The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-06-01
and
SUBMISSIVE
ROOSEVELT WALKS BY CHARIOT
OF HIS coNoUERoR. SUB
DUED CAPTIVE OF "DUkE
OF RHODE ISLAND"
FAILED AT CRITICAL MO-
MENT, SAYS ToWNE.

WASHINGTON, May 24.-The
speech of the session in the House
was delivered by Representative |
Charles A. Towne, of New York, to- |
day. He spoke upon the general ques-
ton of policies, covering a wide
range, outlining forcefully the issues
between the Republican party and the
Democracy. His time being extended,
he spoke for nearly two and half
hours, and at the conclusion OF his
speech every Democrat in the House
and many Republicans shook hands
with him. He emphasized the issue
raised upon the tariff question AID the
delinuuencies of the Republican party
due to it's control by influences upon
which it depends for success and
from which it cannot be divorced,
though these influences are in conflict
with the interests of the great mass
of American people.
He pointed out particularly that the
abuses OF the present tariff system
could not be excused or covered by
the pretense that to attempt a correc-
ton was to enter into absolute free
trade He contended that the issue
was not between protection and free
trade. and the evils of the protective
system could not be disguised by cry
ing free trade where the contention
as opposed to the protective system
in force was for fair dealing and free
opportunity for all the people. He
said that the Republican party had
ceased to represent the people and
had become the instrument OF con-
fererated selfishness. The reaction
from this consideration of selfish in
terests. he said, tended dangerously
in the direction of socialism and the
democratic party stood firmly be-
tween the tyranny of monopoly on
the one side and the dangers OF an
archy on the other; that the party
stood for the inviolability OF private
property and the defense OF individual
liberty.
Demand For Revision.
He said that there was a demand
Throughout the country for a revision
Iof the tariff and that the Republican
Iparty had definitely decided to d1sre-
gard this demand, while the Demo
cratic party proposed to undertake
| the work of doing the justice which
the people demand.
Speaking of the impossibility Oh
lRepublican President accomplishing
what was in conflict with fundament
al characteristics of his party, ne
said that Roosevelt seemed for time
to be, and might have been, and con
itinued to be, above the trammel o.
mere party allegiance, with the power
to direct his own party through nl'
liability to command a Democrati'
alliance, but this power he had thrown
aUav as an essential consequence
lhis narty environment and the inapll
ity of one man to resist the power o
the party which places him in author
:. litv. In consequence, he said, OF Tn
phenomenal popular vote by whlcI
Roosevelt was elected he seemed 7
regard himself as vested by court Q
Inlebiscite as the immediate and 81
preme representative OF the people
nearer to them than even the Hepr'
sentatives in the House. This con
y handing attitude allowed him
: choose his allies from either part
II and to hold the Republican machin
e in check by the power to secure Den
/, ocratic support
!, Failed At Critical Moment.
- This unique position of power 4
seemed at first to realize and migi
have indefinitely preserved It, II
had possessed the qualities he WI
supposed to possess. But at the cri
,cal moment he deserted his allie
y, both Democrats and Republicans, l
c,uding his own Attorney Generi
without notice, and surrendered, u
conditionally to the chief manipuiat
of the Republican Senate machin
lNow he walked, bound and submissi
- to his chains, by the wheels OF e
imperial chariot of his insolent &C
- querer, the Duke of Rhode Island