The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-11-11
TURNING THE LIGHT ON uNFuL-
FILLED PROMISES.

Even II the practice Is not very
commendable one. il must be admitted
that the average individual expert
ences no small degree Of satisfaction
in saying. 4 told you So"
Democrats who fling this taunt al
the folks who were deceived by Re
publican tariff promis in the last
campaign win therefore be pardoned
for their Indulgence In human weak
ness mat is common.
That we have abundant grounds for
such remark is not now open to
doubt. We told the voters that the
loud promises contained in the Repub-
lican platform were no more than a
sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal,
intended for no other purpose than to
bamboozle the unwary, and the rue
fion that has arisen among the the
insurgents and the stand-patters in the
G. 0. p ranls has brough- laore than
sufficient testimony to substantiate
our charge. A family row always
brings out important revelations and
the present instance IS no exception.
Knowing that tariff revision was de-
manded by the country and that fail
ure to take cognizance Of the demand
would result in the loss Of thousands
of votes in every state in the West
and Middle West the Republican plat
form makers wrote tariff plank that
sounded mighty good. It was intended
20 convey the impression that we we're
to have the real article in the way OF
revision and Mr.. Taft and the rest of
the campaign orators continually so
interpreted 1t.
Did they do it? Mr.. Taft, who has
also characterized Senator Aldrich as
an irreproachable patriot-since the
election says they did, declaring the
Payne-AIdrich law the finest piece of
tariff legislation ever enacted, but hear
what Senator Cummins said a few
days ago:
To say that the tariff bill just
adopted is not fuIfillment of the Re-
publican platform is only the truth.
Here we have testimony from an
authority that cannot be questioned.
1t was not Democrat who made this
statement, not even mugwump, but
one OF the most gifted and distinguish
ed men in the Republican party, a man
who has been signaiiy honored by a
state that has cast its electoral vote
for a Republican president for fifty
three years Surely we can accept his
testimony as to what his own party
has done. If cofroborative testimony
were desired, we might quote dozen
or more other zen equally high in the
counsels of the G. o. P. OF course,
they happen to be statesmen who are
classified in the insurgent bunch, men
who don't work in cahootz with the
organization through which the "sys-
tenn utilities the Republican party as
an instrument for the furtherance of
its own selfish interests at the expense
OF the country at large, but for that
very reason their testimony is all the
more valuable. Cummins. Beveridge,
LaFollette and others are speaking out
in meetin' and they are saying things
that are really enlightening as coming
from Republican source.
1t may be observed also that SEN
ator cummins in his speech before the
Marquette Club in Chicago, told us
that in spite of the much-praised Elk
ins act, "the most important phase of
the regulation Of railway rates is in
hopeless confusion And deponent
further saith that the so-called anti
trust law is miserable failure" And
thereby this excellent authority dis
poses OF two more pieces OF legislation
which Republican platform makers
have been wont to view with pride =
Told you SO again., and then again.
Verify, the pretenslons Of this gay old
deceiver, the G. O. P, are being un-
masked, and that, too, by a Republi-
can hand.
In the light OF all these well estab-
lished facts; what reason has the coun-
try to expect anything in the way of
real reform-tariff revision, trust con-
troll, or anything else-from the party
that Is now in the saddle? Pretense
and promises we may confidently ex-
pect. but as in the past, performance.
none.