Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-25
1ONN[ HTS PRESIDENT
Charges the President Has Not
Been Consistent In Public
Utterances
REFERS TO RATE BILL EPISODE
Claims That the President Was Guilty
of Giving In to Aldrich And the Cor
porations After Making Grand
Stand Play to the People.

Stand Play to the People.
| Washington, May 25.-Mr. Towne o.
New York, when he rose to address:
the house of representatives under
general debate on the diplomatic oil!
was accorded an ovation by his asso'
ciates on the democratic side, num-
Der of republicans joining with then
in giving him friendly welcome. His
first sentence-'I rise to make some
observations to this house why the re-
publican party should be driven from
power and the democratic party en-
trusted with the reinS of government
outlined the trend of his address.
Following closely the speech made
by Mr.. Charles B. Lands of Indiana
interest centered in Mr.. Towne, who
Was expected to answer the standpa,
speech of the gentleman from the Hoo
sier state. After defending his own
change of political belief and discuss
ing monetary conditions, Mr.. ToWne
devoted his time to the president. Mr.
Towne read an extract from the speech
of the president accepting the nomln-
alton July 81, 1904, wherein Mr.. Roose-
welt said. That whenever the need
arises there should be a REIMBURSEMENT
of the tariff schedules is undoubted
but such change can with safety be
made only by those whose devotion to
the principles of high protective tariff
is beyond question"
Having concluded the reading, Mr..
Towne said,
u refrain at present from produc-
ing the deadly parallel columns from
the same high source They can be
produced 1 believe on any subject he
ever gave expression to, including the
rate BILL
The Kansas City Speech.
When Mr.. Towne came to an ex-
PLANTATION of the press reports on the
speech he delivered at Kansas City
several weeks ago, there was pricking
up of ears and still closer attention
paid to him. He began deliberately:
These reports were to the effect
that l was to return to Washington
for the purpose of exposing the pres
ident of the United States" He denied
that he said that he would expose
the president, but said that he did not
think that was the proper place to
present the characteristics of the pres
crt chief executive to magnify ana
his office and to exercise
powers not only beyond the traditional,
but beyond the legal and constitutional
Of that office.
There are many things that unfit
him for a judicious, careful, just and
deliberate discharge of his high eX-
ecutive functions, and under the i'm
pulse of which he has time and again
zone beyond the legitimate boundar-
les of his place"
Mr.. Towne promised to in
sent in his remarks later
"a few of these instances of ex-
ecutive excess of executive usurpation,
of executive wandering beyond that
wise and salutary, that legal and con-
stitutional boundary which the consti-
tuition of his country has prescribed"
ut is not pleasant to examine" he
said, land I shall not examine the
question of veracity between a high
executive officer, especially the presi-
dent of the United States, and other
honorable and reputable gentlemen. It
is enough to say that it is exceeding
ly unfortunate that this particular
executive has the misfortune to raise
the question of veracity with every
public character he has come in con-
tact with during his administration"
Democrats Voted For Roosevelt.
in the last campaign" continued Mr..
Towne, sit was admitted in mSny
places in this country that the accusa-
tons brought against the republican
party of completely and partnership
with these great economic forces that
today prevail in the civilized world,
were true. Republicans in many places
it. There were a great many
thousand democrats in the country who
believed, whether rightly or not, that
the democratic candidates was largely
sponsored by and represented the class
as to which the masses of the demo-
cratic party charged that the republican
party was in partnership with. Thou
sands of republicans, therefore, who
would otherwise voted against their
party, voted for Roosevelt and thou
sands of democrats voted for him, too.
When he came into office he had
prominence that no elective magistrate
in the history of the world has had. 1t
gave him a chance to recognize that
the vote of the people was in the nature
Of a plebecite, as a vote of public con-
fid,ence, substituting him In that sense
as a direct popular representative in
stead Of the ordinary representative
legislative body In that attitude he
could and did choose his allies to carry
out ideas of legislation that he enter
tanned. In the senate of the United
States these combinations We're made
with some republicans and many demo-
Gratis and we are informed on the re-
cord, and it is seldom challenged by TIE
other side, and which 1 believe is TIE
truth, there was at one time arrived al
an arrangement of forty-seven or fifty
votes, enough to pass the law. which
were assured to the president upon the
basis of an amendment to the rate pro-
vision of the so-called Hepburn law,
for a restricted court review
and for the suspension of interlocutory
injunction.
within twenty-four hours after that
agreement was reached without notice
20 his allies, even to his ally in his own
cabinet, the attorney general, the set
dement, of that arrangement which is