The daily sentinel., 1909-05-14
HOW CAT D0LLIvER
PLAYED WITH THE MousE
An Intensely Interesting and ANUS
ing Account in a Des Moines
Paper of DoIIiver's Great
Speech.


/. ioIt when Senator Dolliver. in =
j. great speech against Aldrlch =
Z. and the infamous tariff blll, =
:. stood shoulder to shoulder with
+ Cummins; and now they are Y
=. saving well. we never =
i. thought so awful much of Dolli- :.
; yer. after all.
+ One of the richest things we
!. have read in a long time is the =
i. account of the Dolliver attack
!. on the tariff bill and Aldrich, =
/ written for the Des Moines +
!. Daily News by that brilliant .
j. Washington correspondent, Gil =
J. son Gardner. 1t is certainly =
i. worth reproduction. In part it :
1. reads as follows:
1. + + j. i. + + i : = =
For the first time in the thirty
years | have lived in Washington
and followed the doingS of congress,
l have seen genuine revolt against
the domination of Nelson w. Aid
rich
This comment by an old resident of
the Capital was called forth by the
recent speech of Senator Jonathan
Dolliver of Iowa.
Nothing like it has been seen in
the senate since the days of ingalls,.
Nothing to equal its sarcasm and
probably nothing as daring. Nothing
which so reveals a genuine personal
antagonism, based on reasons which
can only be surmised, carried to the
point of an open rupture between
mem bers of the same brand of tariff
partisanship.
Without mercy and without fear
Senator Dolliver raised a strong hand
against the suave and powerful lead
er of the senate. He gripped him, as
it were, by the scruff of his neck and
shook him until every tooth in his
head ratified in its place. He set him
down and let him start to walk away;
then he picked him up and gave him
another shake. He cuffed him, toss
ed him, nipped him, played with him,
scratched him lightly. scratched him
deeply. He poked him to see whether
there were signs of life. Then he bit
him through the spinal column
Thus the cat Dolliver with Aldrich
the mouse.
Senator Dolliver talked tariff.
What he said sounded sensational be-
cause he spoke the truth. He told
how lobbyists and special interests
had written tariffs in the past, and
how they were writing them today.
Only he named names and handed
out figures. He exposed the present
bill as revision upward and again he
handed out the facts and figures He
denounced the whole thing as a fraud
and imposition on the people and to
this denunciation he added force and
the eloquence of man long trained
in public speaking. He exposed the
leadership of Aldrich as trifling and
paltry; and the sensation lay in the
fact that Nelson w. AIdrich sat and
had to listen. He told of tricks and
subterfuges in the past and present
legislation, and the galleries looked
down and saw in MIR. Aldrich the au-
thor of these tricks. He drew on his
tory and parable. He was both yehe-
ment and caustic. At times he was
personal and then again almost play
full. On the whole he made a speech
most daringly antagonistic than any
thing which has come from the party
of the opposition.
Cold words in type give but a small
idea of the speech of Senator Dolliver
Yet the touch of vitrol may be seen
in passage like the following:
All men bow naturally before the
Divine wisdom even when they do
not understand. All men regard with
reverence the wisdom of Solomon. or
Franklin. or Lincoln. But it is an
other matter for men full grown, sit
ting in this chamber, to put their in
dividual judgment into servitude not
to the great and good men who adorn
the deliberations of congress, but the
person on the outside whose very
names are unknown to us. 1t is NOT
necessary to comment harshly upon
the work of Governor Dingley or Vim
Mckinley. Much less is it necessary
70 appear wanting in consideration
Tor my honored friend from Rhode
Island"
With this gentle introduction Sem
ator Doliiver proceeded to expose the
action OF the committee on finance
ana It's chairman in turning over the
construction of the cotton schedule
10 the appraisers in New York. with
TINS and the trick by which Senator
Alurich aimed secretly to increase the
cotton schedule the public are fa-
miliar. Ia
Speaking of the wool schedule
senator Doiliver said; What | ask
To-Day OF party leaders is to take ne
pack, not to 1893. when MCKINLEY in
despair turned the making of the
WOOL tarlff over to a mass meeting of
us peneficiaries; not to 1897. whom
GOV Dlngley's avowed purpose to ra-
duce the Mckinley rates was vetoad
oy threats and clamor of outside in
terests, but to 1883, when the sena-
lor from Rhode Island labored month
., 1tler month, day and night, with
VIM. b. Allison, in the preparation
OF the only schedule of wool and
wooiens in forty years in which eth
er me public interest or the welfare
OF the republican party was made
paaramount paI,.' over sordid private con-
-. senator DolliTer said he wantad
70 see an end to the scandal that ba.
aeeom !sl panied the framing of eyery
&,nar,, ALL oili, and that has corrupted
enterprises mere adjuncts to nolit,sa, 5iea,
agitation" ~ p"iitlcal
In delivering his sneenh son....-