Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-10-19
TIME INDICATES
J. Howard Pattse Speaks Of Sta
bility of Democratic
Principles.
COPIED BY THE OPPOSITION
Tariff Reform the undying Issue
Cheerful About Congressional
Prospects.

j. Howard Pdttee, democratic con-
gressional candidate. accompanied by
J. W. Lusk and David Turnbull, also OF
ais own city of Monmouth, who are
campaigning the district with him
moved on 10 Moline this morning. Dur
ing last evening. as was the case dur
lS the afternoon. a large number OF
democrats called upon Mr.. Pattee al
the Harper. He was more than pleased
with the reception accorded him in
Rock Island. although strictly informal
n its nature. Il am both gratified and
battered said Mr.. Pattee. in conVarsa-
zion with an Argus representative
You know there is something wonder
July pleasing in leading great party
inder all circumstances. and in meet
nS those who, like myself, have fol
owed in its ranks for a lifetime. have
voted for every democratic president
rom Buchanan TO Parker. and l hope
20 live long enough TO vote not only
for few more democratic presidential
candidates. but democratic presidents.
Too Far Ahead Of tI.c Times.
The only fault that there has ever
been with the democratic party is that
t has been too progressive 1t has al
ways been ahead of the times. Bryan
was 10 years ahead of the times Proof
of this is shown in what President
Roosevelt is doing right now-trying
to lead the republican party into the
adoption of Bryan's theories. How far
he will be able TO succeed | don't know
but whichever party takes the stand
for tariff reform and the regulation OF
capital in some way or other. the put
ting down of trusts and the checking
Of graft will eventually succeed. These
evils have every one OF them grown
up under republican institutions and
republican administrations and repub
lican laws. Who ever heard of such q
thing as a trust or a graft in the gOOC
old days of democratic control of the
government?
RECIPROCITY is in a sense but another
name for tariff for revenue and tarif1
for revenue is tariff reform. Tariff re
form is tariff reduction, which is dem
0cratic doctrine, is it not? SO you see
that the fight in the republican party
between the sO-called stand-patters anG
the tariff reyisiOnists is. when il is
simmered right down, u fight between
republican principles and democratic
principles. And the democratic end is
as is usual, right-so much so. that II
becomes an issue in the very party
that has opposed it. Tariff reform is
an issue which under any other name
would mean as much. The democrats
admit their intentions frankly, how
ever, and the republicans seek to &C
cOmplish the same ends. by evasion
The substance of all of which is that
if the democratic party has been right
in theory and principle all these years
it should have the credit of it,
Against Contract Work.
With reference TO the work at the
Rock Island arsenal" said Mr. Pattee
when the subject of depicting the fore
es there was mentioned, Il am OPP
posed TO the contract system that has
had the effect of forcing men out of
employment in Rock Island and Mo
Inc. | consider the arsenal the place
for the manufacture of the accoutre-
ments of war The government made
large expenditures of money TO equip
and maintain this arsenal, and ii |
seems to me to be of the utmost i'm
portance both TO the government and
to this immediate locality that the
encroachment of private contractors
away from here be resisted
Prospects nre Cheerful.
Mr. Pattee when asked as 10 his |
views of the situation in the Four |
teenth district, said: Il disappointed |
my wife in a visit to California this |
winter. in order TO spend the winter in |
Washington. and | do not propose to |
her again. | am going To
Wash, ngton this trip, and | am going |
there with a certificate bearing an ex
preston of the good will OF the people |
of the Fourteenth congressional dis
trict of Illinois,
Mckinney Here.
James Mckinney, of AledO. the re-
publican congressional candidate. was |
n Moline this morning and this after |
noon came to Rock Island. He will |
meet with the republicans Of the Sew