Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-10-08
THE MARYLAND
DEMOCRACY
Campaign Slogan is High Cost of
Living Due to Republican
Tariff Laws.

honest and economical business methods
which will result in the saving of hun
dreds of millions of the peoples money
annually, according to the unchallenged
declarations of Republican leaders them
selves.
Upholds Rights of States.
The Democratic party believes that
the powers of the Federal Government
are supreme within their true sphere.
In the restriction of the national activi-
ties of monopolies and trusts. in the pro-
lection of the rights of the people
through all the various avenues of in
terstate commerce, in the effective con-
servation of our national resources on
the public domain and their protection
from plunder. and in the preservation of
equal rights for all and special privi-
leges for none, through every lawful
channel of Federal legislation. its can
didates, If elected, will actively aid. 1t
is, however, a cardinal tenet of Demo-
cratic faith that the reserved rights of
the States must be resolutely maintain
ed against Federal encroachment. In
the constitution alone are to be found
the extent and limitation of Federal
jurisdiction, and we declare our unalter-
able opposition to that dangerous doc
trine of the Republicanism of to-day,
that the Constitution may be elastically
expanded by executive Interpretation.
The issue of Cannonism, so called, is
of serious Importance to the American
people, but it is by no means entirely
embodied in the personality of the pres
ent Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives, and it will not do for the Re-
publican party, through its candidates,
to seek TO obtain public favor by the
valueless pledge that they will not vote
for the reelection of Joseph G. Cannon
as Speaker Of the House of Represen
tatives in the next Congress. Can
nonism is merely word coined to
describe the great question of the main
tenance unimpaired of the legislative
power of the House of Representatives
as whole. The Republican machine in
the House, in order to perpetuate the
alliance between predatory business and
that party, has devised a system of con-
troll by which the House has ceased to
be adeliberative body. The power of
the majority to legislate against the
will of the leaders of that machine has
been throttled almost entirely. To the
continuance of this system the whole
power of the Republican national organ
ization is pledged, and the only way to
destroy this system is by preventing the
future control of the House by any of
the leaders of the existing machine. To
accomplish this purpose and thereby re-
store to the House its original vigor as
the primary constructive body in the
legislative branch of the Federal Gov
ernment it must be obvious to all that
it is necessary to elect Democrats in
such numbers as to insure working
majority in that body.
Adheres to Traditions.
The wide range of national politics
necessarily embraces many issues of i'm
portance, and we have dwelt only upon
those which most Immediately and seri-
ously concern the welfare of the people.
Upon all other national issues. standing
upon the sound ground of steady adher-
ence to the fundamental traditions Of
the Democratic party. we shall advo-
cate a definite constructive program
which will meet in the interest of the
whole people the great problems tina,
are facing the country.
]. HARRY CONVICTION.
First Congressional District;
J. +. C. TALBOT,
Second Congressional District:
GEORGE KONG,
Third Congressional District;
J. CHARLES LINTHICUM,
Fourth Congressional District;
JAMES ENOS RAY, JR.,
Fifth Congressional District;
DAVID J. LEWIS,
Sixth Congressional District.