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The next president of the I nlted
Btatcs mint be a Democrat say*, the
Macon Telegraph.
Governor Hoke Smith has managed
to write a Thanksgiving Day procla
mation without trying to take any of
the credit away from the Almighty,
remarks Editor Ix»ylesa,
The press is always on the aide of the
poor farmer. Now that the price of
cotton >« down the price oi eggs is up.
Home of our contemporaries arc mak
ing the helpful suggestion that they
plant leas cotton and more egg plants.
The Sparta Ishmaelite says: “The
Democratic party Is a necessity to the
South. The papers and the person*
who talk about doing away with it,
are as silly as was Job’s wife, when
she advised the afflicted old patrioch
to ’curse God and die.’”
The Columbus Ledger thinks all
the defeated candidates are try
ing to become editors. Mr. Bryan
is writing for the Commoner, Mr.
Watson has gone back to the Jeffer
sonian,'and Mr. Graves has become
editor-ln-chlef of the New York
American once more, if Indeed, he ever
left it.
A SIZABLE SHRINKAGE.
A year ago the president of the
Distillers’ Securities Corporation,
colloquially known as the whiskey
trust, opined that prohibition laws do
not diminish the consumption ol
liquor, but merely change the method
of distribution.
This year’s report, issued the other
day, is silent upon that subject. It
shows that in the fiscal year, 1 DOS, the
production of all kinds of distilled
spirits in the United States was only
one hundred and seventy-seven mil
lion gallons, against one hundred and
aixty-elght million gallons the year
before. The decrease amounted to
twenty-five per cent. This year’s
output was the smallest since 11102,
but greater by one-third than that of
IH9O.
Consumption, no doubt, is more
nearly reflected by withdrawal ot
liquor from bond than by the total
output. Withdrawals from bond this
year were slightly under one hundred
and twenty million gallons, against a
hundred and thirty-four million gal
lons last year. The decrease here is
only about ten per cent., which the
trust attributes to reaction in business
generally.
Outside of Distillers’ stockholders,
however, the fact that there were
made forty-odd million gallons less of
liquor will be quite cheerfully re
garded
RENEWED SPIRIT TAKEN ON THE
IRON MARKET.
Sentimentally, the iron and steel
market has taken on a renewed
spirit, which may logically be attrib
uted to a satisfactory outcome ot the
presidential election, according to a
Pittsburg correspondent in the Iron
Trade Review; actually, there has
lawn an increased movement in some
lines the past week, but the tonnage
generally booked has,not shown any
marked variation. No reasonable
disappointment or surprise may Ire
drawn from this fact, since conserva
tive manufacturers are anticipating
no sudden spurts in the market and
are looking forward to only a gradual
but sustained improvement.
It is apparent, however, that con
ditions are shaping themselves lor
more support of the industry by some
classes of large consumers, notably
the railroads, which have been af
fording but little strength during the
past year. Makers of steel rails have
just re-established the present prices
of S2B on Bessemer and S3O on open
hearth rails to apply upon deliveries
in 1009. Such action is taken by the
manufacturers each year whenever it
is apparent the railroads are interest
ed as to making contracts and as a
consequence the placing of large rail
orders is expected soon. Necessity
for equipment replacement is bring
ing the steam roads more frequently
into the car market. Three lines
closed for 5,000 steel freight ears in
the past several weeks, while two
others are figuring ujton 2,000 more.
The Pennsylvania railroad has also
contracted for "7 all steel coaches.
The effect of the improved >enti
ment in the market has been mani
fested by a heavy inquiry and an a<B
Vance in pig iron prices. Furnace
interests are now devoting their at
tention toward insuring the perma
nency of the change of conditions by
discouraging any excessive or arti-
ficlal activity in the way of specula
tion by consumers.
Exaggerated expectations of wide
spread resumption of idle capacity ■
immediately following the election ;
have not been borne out and the |
mills are running at about their
usual gait. Home evidences of st ?ady
improvement in conditions are pre
sented, however. <>f this rank is the ’
announcement of the Republican Iron
and Steel Co. that it expects to have I
all of Its nine blast furnaces in oper-1
atlon by the end of the present week, :
only six having been active during
the past several months.
