The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-02

less they are to bolt the Republican
organization. They have simply been
"sewed up" Carter, Warren. Clark.
Smoot and others are such stfckiers
for party regularity that they are COM
PEELED to swallow the dose that has
been handed out to them. They could.
OF course. make no end OF trouble by
talking the bill TO death ana prevent
Ing the adoption of the conference re-
port in the Senate. but II 10 hardly
probable they will play any such tao
tics.
Senator Aldrich and his close assoc
ciates made q monkey out Of Sena-
tor Bradley, (Ky.) For the benefit Of
those who may not know II. Mr.. Brad
ley took his seat in the Senate only on
March 4, last. He's green and raw
compared with some OF the others who
have been fooled by the tactfui Rhode
Island statesman. Some years ago, MT.
Bradley wore out cruel fate and was
elected Governor OF the Blue Grass
state when the Democrats were not
looking. Then he managed to slip IN
to the United States Senate. even
though the Republicans were short OF
a majority in the Kentucky Lesisia-
ture Some of the Democrats declined
to support Governor Beckham. who had
secured the Democratic nomination at
the party primary for United States
Senator. They ended the deadlock by
casting their votes for Bradley and do
| feating Beckham.
bradley Gets Thinss.
Senator Bradley was perInitteo py
Mr. Aldrich to get through a number OF
amendments to the tariff bill that
| caused favored interests out In Ken
lucky to throw up their mats ana
shout for the new man. who was apie
| TO accomplish SO much. The news was
sent out that Bradley, by captivating
l4W.
| through an amendment placing duty
| on tute and jute butts. and that this
would greatly help the hemp interests
! Of Kentucky. Then Bradley. without
even making a speech, or being COM
PEELED TO ask for roll call, secured an
other amendment that actually doubled
| the duty on hemp. The hemp growers
and dealers from old Kentucky who
had been lowering around Washington
were In high glee. They talked as II
their industry was going to get boom
which would in a few years result In
| the production of nearly 100000 tons
| in the United States, and the bulk OF II
would be grown in their state, as was
the case some years ago.
But Senator Aldrich knew all ne
| time Just what he and the other Re-
publican managers were going TO 90
with Bradley's hemp and tute amend.
| ments. a They were going to be hxed IN
conference, Just as the manufacturers
| dsman ded. or nearly so. and that Is
precisely what was done. Jute and jute
butts went back on the free list as
originally provided in the Payne bill as
| II passed the House. A small increase
on hemp was allowed by the conferees
| This Is on hemp after 1t leaves the
| grower and Is hacked by the dealer 10
| be sold to the manufacturer. American
hemp IL the finest grown anywhere. 1t
| is worked in with lutte and even COM
moner fibers to strengthen the Irvine
or baRging or whatever 1t is used for.
| n the Kentucky growers could keep
out the India 1ute they would have a
great monopoly and that is what they
have been striving for, but they missed
their calculation.
AIdrich FOOLED Them.
To be entirely fair Senator Bradley
| wasn't much worse fooled than was the
average Democratic Senator. Senator
| Aldrich also bamboozled the Senators
from the South when he smilingly per-
mitted cotton baggins TO go on me
| free list Mr.. Tillman and others had
| threatened to talk a week or more on
| cotton bagging and cotton ties. and the
| Rhode Island statesman just came to
| the conclusion that possibly he could
| fool the Southern Senators about as
| easily as he did Mr.. Bradley. And he
| certainly succeeded. He made no re-
1
ging. That was cute trick. 1t shut
| of debate. Then Mr.. Aldrich mingled
around among the Southern Senators
| and chatted with them about how glad
he was that cotton bagging had been
| placed on the free list He said the
| farmers OF the great West had free
| grain sacks. and he thought 1t only fair
| and Just for the splendid people down
| in the land of Dixie to have free cot
| ton bagging. Was not King Cotton de-
| serving of this tribute? How could
our gold reserve be maintained IL 1t
were not for the cotton the South sold
| 10 foreign countries? And where
would the balance of trade be II cotton
did not enter into the calculation? And
Senator Aldrich talked so sweetly and
| promised so much that the average
Southern Senator began to think that
he really was not so bad as he had been
painted, especially as he made the i'm
preston that he would fight to the Bit
ter end in conference for free cotton
bagging. However, after the conferees
had been wrestling a couple of weeks
and Southern Senators began to inquire
about the bagging item Mr.. Aldrich
commenced to express the fear that he
could not save IL for the South. Sem
ators from that section made the mis-
take OF not exacting a substantial
promise from the Republican managers
OF the Senate that they would surely
get this concession. They could have
done 1t IL they had shown more back
bone
"HoOdooed" ON Hides.
Senator Bradley. OF Kentucky, also
was badly "hoodooed" on the hides
question. There was an overwhelming
demand from Kentucky that he vote
TOR free hides, but he considered the
matter long and hnally concluded that
as he was such q thuhoering protec-
ZIONIST he'd have TO be consistent and
vote to place q duty on them. Now he
wishes he haGn't after he sees how he
has been played"
And Mr.. Aldrich also fingered" him
on the amendment giving the growers
OF tobacco the right to sell the lear
without having to pay tax. Bradley
wanted them to have the privilege OF
selling ten pounds without the tax or
being put to the trouble of keeping
books. Aldrich cut the limit to two
pounds and above that they will have
to report to the revenue officers as
usual. This is a ridiculous farce. But
Aldrich did double the duty on fuor-
spar for Bradley, a thing not one man
in q thousand ever heard of and not
one in a hundred thousand cares rap
about That's about all .jradley has to
brag of outside OF the little increase
secured for hemp.
A number of Southern Senators glee-
fully figured what a saying free bag
gIng would be to the cotton planters.
Well, they are left again. The farm
ers OF the West gel tree grain sacks