Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-05
FACES SERIOUS HANDICAP IN
CONTROVERSY WITH
BAILEY.
TEXAS WON'T LINE UP
FOR ABSOLUTE FREE TRADE
Democrats of Lone Star State Always
OFF Color on Tariff oueston-sail.y
Stands With His State Constituency
and Revolt Against Nebraskan is
Threatened.

Washington. Oct. 5-Politicians In
this city believe that Mr.. Bryan has
undertaken huge and we'll nigh i'm
possible task in trying to discipline the
democratic protectionists of the south.
ana that the result of his efforts will
almost certainly be as UNSATISFACTORY
to him-as was the result of his eff
forts in 1896 to read out of the party
the sound money democrats of the east.
The campaign, however is not with
out its interesting features Mr.. BRYAN
is localizing it in Texas, in an attack
on Senator Bailey. who has stood for
some time as the most pronounced
champion of the doctrine of a duty in
certain cases on raw materials: but the
issue is greater than Texas and SEN
ator Bailey Ii embraces nearly the
whole of the democratic south. as the
tarln session of 1909 demonstrated. and
IN order TO succeed Mr.. Bryan would
nave 10 convert practically the whole
OF that section-a task of seeming i'm
possibility
arm way mot Be Issue.
But Mr. Bryan has courage, even
where he has not tact. and While he
may not carry his pint in Texas. or
elsewhere in the south, he will add very
definitely 10 the prevailing belief that
the democratic party. torn apart on the
tariff issue. is in no condition to make
the tariff the issue in the 1910 cam
paign. Should this prove to be the
case. the present Texas campaign
which Mr.. Bryan is waging will have
more than a passing interest in those
states of the central west, where GER
tain republican, tariff insurgents have
been planning 10 make the 1910 cam
paign on the tariff. assuming that they
were to have united democratic sup
port.
In this city it is believed that the
only outcome of Mr. Bryans cam
paign in Texas will be to show how
hopelessly the democratic party is d.
vided on the tariff question, thus has
tenins the coming of the time when
the leaders Of that party will prepare
to hunt for some new issue. These
issues will appear during the session
of congress, beginning next December,
and tina. the tariff can not in fact be
one of them is beginning to he appar-
emf to those who are studying the stu
alton. Mr.. Bryan's efforts. it is
claimed, will do nothing more than to
clear up the situation a trifle earlier
than usual.
Texas in Enemy's Country.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Bryan has placed
! Texas in the epemy's country. just as
he placed the east in ii in 1896. He
has invaded that state with much the
| same spirit that carried him TO New
/ York in the free silver campaign. and
| apparently it is his intention now, as
/ it was then. to challenge and convert a
1 hostile public But, Texas no more adj
1lits that it is hereto than New
York did, and SO the fight promises.
as has been stated, TO be a duplicate
of that of 1896.
Mr.. Bryan's chief concern lies in the
fact that the Bailey pronouncement as
TO raw materials clashes With the Den
yer platform, platform which MI
Bryan himself either wrote or Endorsed.
It's tariff plank is said to have been
his own creation. Not only does the
Bailey theory clash with the Denver
platform but with the general policy
Of the democratic party for the past
thirty years. But the rising tide of
protection in the south has overhowed
these old time party landmarks. as
public men knew would be the case
and given Mr.. Bailey an audience
which is in sympathy with his position
The strange thing. as viewed here, is
not that the south should take on pro-
lection sentiment as it comes to pos
sess things which needed protection
but that Mr.. Bryan should not be able
to see the economic irnpossibility OF
preventing this from happening
Not Original With Bailey.
Ii has been charged by Mr. BrnaS
and by other democratic leaders thai
the Bailey theory prevented the demo
era tic party from acting as unit dur.
ing the tariff session of congress thi:
year, which is true. and that it could
not have been more cleverly planned
, to divide the party had it been tn,
work of Senator Aldrich himself
| which is also true. But thi
theory has struck a responsive CHORD
/ in the southern breast. and Washington
: wonders what there is that Mr. Bryan
4 can do about it.
This theory was not original Will
! Mr.. Bailey. Away back in 1898. his col
: league in the senate, Mr.. Culberson