The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1910-12-07

into the present Payne
Aldrich bill, and will be found equally
Jealous in his effortsto make it more
effective.
'But suppose the approaching
short session fails to do anything
towards correcting the defects of the
present tariff measure, and suppos
ing that Mr.. Taft should decide t.
call special session of the new
Democratic Congress next March
what then? SO far, l have failed tt
see any suggestion of what il Demo.
cratic revision shall consist of, ex.
cept the vague one, that it should be
a "revenue bill, whatever that may
mean. Frankly now, are the Dem.
Ocrats likely to agree on any meas
are which would not be a series OF
compromises? Would Mr.. Cantril
favor cutting out the duty on hemp
which he claims credit for in the Aid
rich bill; would Champ Clark anC
Senator Bailey be found asking thai
the duty be taken off of wool; would
The Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi
Congressman want the duty off o.
cotton; the Florida Representative.
off of oranges; the Louisiana states
men, off of sugar; the Westeners
off of lumber and mining products
Would it not be the old game of 'Yol
scratch my back, and I'll scratcl
yours" You vote for my schedul
and I'll vote for yours?' Or will tn
Democrats of the approaching shor
session, join with the progressive Re
pubhcans in perfecting the Tariff
Commission bill, so as to take tin
tariff out of politics? They refus
ed to support that measure in th
last Congress-, will they still vot
against it?
"The New York Mail is right, Nj
Walton. The country is not Dem
ocratic Tor, for that matter, Republi
can either, but is only discomfort
ed. But the Democratic party is tn
beneficiary of this discomfort, an
the great body of independence
shall | say, disinterested- voters
having revenged themselves on tn
Republicans, are with like impart
iality, ready to give the Democrat
a dose of the same medicine if the,
fail to realize their responsibility. Ar
they equal to the opportunity? JoI
E. Hedges, the New York politica
orator, says the Democratic part,
IS the only organization known It
man that can forget its past, over
look its present, and face the futur,
with everlasting hope Harmon, o
Ohio, Dix, of New York, Baldwin, o
Connecticut and Wilson of New
Jersey were each elected to the Gov
ernor's chair of their respectiv,
States. The first three are cOrpor.
alton men Harmon has been a cor.
poratiop lawyer and is a director il
dozen large corporations. He wa:
supported for his office by the big
gest trust in the United States, thu
whisky trust. He is by all odds thu
favorite among the Democrats fol
the Presidential nomination in 1912
Dix, leading factor in the wall pa
pertrust, and the beneficiary Of Tam
mary Hall, and Baldwin, recog-
nized authority on corporation law
have each been frequently mentioned
as possible candidates for the Pres
idency, Wilson, a clean, intellectual
giant, of spotless character, has been
spoken of frequently as candidate
for the Vice Presidency, but only
by one paper, | believe, has he been
favored for the first place. And We;
the thinking people of this country
concede that the Waterloo of Novem-
Der s was due to a supposed con-
nection between the Republican par
ty and the trusts. 1t looks like Mr..
Hedges was right, doesn't it?"