TAFT’S VISIT HAS POLITICAL SIG
NIFICANCE.
The activity of the Republicans in
Georgia is causing much comment
throughout the country.
It appears that, instead of ending
their campaign with the election, the
Republicans have just comffjenced
their operations In the State,'accord
ing to reports from various sections.
The announcement from Atlanta to
the effect that a large newspaper is to
be established by the G. O. P., the
funds to be furnished by Eastern cap
italists, is among the many indica
tions that the Republican political
leaders have their eyes firmly fixed
on Georgia with a view of breaking
the “solid South” in the next cam
paign, notes the Columbus Ledger.
The most interesting rumor, howev
er, is that the visit of President-elect
Taft to tne State this winter is for the
purpose of familiarizing himself with
the conditions here in order that the
Republicans may be in position to
act more intelligently in their cam
paign in Georgia.
Another story is going the rounds
to the effect that Mr. Taft is coming
South for the purpose of getting in
touch with leading Democrats with a
view of procuring their support in
carrying out some few of his policies
which are not in accord with the Re
publican leaders. On this line the
New Orleans States says :
“It seems to l»e understood that
liehind Mr. Taft’s decision to spend
the winter months in Augusta, Ga.,
there is something more than the
desire to enjoy the Southern climate
and put himself in shape for the ar
duous duties that await him after his
inauguration in March. There is a
story to the effect that he wishes to
place himself in touch with Southern
sentiment and win the good will of
the people of this section, because he
realizes that he is going to have a
hard struggle with the forces of
monopoly and reaction in his own
party, and there will be times when
he will be in great need of Southern
votes in congress.
“This is an interesting little story,
but whether or not there is any
foundation for it remains to be seen.
It is evident, however, from the pre
liminary statements of such eminen
standpatera as Cannon and Payne
that their ideas of tariff revision are
not in accord w ith the popular inter
pretation of the promises made by
Mr. Taft as the Republican candidate
for president. The platform of his
speech of acceptance differs in a num
ber of respects from the platform
adopted by the Republican national
convention at Chicago, hence there is
a reason to believe that he is aware
that an attempt to put it into effect
will stir up a fierce opposition in his
own party.
“The indications are that this oppo
sition will develop at the very outset
ot his administration, hence it is
said Mr. Taft’s hopes to secure the
support of Democratic members of
congress from the South on all the
progressive measures w hich he wishes
to have enacted into law. Hut it w ill
be recalled that the Democrats in
congress unselfishly went to the
assistance of President Roosevelt in
■ the last congress and it was their
i support w hich prevented the defeat
• by his own party of the railroad rate
i bill, the pure food bill, the meat in-
■ speetiou bill and other measures
: which he urgently recommended.
• In spite of this fact it does not appear
[that President Roosevelt experienced
I ' any sense ol gratitude, for during
> the campaign he attacked and vriti
. vised the Democrats as opponents of
’ reform and as lacking in honesty of
5 purpose, intelligence and patriotism.
i “All things considered the Demo
, eratic leaders in congress might well
, ask themselves whether it would not
> be better to allow the Republican
majority to have a clear road, to
. make Its own record and be responsi-
■ ble for it to the people. Yet we sup
. pose the Democrats will give Mr.
> Taft w hatever assistance he may de
. sire from them and in the end get no
- more credit from him for their sup
r port than they received from Mr.
- ’ Roosevelt.”
1 OTHERS SEEM TO FEEL THE SAME
WAT.
Here Is what Editor Loyless, of
the Augusta Chronicle, said among
other things about the Woadward
' case, and since then It has been
! shown that there are plenty of other
I>eople that feel the same way:
“We say again, we do not defend
Jim Woodward—but we can ayinpa
, thlze with him. Neither do we con
demn those who have hounded him to
his latch ditch—nor envy them the
‘ satisfaction of having crushed him at
I last. Perhaps it was necessary to do
i it—but there were too many after one
man for us to have enjoyed the pur
suit.”
I Farmers Who Are Blue and Farmers
Who Aren’t.
Albany Herald.
