The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-20
"BOB" TAYLOR MAKES SPEECH Maiden Effort of the
 Tennesseearl. HE RIDIcULES ROOSEVELT Satirizes Secession and Central
 ization. The statesmsn-Lecturer confributes Fan for His staid Colleagues
 But His Remarks Are eivea
 Respectful Attention.

wasbinrton May Is-Senator Robert |. Tavlor of Tennessee, delivered his maiden speech in the Senate today. ms subject being the tarin and currency iegislation, which he made entertain- ing by many striking and humorous references to the policies of the Re- publican Party
 Mr. Tayfor drew a parallel between the solar system. regulated by centri- petal and centrifugal forces. and the sovernInent. the Federal power being the centripetal and the States power ,fha centrffugal force. He declared that as the Confederacy was an eir- pbasis of the force seeking disintegra- tion, the Federal power, representing the other extreme. is now endangering the rights of the State.
 Discussing the President. he said.
 .NThe system is as surely out of oaI- ance today as 1t was hi 1861. And what is the difference to is whether we leave our orbit and so cavorting ing among the stars to freeze 10 death on the outskirts of creation or whether we are drawn the other way to be converted into fuel for the sunI
 "What is the difference whether we ro the secession route or the central ization route? They both mean de- struction of the union.
 1T do not pretend to be a great con- stitutional lawyer, but if that instru- nlent means anything. it is that all power, not expressly conferred upon the Federal Government. IS reserved to the States.
 "In these imperial days. when con- contrated wealth is intrenched under the dome of the Capitol and central izcd power is enthroned in the White House, what can be expected but the gradual encroachrnent of the. Federal Government upon the reserved rights of the States? How can the eoutiibri- nm be preserved under the reign of a big stick? Stick and bag of gold?
 "Are not. concentrated wealth and centralized power dictating the poll cies of the party in power and control ing the legislation of Congress?
 q would not reflect upon the Chief Executive of the Nation. On the con- trary, I would praise him for the mo- ble things he has done during his in- curnbency. chief of which was turning on the light and revealing the enor- rnlty ,.of the crime hls. party has com mitted.
 "But your peerless President reached the limit when he seized all the best reform blanks of all the Democratic platforms of the past and planted him. self square1y upon them. Was there d'etat than this in the history of American politics?
 "The question for you on the other side of this chamber is: Are you go- ing to put his reform policies in your platform at Chicago? If you are. why dent you endorse Bryan and be done with 1t? If you are not, you will re- pudiate your President.
 s'Ffe den1a niled the reform of the tar if system in the beginning of his ad- ministration but of late he has con tented himself with storming the eita-
 AwK ktrA taN NffE He has not laid the axe at the root of the tree. but has thundered at the rich ripe fruit that hangs upon the boughs of the tree"
 'The railroads, ,"ahe said. "are only one string in the harp of a thousand strings upon which our modern orphe- us is playing the triumphal march of federalism?"
 we hear" he continued, "a note from the metallic string of the steel trust and a long. sweet strain from the sugar trust. and a believing note from the beef trust and the ding dong of the copper trust. and the ping pong of the leather trust and the sing song of thousand other trusts, all of which are the legitimate results of an abnor" nal tariff system. They are compell- ing the small industries of the country to sell, out to them, or be crushed in the coils of the. serpent. They are sweeping out every VeStaEe or COmpe" tition in every department of manu- facture and trade. which is the only safeguard of the people. No wonder we hear the burning appeals for re- form in the messages of the President. No wonder we hear the mutterings of a long suffering people.
 The tariff will never be reformed by a Republican administration. IL is true that all the Republican candi- dates for the Presidency are failing over each other in their efforts to re- gale the American people with the most plausible promise of tariff revision. but none of them promises tarin reform. q
 He was sure. he said. the Vice Pres ident is sincere as a tariR reformer but the substance of this declaration has been made on the eve of every political campaign for the last quarter of century"
 The Republicans. he said. had never said whether they would revise the tariff up or down.
 satan. he added, would have been de. lighted with the plan of salvation ii he had beent allowed to write 1t, but there would have been but little hope for poor. fallen man, if the terms of salvation had been dictated by that old black Republican of the neither world. Go back and read the history of broken promises. and see how the friends of the tariff have reformed it.
 He declared that the concentration of wealth in this country was rivalline