Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-06-06
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1907.
DANIELS PLATFORM.


acter of the Democratic platform in
1908. The New York Times expresses
the opinion that the Senator has offered
platform upon which any Democrat of
the right stamp could stand, and get the
votes of the Democrats both at the
North and South who are tired of Mr..
Bryan and of the Republicans who are
not only tired of Mr.. Roosevelt but
afraid of him. If the platform of Sena-
tor Daniel should be adopted and the
Democratic candidate should receive
only the combined vote of the Demo
Gratis who are tired of Mr.. Bryan and
the Republicans who are tired of Mr..
Roosevelt and afraid of him, the said
candidate will be the worst beaten man
that has eyer stood for the Democracy.
From present indications nearly the
solid vote of the Democratic party ac-
cepts the leadership of Mr.. Bryan. while
more than the solid vote of the Republi-
can party is not only not tired of Mr..
Roosevelt but anxious to have him Pres
ident for another term.
The Richmond Lewis Leader approves
the views of the New York Times. and
declares that the principles set forth in
Senator Daniels platform ARE funda-
mentally Democratic and swing back to
the duty of American citizenship" Our
Richmond contemporary incorporates in
Its editorial approving of Senator Dan
iel's platform only part of his sugges-
tons, as follows:
Such platform would. of course.
include fair and just regulation of the
corporations engaged in interstate COM
merce and tariff revision. 1t is gener-
ally agreed that the gold standard should
not be menaced or disturbed by any
proposition whatsoever.
The News Leader, however, fails to
take notice of the following most i'm
portant suggestion made by Senator
Daniel as a plank in the Democratic
platform:
"A judicious revision of the tariff, not
a wrecking nor a doctrinaire revision.
would best meet the fair public senti-
ment on the subject and the conditions
that are to be dealt with. People will
exact that they shall not be disparaged
for the benefit of foreigners abroad or
monopolists at home. We should not
develop other countries at the expense
of this country, pay other laborers at
the expense of our laborers, or fatten
distant consumers at the expense of our
consumers"
If this is not complete abandonment
by Senator Daniel of the fundamentally
Democratic doctrine of free trade or
tariff for revenue only, we do not COM
prehend the meaning of Senator Dan
iel's language. The plank he suggests
for the Democratic platform would be
thoroughly at home in a Republican
platform as the exponent of the funda-
mental doctrine of Protection for Amer
lean labor and American industries
Democratic journals and leaders talk
about Mr.. Roosevelt appropriating
Democratic theories and doctrines.
Senator Daniel, who is now being
named as probable Democratic can
didate for the Presidency, accepts the
Republican doctrines of Protection and
a single gold standard. He also saws.
while speaking of what the Democratic
platform should be-
''Such platform would, of course,
include fair and just regulation of the
corporations engaged in interstate COM
merce. 1t should, of course, take the
Constitution fairly and justly inter-
preted as its guide, and have the public
welfare as its sole aim; also it would not
entertain any proposition for the United
States to own the railroads or the vehi-
cles engaged in transportation.
If Senator Daniel intends to stand for
such doctrines and principles as these.
he, and those Democrats who agree
with him, will be more at home in a
National convention dominated by
Theodore Roosevelt than they will be in
one controlled by William Jennings
Bryan.