The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-28
DANIEL ON CURRENT POLITICS
OUTLINES A BROAD AND STABLE
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

Reasonable Tariff Revision. Geld Standard
OF Value, Reguiation OF Corporations
Under the Legitimate Authority Given
b. the Constitution Are HIS Programme,
LYNcHBuAo. Va. May Ex-senator John
W. Daniel, who has been suggested BY
Senator Rayner and others az a proper
Democratic candidate for President, says
In an interview:
Il am In no sense q candidate for the
nomination. While the kindness with
which the mention of my name has been
received In some quarters Is naturally very
gratifying to me, I do not think the situation
calls for any public expression from me
at this time
Regarding the ticket and platform Senator
Daniel says:
"In the wholesome condition Of public
feeling that has come TO pass | think thai
the national ticket should be composed OF
men according to their merit and avail
ability. without regard to the section from
which they ONE.
Il think the national Democratic plat
form should enunciAte broad, general
Democratic principles and be confined 10
those things upon which the Democrats
are generally agreed. Thus limited 1t
would bring together the Democratic
forces Of the United States. and II they
could be brought together they would have
an excellent chance for victory.
Such a platform would, Of course, in
olude fair and just regulation Of the cor
porations engaged in interstate commerce.
II should, of course, take the Constitution,
fofRlxy and iNtatlvW tnNap.HNNaA ne itf HiIid0
and have the public welfare as it's sole aim
also it would not entertain any proposition
for the United States't to own the railroads
or vehicles engaged in transportation.
What the far distant future may bring
no man can say, but such a proposition lie
the reversal Of democracy and the despair
Of the republic, Moreover it diverts the
mind from the progressive regulations
Of those things which are clearly within
the constitutional power OF Congress and
which meet with the appreciation OF wise
and prudent men.
"A judicious revision Of the tariff, not a
wfecking nor a doctrinaire revision. would
best meet fair public sentiment on the
subject and the conditions which are to
be dealt with. People will exact that they
shall not be dispsaraged for the benefit OF
foreigners abroad or m~onopolists at home.
We should not develop other countries at
the expense OF our laborers or fattAn distant
consumers at the expense Of our consumers.
1T is generally agreed that the gold
standard should not be menaced or die
tutRed by any proposition Whatsoever.
Songestion is the bane Of republics,
and we are getting 30 congeste in this
country that Congress mo keep its
hand on public affairs. ! do not believe in
any strained construction OF the Constitu-
ton or the torturing Of it's power TO reach
by %indirection subjects never desi gned to
be put under Federal Jurisdiction. What
we need is the natural and wholesome
construction Of all powers, both State and
Federal.
THE race question in the South is in a
better situation than it has ever been since
the upheaval OF the civil war, The colored
people, as a rule. are we'll conducted and
the reforms OF suffrage have eliminated
dangers from our social environments,
which were the sources Of the deepest anx-
iety and apprehension.
THE people OF the whole country are
taking now a more reasonable and just
view Of the subject than they have done
at any time in our history.
Nothing could be more unfortunate
for the equanimity Of the country or for
the colored race itself than to press forward
any proposition that would put the minds
Of the people into an acute condition upon
the subject at this time