The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-05-14
Is There A Democratic Party !?
(From Collier

10 GueI6 d DGIuOCLdCiC party Anu
il there is, who will set down the body
of common principles behind which a
majority Of its members are willing to
unite? On this page there has already
been printed a list OF twenty-three
Democrats VINO broke away from their
party and voted with sthe Republicans
in the fight on the rules when the
House was organized. There has been
printed, also, list of thirty-eight
Democrats who voted for a tariff on
lumber, although the Democratic ma
tional platform calls for free lumber.
Below is a printed list of twenty-nine
Democrats who-the Republicans hav-
ing put hides on the free list of the
Payne bill-voted in favor of an
amendment to put duty of ten per
cent. on hides. Together, these three
groups make more than majority of
all the Democrats in Congress. Those
who voted to put duty on hides are:
From Texas: Morris Sheppard, of
Texarkana, Martin Dies. of Beaumont.
Choice Boswell RandeH, of Sherman.
Jack Beall, of Waxahachie, Rufus
Hardy, of Corsicana, Alexander White
Gregg, of Palestine, John Matthew
Moore, of Richmond, George Farmer
Burgess, of Gonzales, Robert Lee Hen
ry, of Waco, John Hall Stevens, of
Vernon, James L. SIayden, of San An
tonic, John Nance Garner. of Uvalde,
William Robert Smith, of Colorado,
Albert Sidney Burleson, of Austin.
From Louisiana: Robert F. Brous-
sard, of New Iberia, Arsene Paulin
Pujo, of Lake Charles.
From Missouri: William Patterson
Borland. of Kansas City, Courtney
Walker Hamlin, of Springfield.
From Colorado: Edward Thomas
Taylor, of Glenwood Springs, Atterson
Walden Rucker, of Fort Logan, John
A. Martin, of Pueblo.
From Alabama: George Washing
ton Taylor, of Demopolis. John Law
son Burnett, of Gadsden.
I From Indiana: William Elijah Cox,
Of Jasper, John A. NJ. Adair. of Port
land.
From Nevada: George A. Bartlett,
of Tonopa.
From Tennessee: George Washing
ton Gordon, of Memphis.
From Georgia: William Gordon
BrantIey, of Brunswick.
From Illinois: James Thomas Nc
Dermott, of Chicago.
The position Of a Democrat who has
an industry in his own district that
clamors for protection is difficult.
When William Jennings Bryan was in
Congress it was proposed to put duty
on beet sugar. This dialogue occurs
in the Congressional Record for 1892
"Mr Perkins: Are you to be under
stood as opposed to State or National
protection to be extended to the beet
sugar industry?
"Mr. Bryan: / am, most assuredIy.
Cloud the applause on the Democratic
side.) And when it is. necessary to
come down TO Congress and ask for a
protection or a bounty for an Industry
in my own State, l shall cease to rep
resent Nebraska in Congress. Great
applause on the Democratic side.)
Champ Clark in the present Con
gress, has taken the same point of
view. He was put in a difficult posi-
ton by the demand, on the part of his
constituents, for tariff on zinc. Clark
was outspoken:
81 want to repeat, and we might as
well settle it and be through with it, |
am not going to help any man plumber
the American people because he hap
pens to live in Missouri 1 will go out
of public life before do it.
If Mr.. Clark and Mr.. Bryan are
right, these twenty-nine Democrats