Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-30
DIFFERENT KINDS WANTED
In Different Sections Of the Coun-
try.
THE ANTITRUST LEGISLATION
Conflict Between the Two Parties as
to Which is Entitled to
the Credit

The democratic managers have been en-
gagged for a long time in an endeavor. by
process of elimination. to determine
what policy the democracy can get to-
gether on and at the same time find dehi-
mite line of demarkation from anything
that smacks of republicanlsm. They have
taken up one after another of the popular
ISSUES that present themselves to the mind
of any one acquainted with the political
history of the country during the last sew
eral campaigns. with the purpose of get
ting an issue that they can put forward
as most distinctly democratic which has IN
the past had some element of success at
the polls and which they can press over
the larger number of congressional districts
where there Is doubt about the election Of
a member OF Congress.
The Democratic Slogan.
This scanning Of the field and the process
of elimination has brought to the surface
as favorite issue the democratic slogan
Of tariff revision1 And while the trusts
in general, labor organization pr 3oiems and
other matters will be talked abou, hnd
will have prominent place in the demo-
cratic handbook the subject of tariff re-
vision will be urged with probably more
earnestness than any other Issue. Men
prominent in the party declare that that
Issue has done more TO swing the member
ship of the House of Representatives in the
past than any other one force. except thet
of general discomfort which is not promi-
nent this year
They declare that tariff revision gave
them the only president they have had
since the civil war, and that consider
able number of republicans are torn up
over that issue as a faction in their own
party. Why not, they ask, take advantage
this year of the revision issue. and if it
works well they may fall back upon 1t
in the next presidential campaign. AS
matter of fact. democratic campaign
always includes tariff revision in one
form or another. Sometimes it has been
revision to the extent of tariff for reye-
nue. only, which is only another way to
declare for free trade. and sometimes it
has been modified revision indefinite in
form and with the exceptional virtue of
meaning different things to people in diff
ferent sections, according to what they
are looking for:
Different Kinds of Revision.
1t is exactly the latter kind of revision
that is likely to be put forward during
the coming campaign In New England
there has been a large amount of revision
talk in the ranks of the republican party,
but 1t is the kind of revision that certain
protected interests there want In some
instances it is just the kind of revision
that would not go in the west. They want,
among other things. low rates, if not free
trade, on certain raw materials, notably
hides. Out west where tariff revision will
be wanted also by the democrats and by
many republicans as well there are other
schedules that in their view need re-
vision. Out there the candidate who
would talk about free hides or lower du-
ties On hides or any of the raw materials
they raise would soon get in trouble.
They would, however, be encouraged in
talking about lower duties on some of the
manufactured goods of New England In
the south they may talk any kind of tariff
revision so long as they keep out of certain
restricted areas where protected industries
have been built up during the past ten or
fifteen years.
Antitrust Legislation.
The tariff comes in pretty good as an
issue, because when the trusts in general
are discussed there will at once be a con-
fict between the republicans and the demo.
Gratis as to which party should have the
credit for antitrust legislation of the last
session of Congress. The republicans. hav-
ing been in the majority have right
claim that that party has the credit for
what was done, but the democrats can
produce the records to show that they
voted to hit the head of trust whenever
Ii appeared in the legislative battle But
Iiaey declare thdt the greatest of all the
trusts is the tariff in fact that il is the
mother of them all as Havemeyer, presi-
dent of the sugar trust. stated in pc
turesque language when before the Indus
trial commission some years ago. since
which time the democratic party has never
failed to quote the sugar baron as an au-
thority. although they brand his views on
all other phases of the trust question as
defective. 1t is this greatest of all the
trusts, they declare that they are after
and they add that they will be alone In
their chase.
While the democrats are more and more
focusing upon the tariff as their best am
munition they show decided interest In the
forthcoming speeches Of William Jennings
Bryan as the most potent thing in the
country in actually leading their hosts to
victory. They know that issues have a
haplt OF popping up in an unexpected man
ner and without the assistance of the party
leaders so that while they are laying; their
plans they are not without misgivings that