The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-24
Senator Does Not Propose to Be Read Out of Repubi- can Party by President LOCKS HORNS
 ON THE TARIFF Defends Views of Insurgents in Fight Made on Payne
 Aldrich Bill
Ready to Go Before People and Let Them Decide Is-
 sue With President
fspecia1 from Unted Press.)

NoRSSAe@A NSS'/
 Madison. Wis. Sept. 24.-United
 States Senator La Toilette does not
 propose to be read out of the Republi-
 can party by President Taft or any
 other man. This is his reply to the
 Presidents Winona speech on the
 tariff in which MT. Taft scored the
 Republican fnsurgents''. for their ac-
 ton on the Payne-Aldrich bill. The
 reply is contained in the leading edi-
 torial in this weeks issue of HaFol- lette's Weekly Magazine and is sum- med up in the following words:
 ''The statement of the President is featured in the press of the country as an attempt to read out of the party those Republican Senators and Repre- sentatives who voted against the tariff bill. That cannot be done. No in dividual has the power to read a rep resentative out of his party. That power rests solely with the voters who selected him as their party repre- sentative. Nor can even the President of the United States decide for the American people whether or. not the tariff law is genuine or counterfeit. He cannot decide that even for the Republican party. The people have the divine right of deciding that question for themselves. They will do so in
 
 upon the facts" < The editorial refers to President Taft's statement when he signed the tariff bill. that it was "a sincere effort to make a downward revision and to comply with the premises Of the plat
 The editorial adds: 'The Presidents second declaration was made in his speech at Winona. It is stronger than his first. He declares the law is more 41, E~nc~ ( f-.1a <>f the promises of downward revision. < The President comes with this declaration to the support of Con- gresSman Tawney who has been not. notoriously opposed to down. ward revision-Tawney who stood pat He comes to the support of Tawney and those like him when this was, in accordance with the promises of the Republican party, impossible.'
 The editorial then refers to the analysis of the tariff charges and adds: '"TEis analysis purports to measure the importance of tariff changes by the consumption value of the com modities affected. Ttis was done to make answer to the compilations of the Bureau of Statistics of the Depart the tariff increase * Nobody then or since has come forward to claim credit for this analysis which MT. Payne caused to be printed in the The OaCa on WHICH It was based has never been disclosed. <. The President is reported to have said: Tn matters of this kind it is a ques- tion with the party representative whether he shall be maintained in the party solely for accomplishing it's chief purpose or whether the depart nre from principle in the bill. as he it. is so extreme that he must Tn conscience abandon the party
 , '@There, can be no chief purpose of ] rolitical party higher than the pur- pose of redeeming it's promises to the people. A representative is no wise compelled to accept the alternative of abandoning principle or abandoning 1is party. Enphatically not when the principle is one that has been accepted oy the party as the basis of its appeal for votes. That appeal when accom- olished by the voters in good faith becomes binding upon the party rep obligation higher than he mere demands of party solidarity"