The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-09-10
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ference at Albany, N. ", organized
the Income Tax League, and urged
the DeTo of the whole country
to support the proposition for an
amendment to the constitution
empowering Congress to enact ar
income tax law whenever Congress
feels like it. On Thursday of this
week gathering of "eonservative'
Democrats will take place al
Saratoga, make several populations
and declarations, and incidentally
oppose the income tax. While in
theory these are New York
demonstrations, in reality they have
concern for Democrats through
out the country. Likewise they
have an interest FOR Republicans.
The resolutions which were adopted
at the meeting three days ago were
drawn up by Mr.. Bryan, and were
assented to unanimously. Although
the call for the conference to be
held two days hence was signed by
New York Democrats solely, some
members of their party FROM other
states will be there. Two or three
of them are on the list of the
speakers. For this reason, and also
because a particularly determined
attempt will be made to win the
state by the Democracy in the
election for governor In 1910 and
for president two years later,
Republicans and Democrats in ever,
state will have an interest In these
demonstrations.
AS one of the objects of the
Saratoga conference was to start a
movement against the nomination
of Mr.. Bryan in 1872, his friends
countered by calling meeting OF
his supporters for date several
days earlier, Said the New York
Times last week, in speaking of the
Saratoga meeting, the conference
will accomplish nothing "unless il
repudiates Bryan and all his works. y
This is something which the coming
gathering will do if it musters spunk
enough, for the men who are booked
to participate in it are hostile to his
candidacy three years hence. Mr..
Bryaa has responded to this
challenge by writing the platform
of the Albany gathering. The
Albany Argus, for several days
before the meeting in that city, had
editorials opposing the income tax,
aad one of the participants at the
conference accused David B. Hill
of writing them. Usually news
papers do their own editorial
writing, but there was some
provocation for this charge. In
the days of the Albany Regency of
Van Bursn, Dean Richmond, Peter
Cagger and John A. Dix tre Argus
was its organ, and David B. Hill
keeps alive the tradition of the
Regency. In the Senate in 1894
he voted against the Wilson German
bill because it had an income tax
rider, and some of the arguments
which he brought against the tax
were sustained by the Supreme
Court in 1895 when 1t declared that
proposition unconstitutional. Hill
is against the income tax still, and
with him stands large majority OF
the old line Democrats of his state
and Of the country.
But the New Albany Regency
the eabal which has Mr.. Bryan,
Senator Gore of Oklahoma, Repre-
Ollie James of Kentucky,
and Senator Taylor of Tennessee
among its sponsors-Is at war with
Hill, Parker and the entire element
Of Cleveland Democrats. The line
Of separation between these two
factions of the Democracy is as
broad as that between either OF
them and the Republican parry.
The income tax is only one of the