Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-06-27
Arkansas Senator Says Re publicans Have Exhibited
 Mailed Hand, Cloven Hoof
WAS CHARACTERISTIC
Found General Fault With Measure as Tax On the PeOple-De-
 iends Mir. Bryan.

1 Washington, June 26-Couched iu char acterstic language, address was de- livered in the Senate today by Senator Davis of Arkansas, in opposition to the pending tariff bill.
 Senator Davis found general fault with the measure as a tax on the people, as Il discrimination in favor of of certain in .terests and as promoter of trusts.
 REPUBLICANS LNSINCERE.
 Contending that the Republican party had failed to keep It's promise to lower the tariff. he said if that party had pos Sessed the manhood to state boldly that it intended to increase the tariff, the places that know them today would have known them no longer forevr and tAcy would have been a hiss and byword in the land, their destruction inevitable" 1 He dwelt at some length on the motives of the members of the party which were to still further swell their already col OssaI fortunes and to take from the poor man the last vestige of Hope. and from their helpless families their means and sustcannce.
 STILL. NOT WITHOUT HOPE 1 Still. he was not without hope because he believed the American were awakened to 4 realiza tion that the promises of the Republican party were nothing more than broken reeds and smoking flax He con- tinued:
 They are turning their faces in hope fulness and glad acclaim to the great arisen, which is gathering in strength and volume, led by the insurgent Re- publican forces in this body. that aSures | f T, inn of hnui bon element, that old dominant party planted by Hamilton, in which there yet rcposes the spirit of kings and the belief that one crowd was created to be ridden ana booted and spurred by the master, and that when they cull for bread they should be given a stone, and when their children cry for Il fish they should be given serpent.
 ..rheSc insurgents ST. catching the Spirit of freedom and independence. catching the spirit of the democracy and catching the the spirit of the eternal brotherhood of man, have before them great possibilities and in their ultimate success and helpfulness to the people. de bends much of the future happiness of this republic.
 Why do the Republican leaders on 
 nurnosen, asked the senator from Ark anSaS.
 MAILED HAND AND CLOVEN HOOP.
 Why do they exhibit thelr maaeo h'"" in this tranSaction:
 Answering his own question, Mr. DAVIS said
 sThey are drunk upon power, upon !, temporary glory, upon passing success They feel that these protected houstries whose 'slush fund and whose oioou money has kept them in power TOT the last quarter century, possess no" Suci' omnipotent power that their hold on 'he throats of the pedple can not be ioosehe'' and their power to further rob them can not be destroyed.
 PRODUCT OF ALDRICH.
 Declaring that the tariff bill vir tually the product of Senator Aldrlch, and asserting that Mir. Aldrich has been elected to the Senate by legislature } chosen by II per cent of the votes Of the small state of Rhode Island, MT. Davis , contended that the senatorial supporters of the bill had shown great subserviencH to MT. Aldrich. Indirectly, Mr. Davis criticised Democrats who had declared ; their lack of allegiance to the Democra- tie platform, which he said. he was Will ing to swallow from .eend tieend ane from 'kiver to kiver.
 DEFENDED MIR. BRYAN,
 Mr. Davis defended Mir. Bryan as the reunited author of the Democratic plat form. Even though Mir Bryan might not ha nresidcnt Mir Davis expressed the l hone that he would .'nevcr circumscrlpe the field of his usefulness. the field or his eternal greatness, by accepting seat in the Senate of the United steates'
 ."rhe field is too sman.' said Senator Davis .Its powers of usefulness would Inc too circumscribed, and pitiable spec tocle he would present indeed, were ne here today bound and gagged, as are tue } hepless minority, to the auticratie VIII . of the senior senator from Rhode Island.
 DAVIS INTERRUPTED STONE. When the consideration of the tarhi lbill was resumed in the Senate toaas tue pending question was the amendment oi' ferel yeserday by Senator Bacon piae'hs agricultural implements on the 1fee i's'
 Senator Stone of Missouri Immediately took the floor to continue his speecu which he had begun yesterday, in WHICH he referred to the testimony taken es 'he attorney general of Missouri In the p'ose- : eution of the international itarNes'e' f Company as a trust. He aSser'eo 'n'', q nnmher of companies had been merged together to constitute this trust anu 'e, :, clared it was conducting So percent oi athe business of the country In supPNi's t agricultural implements, and coh'ehoco . that if is n trust and a monoply, notW'u' standing the denial of Aldrlch. soon "'- ter Senator Stone began his speech ne was interrupted by Senator 9e1t na''s o' Arkansas with statement that the oo".. pany had been driven out or ms s'"'e oi legal proceedings under the s'"'e anu l....x.s la