Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
IN THE HOUSE.
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borrows or seizes a Democratic idea"
ard he added 80 far as he has advo-
Gated Democratic ideas, SO far as he
has mauled wicked Republicans with
his mailed fist, or thumped them with
his big stick. he has deserved the un-
stinted praise of all lovers OF our
country"
| Everyone could be honest. he MAIN
tanned. even if ne could not be great,
and, he added, eff you Republican big
wigs would be candid you would con-
fess that you are not half so much
cnamored of the President as you
seem to be.
! Republicans, he declare. grow red in
the face lauding the President to the
skies for he still is the dispenser in
chief of pie A Republican statesman
bereft OF pie, said he, was "a spectacle
to make the angels weep
referring to the last campaign Mr..
Clark charged that "sundry Republi-
can representatives" sought and OBJ
tanned from the President Certificates
Of Republican good character to help
them pull through. So doubtful were
the Republican managers of results in
the last campaign, said Mr. Clark, that
the President was induced to write
1.-The famous letter to My Dear Mr..
| Watson" which he said was blanket
endorsement of all Republican candi-
dates for Congress except the un-
! fortunate Mr. Wadsworth." Notwith-
standing that letter he said. the Re
publican majority in the House had
been reduced from ia to 50. Mr.. Clark
added:
1.-The signs of the times indicate that
even the ready letter writer in the
| White House, cannot write enough
| letters between this and the first Tues
| day after the first Monday in Novem-
| Der to give you another majority in
| this House"
Coming to the subject of the recent
| financial disturbance, Mr.. Clark laid
! it at the door of the Republicans. The
Self-constituted defenders of the Presi-
| dent, ne said, charged that Hartman
| and his crowd did it. while on the
| other hand Hartman and his crowd
swear that the President and his crowd
did it." 1t did not become an innocent
bystander, he asserted, to decide which
We're the ideal Republicans. "One
thing we do know" he said. land that
is tha1 Mr.. Hartman was delegate
to the last Republican national con-
vention which nominated Col. Roose-
welt by unanimous vote and that he
was liberal contributor to the Re-
publican campaign fund"
He quoted from an utterance of For
mer Secretary of the Treasury Shaw that
fl,n ~, &c 1,a
worst the world ever had witnessed, but
he said Mr.. Shaw might truthfully have
said at Is Republican panic and gives
the lie direct to the Republican platform
of 1894 and a Republican tariff is always
followed by business prosperity and 4
Democratic tariff by business adversely"
That fake is exploded; gone where the
woodbine twineth; dead as the men who
lived before the flood" 1t helped the
Republicans in 1904. he admitted, but he
said mo sane man ever will believe it
any more forever
Mr.. Clark criticized the recent bond is
sue and said the issuance of bonds in
time of peace was the identical thing for
which the Republicans "pilloried Demo-
cratic President before high Heaven"
Mr.. Clark referred to the charge that
Mr.. Hepburn had threatened to run
over the leaders Of the House. That
threat. he declared. already had brought
into line Mr.. Payne of New York. the
majority leader. who announced there
would be tariff revision. If he said.
still referring to Mr.. Hepburn, che will
be kind enough to let us know when he
intends to start his roller over the gentle
man from Pennsylvania. Mr. Daiaell. and
over Uncle joe to disfigure them. ne can
safely count on a full House and an audi
ence GREATNESS with expectation and de-
liriolls with JOY
After poking fun at Mr.. Payne's recent
speech in the House. Mr.. Clark turned
his attention to Mr. Dalzell One-thirl of
Mr.. Payne's speech. lie declared. had
been delivered in a whisper apparently
for the sole benefit and spiritual instruc-
ton Of Mr.. DalzelI whom Mr.. Clark de-
scrihcd as "a fixed star of portentious
magnitude in the constellation of stand
patters."
No doubt. Mr.. Clark said. the Republic
cans were preparing for another stu
pendous confidence game on the people"
b. promising tariff revision i'll their next
platform, without indicating whether the
revision was to be up or down. The Re-
publicans. he charged. had in 1906 "by a
juggle on the financial question and add
ed that their solemn pledge to promote
an international agreement for the freq
coinage of silver roped in enough Repub-
licans to land William Mckinley in the
White House" Now he remarked. the
Republicans are meditating a jusele on
| the revision of the tariff as "a conpan-
ion piece to their successful! juggle as to
coinage
Mr. Clark believed that one-tllird Of
all Republicans were honestly in favor
of revising the tariff and referring to the
declaration of Mr.. Bryan in favor of a
maximum and a minimum tariff asked if
Mr.. Payne was in favor of Mr.. Williams
proposition to make the tariff 40 per cent.
of the Dingley rates. or the proposition
of Former Representative McCleary ito
| make the Dingley rates the minimum
| and the maximum the blue vault Of
| Heaven" Mr. Payne. he declared, could
| be precise When he chose to. but. he
said. because in both his propositions
touching the tariff Mr.. Payne used equiv
ocat terms zone may fairly conclude that
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