Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02
CANNON REPL|EsT0
SENATORCUMM|NS
Vigorous Address by Speaker in
Kansas City.
1tNSURGENTS" ARE PR0DDEO
uncie Joe Asserts That They Were
lnsinccre in Their Fight Against
the Passage of the Payne
Tariff Bill.
,HNsuRGENTS" ARE PRODDEO

Kansas Oity. Mo-. Nov. 27.-Speak-
er Cannon last night stood up before
Che members Of the Knife and Fork
Cub and their guests and delivered
his reply to the attack made on him
eBd his methods made recently in
Chicago by Senator Cummins of
iowa Uncle Joe's speech had been
eagerly anticipated and in its Wig
ofous defense of the Republican ma
jority in congress and its lively prod
ding of the Insurgents" it did not
dlsappotnt his auditors.
After reviewing the wonderful ma
6Tiai progress of the country since
end the progressive legislation Of the
last IL years, ME- Cannon dwelt at
length on the necessity for greatly In
creased resa1ues to meet the ex-
peEditures required by the great pol
(cies upon which the government has
entered. The new tariff law, he said,
would protect our industries and pro-
woe CnlS revenue.
insurgents as Aeltators.
. Coming then to the insurgents"
the speaker continued:
: Nov. gentlemen, there is only one
Ching that can halt this confident
move forward to give the country
another era of prosperity such as we
had from 1897 to 1907, and that is
egitation for the mere purpose Of ag-
ttation. without any well-conceiVed
healthy purpose in view.
''The senators and representatives
who call themselves insurgents and
WHO voted against the enactment Of
the Payne bill, voted to increase or
maintain the duties On the industries
aud products Of their own states and
SECTIONS. They were proteCtionists
Cor their own people, but they were
opposed to protection for other peO-
pie Ia other sections,
Their Sincerity impugned.
Senator La Toilette did not vote
60 increase the duties on lead and
zinc but he defended the finance
oommittee's schedules on those pro-
ducts la speeches, saying they were
mol high enough, explaining, however,
that he could not vote on the ques-
tion because he said he had a person.
ai pecuniary interest In the outcome.
Senators La Toilette and BristoW
and the other insurgents voted to in
crease the duty or barley and barley
malt for the reason that their constit-
aents produced barley. In other
words, these gentlemen who call
themselves insurgents voted with
Che Republicans on schedules that
protected the products of their con.
6tituents and with the Democrats on
schedules that protected the products
OF other sections OF the country. That
was eheir right, but when they voted
with the Democrats against the final
enactment Of the bill they voted to
maintain the old schedules of the
Dingley law, and were not support
ing the pledge of the Republican plat
form or the pledges made by Presi
dent Taft.
Majority Accepted Compromises.
There was not one member of the
Republican majority who secured In
Che bill as enacted all that he had
contended for. President Taft, Sera
Tor Aldrich and myself all accepted
more compromises than the so-called
Insurgents were asked to accept. In
Illinois we wanted free lumber, and
my constituents wanted a duty on pc
troleum because they have the great
est independent oil producing district
In the world. We were beaten, but
We did not make our own interests
the only Interpretation of the Repub
lican pledge to revise the tariff.
Read Themselves Out Of Party.
sS'Senator Cummins complains that
have read him out of the Republic
can party. Other sensitive gentle
men made the same complaint against
President Taft. The senator does me
TOO much honor. have not the au
thority to read any man out, nor have
q the disposition, think | may say
the same of the president. have beer
member Of the Republican party
since 1t was organized, and l have
pever known Of any man or grouJ
OF men being read out of any part!
except by themselves.
1.-THE senator, think, aplty recall
ed the story of the three tailors O
Tooley street who met and prepare
the preamble. we, the people of Eng
land That Is good illustration n
the ego that often dominates the IN;
nority everywhere, in town meetings
state legislatures, federal congresses
In churches and in every place wher
men must cooperate. The tailors O
Tooiey street are ever with US, an
when they cannot be We, the people
In action as we'll as in the preamble
they take 1t cut In resolving and dc
claiming.
Al Example for Cummins.
There was one gigantic struggl
In the Republican party which
memorable as the greatest conve ntio
OF strong and manly men that ha
ever been known In this country Tina
was the national Republican CONVEX
don OF 1880. when the followers {
the Silent Soldier of the Appomatto
colfax Victim Of Football.
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