New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-28

ants OF the Pilgrims who came on the May
flower and said they would tel you oe ~,
than that" The foreigners who had come TO the
United States. be declared, would say that uhey
left their countries because conditions at nome
were worse Jhan would be found In wider
ness among wild red men, he sald tilat ,. tIe
thoughts Of the Republicans along financial lines
were about the same as those along ihte -
u1nal lines. The Republicans. ne saIu' "eLe
the men who, = their theories were carried out
would not buy single article on the face OF the
earth from anybody $500,
field. be inquired II protection was not an m
direct subsidy. The Republicans. ne charged
SUBSIDIZED everything under The plea OF raising
wages of labor And yec,' lie added, you ue-
nouuCe as q socialist anarchist, Il radical or
agraran any man that would introduce on
this floor a bill directly to raise wages out OF
the United states Treasury
Mr. Williams declared that Mr.. Daizen had
misQuoted him regarding his magazine article
as TO what would be in the next Democra tlc
platform the tariff question, and SAID that
what he had written was that the Democrats
contended that protection was "A system Of tax
alton. Mr.. Littlefeld. he said, had defed any
body 10 prove that protection was the mother
Of trusts. lie would, he declared, tell what
trust protection was not the mother OF. 1t was
not the mother of that sort of trust which
owes its success to increased efficiency Of public
service and to cheapened products"
He then asked tie direct question OF Mr.. Lit
tlefied if he Endorsed the administration OF
President NchiDley-''Yes' or NO"
Yes" answered Mr.. Littleheld.
Every word Of it?" Mr.. Williams further in
quired.
1eS- was TIE reply
Mr.. Williams then reminded Mr.. Iitneheld
that they stood together against the spirit Of
coloniallsr. and said II he had replied Yes"
or NC simply to thu inquiry as to whether ne
approved M. Cockran's speech he would not
have been telling the truth. There were some
things which could not be answered Yes or
NO" In the main ne indorsed the speech, but
In some particulars he did not approve It, MY
Littleheld. he added. knew that there was not
only nobody trying to make Il campaign on
free trade. but he knows, a matter of fact,
that there could not possibly be any free trade
IN the United States"
Nr. Williams discussed the plank of the New
York Democratic platform regarding State con
troll OF corporations and said he did not approve
Of the federal government taking its arm away
from regulating corporations that are engaged
in interstate commerce, whether created by a
State not. He asked the Republicans II they
were going out the issue borrowed from the
gamblers table Of standing pat ,. end why
the President was hGrrying UP Congress and
trying get rid Of II. The Democrats, he said
had been charged with having no principles or
issue Thu only trouble is" he said. THAT
your policies OF inaction and malactio1 have
been growing up around until they are so
numerous as to constitute q wilderness that we
can hardly find our way ont Of
Vociferous cheering from the Democrats
greeted the minority leader when he sat down
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