The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-02
WILL Be
BIC SWEEP
ALONG LINE
DEMOCRATIC c A N b l.
DATES TO BRUSH ASIDE
sTANDPATs, ET AL
HIGH COST or
LlvING PUTS THE PROD
Increased Tariff, For Which
There Was No Need,
To Blame
Hpecia, 10 Daily Leader.

special ~ Daily Leader.
Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 2.--Indications
are that Democratic candidates in
all parts of the United States will this
year sweep in a very large Republic.
an vote.
Within the last six months the writ
er has travelled from Maine to Cali
fornia and back again, interviewing
scores OF Republicans in all sections.
There is a dissatisfaction in Repub.
lican ranks that has not been so ac-
ute in many years.
The people blame the Republican
party principally for two things.
l. For permitting Joseph G. Can.
non to be speaker OF the house, and
for allowing Nelson w. Aldrich to
dominate the senate.
2. For increasing the tariff, for
which there was no need.
That Democratic candidates will
profit from a great silent vote is evl.
dent. A form reversal from one end
of the country to the other, such as oc.
Cured In Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New York and Missouri,
should cause no surprise to the Re-
publlcans. Everywhere the signs OF
the times are ominous for the G.. o.
p. And everywhere the Democrats
are encouraged and aggressive and
In most sections the Democrats are
working In perfect harmony.
A prominet retail merchant OF Rock
Island, ILL.,, expressed the view of o
large element Of the Republican par
ty in these words:
Although | am a Republican, am
going to vote the Democratic ticket.
am going to do It for the good OF
the dry goods business and the good
of the people who buy dry goods. We
are getting tired OF having to meet
a woman in our store with the state
ment that the price OF staple lotions
has again gone up 2 cents yard
while | can not come out public
ly and take hand in politics for
business reasons, am advising all
my Republican friends to vote the
Democratic ticket.
Men who deal in dry goods. groc-
cries. hardware, ETC., regardless OF
whether they are Republican or Dem
ocrats, know well enough, despite all
arguments to the contrary, that the
increased pri es are due to the tariff.
II this Is not true, how does II come
that an advance In the cost of living
has accompanied every upward tariff
revision In the history of the country?
"The increased tariff, for which
there was no need, and which was
passed by a Republican president, Re
publican senate and Republican house
has increased prices. and every man
who voted for that bill ought to be
defeated. And most of them will
.~ o. -
Tariffs Far Reaching.
''If the tariff is the cause of in
creased prices asks the Republican
stump speaker, how does it come
tnat the price has advanced on things
on which the tariff was not touched p
United States Senator Moses u.
Clapp of Minnesota than whom there
is no truer progressive Republican,
answers the question. Here is his
ans%er.
"The effect of excessive tariff on
some things reaches all along the line
You can't raise the cost of living to
man that is producing something to
SELL without forcing that man to raise
correspondingly the price of what he
has to seek. Think it over.