Arizona republican., 1908-09-26
SIZZLING STATEMENT
 BY SENATOR t0RAKER
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(Continued from Page 1) the rate bill was not because I opposed the policy of regulation and supervi- sion but only to some few of the me- thods proposed by the measure. I make no apology for voting against the rate bill and certainly I do not think it was an offense of such heinous character that l should be read out of the party on account of it, as Judge Taft's letter practically proposed.
 q have in mind not the stopping in- definitely of adequate railroad con struction at a time when it is so bad ly needed, nor losses amounting to bil- lions of dollars, which were sustained on account of the shrinkage of values of all kinds of securities, but the empty dinner pail and the suffering families of the unemployed in every section of the union.
 THE EMPTY DINNER PAIL
 "The responsibility for such cOndi- tions is serious. It is tIfe first time we have had anything like it under a Re- publican admIristrati0n. Who caused all this% Not Providence. Providence has been generously indulgent. All the natural conditions have been fav- orable to a resumption of the fullest prosperity and yet it does not come. A million brimful dinner pails have been kicked over.
 We knew that the policies of the republican party filled them. Whose policies emptied them? l am at least thankful, profoundly so, that no one ever charged-nOc even my b.tJerest enemy-that any dinner pail has ever been emptied or any wage worker ever lest a days wages by reason of any act or speech or vote of mine.
 Tt was because I thought fore saw all these disasters that l would not be Sood up Dy the president, shoulder to shoulder, With democrats to vote in support of policies that they rightfully, SS I thought, claimed as their own. MR. TAFT AND TRUSTS
 "Orly q month ago, when Taft yis- ited Middle Bass and Toledo he was the guest of c. T. Lewis, of the law firm of Doyle & Lewis. who have been attorneys for the Standard many years, standing next in rank in that relation to Virgil P. Kline; and when Taft had occasion to pass back and
 
 where l had the pleasure of meeting him, he travelled on the yacht of MT. Richardson, a prominent magnate of the glass trust; and while he doubtless paid his fare when travelling from Hot Springs to Toledo on the way to Mid dle Bass, yet nevertheless he rode in the private car of one of the officers of the road of which also Doyle & Lewis are attorneys. There did not seem to be any such righteous dislike of these Standard oil and other trust deputies ranking in the bosom of Taft on the l occasions to which l refer.
 l As to the Brownsville matter, Taft says speaking of me: He has seized upon and magnified unimportant and incidental matters 10 embarrass the administration, using in this, without scruple, blind race prejudice to accom- plish his main purpose
 T have no way of proving what was in my mind except by referring to my record. Any one who has that will fail to find a sentence or word to justi- fy any such statement.
 | Except only the Brownsville mat tier, the rate bill and joint statehood voted for all the measures the presi dent enumertsed among the achieve ments of his administration and some of them I was in charge of on the floor of the senate when they were passed.
 HIS THREE OFFENSES
 T have said enough, l hope, to just fly my course, both as to the rate bill and as to the Brownsville case and it is not necessary that I should say any thing in justification of my course in respect to joint statehood, except only to point to the national republican platform, one plank of which declares in favor of separate statehood for | New Mexico and Arizona.
 If in makiIs this defense I have said anything that will work the slightest injury to the republican party shall regret it, but I shall always 1 feel that those who have no cOnsidera- ton for me, my family or my good name, but would gloatingly rejoice if they could accomplish the shame and Humiliation they have attempted, are not entitled to consideration at my hands, and that my duty to the party should be subordinated to my duty to my family and the good name I have N