The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-05-04
WILLIAMS FIRES HOT SHOT
INTO THE REPUBLICAN
CAMP.

of the minority, made memorable
speech in the House in reply to Hon.
Henry : BOutelle, of Illinois, who IL
few days previous made ninth of the
facts shown up by Hon. Henry T.
Rainey, Of the same State, in regard to
the reimportation and sale of watches
at Il lower cost than they can be
bought at first hands at home. This
hot shot at the High Tariff citadel has
made the proteclionists squirm more
than once, aud the Hon. Boutelle
sought 10 doubt to let them down as
easy as possible. This, however, was
far from the calculations of Williams,
and he jumped into the breach as
soon as the eloquence of Boutelle had
ceased revtrbrating through the Con-
gressioual halls and made them re-
echo again with Tedoubl,d force.
His remarks were full of fire and sound
political wisdom, aud no better cam
paign literature could be scattered
broadcast this summer and autumn in
TIL great contest pending for the con
troll of the House of Repre- senlatives.
In one part of his speech he was in-
terrupted hy Congressman who
wanted to know how an article Viii.
liams had written for EUeJybOdys
Magazine i'll February, 1904, had
struck the people of the country. Mr..
Williams answers in his plain straight
forward manner in this wise:
Yes, that is a statesmanIike que.-
ton. | have an impression, Mr..
Chairman, that if We could have
fought thus last campaign upon the
line of a cOmmOu-Sensa and sensible
reducti II aud revision Of the tariff to
prevent the exploration of home con-
sumers by concerns which exploited
them under the shelter of a tariff while
they sell cheaper to the foreigner, and
on the lines laid down in that article
we would have won the election. Ap-
plause on the Democratic side.
And | have another idea, and |
Will give it to the gentleman now;
That the personality of your candi.
date and our di>orgauization had more
to do Mlth your last overwhelming
victory than the strength OF your
party. Aud have another idea, and
l Will give 1t to the gentleman now,
ami II is more Il Wondermtnt than an
idea: | am wondering, and sometimes
dreaming, of what will happen to the
gentleman from Iowa. Mr.. Hepburn .
the gentleman from Pennsylvania,
Mr.. Dalzell), the gentleman from New
York, Mr.. Payne, and the genlle-
man from Inuiana, Mr.. Charles b.
Lands ana all the other leaders of
the cohorts of stand-patism," when
toward the tail end of this session, or
during The next session of this Con-
gress, the man in the NhiIe
House - who carried your party
to victory rather than The party carried
him-shall send Il me ssdge to this
House to revise and reduce the tariff.
Applause on the Democratic side J
1t Is i'll the air that he wanted to do it
efure this. 1t was asserted in the
new spapeTs-l do not know whether
it Was true or not, hope not-that
! there was some sort of an agreement
between HIM ana the Speaker where
! by he must hold back The opening of
this box with all those serpents of dis.
CorG-this Pandora's bOX-from being
! turned loose amongst the House and
! Senate members of the ReputlIcau
| party, provided that the Speaker, who
ana not want the box opened. would
hrst help him get through certain
things that he considered Of primary
and paramount Importance at lhls
moment. Let me tell you something.
You have got to revise this tariff. ii
you don't, we will. (Arp ause on the
Democratic side. Because cur con-
mon masters, the people If America,
have made up their minds that il shall
! he revised
The Congressm interrupts again
| To tell Mr. Williams that he had
waited to ask another question. In
reply Mr.. Williams says: | know, tut
| you can wait longer 1t will do YOU
! good, because what | am saving to
you may be Il light whereby to guild
your footsteps. You are not old in
lhlquty like IA lot of these other fell
lows. You can still take advice and
counsel, and you are young enough
ana supple enough and mentally elias
tle enough to profit by it. They are
not; lhet are doomed; they ale riding
10 their fail One by one they will 20
| down. But there is Il future in YOU:
there Is hope for you. daughter. J
You not only wear optimism in your
lace, hat yoi wear optimism in your
heart, aud you are flexible, ard when
you see the handwriting on the wall
your reason will teach you To bend
! somewhat from yonr present and pusG
course, la order To adopt Il wiser course
IN the future. In fact, the main object
OF my making this speech today is 10
appeal 10 you aud youog men like YOU
II w, IN the days of your youtn.
while the evil days draw not nigh. " TO
Tx yourselves IN the direct, on i'm which
you shall grow for ia ule ust fulness in
the political Held. Laughter aud
applause J For | Tell you that every
man who worships the sche Jules of the
Dingley bill as an idol in the Temple
OF Diana Is doomed to defeat. An
plause on the Democratic side.) Not
now perhaps; not all of them IN the
very next election; some of them then
enough of them to give us the House
-unIess you revise the tariff at this
session or the next session OF this
Congress. l will tell you another
thlng. | am going to tell you whole
lot OF things. You have got to pass
oil to admit Oklahoma and the In
dian Territory rs a State in thus Union.
aud leave Arizona ami New Mexi,o
out. For if you don't, we will, be-
cause the people, your masters aud our
masters, have made up their minds