Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-18
President Has Wreaked Re-
venge on Standpatters.
EFFECT ON THE PEOPLE
FEAR HE MAY MAKE A DECIDED
HIT.
Speaker Cannon Will Not Talk fol
Publication-Representative Dali
zell's Prepared Interview.

The impression is gradually seeping into
| the minds of the high-tariff statesmen that
| President Roosevelt, biding his time, has
| wreak a picturesque revenge upon them for
| the brusque rejection by them of his tariff
| revision plans in the last Congress. Within
| the past twenty-four hours the President
| has made it plain that the Panama pur-
| chase plan was his own and that he in
| tends to stand for 1t without 1inching,
against all protests
These high-tariff statesmen rubbing
| themselves rather ruefully today. They say
| there was no question that they gave the
President a pretty hard jolt last session
| over his tariff revision proposition. They
| made it as hard and as vigorous as they
| could in the hope. as they said, that ''it
| might hold him for awhile" The Presi-
dent WINGED but took his medicine
! But the dose he has given us now said
| a high-tarif senator today, "is wormwood
/ and gall and Spanish-fy plaster combined,
compared to what we administered TO him. y
| Those high-tariT statesmen go on to say
| that they are convinced that while the mo-
tive of the President may not have been
revenge, his main object was to promote
| the campaign for tariff revision in which
| he was frustrated last year and that the
effect will be the serious discontinue of
the stand-pat element in Congress.
Nav Make a Hit With the People.
The standpatters do not conceal their fear
| that the President may make a decided hit
| with the people at large. They say that
| at first blush the proposition is likely to
prove attractive to the masses. 1t is a slap
| in the face apparently for the hated trusts
| and it is in support of the supposedly popu-
| lar demand for tariff revision. The people
| will not stop, it is said, to reason out the
| theories of protection to American labor,
hut wi view the whole thing in general
| way and back up the President.
The standpatters say 1t was bold act on
| the part of the President typical of his
| dash and brilliancy, to maze a bid for the
| support of the populace. 1T is to be the
| President and the people against the poli-
! ticians and Congress-" said senator, and
| no matter how it results the doctrine of
| high protective tariff has already been
| sion never purchases a dollars worth of
| sion never purchases dollad's worth of
| material abroad, the damage still will have
| been done.
| 1.-The mere announcement of the fact
| th"- the commission felt impeled to go
| abroad on account of high prices at home,
created by the tariff, is official admission
| from the administration that the tariff
walls are too high and that is all that the
opponents of high protection need ask"
Speaker Cannon Looking Glum.
Speaker Cannon, who was one of the
| leaders in the movement in the last Con-
gress which prevented tinkering with the
| tariff at that time came to town yesterday
| afternoon He was looking pretty glum,
| but not saying much for publication. Being
| pressed by the correspondents last night for
| an expression, he confined himself to saying
| that undoubtedly the President has plenary
| power to administer the canal affairs, and
| that until Congress meets he can do as he
| pleases. buy where he pleases, and conduct
| all canal affairs after his own fashion.
So much for the public expression But
| any one who recalls that the Speaker de-
voted six weeks in the last campaign to
| travelling over the country, making stand
| pat speeches, and who is familiar with the
| Speakers wealth of picturesque, vigorous
and expressive vocabulary, can pretty
| nearly imagine what he says when 1t is not
| for publication.
| The next thing on the program will be the
/ organization of the standpat faction against
/ tariff revision. They cannot do anything
with the canal case The supplies will have
| been purchased and delivered before Con-
| gress meets. and there is no way to stop 1t.
/ The standpatters are not worrying over the
| financial loss to the home producers, for
| that will be merely bagatelie. They are
looking forward to the moral effect of the
| purchase. and will devote their efforts to
eounteracting 1t.
Mr. Dalzell's Interview.
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