The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-01


in said district whereby it cannot be
determined what delegates were legally
elected"
The majority report was sustained.
the counties voting in whole or in part
in favor of the seating of the Devery
delegates being Queens. Z for, against;
Suffolk, 4 for, against; Wyoming, 3
for; Yates, for.
All of the other counties voted for
the majority report, declaring the seats
of the delegates from the Ninth vacant.
When the vote had been announced
Devery left the hall. followed by his
delegates and friends. There was not
much trouble or cheering.
The committee on permanent organi-
zation made its report, naming Martin
w. Littleton, of Brooklyn, for perman
ent chairman.
LITTEEToNs SPEECH.
In assuming the chair Mr. Littleton
said in part:
In the very midst of a profound po>
litical peace in the nation two years
this side of a national election. we find
most extraordinary activity among
prominent Republican officials.
The president, although strenuously
diligent in the discharge of his grave
duties, finds it necessary or agreeable,
or both, to make a tour of the New Eng
land states, speaking at every place of
interest. The burden of his vigorous
oratory at first was an extraVagant de-
fense of his cabinet, coupled with per-
petual Injunction to his hearers to not
hesitate in doing the rough work oe
| life Much of this could be forgiven to
his ardent infatuasioJ, for his official
family. But somethFag in his keen OBJ
servation of the peo' ie led him to be-
| lieve that they were not so much inter-
eSted in his official family and the
rough work as they were in the ques-
| ton of the regulation of trusts. True
| to reckless disregard of consequences,
he undertook to dispose of the profound
| economical problems in skirmish fight
| .6f if he said in nraiSp nf his CandOr
| if not of his ingenuity. that he admitted
\ at the outset the urgent necessity OF
strong supervising hand-an admission
which the whole Republican party
would rejoice We're 1t unmade.
| He hastened to assure them of a
remedy. Simply stated, the remedy is
to have all the states meet in due sea-
son and first solemnly admit that they
are pOwerleSS to cope with these harms
| less captains of industry and to agree
| to delegate to the federal government
all the, power which they now possess
| upon that subject. Then let the federal
! government take charge of them, and
the president solemnly promises that he
would see to it that the federal govern
ment would control them. In view of
| the fact that the processes of amend
ment and enactment will require nearly
nine years, it is not too much to say
| that this is strenuous promise. This
revolutionary remedy would typify trust
| developments by taking all the power of
all the states and delegating it to the
federal government. When the trusts
had elected enough men who regarded
| them simply as captains of industry
the states would be powerless and the
trusts would be free.
'"The president says that he does not
regard the reduction of tariff duties
upon trust-made articles as an efficient
or safe remedy, because it would injure
the legitimate as well as the illegiti-
mate industries. We 90 not propose to
disturb, we do net propose to attack
! legitimate industriesf we dc not seek to
take away from them anything which
belongs to them; bNt we propose to
| withhold the aid of this great govern
ment from them, we propose to make
| them stand alone, we propose to take
away the unnecessary protection now
/ afforded them by the government and
llet the commercial batteries of the world
| be trained upon them with the shot and
shell of competition until they are
driven from their entrenchment of pro-
lection out into the open field of honest
trade.
Rather than do this, the Republican
party now proposes to revolutioniZe the
government, change its form and fur
ther encroach upon the right of local
self government in States.'
The speaker quoted from the tariff
law and a ruling of the board of general
appraisers to show that the anthracite
coal companies We're protected and de-
clared the present situation brought
about by the coal strike was but a
manifestation Oh lI6 1II0SiSllDlG pOWGJ
of those protected monopolies."
Cintinuing, he said:
Are we to await nine or ten years
for the remedy against such an acute
condition of evil? Must the president
run about the country apologiZing for
the maintenance of such concerns while
winter approaches and hundreds OF
firesides will be cold and dark and suf-
fering unspeakable will ensue? If the
tariff has no more to do with trusts
than the penal code has to do with or
binary affairs, how can the removal OF
the tariff be so hurtful to these great
captains of industry?'
mot only the president, but members
of his cabinet are out erving from the
housetopS to the people to pause In
their rough work and behold the great
prosperity. The secretary of the treas
ury having in 80 days acquainted him
self with the simple problems of finance
is stamping around the country apollo
gizing to hungry people because they
have no beef and coal Why does he
not have the courage of his fellow citi-
zen of Iowa and take up the battle to
drive these combinations from the
shelter of protective tariff?' The sec
retary of war is out on the highways OF
politics willing at all times to admit
that the present administration is per
haps the ablest and most efficient in
the history of the nation.
1.-The speaker of the house. though
l.scarred by service in battles fierce and
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politics does not care to encounter the
people of his own district and give q
reason for the government continuing
to support monooolies.'
, The chairman then turned to state af-
fairs quoting from the platform adopt
ed at the recent Republican convention
and denouncing that party for its fail
ure to observe its pledges.
Saratoga, N. Y, Oct. Interest Gen.
tered in the meetings this morning OF
the committees on platform and contest
, ed seats of the Democratic state conven-
Devery and his delegates from the
Ninth New York City district were moi
seated there would be troublous times
Mr.. Devery having declared that he
a