The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-07
Placing of Tariff Endorsement
in Sixth District Resolutions
Only a Part of Cannon's
Movement.
PAlLAOIUM'S CHARGE
is CONFIRMED TODAY
Well Known Washington Cor
respondent. Ludlow. Shows
Reactionaries Want to De.
feat Progressives.

Last week. the day following the
Sixth district republican convention,
held at Rushville. the Palladium pub
lished an article in which it vas charg-
ed that Jim Watson and his merry men
had made deliberate effort to en-
barrass Senator Beveridge BY placing
in the resolutions a clause endorsing
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. What
the Watson clique anticipated BY such
action was a democratic victory at the
polls next November-the election of a
democratic Legislature. which, of
course. would mean a democratic sue
cessor to Senator Beveridgc.
That laudatory endorsement of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill is a national
movement. concocted by the reactiona-
ries at Washington to defeat all pro-
gressive representatives and senator's,
is borne out in an article written by
Louis Ludlow. the we'll known Wash
ington correspondent of the lndianap-
oils Star, and published In this morn
ing's issue of the Star.
An Example Cote0.
In his article Mr.. Ludlow points out
that Cannon is bitterly fighting the in
surgent congressman and senator's, citi
ing as an example the fact that in the
recent Chicago campaign the Speaker
stated that II voter could not support
the regular" republican congressional
he should vote for the dem
ocratic contestant, in preference to the
'insurgent' republican candidate. Mr.
Ludlow. in his article, bears out the
Palladium's assertion that Jim Watson
is working hand and foot with Can
non in this last desperate stand of the
reactionaries, and that Watson, in slip
ping tariff law endorsement into the
resolutions, adopted at the Rushville
policy agreed on at the council Of war
held at the national capital
Charges by Ludlow.
Among other things Mr. Ludlow
says in the article referred to:
The plan of the reactionary leaders
in the war which they have prepared TO
make on the '.progressives." is to work
the tariff issue to the front in a skillful
and subtle manner. Wherever they
can do SO they will slip into the plat
forms and resolutions OF republican
expressions of approval Of
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law as the
greatest statute ever enacted for the
ture Of their scheme IL to send out
their speakers to talk about nothing
except the tariff. lauding the Payne-Al-
drich act to the skies and commending
the president in the most hearty terms
for affixing his signature to it. It is
hoped that in this way the people will
become inculcated with the idea tha.
support OF the tariff bill was the only
test of republicanism and that II would
be better to be represented in congress
by straight out democrats than by re-
publicans who voted against the tar
iff.
Lay Plans With Care.
It is apparent that the scheme has
been planned with a great deal OF fin
esse. 1t is easy to imagine the effect,
for example. if the reactionaries should
be able to slip into the congressional
platform. in a district represented by
an insurgent who voted against the
tariff bill. ringing declaration prais-
ing the tariff law II the insurgen:
py a very embarrassing position dur
ing the campaign by reason of the fact
that his conduct In voting against the
tariff bill and the tariff plank Of the
congressional platform do not dovctail
Naturally this would make him a spe-
cially fine target for democratic shafts.
The first gun showing how the Can
non satellites intend to force the tariff
to the front as a means OF confound-
ing the progressives was a speech
made on the floor Of the house the 9TH
er day by Representative Boutell Of IL
linois. Boutell occupies a me, too
relation to the speaker. and 1t is al
ways taken for granted when he makes
a political speech that it is the same as
if Mr. Cannon We're talking Bou;ell's
speech was a defense OF Cannonism
and was pitched along the line that the
republican party viii have to win or
lose on the Payne tariff bill in the
coming elections. Inferenually the
idea conveyed by the speech was that
republican members OF congress who
voted against the tariff bill ought TO
be defeated.
Cannon Has Ak TO Grind.
Speaker Cannon is credited with hav-
ing a personal AK to grind in this cam
paign. to do all the damage he can TO
the insurgents. Ii is as certain az
ANYTHING in the future can be, that IL