The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-19
Taft Puts Crimp IN
Operations.
ADMIT Thai PRESIDENT
CAN SECURE OWN TERMS
~steam Roller Strikes Big snag
1t Capitol


Bx ALFRED y. ST0EEf4.
Washington. July IS.-tSpeciall---
Regardless Of tae sentiment In the
West for lower tariff duties all along
the line. there is no Indication that the
New England-Pennsy1vania combina-
hard pressure should be applied by
President Taft.
II 10 admitted on ali sidss that he
: has the power to bring the ultra pro-
tectionists OF the Senate to terms, but
the question now being asked In wash
ington IL. ssWill he do it?"
There 10 not the slightest doubt about
the sentiment Of the people out in the
Western states. Since the ten Repub-
iican senators declined to vote for the
DILL that was framed against their pro-
test reports are coming in from that
section which indicate that the masses
are with these Republican senators in
ing Of the duties.
The lows idea" as 1t was called
from the time Governor cummins be-
gan to demonstrate against the tarfff
policy Of the party managers In Con-
gress 10 evidently spreading. It will
be remembered that Governor cummins
and his followers some six years ago
began to say great deal In the state
platforms about the national policy Of
ssheltering monopoly" and they pro-
Vested loudly.
Cumnains wans out.
The "stand-pat" crowd IN Iowa and
the neighboring states booted at the
protest OF the cummins faction. and
predicted that they would be crushed.
But Governor Cummfns persisted and
when Senator Allison died he WINS NAM
ed as his successor without any trou
BILE whateter. even though the other
fellows boasted that when the supreme
q -1&.
him to private life.
Wfthin the past four years two ul-
ira protectiopists IA Iowa have been
defeaked toy the House 81 Representa-
sivess The first ene TO &c ap~n was
Major lAcey. who had served num-
i Der Of terms In Congress-. ne was il
conspicuous 'tatand-patterr ana could
not be made 10 believe that HIS views
on the tariff would endanger his de-
feat. But he got his dose all the
same. The next one was the famous
Col. Pete Henburn.
4 more striking example can be
cited In the two successive defeats Of
James +. McCleary OF Minnesota. Mr..
McCfeAry IL an exceptionally able man.
and during his service in the House
here made his mark, He was on
prominent committees and II was sup-
posed that II was impossible for any
Democrat to beat him In his district.
Mr.. McCieary went out of his way
TO make a rank high tariff speech
the year of his first defeat It was
SO popular with the American Pro-
tective Tariff League that the ofliciais
OF that organization had hundreds of
thousands of copies circulated through
out the country. and kept abiding to
the McCleaFy effort as one Of the
strongest arguments that had ever been
heard In supTor of the doctrine OF high
tariff policies.
TRey Buried MeCieary.
The people Of the Minnesota district,
however, did not like that sort of talk
and when they got chance at Con-
gresham McCleary they buried him
under an avalanche of votes ana sent
Democrat to the House in his place.
Then the Roosevelt administration pro-
vided for the defeated Republican by
making him Second Assistant Postmas-
ter General. Last year Mr.. Mccleary
thought that as PresidentiaI election
was on he would be safe In making
another race for the House. and SO
certain was he Of retrieving his lost
ground that he resigned his job In
Washington. only to discover that the
people OF the district would not have
. "stand-patter" to represent them in
the House.
These are but illustrations Of the
growing sentiment for lower tariff du-
ties In the Western States. It is be-
coming so strong that thirty-ave or
forty Of the Republican members Of
the House at this very moment are
anxious about their seats. and win be
even more disturbed IL Senator AID
rich has his way and can drive through
the kind of tariff bill he has his heart
set upon.
Those ten Republican Senators from
the West know what the feeling Of
the people IL out In their section, and
they are keeping step with the music.
No doubt about that.
Wave Also Hits East.
A straw the other day even shows
that the wind isn't exactly favorable
in the East for the tariff "highbind-
ers.' The speech made by Governor
Fort of New Jersey caused something
of a Jolt to the Senate Organization.
The New Jersey Executive spoke his
mind freely against the pending bill
and declared that the people were not
getting In this Aldrich bill what they
were promised through the national
platform Of the Republican party last
year. Governor Fort took up Presi-
dent Taft's warning at Yale recently.
And he endorsed 1t thoroughly and
even went further, by asserting that
If the Republican managers in Con-
Rresa do not rip the bill to pieces be-
fore II Is too late. there will be a
reckoning at the polls when the next
election lie held for Congressman.
The American Protective League
people have been snorting ever since
President Taft spoke at Yale and,
have taken especial pains In their or
gan, The American Economist, to as
sail Yale as hotbed OF free trad
erg."
President Taft's reported insistnce
upon having free raw material In the
tariff bill soon to be passed has great
ly exciting the Republican Congress-
men from the States Of Maryland,
West Virginia. Virginia. North Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Kentucky and some
other states. They have had a pow
WOW at the White House with Mr..
Taft and are telling It around town
that IL they do not get q duty upon
coal, iron ore and some other articles,
and retain the $3.50 rate fixed on lun-
her by the Senate. there Is going to
be trouble In their districts. and that
democrats win capture most OF them
Al the next Congressional election.
TaM for Free Raw Material.