The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-07-22
SENATOR RAYNER ON THE
ISSUES OF THE COMING
CAMPAIGN.

statement of his opinion as to the pros
poets of the Democratic party and wha
he considered the real issue in the com
ing campaign. He replied as follows:
There never has been a time since
the close of the Civil War that the pros.
poets of the Democratic party have been
brighter than they are at the present
hour. If we divide now and fail to avail
ourselves of this opportunity, we do not
deserve to win. The indications that
point in this direction are so apparent
that anyone can observe them who will
only glance at the political horizon. The
causes are manifest and disclose them
selves upon the surface.
In the first place, the Republican
ranks are rent with discord and dissen-
sion. The Insurgents have come to
stay. They are not fighting for a COM
promise, but are contending for mighty
principle, and in the end they are sure
to win. There are no such words as
retreat or surrender in their vocabulary.
TO state their position simply and con-
cisely, they are striking first for individ-
ual freedom within the party and next for
the rights of the people against the
forces of corruption and the tyranny of
the money power, protected by legisla-
ton and favored by the government.
Nearly every proposition that they have
contended for has been voted down by
the organization, and it is a remarkable
tact that every principle that they have
espoused is to be found among the ira
ditlonal precepts of the Democratic
party. Our party will therefore take the
arraignment of the Republican party by
Its own members and use it as the most
effective weapon in the next national
campaign. In every Insurgent strong
hold the Republican party is on trial for
Its life. This condition constitutes our
hrst opportunity, and whenever in any
OF these sections, the Republican organ
Ization nominates its candidates a com.
Dlnatlon with the Insurgents, as has been
effected in the present Congress, will
portend Democratic success. Such
combination will be perfectly legitimate
and justifiable because it is in the inter-
est OF honest government, administered
for the benefit of the American people.
I'm the next place, the broken pledges
upon the tariff has decimated the Repub-
lican constituencies of the land. Down
ward revision was solemnly promised.
and in absolute mockery and betrayal of
the promise. upward revision has been
granted. Every Democratic prophecy
that this would be the accomplishment
has been fulfilled. The people, instead
OF being relieved as promised, have
been ground under the iron heel of New
England's despotic policy of tariff for
protection with incidental revenue. If
we do not make the country ring with
the sdenunciation of this inlquity, then
we are not capable of defending the
cause that we represent. Such base
and tlagrant violation Of party's sacred
pledge has never before taken place in
all the history of political parties in this
country. The people are ready to arise
and avenge this wrong.
This is the paramount and over
whelming issue that viii arouse our party
into action. There are other issues of
great importance, but to any one who
has watched the reckless deeds in Con-
gress of the dominant party from day to
day. challenging and defying the public
sentiment of the country, simply to
swell the profits of monopoly, this one
issue, an issue upon which we can pro-
ceed to victory, surpasseS and Surmounts
them all.
This Republican Congress has been
a lamentable and historic failure. Two
main issues have engrossed its attention.
The Railroad Bill, when it was handed
into the Senate was in the interest of
the great trunk line systems of the
United States and against the interest
of the shippers and the public. Every
amendment to the measure OF any pop
ular benefit whatever was procured by
the Democratic members in combination
with the Insurgent forces upon the Re-
publican side. say it, and without
fear of contradiction, too, that the reg
ular organization of the Republican
party can not CLAIM the credit of single
change that was of the slightest public
advantage. The Postal Depository Bill
has been turned and twisted from its
original shape into a distorted measure
that does not contain single feature OF
any public benefit.
"If you will look at the Republican
platform promising this legislation and
then compare it with the legislation that
has been enacted you will find that the
one does not bear the slightest resem-
blance to the other. The intent of the
original plan was to send the money to
the country banks and then through
them to the people, but the scheme has
been so engineered that now neither the
country banks nor the people can avail
themselves of its provisions. The money
travels away from where it is needed to
the great financial centers to still further
increase the profits of the moneyed insti-
tutions of the Republican party. Upon
its face it is glaring outrage and iniq-
uty and will be condemned by every
intelligent constituency before whom it is
explained and discussed.
1.-THE strangest performance took
place upon this subject that | have ever
witnessed upon the floor OF Congress.
Word was passed along the line that the
administration demanded the passage
of the bill as it came from the House Of
Representatives, and thus without any
debate upon the Republican side. sui
lenly and dehantly, every amendment
was voted down that attempted to bring
back this enactment to the purpose for
which it was originally designed in the
interest of the people and against the
interests of centralized wealth, coralled
by the City Bank of New York, the de-
pository and representative OF the
Standard Oil Company and other mon
eyed syndicates favored by Republican
legislation.
s'This was the contract made between
the Administration and the Republican
leaders. On the side of Congress a
Railroad Bill that creates a Federal
Court with no business to transact, and