Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-02
TARIFF IS THE ISSUE
First West Virginia District
Becomes battle-ground.
INITIAL Meeting is HELD
Representative Gaines Opens the Re-
publican Campaign.
DEFENSE OF THE PAYNE LAW
Democratic Nominee for Congress
Expected to Accept Challenge and
Define Party's Creed.
DEFENSE OF THE PAYNE LAW
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

BY common consent the first West Nir-
i ginia district has become the battle
| ground between the republican and demo-
| cratic parties >on the issue of the tariff
Besides certain logical. considerations why
| this district should be the most proml-
| nent the particular reason Is that the re-
publicans secured Representative Joseph
H. Gaines Of the third district to be their
spokesman in the opening of their cam
paign, and John w. Davis, the demo-
| cratic candidate for Congress in this dis
| trict, is expected to set forth the demo-
| cratic attitude when he opens the pam
| handle end Of the campaign in Wheeling
next Monday night.
| The republican opening Tuesday night
was suspicious from an attendance stand
point. 1t attracted voters from Marshall
county, the home of the republican can
didate for Congress. and from Marion
Hancock Wetzel, Brooke and other coun-
| ties in the district.
Gaines sounded what has been accepted
| as the keynote in defining the republican
position as standpat SO far as the pro-
| lection principle goes. He declared he
| had no apology to make for his vote in
| the ways and means committee in keep
| ing up schedules: asserted that there
was no promise in the republican ma
tional platform of revision down
| ward" but commended that there had
| been a substantial reduction in many
| of the necessar1es, and also a consider
able increase on the imported Iuxuries.
Tariff Not Cause of High Prices.
Gaines strongest point. and one which
the minor stumpers will hammer on, was
| that the tariff is not responsible for the
wide margin between the manufacturer
selling price and the retailers, but that
the only cause attributable for the big
difference, in his judgment, was 1.-THE
cost Of distribution
| West Virginia coal was sold at the
mines by the operator, he said. at 50
at Chicago. The freight haul was .$1.O2
a ton; the water haul from Lake Erie
points to Duluth was an additional As
cents. The speaker said he frankly could
not tell who got the rest, except that 1t
| filtered through to many hands in modern
methods Of distribution. He discussed
the coffee schedules of Germany and the
/ United States to show the American tar
| if did not affect the cost to the consumer
and he blamed the desire for higher liv-
ing incidentally for much Of the present.
day complaint. Coffee on the free list in
| the United States. he said, was sold at
higher price than it is in Germany, where
there is imposed a tariff duty OF cents
a pound.
Gaines visited the Wheeling glass fac
tories the following day in order to forti-
! fy himself with arguments to develop his
assertion that the tariff percentage on
manufactured glass articles was inconse-
| quential In considering the difference be-
| tween the manufacturers cost and the
cost of the article to hesconsumer. There
was strain in Gaines speech which
| sounded like back to Mckinley" He re-
| ferred indirectly but once to Roosevelt
| W hon vii To 1ytr
carrying out his predecessors policies,
| and the audience, which had just seen
the bulletins from New York. gave vent
| to the only shouting of the evening at the
mention of Teddy's name.
Besides inferentially suggesting the re-
publican party should hold to the Nc
kinley idea of tariff, the Charleston
representative declared that CARRYING out
| of the new back to the farm slogan
would cheaper the meals at the tables
Senator Scott a Speaker.
Senator Scott was another sneaker at
the Wheeling opening, but confined him
self to warning Wheeling business men
| and workingmen that an assault on the
tariff was detrimental to their interests in
Steel glass and pottery manufactures.
and he said a nice word in passing about
his late opponent for his toga. retiring
Representative W. p. Hubbard This lit
| tie salve attracted some applause but
Mr.. Hubbard was conspicuous by his
absence. notwithstanding he had been
named as one of the vice presidents of
| the meeting. The committee at first pro-
| posed to invite him to preside but re-
considered and selected in his stead Rich
ard Robertson. former county clerk, and
one of Hubbard's most substantial sup
porters in his senatorial primary contest.
Candidate Carrigan. who followed
Gaines. naturally suffered by this con-
nection. but he made the grievous blum
der Of trying to infiict a manuscript ad-
dress for his initial speaking effort The
democrats ridiculed the "schoolboy es-
say" performance, and Carrigan here
after will talk instead of read his
thoughts The democratic workers kept
saying in advance of the meeting that
an outsider had to be brought here to
sound the keynote for Carrigan, and his
essay tickied them immensely They
are promising great things from Davis
when he comes.
Conference With tho Goreroor