Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-11-08
CUMMINS CANNON
INSURGENT SENATOR REPLIES TO
AU70CRAT OF UNITED STATES.
Says fhe Speaker Holds no MOnOpoiy
on RepubiiCaniSm. DenounCeS The
Tariff Bill, and insists that Mem-
berS Of Party Could not Consist
emily Support fhe Measure.

CHICAGO, Nov. 7-Senator Cum
Minis, of Iowa, in an address before
the Marquette Club last night, made
a spirited reply to Speaker Joseph
G. Cannon, who recently criticised
the attitude of the senator and lin
surgents' as to the tariff and de-
clared that Senator Cummins and his
allies practically proposel to join
hands with Bryan.
Mr.. Cummins branded the latter
assestion as false, declaring it to be
simply an appeal to blind passion
and senseless prejudice.'
Furthermore, he said, there was
no intention to accept as final the
revision of the tariff against which
the ''insurgents' voted.
Il marvel at not only the audacity
but the madness which inspires the
attack which has been made upon
the insurgents, for if Mr. Cannon
and his allies shall be successful in
putting every man out Of the Repub-
lican party who would not have vot-
ed for the tariff bill had he been
member of congress, he will have
eliminated a majority of the Repub-
licans in every Northern state from
Ohio to the Rocky mountains de-
clared Senator Cummins.
Tariff Doesn't Fill Promise
Further along the speaker said:
'To say that the tariff bill just adopt
ed is not a fulfillment of the Repub-
lican platform is only the truth and
it contains no invitation or sugges-
ton to any Republican to forsake
his party candidate
Mr.. Cummins said that the Repub-
licans in sympathy with the insur-
gents intended to reduce the influ-
ence of leaders in the party, mention
ing Senator Aldrich, Speaker Can
non and Representative Payne IN
this connection, to that point at
which they feel it necessary to con-
suit rather than command.
Our struggle" he declared with
emphasis, twill not be to exclude
ANYBODY from the Republican party;
but upon the principle involved. we
ask no quarter and shall give none.
81 ame astounded to hear so mo-
dest a man as the speaker OF the
house claim that the leaders who
constructed the tariff bill and the
ma iority which passed it, constitute
the Republican party.
Ridicules Party High Priest
81 understand perfectly that II
would have been helpful to party
harmony if we could have voted to-
gether; but that is not the question:
The platform was for protection. All
O.
lection: but the view of these hlgh
priests appears to be that IL tney
thought that upon any given artlcle
protection required so per cent, anu
we thought the article would be am
ply protected with 25 per cent, un-
less we voted so, we were no longer
Republicans. The whole proposition
is so absurd that even the most raplu
member of the triumvirate Will not
repeat it often.
"There need be no concern about
the attitude of the insurgents ana
their friends. They will do their
best to nominate candidates VINO be-
lieve in progressive Republican
marty. When they succeed, they Will
rejoice. because a step will have been
taken in the path of reform. When
tbev fail, they will be Republicans
still. for if there ever was a time
when there was absolutely no rea-
son for transferring any branch OF
the government to Democratic hands,
this is the time
Demands Tariff Commission
Senator Cummins said ne hau
never advocated a general revision
of the tariff. and never would. Ihe
crusade" he said. which | intend
to strengthen with all my power Is
crusade for a tariff commisslon-a
permanent, dignified and independ-
emf tariff commission; tariff COM
mission that will gather together the
facts as to cost of production and lay
them before congress and the coun-
try. n,,,
"There are millions of Republic
cans who believe that tarln duties
should not substantially exceed the
difference between the cost or pro-
with a fair profit added. | believe
they constitute large majority or
tbe party; but if they do not, they
will in the near future.
"There are some very good men
who think that we have comple'eu
all that ought to be done in the way
of regulation of railways and other
common carriers To me 1t seems
absurd to attempt to regulate the
rates of common carriers until IL IS
determined upon what capital the
railway companies can lawfully de-
mand a reward. 1t is at this point
that congress has been unjust to the
railways. 1t is plain that one of the
first things we ought to do as gov
ernment is to fix a basis upon which
carriers may earn interest and divi-
dends."
Anti Trust Law Weak
Mr.. Cummins said that the social
ed antitrust laws, which is the only