The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-11

and are complaining loudly of the high cost of the necessarfes of life. All the explaining of President Taft. the members of his cabinet and Re- publican senators and representatives who voted to put this measure on the statute books. has not appeased ap- parently the wrath of the people. Sem ators Deliver. Cummins, La Toilette. Nelson. Clapp, Beveridge and Bristow. the seven Republicans who declined to vote for the bill. have been indorsed enthusias tically for the stand they took, and the news from Minnesota Is that Representative Tawney. the on- ly Republican from this state who voted for the bill in the House. Is go- Ing to have the greatest difficulty in securing a re-nomination next year. and if he gets the nomination the chances are he will be badly showed under at the polls when the election occurs.
 It Is a we'll known fact that even the Republicans of Minnesota are In favor of low tariff-just as low as possible in order to produce sufficient revenue to run the government. Only a small percentage of the Republicans In the state are for high protective duties. This was the case as far back as the time when Senator Nelson was a member of the House from Minne- sota. He and John Lind and another representative named Strait acted right along with the Democrats on tariff matters in the House. Nelson and Lind both became governors of Minnesota after they quit the House. The demand for lower tariff taxes Is reported to be growing stronger and stronger in the West
 Long Dodges Questions.
 Ex-Senator Chester I. Long, of Kan sas. has been here for several days. He was beaten for the Senate by James L. Bristow. who made so many rasping speeches during the recent extra session in which he scored the Aldrich policy unmercifully and de- clined to support what he denounced as a vicious, sectional and unjust tar If bill Long, since his arrival, was asked the point blank question if the new tariff law was satisfactory to the West. He wriggled considerably and evaded direct answer by saying that 1t would be eventually. or as soon as the people out that way understood 1t better This was construed in Washington to be an admission that thunder is to pay. and Long and those of his faction in the Republican party of Kansas hardly know what to expect when the voters have another chance at them. Curtis. the other Republican senator from Kansas, stood firmly by Aldrich in the recent struggle. The talk is he wishes he had rebelled for his reelection will soon be at stake.
 We'll posted men of both parties who arrive here practically concede that things are so shaping themselves that the Ia riff Ia ta 1ikalxz fo ha bxa issue in the presidential election of 1912 unless something sen- sational in the United States should develop in the meantime or interna- tional complications arise.
 Most of the Democrats who come to the city are quite certain that at the elections next year the tariff Is going to be the issue so far as they are concerned, and on that is- sue they are chiefly relying to give them gains sufficient to control the House of Representatives in the Six ty-second Congress.
 The new law does not give satisfac- tion in some of the New England states to the extent the Republican had counted upon. according to the news from that section within wek. That prominent brother of Con- gressman Foss, of Chicago, who has been making a stir up in Boston has cut loose from the Republicans be- cause he cannot stand the extortions of the Payne bili and has announced that he will act with the Democrats until this mighty question Is settled.
 The Boston Foss so disgusted with the new law, Is a man of wealth and influence. The Chicago Foss is and has been for several terms chairman of the house committee on naval af- fairs, and is a staunch Cannon suppor- ter.
 These are straws which show which way the political winds are now blow Ing.