The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-06-01
TOWNE FLAYS
ROOSEVELT
Declares President Betrayed DEM
Gratis Regarding Rate ELL.
A SLAVE OF ALLDRICH
Says Chief Executive, ShOrn Of Power,
Follows, ShackIed, Behind Ctanot
Of ''Duke Of Rhode Island"

Of ''Duke OF Rhode Island"
a Washington special says: Well
filled galleries and a large member
ship on the floor listened with great
attention Thursday in the house Of
Representatives to leaders OF opposite
schools OF politics, Representative
Charles A. Towne OF New York and
Representative John Dalzell Of Penn
sylvania.
Mr. Towne was in splendid voice
and the democrats applauded him TO
the echo. His structures on the pres
dent were received with continued
hand clapring on the democratic side
and when he read the president out
OF the democratic party the minority
again applauded.
MIR. Dalzell, VINO followed Mr..
Towne, spoke Of letting well enough
alone" His speech was enthusiastic
cally appIauded by the republicans,
Nothing OF legislative character
was accomplished by the house, the
day being given over to oratory.
Mr. ToWne read an extract from the
speech of the president, accepting the
nomination on July n, 1904, wherein
Mr.. Roosevelt said: THAT whenever
the neeu arises there should be a re-
adjustment Of the tariff schedules is
undoUbtod, 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, MI
Towne said:
II refrain at present from produc-
ing the deadly parallel columns from
the same high source. They can be
produced, l believe, On any subject
he ever gave expression to, includ-
ing the rate bill" (Great applause.)
When he came into Office he had the
sanction OF the populace that no cleo
tive magistrate in the history of the
world has had. 1t gave him a chance
TO recognize that the vote of the PEG
pie was in the nature of a plebescite,
as a vote OF public confidence.
in that attitude he could and did
choose his allies to carry out ideas
of legislation that he entertained. IN
the senate these combinations were
made with some republicans and many
democrats, and we are informed on
the record that there was at one time
an arrangement arrived at by which
forty-seven or fifty votes, enough to
pass the law, were assured TO the
president upon the basis Of an amend
ment to the rate provision Of the SO
called Hepburn law, providing for
restricted court review and for a sus
pension Of interIocutory Injunction
Within twenty-four hours after the
agreement was reached, without Eo-
rice 10 his allies, even to his ally
in his own cabinet, the attorney gem
eral, the settlement OF that arrange
ment, which is now known to be emf
nently satisfactory to the senator from
Rhode Island had triumphed. The
democrats were thrown out.
This vauntedIy non-partisan rate
legislation became a partisan repub-
lican bill as far as they could maize
it one, and the president Of the Unit
ed States, shorn OF his barbaric, orr
entail powers, like another Caratacus,
manacled and humbled, followed the
chariot of the duke Of Rhode Island
what is one Of the results? Hence
forth our fight is against the repub-
ican party and its iniquity and Roose-
welt is out Of the way He has repudi-
ated his democratic allies and he is
now bound hand and foot to the &C.
ferries at the other end of the capitol
that dominates the republican policies
in that body, and he can never again
act Independent Of his party, having
abdicated formally and submitted him
self to the party yoke"