A correspondent of the Herald, writ
ing from one of the neighboring coun
ties, asserts that the all-cotton farmers
whom he has heard express themselves
are decidedly blue. “Corn is high and
meat is higher,” asserts the correspond
ent, and he adds that cotton is low and
lalor no less expensive than it has
been in the recent past. All qf which
we know to be true statements of fact.
The all-cotton farmer is hard to turn
from beaten paths. He is stubijorn.
He knows—he cannot help knowing—
that changing conditions have made it
cxpedkmt, not to say imperative, that
the old regime of “all cotton, and
enough of it, to buy the rest” has had
its day, and that the tiller of the soil
who does not render his farm self
sustaining invites disaster as does any
other speculator.
For the all-cotton farmer is a B]>ecu
ator, pure and simple. He puis a!)
his eggs in one basket, and stakes suc
cess on a single chance. J f raina and
winds and sun and seasons and busi
ness conditions the world over favor
him, he sells his cotton crop for enough
to pay his debts and make provision
for the comfort of those dependent
upon him. Should fickleelements and
more fickle fortune favor him not, he
finds himself unable when the year
ends to satisfy his creditors and meet
the other obligations that cannot be
ignored. One year he is in plenty.
The next year he is in distress, and all
because he insists upon pursuing a
policy which Is good enough for him
because it was good enough for his
fathers.
It has been pretty conclusively
demonstrated that while organization
and co-operation among farmers is an
excellent thing, it is not equal to the
self-imposed task of regulating the
price of the Routh’s great staple crop.
Farmers may solemnly resolve that
the world must pay this, that or an
other price for a certain year’s crop,
but the world’s consumers may refuse
to pay it, for the inexorable law of
supply and demand controls here as
elsewhere, and it has been made ex
ceedingly plain that while the farmers
may agree on other things, they can
not agree to decrease acreage and there
by curtail production. That has been
tried and failed times enough to satisfy
the last lingering doubter.
But all these troubles are troubles not
at all to the farmer who has more acres
under food crops than he has under cot
ton, in whose pastures graze sleek cattle
and in whose pens fit porkers await
winter weather and the butcher knife.
Os such farmers there are now thous
ands in South Georgia. They have
listened to reason and given the plan
of crap diversification a fair trial. The
results have far exceeded,their expec
tations. They have learned that it is
easy to make a farm self-sustaining,
and that on such a farm the cotton
crop becomes a money bringcr, regard
less of whether the world is paying 8
cents or 14 cents a pound for it. He
cares less for the daily market quota
tions than he does for the weather in
dications while he is cutting hay. He
buys none of the things that his cattle
and stock eat, and few of the things
that his family eat. He is independ
ent, and he is therefore happy.
It all the farms in the South were
.‘■elf-sustaining, a number of problems
that now vex us would l»e automati
cally solved. The production of eotton
would be so decreased that the price
would lie held high, and millions of
dollars that this section now sends
annually to the West for corn and meat
would remain at home. There would
be no mortgages on Southern farms,
and the wealth of the section would
increase by le ips and bounds.
The richest agricultural States of the
I I nion raise food crops. They prodnee
. no cotton, which we call our ‘money
crop.” It is less a money crop than
j. wheat and corn, for the farmers of the
great corn and wheat producing sec
-1 Rons are the richest and most inde-
■ pendent on earth. And we have been
■ large contributors of that wealth, for
1 much of the profits of cotton raising
1 has been diverted into the (rockets of
i these Western farmers who grow none
, of our money crop. Had our farms
. been self-sustaining all these years,
this departed wealth would hare re
mained at home.
The all-cotton farmer is slow to learn,
but he will see the light after a while.
’ He needs time. Meaawhile, his nose
' will tremain at the grindstone and his
• front gate continue to hang by one
• hinge.
DEMOCRACY'S DEFEAT 1
Hard Blow to Principle of Popu
lar Government.
A MYSTERY TO BE EXPLAINED
j
Why Did the Republican National
Committee Refute to Name Election
Fund Contributors?—Future cf the
Democratic Party—The Danger of ;
Socialism—Culberson of Texas—Col
lapse of Hearst’s Party—Tariff Not
Likely to Be Revised.
fly WILLIS J. ABBOT.
