Gilpin observer., 1906-05-31
CAMPAIGN TALKS
POLITICIANS SHAPING ISSUES IN
THE HOUSE..
TARIFF QUESTION REHAsHED

Lively Repartee on Both Sides
Lands of Indiana Scores Bourke
Cochran - Displays Pictures of
Coxey's Army.
Washington.-The issues destined
to be uppermost between the two
great parties during the coming cam
| paign are already being joined, if the
| speeches now being made in the House
| OF Representatives are safe index.
Several weeks ago Mr.. Rainey of H.
linois made carefully prepared speech
on the watch trust, asserting that the
| watch manufacturers of the United
| States had one price for watches and
a lesser price abroad.
] To-day in the House Chas. B. Ian
dis OF Indiana, in a sense answered
| Mr.. Rainey, frankly admitting that
| American manufacturers had one price
at home and another abroad, and he
| defended the practice as in accord
with good business methods, insisting
| that all countries sold their wares for
less prices abroad than at home.
Mr.. Lands also paid some attention
| to a speech made by Bourke Cochran
of New York, wherein the latter de-
nounced the policy of protection as one
of public plunder, the fountain source
| of all corruption and>the cause OF to-
| tai Generalization of the American Re-
public. This Mr.. Lands denied.
| He said that every poor, but ambi-
| tious immigrant who landed here dur
| ing the last ten years could refute that
| allegation. Referring to Mr.. Cochran's S
| speech, he said:
This is the best country on earth,
| and not the worst country on earth.
And if thought about it as the gentle
man from New York, l would resign
my seat in this House, sell out my be-
| Iongings and move to some other coun-
| try nearer in harmony with my politi-
cal notions"
Mr.. Landis displayed a number of
| pictures of Coxey's army and COM
mented on it's appearance in Washing
| ton and the demand of it's members for
| work.
THAT was the condition in the last
years of Democratic rule" said Mr..
| Lands.
| In reply to this Mr.. Williams, the mi
nority leader, stated that he had
| walked through Coxey's army while
| 1t was ercamped on the grass in front
| of the Senate entrance to the capitol,
and at that time the Wilson-Gorman
| bill was under discussion in the Sem
| ate. He insisted that the government
| was still operating under the Mckin-
| ley bill at that time, and that reve-
nues were being collected under that
Republican measure.
Mr.. Williams said he was encour-
aged in the fight the Democrats were
making in favor of tariff reform be-
| cause of the number of Republican
| leaders who were dashing to the relief
Of the protective tariff.
He said the sledge-hammer debater,
Mr.. Hepburn of Iowa; the chaste and
brilliant Boutell and even the humor-
ist of the Republican side, Mr.. Cush-
man of Washington, had been COM
manded to support the protective the
ory, and he inferred from this that his
efforts were having effect.
| 1t was Mr.. Williams solemn belief
that the worst thing about the protec-
tive tariff was that it bribes and cor
rupts the friends of good government.
He said the Republicans would come
into the Democratic party and say to
the friends of free trade, I'VE will pro-
tect you against frost, We will protect
you against hail." and so the Demo
| Gratis yielded and even he had been
directly approached along some SINH
| lar lines, but he had been thus far
able to say, Get thee behind me, Sa-
| tan"
Mr.. Landis took up the assertion of
Mr.. Williams that corn was SO low in
| 1890 and 1891 that the farmers were
compelled to burn it for fuel. He said
he came from a corn belt in Indiana,
and he denied that farmers were COM
( PEELED to burn their corn because 1t
| was drug on the market.
Mr.. Williams insisted that he was
| right in his statement.
This brought Mr.. Hinshaw of Ne
braska into the area to say that while
he did not know what Kansas did in
| 1890, he knew as Nebraskan that
| corn was not burned in his state.
Mr.. Reeder of Kansas followed to
repudiate the statement that the farm
ers of the Sunflower State had burned
their corn.
When Mr.. Landis concluded the Re-
publican side rose and acconled him
an ovation.