The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-01-21

! first" exclaimed Mr.. Clark.
"As between rotten apples" insisted
Senator Bailey, there is no choice.
Every schedule in the Payne-Aldrich
law is bad"
Gov. Harmon Of Ohio, one Of the
most prominent figures in the DAYS
gathering, also pounced upon the
tariff
The day passed as the Democratic
leaders wished it might, without an
attempt from any quarter to launch
boom for the presidential nominee
in 1912. Senator Bailey paid Champ
Clark, the Democratic leader of the
house, the tribute of placing him in
the presidential class.
III Champ Clark makes a .. tier
speaker than Mr.. Harmon makes 1
governor, we will nominate him for
president" he declared, amid enthu-
siasm at the Lyric meeting.
But" he added, ''if Gov. Harmon
makes a better governor than Mr..
| Clark makes a speaker, then we are
going to nominate Mr.. Harmon"
The tariff was acknowledged as the
| factor which brought about the defeat
of the Republican party in the last
campaign and with equal frankness
the Democratic leaders acknowledged
that if they did not deal wisely with
that issue and fulfill their prophecies
Democratic power would be short
| lived.
And while they were not discussing
the tariff with serious mien and
| humble spirit the Democratic leaders
were calling out shouts of laughter
and rounds of applause by their witty
and at times vitrolic attacks on the
| grand old party"
Col. Roosevelt came in for a large
| share of the maledictions hurled at
the Republican party. Former Sen
| Gtor j. c. S. Blackburn of Kentucky
declared at the afternoon mass meet
ing that the new nationalism enun>
| clated by Roosevelt was filled with
| treason" deeper and darker than
| any charged against the South from
81 to '65."
Gov. Harmon was the first speaker
| at the afternoon meeting, which ras
| called to order by Gen. Murray Van
diver and presided over by Coy.
Crothers of Maryland.
Gov. Hamon sounded a keynote
when he declared that personal PREF.
erence, jealousies and ambitions must
not be allowed to spring up and bre*l
| confusion in council or action" He
sharply criticised Republican extrava-
| gance and marveled at the patience
of the American people in submitting
so long to Republican rule and a Re-
publican tariff system.
Mr.. Clark in his address warned his
| fellow Democrats that it was the fail
ure of Republican party to keep it's
the tariff, that brought about it's de-
| feat, and that the Democratic party
must live up to it's promises in every
respect
IF the Republican party had car
| ried out its pledges" declared Mr..
Clark, mo power on earth could have
| dethroned it, We must not fall into
| the same error"
Mr.. Clark referred to the new. tariff
| law as the Payne-A -Aldrich-S -Smoot
| monstrosity"
Senator Bailey declared that Demo-
Gratis were all OF one accord as to
the necessity for the revision Of the
tariff and the principle which should
guide that revision The only differ
ence, he asserted, would be in the
method or revision.
For my part 1 believe that the
only way to revise a bill like the
Payne-Aldrich act is to cut it's head
off and to cut it off as soon as YOU
get to it.
Every schedule in it is bad. / am
not willing to take out one and leave
another there. Take them all out as,
between rotten apples, there is no
choice.
Let's prepare a tariff bill as if
; we had control Of the senate and
the presidency and then, if those Re-
publican heathens and infdels of the
senate refuse to take it up, that will
be time enough to talk about revision
| schedule by schedule. If we are not
capable Of preparing tariff bill,
from Gensis 10 ReleVati tions, we will
dlsappoint the hopes of the country