The defeat of Mr. Bryan means, in
my judgment, a tremendous injury to
the Democratic party, because that
party has believed hi Bryan, has be
lieved tn the principles for which he
stood. When It appears, as it does this
time, that the American people, or at
least a majority of them, stand for
principles opposed to poptAar govern
ment, stand for principles which seem
to be those that will Intensify the
power of the federal government, we
who believe In absolutely popular gov
ernment are necessarily discouraged.
Mr. Bryan and those who pressed his
campaign have urged his candidacy on
the principle that he stood for all the
people all the time. We have not said
at any moment that he stood for pro
tecting the steel trust cr the oil trust
or the harvester trust or any other
trust. We have said that if he should
be elected we kuew he would conduct
an administration for the people. We
have been notified by the people, why
I do not know, that they did not care
for such nn administration. We have
been Informed that the voters of the
United States very much preferred a
man who has never through his own
efforts earned a .living, but has all
through his life been drawing a fed
eral salary. The people have said to
us that they are more enthusiastic
about Taft, who has done nothing and
promised less, than they are about
Bryan, who has done much and prom
ised through hfs platform more. It Is
too late now to discuss any Issues of
the campaign. It is not. too late, how
ever, to say that the way in which the
Republican party wound up the cam
paign was a disgrace to that party and
a serious reflection on the electoral
system of the United States.
This election may have been honestly
won. Frankly, I do not believe It was,
but It may have been. There Is a cer
tain mystery about what happened In
New York, what happened in Ohio
and In Indiana. But, more than all.
there is a grave mystery enshrouding
the utter refusal of the Republican na
tional committee to print prior to the
election the contributions which were
made to It. I suppose that when the
thoroughly righteous Mr. Taft may be
Inaugurated and it comes out In a
later Investigation that there was not
less than three or four million dollars
contributed to his campaign fund and
spent not for pamphlets or ordinary
methods of publicity, but for the cu
rious and devious ways by which pol
iticians carry an election, he will be. as
Theodore Roosevelt was, absolutely
silent on the subject. lie will follow
the Roosevelt plan. He has no doubt
dragged all the money that could be
obtained out of every corporation,
trust or financial magnate, and then
when the facts are exposed he will sit
placidly and fatly In Ills chair ns pres
ident of the United States and regard
It as beneath his dignity to respond.
That is what Mr. Roosevelt did. That
seems to be what Mr. Taft will have
to do.
The Future.
The Democratic party decs not die
through defeat. It is sure to recover
from this undeserved disaster four
years from now. The one danger Is
this—that the national committee ns at
present constituted may possibly be
so reactionary In its personal convic
tions that It will encourage the Social
ist party to go fast to the front. That
is something which the national com
mittee must look out for. The Social
ist party is growing continually. If
Mr. Bryan had not been nominated
this year, in ray judgment, it would
have been very close to second place.
Now that he has been defeated It is
very liable to win that place. Without
exaggeration I may say that right hero
in Chicago I have heard not less than
ton men in the Democratic party, the
name of each of whom would be known
almost everywhere in the United
States, say that the collapse of the
Democratic party in this campaign
ended their connection with it and that
they would sign a statement assuring
their entrance and their affiliation with
the Socialist party. This seems to be
a rather striking political event. Per
sonally I am not a Socialist, but one
must observe the course of political
changes. Weeks ago I made it clear
In this letter that the defeat of Bryan
would greatly strengthen the Socialist
party, and today the prophecy is com
ing true.
Nobody knows who is likely to be
the next nominee of the Democratic
party. When Governor John A. John
son carried his own state of Minnesota
by carefully refraining from saying
one single word in behalf of Mr. Bry
an some people thought he might be
able to secure the Democratic nomina
tion. Personally I don't think he cun.
The man who doesn’t play fair in one
vital campaign is not going to get the
enthusiastic support of his own party
In the next campaign. Governor John
son has ability and strength in bls
own state, but it sterns probable that
bls attitude lu is going
| to Injure him through the country at
large. The Democratic party believes
In Mr. Bryan even though he is de
’ seated. The voters love him, and they
11111 -—j — l • — — —
will look with a great deal of suspicion
on a man who, holding a prominent '
political office, could not find in ten
weeks aa opportunity to say a word
in bis behalf.
