Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-01-14


upon the course pursued by the Re
pupllcan party with reference to tariff
revision, unless, indeed, some new and
paramount issue should be introduced
by Mr. Roosevelt. 1t looks now as if
the "stand-patters," whose stronghold
Is the Union League club of Philadel.
phla, might prove successful in their
opposition to any readjustment of the
tariff during Mr.. Roosevelt's second
term. In that event they are certain
10 provoke an amount of disaffection
in the Republican rank and file that
would give the Democracy an opportu
nifty of victory. Most candid students
of the results of last November's con-
test are convinced that there are not
enough Democrats in the country to
elect a president, and that a Demo-
cratic nominee will never reach the
White House, unless, like Mr.. Tilden
and Mr.. Cleveland, he obtains some
Republican support. We repeat our
former prediction that if the Dingley
tariff is left intact by the Republicans
during the next four years, nobody in
1908 will believe their profession of
an intention to revise it. and a we'll
known and highly respected conser-
vative Democrat of the Cleveland
type, if he ran on the single plank of
immediate tariff revision, would be
very likely to win. Such a one-plank
platform might be put forward if the
next Democratic convention were con.
trolled by eastern and southern dele.
gates If, on the other hand the Bry-
antics should regain ascendency, the
winning issue of tariff revision would
be apt to be lost sight of in the farra-
go of "isms" that they might be ex-
pected to concoct. Mr.. Bryan's friends
are not alone in taking time by the
| forelock.
Mr.. Thomas Watson, who "also
ran," it may be remembered for the
presidency, on the Peoples party tick
ct, has been talking more or less since
the election, and now announces that
the campaign of 1904 was but a pre-
Jude to the campaign of 1908. A start,
he says, had to be made, and it
seemed to him of vital necessity to
start at q time when both the old
parties were virtually pledged to class
Legislation. He intends, he adds, to
devote the next four years to cam
paign of education, in which he will
preach, he says, 1.-THE gospel of equal
rights to ALL" and will try to make
his fellow citizens comprehend how
ruinous to the masses are the pres
ent tendencies" of municipal, state,
and national legislation. From the
general tenor of his remarks we in
fer that Mr.. Watson means openly to
cooperate with the Democracy in
1908, provided its platform and nomi-
nee are of the desired Bryanite tinge,
instead of indirectly aiding the Re-
publican ticket, as he did this year.
1t should further be noted that at
least one eminent Republican is al
ready laying pipes for his party's NOM
ination for the presidency four years
hence. We refer, of course, to Vice
President-elect Fairbanks. Scarcely
had Mr.. Roosevelt announced that he
would not be candidate for the NOM
nation in 1908 than Mr.. Fairbanks
let it be known that he should not
personally recommend any citizen OF
his state for appointment to office,
but should leave the distribution OF
federal patronage in Indiana to its
senators and representatives. The
avowed reason for this attitude OF i'm.
partially was his purpose to request
tba Indiana DELEGATION TO present his