Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-11-21

No Choice but to Repeat Their
Usual Free Trade Blunders.
Pray, how 10 q wayfaring voter
going to distinguish a Democrat from
a Republican? Send dollar to the
Republican campaign committee and
get the solution TO this puzzle. or
course the Democrats must talk tar
III: that is the only garment Mr..
Roosevelt has left them."-Boston
Globe
Right you are. The Democrats
must talk tariff whether they like to
or not. They are compelled by good
politics on the other side to antagon-
lie the stand-pat position. and in do
ing this they are compelled to antago-
nize protection. Ii is an uncomfortable
position. made so by the wise de-
termination of the Republican mana
gers to force the fight on Dingley
tariff. stand-pat lines.
Much easier il would have been for
the Democrats II they could have
faced divided opposition, an opposi-
ton weakened and demoralized by the
confession that the Dingley tariff was
all wrong and ought to be forthwith
tinkered and patched in the interest
OF larger foreign competition. lower
prices and lower wages.
But Il was different when the ma
tional Republican congressional com
mittee, backed by President Roose-
welt and Speaker Cannon. decided up
on a standpat campaign.
All of sudden the Republican
"progressives" in Iowa ceased to be
progressive. They readily consented
to the adoption OF a stand-pat plat
form. and are now falling over each
other in insisting that the tariff is the
issue, and that Republicans must be
united and harmonious in fighting the
common enemy.
They didn't talk that way prior to
the Oyster Bay stand-pat conference.
Then they were shouting for the
nomination of a tariff wrecker on a
tariff-wrecking platform. and swear
ing that they would bolt If any other
candidate or platform were adopted
Now they sing small about tariff
wrecking. and are begging for stand
pat votes.
How is II in Massachusetts, that
other storm center of tariff mug
wumpery?
A month ago the Democrats were
in high feather Republican dssen-
sion on the tariff made the road to
Democratic success look level and
smooth. Free Trader Whitney had
decided to be the Democratic nominee
for governor, Free Trader Foss was
hoping to capture a Republican nom
ination, and Mugwump Guild was de-
claring that he could not be the
Republican candidate for governor I'M
less allowed to stand on n tariff-rip-
ping platform.
But things have changed. The
stand-pat programme of the congress
sional committee. the stand-pat
speech Of Speaker Cannon at Danville.
and the stand-pat letter OF President
Roosevelt have knocked into splinters
the campaign plans alike OF the free
trade democrats and the mugwump
Republicans.
Free Trade Whitney has decided
that he will not take the Democratic
nomination for governor; Free Trader
Foss has discovered that he cannot
get a Republican nomination for lieu
tenant governor or anything else;
Mugwump Guild was at last accounts
hoping that nobody would remember
his silly break of a month ago as to
refusing denomination on any save
tariff-ripping platform.
The Republican stand-patters have
/
publican tariff resolution is going to
be written by Attorney General
Moody. as per suggestions from Oys-
ter Bay.
All this has come of the patient and
forceful tactics of the stand -patters.
Theirs was the sane and sensible side
OF the controversy; theirs the good
business and the good politics side
They have fought long and hard.
Ever since Cummins. Of Iowa.
launched his scheme Of destroying
"tariff-sheltered monopoHes." and OF
smashing the tariff by a fake recip-
rocity that could only benefit a few
favored interests. while greatly iniur-
Ing the industrial interests OF the
country as whole: ever since Foss
forged TO the front In Massachusetts,
with his programme Of free trade I'm
raw materials and more free trade by
means Of reciprocity dickers. with
Guild promptly falling into the snare
laid plainly in HIS sight by known free
traders all this time the stand-pat-
ters have stood pat for tariff stability.
for business for continued prosperity,
for plenty OF work and high wages.
Result The Democrats have moth
ing but the tariff left 10 talk about.
The more they talk tariff the worse
for them. They never did and never
can talk tariff without putting their
foot in t." For this gratifying sltua-
ton and outlook the country Is in.
debfed To the afand.naffnra IL fhev