A Possibility.
If four years before the nest nom
ination any one might prophesy. I :
would say that the next nominee I
v»ould be Charles A. Culberson of Tex- ;
as. Mr. Culberson is now a senator of ‘
the United States. He was twice gov- (
ernor of Texas. He is a Democrat who ,
has never failed to stand for Demo
eratic principles. In the United States ,
senate he is not merely a worker, but
a man who lends bls party on the
floor. lie has never antagonized what I
may be described as the radical ele
ment in the Democratic party, nor has
he ever made an enemy in the con
servative ranks. The only thing that
can be said about or against him is
that he comes from the south. I wish
to ask the readers of this letter wheth
er it Is not time to abandon that old
prejudice that uo man from the south
i shall be elected to a federal office.
Senator Culberson was a child when
the civil war was declared. No doubt
he sympathizes with the people who
ncarlj’ sixty years ago declared their
purpose of retiring from the Union,
but that was sixty years ago. Todaj’
he knows, as all the rest of us know,
that the Union Is complete and indis
soluble. He is a senator of the United
States, not of Texas, but of the entire
Union, and recognizes that fact. There
Is no man In the United States senate
whose sense of obligation to the whole
nation is higher than his. I believe
that in the next national election it
will be well for the Democracy to go
south for Its candidate, and If It does
go south it could find no man there
whose standing would be better, whose
popularity would be greater, whoso
ability would be as high as that of
Senator Culberson.
The Hearst Vote.
Undoubtedly Mr. William Randolph
Hearst through Ids newspapers con
tributed somewhat to the defeat of
Mr. Bryan. The publicity which lie Is
able to give to absolute falsehoods, the
cartoons and the lies that be is able to
print, would hurt any candidate. It Is
not a mere matter of political manage
ment, but simply his successful effort
to wreak Ills vengeance on a iiinu who
refused to carry out his own demands.
But it seems fair to inquire what be
came of the Hearst party, what became
of Hisgen and John Temple Graves.
Nobcdy has taken them seriously from
start to finish. Today the ticket is
looked upon as absolutely without any
strength or following.
Hisgen was known to nobody. No
doubt his axle grease was very good
grease. But except to the few people
who found it necessary to his
name was utterly unknown. John
Temple Graves was prior to his 111 ad
vised effort to destroy the Democratic
party a man of standing and of po
litical prominence. But he comes out
of this campaign as one who has sought
to destroy that party at the behest of
a newspaper owner whose salary he
accepted. Ido not know what may ba
the temper of the Democrats of Geor
gia, but if Mr. Graves can leave that
state, go to New York and sei! not
merely his pen. but his voice and his
personal candidacy, to a newspaper
proprietor and still retain any political
standing thete It seems to me that the
Georgians have not got the political
convictions for which they have long
been famed.
The Next Congress.
The next house cf representatives
will have a Republican majority of
forty or more. It will have for Its
sneaker the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon.
Tlie senate will have for Its presiding
officer “Sunny Jim” Sherman. Every
body has been informed front the be
ginning of the campaign that th so
two eminent gentlemen, with the aid
of Mr. Taft in the White House, intend
to revise the tariff immediately after
the election. I wish to ask now every
reader of this letter to watch nvd see
what is done. And I ask particularly
that lie consider the* question as to
whether the tariff Is being revised
downward cr upward. Most people
who have studied the met beds of the
Republican party would say that there
would be no revision whatsoever, and
th/few that bright admit a possibility
of revision would say that it would h?
upward. It will be four years before
the American people have nn oppor
tunity to speak again, but at this da'/'
It seems fair to cal! attention to th?
fact tlfnt Mr, Roosevelt and Mr. Taft
joined in saying that in the everd of
Republican success congress would be
called in special session few the pur
pose of revising the tariff immediately.
That statement was put out from the
White House some months ago. It
had some effect on the election, no
doubt. Let us watch, now that the
election is won by Roosevelt. Taft and
the protected industries, whether it
will given effect.
Tariff revision after election.
Publication of campaign contribu
tions after election.
The election is ended. T.et us see
what comae from the Roosevelt and
Taft pledges.
Chicago.
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