The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-26
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


Coxey's Army.
Washington.-Th 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 a safe index.
Several weeks ago Mr.. Rainey of Il
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 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 decentralization of the American Re-
public. This Mr.. Landis 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
speech, he said:
This is the best country on earth,
and not the worst country on earth.
And if l thought about it as the gentle
man from New York, 1 would resign
my seat in this House, sell out my be.
longings and move to some other coun-
try nearer in harmony with my politi-
cal notions"
Mr.. Lands displayed a number of
pictures of Coxey's army and COM
mented on it's appearance in Washing
ion 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 eEcamped 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 Sen
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
list 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, we 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.. Lands took up the assertion or
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 a 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.. Lands concluded the Re
publican side rose and accoaled him
an ovation.