Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-14
Senator Quotes Executive as One
Who Is Sustaining the
Class Interests

interest and was listened to attenttvely
by senators on both sides of the cham
ber 1t was the reply of the insurgents
to the charges of party disloyalty and
was a direct challenge to their op-
ponents.
The first named was Greeley Hand
ley, and his speeches were referred to
without reserve.
Beginning with the declaration that
the tariff discussion had not been re-
yived because of the tariff law, Mr..
Dolliver declared there was no longer
any freedom of conscience or opinion,
such as had made the Republican
party strong.
: Referring briefly to Speaker Cannon's
statement, that insurgents should be
hanged" he declared he would not let
that remark be taken seriously.
TAKES FLING AT PRESIDENT
1t was evident that men entering
congress must become either under
studies or Ishmaelites.
Il reject the terms and shall con-
tend for independence within the party.
do not fight to destroy the party, but
to upbuild it, he said.
Discussing the presidents course
toward the insurgents Mr.. Doll1ver
declared they were not playing for
popularity, as had been charged, and,
speaking of his personal relations to
the president, he declared he had never
done anything unlOyal to the admins
tration. "Such a charge does me the
greatest injustice" he said. Il did
what 1 could to promote his candidacy
for the presidency. 1 supported him
from one ocean to the other after he
became a candidate. When he took
the oath of office 1 had but one senti-
ment toward him, and that was the
hope that God would give him the
ft,@ ID fIa ,erNir- DCxv
of greed and avarice that would en-
slave the party.
II have known many Vicissitudes in
public life, but I never dreamed that
in less than a year I would be called
upon to defend myself and the little
group of men with whom I stand
against the charge of taking seriously
the presidents speeches and the plat
form pledges"
Mr.. Dolliver said he proposed to tell
not only what had gone on in con-
gress last year in connection with the
tariff, but what was going on now to
prevent members following their con-
sciences, and said he thought that if
the insurgents had made any mistake
it was in remaining silent too long.
TAFT DELUDED; NOT A LEADER
'I notify all parties that I have no
intention of leaving the Republican
party" he said. 1T is not necessary
for me to swallow every tariff bill, and
it would be impossible to get me out of
the party on such charges. 1t cannot
he done by lying about me or calling
me names, such as free trader or
Democrat Least of all can it be
done by taking from my neck the mill
stone of political patronage. 1 share
the universal distrust of making
great executive department the head
quarters of the awkward squad of
politics."
Asserting it was his desire to lead
! in the public will, Mr.. Dolliver sug
| gested he would like to hold a politi-
cal inquisition of the motives Of those
| in both branches of congress whose
views the president seemed to be fol-
| lowing in the "delusion that he is their
! leader"
Mr.. Dolliver said it was true the
! Republican platform did not promise
! to revise the tariff downward and if
that promise had been made it would
have been easy to comply with it by
| reducing the duties on articles protect
ed by patents or controlled by inter-
national trusts.
"They could have been defended by
sump speakers" he said.
MI Dolliver referred to Major Lord
who assisted the senate committee on
| finance in drafting its bill and then
ulueIlODk 10 SHOW lIldl rates lldu DScIt
| raised-mOst of them, he said, by
subterfuge. He said in this list were
the iron and steel, the sugar and the
wooden schedules Many of the esti-
mates given out were intended to de-
ceive, he declared.
SAYS TARIFF Is HOAX
Mr.. Dolliver asserted 1t was a strate-
gic mistake to circulate the presi-
dents Winona speech with his Lincoln
day address, as they We're contradic-
tory in terms. The president had given
entirely different reasons in the two
speeches for considering the Payne
law 1.-The best ever enacted" said the
Iowa senator. He declared that the
tariff was being bolstered up by bogus
figures.
Last year witnessed two important
hoaxes," CONTINUED Mr.. Dolliver, "the
discovery of the north pole by DR..
Cook and the revision of the tariff
downward by Senator Aldrich."
When the laughter that greeted his
remark had died out he added that
executive felicitatons had been ten
dered upon both occasions.
Speaking of the opposition the in
surgents had aroused by failing to vote
for the Payne bill, Mr. DOlliver said
this dereliction was due to their belief
that it failed to fulfill the party
nledges. They had deliberately taken
their stand having full knowledge of
the political machinery that would be
set in operation to bring about their
defeat.
Contending the principle of allowing
interested men to revise the tariff was
wrong, Mr. DolliVer asserted that while
the president understood that prin-
ciple his idea of it was "foggy."
After quoting that part Of the speech
in which the president upheld Aldrich
and Payne he said those who stood for
individual and class interests were be-
ing sustained, while the little group OF