Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1910-04-07
The Signs Of the Times.
Lexington Dispatch.


pared with wages, and the mia.
mously high tariff which the mass
es OF the people have studied
more closely and which they un.
derstand more clearly than ever
before, are forces that will place
congress IN the hands OF the dem.
orratlc party next fall. That
this prediction is by no means II
partisan prophecy in which the
wish is father to the thought is
aitested by the signs oi the times
is proven bv the ut,erances of re.
publican leaders.
WhatstrOngrrinlicatiOn could
there lie that tIecountry is awea-
ry OF republican rule than the ac-
ton of the 18th Massachuse is
congressional district which last
week turned a republican pluraIi-
tv OF over II 600 votes into a
democfaii" plurality OF over
5000? The successful democrat r
candidate made his fighton pure
ly national issues, in a represen-
tative Nes England mnnuf=rru-
ring community whchhad nrvrr
sent IL democrat to congress; and
he won. The day before, Prpsi-
Il Mt Taft made n speech in which
he p'aisei the irh-Payne tar
if as he best tariff ever made.
and ne eulogized its author. Sen
ator Aldrirh. he day following
that, a republican district next
door to Senator Aldrich's state
of Rhode Island, repudiatpd the
president $ sentiments and regis
tered en'ph tir disappro, al. On
his 'eturn to Washington, h q
presi tent VAS qup.ei hy Tho
Star, the administration organ,
as saying that h. believed t h e
democrats would win the mex,
house.
Coner' s-man Foelkpr repuoli
can of New York, where dai V
they ar nn"OVerlng astOundin.
graft ami bribery among leyisIn-
tors. said that this Mass chm
srtts election "provpsron.lusive.
ly to my mind that the demo-
Gratis will carry the next house.
There is no use trying to argue
that il is not an indiratiun OF the
next congressional election. My
own state has gone to the deuce.
Representative Champ Clark,
democratic leader in the house,
said Of the election:
"l'he news from the fourteenth
Mnssaci usetts district is t he best
political information that h q 4
come over the wires since h e
night of election ini1S92. Taken
in connection With the result in
the sixth Missouri district, two
thousand miles away from the
Massachusetts district, it dem
onstrated to my mind that the
same causes are working all over
the United States. One of these
elections was held IN lnidwinter,
the other IN the balmy days OF
spring, and the only difference in
the result is that in the latter
election in Mass huse Is h e
puilir mind Gems to hay" gone
furl her in the dlrtctior OF over
throwing the republicans than il
had at The earlier election The
cause seems to mo to he wide
spread dissatisfaction with b 4
republican national adnlnlstra.
ton and the republican congress,
The strongest reason of all, nc
doubt, is n feeling of diSsatisfac.
tion and resentment az to h {
Payne.Aldrich tariff bill .
The country is goine democrat
ic in November. it is tired ofarti
fetal prosperity that takes NOR
than it besto~s upon the work
mnn 1t is tired of governmental
policies that levy tribute or
; ninety millions ot people in be-
half of a handful OF men who way
fat by reason OF special privilege
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