The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-08-19
Goes After Democrats and
Insurgents Alike.
Speech Complete vindication Of
New Tariff Law and Acts
of the President.

Senator William o. Bradley, in an
address before the Republican conven-
ton at the Masonic Theater, Louis
vile, KY, last Monday night, said:
Boys, this convention looks mighty
good to me- In it there is no bick-
ering or strife. All contending fac
lions have been merged and with the
independent Democrats who will work
with us for good government and a
non-partisan judiciary. We start to-
day on a campaign which will be
crowned with victory in November.
THE Republican party Of the ma
ton has reason to be pruod Of the
present situation. The deficit of $751;
900, 900 faced by President Taft when
he was inaugurated, has disappear
ed. The tariff bill has brought pros
perity and is rapidly bringing more.
There has been a large increase in
the number of people employed, wages
were never so good; the farmers have
never been so prosperous; We have
never had so much money per capita
in circulation. Our exports and i'm
ports are most gratifying and the
song of prosperity is marred alone by
the usual discordant notes of Demo-
cratic croakers and a handful of in
surgent Republicans, who arrogate to
Z themselves all the wisdom and hon.
esty of the great party to which they
claim allegiance. Their purpose seems
to be to make attacks upon their as
sociatss and thus furnish campaign
material to our enemies. While they
fire on the flag they claim it's pro-
lection They have had considera-
BILE encouragement in Kansas and
Iowa, but when We remember the re-
cords of these States on popnlism
and greenbacks, how the Republican
party was defeated by these heresies,
we are not astonished at the present
condition of affairs and we indulge
the hope that their sanity will return
in a few years as it did after their
former temporary alteration of intel
lect and Republicanism again be en-
throned in the minds Sof their peo-
pie.
II do not question the honesty of
the insurgents; they are all my friends
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but / do question their judgment and
the air of superiority they assume.
For many months before the meeting
of the tariff session, the House COM
mtttee having the subject in charge
made thorough and minute investiga-
ton. Men In every character of bus
mess were called as witnesses and no
man was denied hearing. Many large
volumes of testimony were taken and
Herculean labor performed in the con-
struction of the bill. The Senate Com
mittee, too, gave months of arduous and
intelligent labor. Reports were called
for from all our Counsuls in foreign
lands. Every conceivable side Of the
question affecting the various indus
tries, was thoroughly and ably dis
cussed in both houses. Probably more
ability was never displayed In SINH
lar discussion. The bill known as the
Payne-Aldrich bill was finally passed,
a very few Democrats voting for 1t
and comparatively few Republicans
against 1t. 1t was supported by an
overwhelming majority Of Republic
ans in each house and was signed by
our President, who said, taking 1t al
together 1t was "the best tariff bill
ever passed by Congress" The hand
full of Republicans who could not get
everything they wanted, voted against
1t and thus placed themselves in open
opposition to, the party majority and
the President. They have been per-
sistently furnishing campaign material
for the Democratic party ever since.
my amiable and able friend. SEN
ator Cummins, lately quoted from Lin
coin his memorable remark that a
Government part slave and part free
could not exist. and wound up by say
ing that the existence of the Repub-
Iican party depended upon making 1t
all progressive l object to the use
OF the word progressive as employed
by these gentlemen in describing their
attitude. The Republican party has