The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-13

can candidates for congress, Except
the unfortunate Mr.. Wadsworth.'
Notwithstanding that letter, he said,
the Republican majority in the house
had been reduced from ia to 55. He
depicted Speaker Cannon to whom he
referred as Uncle joe" studying the
returns, repeating the sad exclama-
ton of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, when,
surveying a hard won field, he said,
another such victory and we are un-
done"
Addressing himself still further to
the Republicans Mr.. Clark exclaimed
"And the signs of the times indicate
that even the ready letter writer IN
the White House can not Write
enough letters between this and the
first Tuesday after the first Monday IN
November to give you another major
ity in this house. He predicted that
on March 4, 1909. a Democratic presi-
dent would be inaugurated backed
by such a Democratic majority in this
house as will induce even Republ
can senate to enact into law the peo-
pies will
The Recent Panic.
Coming to the subject Of the re-
cent financial disturbance. Mr.. Clark
laid 1t at the door of the Republicans.
The self constituted defenders of the
president, he said, charged that
Hartman and his crowd" did it
while, on the other hand, Hartman
and his crowd swear that the presi-
dent and his crowd did it,.
1t did not become an innocent by
stander, he asserted, to decide which
were the ideal Republicans.
zone thing we do know he said,
'and that is that Mr.. Hartman was a
delegate to the last Republican nation
al convention which nominated Colonel
Roosevelt bya unanimous vote and that
he was a liberal contributor to the Re-
publican campaign fund.
1t therefore, he said. did not lie in
the mouths of Republicans to disown
him for he was once my dear Mr..
Hartman" but now he was another
sort of Hartman, beginning with a
big, big D, but he charged Hartman
was and is "a Republican of high de-
gree" He quoted from an utterance
of former Secretary of Treasury Shaw
that the money stringency of 1907 was
the worst the world had ever Witness
ed, but he said Mr.. Shaw might truth
fully have added: "It is a Republican
panic and gives the lie direct to the
Republican platform declaration of
1904, that a Republican tariff is al
ways followed by business prosperity
and Democratic tariff by business ad-
versity.' That fake is exploded"
Much attention was paid by Mr..
Clark to the charge that Mr.. Hepburn
had threatened "to run over" the Lead
ers of the house. That threat, he de-
clared, already had brought into line
Mr.. Payne On. W, the majority lead
tariff revision. .If,'' he said, still re-
ferring to Mr.. Hepburn, "he will be
kind enough to let us know when he
intends to start his roller over the
gentleman from Pennsylvania. Mr..
DalzelI and over Uncle Joe, to dis
fiure them, he can safely count on a.
full house and an audience breathless
with expectation and delirious with
joy" He referred to Mr. Hepburn as
''the defender of the White House
faith
Makes Fun of Payne.
After poking fun at Mr. Payne's re-
cent speech in the house, Mr. Clark
turned his attention to Mr.. Dalzen.
One-third of Mr.. Paynes speech, he de-
clared, had been delivered in a whisper
apparently for the sole benefit and
spiritual instruction of Mr.. Dalzell." If
there was any person about the capitol,
said Mr.. Clark, who was in sore need
of abundant spiritual instruction las
to the new Republican evangel of the
tariff revision it was Mr.. Dalzell- He
is a fixed star of portentous magnitude
in the constellation of stand patters," :"
he exclaimed. He is the stand pat
sheaf to which all other stand pat
sheaves do obeisance, even as Joseph
saw things happen in his dream He
is to all stand patters what Aaron's rod
was to the rods OF the mag1c1anS- he
remarked that should Mr.. Dalzell ever
arise in his place in the house and un-
equivocally declare that he was earn
estly in favor of general tariff revision
downward the angelic choir should
break forth in full chorus:
Sound the glad timbrel Ger land and
Ger sea.
Dalzen is converted the country is
free"
Until he did that" continued Mr..
Clark, Il shall entertain grave doubts
as to the sincerity of these new advo-
Gates Of tariff revision
Mr.. Clark believed that one-thfrd OF
all Republicans were honestly in favor
of revising the tariff downward. and re-
ferring to the declaration of Mr.. Payn
in favor of a maximum and minimum
tariff, asked if Mr.. Payne was in favor
of Mr.. Williams proposition to make
the tariff As per cent of the Dingley
rates, or the proposition of former Rep
resentative McC1eary. ito make the
Dingley rates the minimum and the
maximum the blue vault of heaven"