manner in which the President treated
the tariff question in his message.
They had cherished an absurd belief
that he would measure down to their
conception of instability as a states
man and as Republican, and that he
would turn tariff ripper. AT no time
since Mr.. Roosevelt became President
of the United States has he shown any
inclination to abandon the doctrine OF
Protection which is one of the cardinal
principles of the Republican party.
But Democrats had made themselves
believe, from purely Democratic asser-
ton, that the President was what they
are pleased to term tariff reformer.
The Washington Post says:
Cup until short time before the
appearance of this message the Presi-
dent was loud and Jealous in his declar-
atoms as to the necessity of tariff re-
vision"
We fail to recall any occasion where
or time when the President was loud
and Jealous in his declarations for even
tariff revision. He may have express
ed his belief, on more than one occa-
sion. that certain schedules of the
present tariff law may need revision,
but he has never assailed the doctrine
of Protection, nor expressed any SYM
pathv for Democratic reform ideas.
In national politics the Democrats are
in such desperate and almost hopeless
condition that they are like the drown
ing man who catches at straw. They
have tried to introduce what they call
ed new issues into national politics but
have failed so signally to accomplish
anything therefrom that helped to adj
vance the interests of their party that
they feel constrained to return to their
old time cry of tariff reform or free
trade. So they begin again to talk
about tariff oppression and class legis-
lation. The times, however, are not Of
such a character as to make the APP
peals of the Democratic leaders very
effective. When they talk about the
Republican robber tariff men of sound
business sense will want to know what
classes of the people are being robbed
and who are being injured by present
tariff schedules. If they say the farm
ers are being robbed, the producer of
agricultural products will be forced to
say that if this is robbery it is making
him grow rich and fat. The same re-
Spouse will have to come from the man.
ufacturer, the mine operator and all
classes and conditions of labor.
No section of the Union should be
more opposed to the Democratic idea of
tariff reform than the South. Under
the protective tariff policy of the Re-
publican party our section has been
developing more wonderfully than any
other section of the United States.
When have the cotton planters of the
South been in as good condition as they
are now found? See how manufacturing
industries have been multiplying at the
South since Mckinley was first elected
President and the country was returned
to the protective tariff policy. OBJ
serve the rapid opening up of the vast
mineral resources of Virginia, Tennes-
see, Alabama, Texas and other States
of the South. Just consult the Stats
tics to see how the banking capital
down here has grown and how wages
have been more than doubled. These
are the disastrous conditions that have
been produced at the South by the Re-
publican tariff policy. 1t is strange
that the press and leadership of the
Democratic party in this section can
longer influence the masses to vote the
Democratic ticket.