Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-14
BOSTON DEMOCRATS
General Charles Bartlett Nom
mated For Governor.
WHITNEY ASKS FOR TARIFF REFORM
Attacks Senator Lodge For Treason
Ory-xsay state Handicapped by
Present Duties on Raw
Materials.

Materials.
BOSTON, Oct 12.-General Charles
w. Bartlett and Henry NJ. Whitney.
Democratic nominees for governor and
lieutenant governor respectively, were
the principal speakers last night at
mass meeting held in fremont temple
to ratify the nominations for state Of
fees made at the recent Democratic
state convention.
w. r. A. Fitzgerald, president of the
Democratic city committee, was chair
man and I'm the opening address voic-
ed the belief that the party had both
the candidates and the issues and
would again place a Democrat in the
governors chair and would even go a
step farther and elect lieutenant gov
ernor who stood for tariff revision and
reciprocity.
General Bartlett was loudly applaud
ed when he arose to speak, being fore
ed to stand several minutes while the
people cheered and the band played
the national anthem.
Mr.. Whitney received an unusually
warm reception when introduced by
the chairman
Mr.. Whitney devoted the first part
of his address to criticism of Sena-
tor Henry Cabot Lodge. Specifically
he criticised the senator for saying at
the Republican convention that the
day was long gone by when state
should stand out as South Carolina did
in the thirties and attempt to nullify
q national law because the tariff sched-
ules did not suit the products. BE
cause" Mr. Whitney said, 1000 men
of Massachusetts honestly believe that
change in the laws would promote
the welfare of Massachusetts and have
the courage to say so it is held that
they are guilty of reasonable prac-
tees"
Mr. Whitney attacked the senator's
position In arguing that free raw ma
terial was nothing in the world but free
trade and asked If the senator was ig-
norsnt Of the fact that 46 per cent of
our total imports are now on the free
list
The speaker asserted that the remov-
III of import duties on hides, iron ore,
lumber, wood pulp and coal, which are
used in all Massachusetts industries,
would help offset the handicap which
Massachusetts is under.
He continued:
''Since it is useless to hope for any
enlargement of our trade relations with
Canada and Newfoundland through the
operations of treaties and reciprocity
and since the Canadians are under
stood to contemplate making a change
soon In their tariff, possibly in the di-
rsction of retaliatory measures, the
reciprocity people believe the loss of a
great part of our 1852, 900, 900 Of ex-
ports may be averted by admitting
free from Canada the products of the
mines. the earth and the forests, the
things which Canada chiefly raises and
which, while forming the greater part
Of her exports to us, involve tax
on tha living expenses of our own peo-
pie. That Is the natural solution. That
has been the purpose of the recent agi-
tatiOn In Massachusetts,
Mr.. Bartlett discussed the tariff al
most exclusively, saying in part:
Massachusetts suffers In this way,
we are cut of geographically from the
rest OF the country, and this adds to
the difficulty of our obtaining cheap
raw materials. We are cut off by the
tariff laws from free and fair market
In obtaining these supplies from our
foreign neighbors.
with reasonable tariff duties Mas
sachusetts would be more favorably
situated than are other states to pro
duce many articles. With the present
tariff duties she is less favorably stu
ated. This fact makes the tariff more
oppressive to Massachusetts than to
most other states.
by our vote let it be understood that
the people Of the state demand relief,
and one of the things from which they
demand relief is a tax aimed directly
at Massachusetts interests for the ben
efits of a combine that is moving to
hamper and exterminate a great indus
try"