The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-06-11
SMITH PREDICTS
DOOM OF G. o. P.
SAYS the Tariff Bill Will Cause it's
Undoing.

Says the IdI1u Dill WIZ Sduoo AtS
Undoing.
Hon. E. D. Smith, junior United
States senator from this State, spent
yesterday in Columbia on personal
business. Mr.. Smith is in the very
! best of health and spirits and his
work at Washington agrees with
him, although he said yesterday that
really he prefers "cotton campaign
ing" with it's activity and work to
the more sedate occupation as men,
Der Of the senate, says the State.
Mr.. Smith was generally eongratu-
lated upon his stand on the tariff
question and many Of his friends ex-
pressed their qualification that he
had received such flattering atten-
tion and such complimentary notices
upon the occasion Of his speech IN
the senate last week.
Mr.. Smith declares his belief that
the tariff bill is the rock upon which
the republican party ship will get a
jar which will send it to the bottom
in the next presidential campaign.
"In this present tariff bill, in the
present discussion" he said, "it is
made apparent that the republican
tariff policy has at last reached its
logical outcome. The principle has
been applied and its disastrous ef-
fects, understood when this bill be-
comes law, will defeat the repubi-
can party. And, in order to prevent
this logical result of their outrage
GUS policy, the republican press i
attempting to magnify what; seems to
be the disloyalty Of some democrats.
"By holding this up before ths
public, they are hoping to distract at
tention from the disastrous effects Of
their own applied victory.
"The difference between the demo-
| cratic situation and the republican
situation is that the republican prin-
|'ciple has been applied, has been test
ed, put into law and has proved dis
astrously disappointing.
"Its advocates have been loyal,
practically unanimous, while, on the
other hand, the democratic doctrine
has not been applied, and the few
democrats who have seemingly desert
ed have in nowise affected the prinei-
Piles of democracy but have simply
emphasized the misleading and PERM
cious doctrine of protection.
"Therefore, the hope Of the eoun-
try is in pruning the democratic forces
Of such as will not stand for demo-
cratic principles and the application
of the plans Of democracy in govern
ment.
"The peoplemust not be misled into
thinking that democracy as prln-
ciple of government is failure be-
cause a few men may be untrue to
their pledges; but it is true that the
republican protection principle IS
failure, because the republicans have
been true to their pledges, carry them
into effect and the result is that the
people will repudiate it.
"If the press of this country Will
keep this distinction and will insist
on the reputation Of the graft sys-
TEN now on US, and will plead for the
principles of democracy being put IN
practice by the genuine democrats, l
|believe that the next election will wit
ness an overwhelming victory for the
democratic party. The line Of dis
tinction between the two parties, as
I see it now, is not sectional to the
extent that it has been, but is the
Eline between the masses and the pro-
tected interests.
''This will be the battle ground OF
Ithe coming conflict. and If handled
properly, l have no doubt OF the IS
sue. think the interests OF the peo-
fple would be better served II more
prominence were given to the dlstlne-
tions between the present republican
system and real democracy, than to
magnify the shortcomings OF some
. few democrats. -