Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1904 — DAVIS’ LETTER IS OUT. [ARTICLE]

DAVIS’ LETTER IS OUT.

Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate on thcTsaues. Henry G. Davis’ letter of acceptance of the Democratic nomination for Vice President is brief, aud the candidate’s comments upon the issues of the campaign have the conciseness and, In several instances, the abruptness of marginal notes. He devoted a paragraph each to the expenses of government, the army, Panama, imperialism, trusts, local self-gov-ernment, arbitration, the civil service and his running mate, Alton B. Parker. To the subject of the tariff he gives three paragraphs. “The times are propitious for the reinstatement of the Democratic party in control of the government,” says Mr. Davis by way of introduction. “The public mind is being disillusioned of the pretension of the Republican party, so long and so arrogantly made, that the material prosperity of the country depends upon its own ascendancy. Thoughtful an<T patriotic people are becoming more and more distrustful of the heady and personal element of the present administration, and are more than willing to see it replaced by one that better recognizes constitutional and other lawful restraints. They demand that the present wasteful extravagance in the expenditure of the money, drawn by taxation from the industry of the people, shall cease, and that economy and honesty in the public service shall be again regarded as virtues in the high places of the government.” Hailing as the harbinger of a new era the Inception of the work of building the isthmian canal, but deprecating the action of the administration which “inflicted a -wound upon our national honor by its disregard of the rights of a weaker nation,” the Democratic candidate for Vjce President closes his paragraph on Panama thusly: “A gross offense against a friendly republic which it was helpless to resent.” Many unwarranted things, in the opinion of Mr. Davis, must be regarded as the first fruits of imperialism, and show how fast we are drifting toward absolutism and centralized power. Mr. Davis declares that the tariff undoubtedly is too high upon such articles as the manufacturer is able to sell cheaper abroad than at home. Relief from present conditions, he says, can come only through the success of the Democratic party. The trusts, it is declared, have grown up under Republican rule, and it is asserted that some of them are so conducted as to be pernicious and harmful to the general interests.”