The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-11
FAVOR|TE SON GAME
SEEN IN WASHINGTON
Prominent Men Are Being Used by
Designing Politicians for
Own Ends.

Boston, Mass, Jan. 10.-The
Washington correspondent of the
Boston Transcript sends the follow
ing to this paper;
The talk among well informed
democrats in Washington for some
time has been that there is a well
developed plan to prevent, If posi-
BILE, the nominal on of Woodrow
Wilson by bringing into the field
numerous favorite son candidates.
whose supporters at the proper time
will go to a candidate that Will be
satisfactory to the conservative
| wing of the party. The favorite sos
candidates already in the field ar
Champ Clark and Joseph w. Folk
, of Missouri; Oscar w. Underwood
, Of Alabama; Thomas R. Marshall
of Indiana, and Eugene N. Foss. o
Massachusetts.
The forces that are at work to
prevent the nomination of Wilson
| are also looking for a fayorite son
candidate from Illinois. The state
ment was made here by promin-
ent Illinois democrat that the old
Hopkins machine in that state is
under pledge to trot out a favorita
son.
The fact is that most of them
are in the hands of designing politi-
Clans, said this man. They do not
realize that the men that are urging
them on are planning to make up
delegations to the national conyen-
ton that may be used to prevent
the nomination of Woodrow Will
SON.
The tariff lies at the bottom Of
much of the trust question. That is
the reason why the tariff question
is the central and dominating
question. 1t is behind the shelter Of
the tariff wall that the trusts have
been able to build up a system by
which they have limited opportunity
and all but shut the door upon in
denendent enterprise.
t"Will the reduction of the tariff
schedules by which the greatest
trusts thrive virtually solve the
trust question, them"
by no means. 1t will do vast
deal to cut away the artificial adj
vantages upon which the trusts de-
pend for establishing monopoly;
but there is something beyond that.
Looked at from the side of business
organizat on, the trusts are chiefly
a means OF economy and efficiency.
1t is from that side that they are so
vigorously and persuasively defend
ed by their advocates and by many
thoughtful students of modern
economic effort. But. along with
their efficient organization goes
tremendous power and they have
used that power to throttle compe-
tition and establish virtual monopo-
ly in every market that they have
coveted"
DO you think, governor. that
competition can be re-establshed by
law?"
1T is not necessary to answer
that question until We have done
what the law certainly can do The
methods by which the greater trusts
have driven competitors out OF bus
mess are wen known. So are also
the methods by which those who
have financed them have seen TO
it that those who tried to establish
rival enterprises were prevented
from doing SO. There are lawyers
available who can describe these
n1ethods with abundant precision il
statutes. Those methods can he
made Criminal offenses and the
monopolistic use of trusts can De
stopped by the pun shment Of every
person who tries to make such use
of their power.
Guilt is always personal and VIC
shall never get at the root OF these
things by changing merely the size