The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-20
BAYARD'S EARS RING
Taft of Ohio Takes a Hand in the
CenSure Proceedings.
TAFFY FOR PROTECTION
Before Adjournment the Debate
Resolves Itself Into a Very
Interesting Colloquy-
Some Sharp Passes

Washington, March 19.-The resolu-
ton Of censure Of Bayard was called up
Immediately after the reading of the
journal. and Taft, republican, Ohio,
took the floor in support of the resolu-
tions. He said: "Bayard was invited
to deliver an address before the Edin-
burgh philosophical institution. He ac-
| cepted. and abused his official position
by attacking a great political party in
his own country. / say political party,
for protection is the foundation princi-
pie OF the republican party. The COM
plant against Bayard is not that he is
free trader in home politics, but that,
as an ambassador of the American peo-
pie, he took his home politics with him
to foreign country and exploited them
before a foreign audience. When an
| ambassador abandons his non-partisan
character he not only embarrasses the
| executive. but he also invites the widest
range of criticism on all his personal
| acts.
1T is urged by way of extenuation
and defense" said Taft, that the ad-
dress was especially admirable on ac-
count of its literary merit. Standards
of literary merit vary greatly. but 1
venture to assert that a great majority
of those who have read this address,
and of those who have attempted to
read 1t, would join issue on this point
at once. Our self-esteem as a nation
suffered a slight shock when our am
bassador in effect insists that Anglo
| Saxon civilization nurtures and devel-
ops individual freedom equally we'll
everywhere. without reference to the
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proprieties of the occasion required our
ambassador to maintain that the in
dividual freedom of the Englishman
was as great as that of the American;
but in maintaining this, what right had
he, in singing out his own people, to
say, In my own country have wit
messed the unsuitable growth of that
form of state socialism styled protec-
tion.' Then followed the statements
and allegations which ought to cause
the blush of shame to any American
foreign representative publicly uttering
them in a foreign country.
I'm view of the fact that the Fifty
| fourth house, with its remarkable re-
publican majority. succeeded to the
| Fifty-third house with it's remarkable
democratic majority, Bayard conde-
scends to divide the membership of the
present house into two classes, the
jobbers and chaffers. who are protec-
tionists and republicans, and the
statesmen who are free traders and
| democrats. If Bayard, yielding to the
gentle and subtle influence of old age,
had circulated his ideas simply in the
drawing rooms of aristocratic London,
little or no attention would have been
paid to them. but our ambassador pro-
claimed them upon the platform of the
Edinburgh philosophical institutional
society composed of learned men, who
give tone to public sentiment. For that
reason he should be held to a strict ac-
count for his statements"
When Taft concluded Grosvenor, re-
publican, Ohio, made a brief reply to
the attack made on General Schenck
yesterday by McCreary of Kentucky
Pearson of Indiana then followed in
support of the resolution. He said II
gave him no pleasure to join in the
humiliation of lofty spirit or in the
degradation of an illustrious name. He
could say in candor that he had been
an admirer and a supporter of Bayard
"a name that goes back spotless and
shining into the mists of the middle
timely action, or the ambassador, by
suitable explanation, or the democrats
of the house. by suitable concession
and n-partisanship. had relieved the
members Of demanding the censure of
such a man. There were only two
questions at issue, the power OF con-
gress of censure. and does the defense
in this case justify such an action
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and quoted authorities in support
thereof.
In the course of his remarks upon
protection, which Bayard assailed, the
speaker said: THE cause of protection
has triumphed in the last two elections.
and IL will triumph in the one for
which we are now preparing: this
doctrine is firmly lodged in the mind
of the American people. and they have
settled conviction that there will be
no return of genuine prosperity until
there is a return of genuine American
protective tariff. and the man who will
carry the banner of victory in the COM
ing contest will be that man who meas
ures most nearly to the ideal standard.
10 the living impersonation of protec-
tion." In closing Pearson appealed to
all members to pass the resolution,
saying: Then If our representatives
in foreign lands cannot boast of our
institutions they viii at least pay them
the poor tribute OF their silent con-
tempt.
Tucker. democrat. Virginia. was the
first speaker to-day in opposition to the
adoption OF the resolution. Tucker ar
gued that the republicans were delud-
ing themselves with the idea that Bay
ards characterization OF the American
people was offensive. Personally, he
was proud of the description of them
as a strong. self-confident and often
times violent people-men who seek TO
have their own way" That was a glo-
rious description Of the history OF the
Anglo-Saxons as a people. he argued
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