The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-08
ANTHONY OPENS.
First District Congressman Be-
gins Campaign at Perry.
Declares That the Tariff Is Real
Issue.
RESPECTS TO M'NEAL.
Calls Him to Account For Alleg-
ed Misstatements.
Points With Pride to Record of
Last Congress.
RESPECTS TO M'NEAL.

Perry. Kan, July S.-Congressman ID.
r. Anthony, jr., opened his campaign
for denomination at a public meeting
here last night. Although Perry is
small town in the Kaw valley in the
southern edge of jefferson county there
was a good sized crowd out to hear
what Mr.. Anthony had to say. He
made no apology for the Payne tariff
law or the administration of President
Taft but unhesitatingly endorsed both.
He said that the principal charge
against him in this campaign was that
he was guilty of being a Republican
and he answered it by saying that
never in his life was he prouder OF De-
ing a Republican than at the present
time. He said he had always mad the
highest respect and tolerance for those
who truly believed in the principles OF
the Democratic party or OF any otneT
political organization founded on nom
est opinion, but for the man VINO pre-
tended to be a Republican or Demo-
Graf and who for the sake of selfish
interest put in his time misrepresent-
ing the policies and actions OF his
party stabbing it in the back ana de-
flaming its leaders, even to the presl-
dent of the nation, he had nothing but
contempt.
Tariff the Issue.
CONGRESSMAN Anthony stated that
the main issue in the First dlstrlct
campaign was the tariff and in answer
to the charge of the enemies OF the Re
publican party that the tariff had not
been revised in accordance with the
platform pledge of the party ne sa1a
that any man, whether he De Onltea
states senator. governor, congressman
or merely a political partisan, the edi-
tor of an uplift or undertaking maya
zine or newspaper, who deliberately
stated that the last tariff law was not,
generally speaking, downward re-
vision of the tariff was either ienoTan ~
of the facts or guilty of utterlng that
which was not so with intent 10 oe-
ceive the people in the hope, which all
demaRogues have, of reaping temper
arv popularity and profit by sucn de-
ception. roe+
as a great big hearted, intensely nu-
man president He said the record OF
fhe nresent congress, starting unoer d
storm of criticism from the oelIla-
eo1ues and the dishonest upI1t news
DaDers and magazines, had been COM
nIeted at the end of it's first session oy
the enactment of some of the greatest
reform legislation ever placed on tne
statute books ..,u,d
Anthony described the new railroad
bin as a triumph of the demands Whlcn
have been made by the people that the
government assume the task of making
the railroads of this country do pusl-
ness on an honest basis.
He showed the audience what
mo vote meant against the hnal pas
SAGE of the Payne tariff bill; that any
,,oernber of congress who voted NO
voted against the 60 per cent reduc-
fion of the duty on iron ore, against
the reduction of so per cent on steel
rails, against the reduction OF 50 rs per
cent on manufactures of iron ana
steel against so per cent reduction on
shoes. against free oil, against free
trade with the Philippines, against
maximum and minimum tariff, against
the CORPORATION tax, against the tariff
commission to investigate the differ
ence in the cost of production at home
and abroad. and against the REDUCTION
on nearly all necessities and the in
creases on many Injuries.
Anthony stated that if he had voted
against the Payne tariff bill as a few
narrow contracted members of the
party did who claim to be Republicans.
he would be ashamed to come back
home and face those whose votes
elected him; and that If few of the
1000 schedules in the Payne bill We're
wrong 90 per cent of them we're right
and those that were wrong would DE
corrected by the next congress with the
information and advice furnished by
Taft's tariff commission.
Protection and Prosperity.
Mr. Anthony dwelt at length on the
prosperity which has come to the
farmer through the development of
the great domestic market in this
country by reason of the protective
tariff system. which has been in force
for nearly fifty years. He showed
that 921 per cent of the products of
the farm were sold in our own mar
ket and purchased largely by the
wage earners of this country who. by
reason of the American system of pro-
tective tariff. receive double and triple
the wages paid in free-trade England
and in other foreign countries and he
showed that Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, had made a report to the la
Dor organizations in this country
that these facts were substantially
true. Mr.. Anthony stated that with
the country full of insurgency against
the American protective tariff system