Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-06-16

ln0 JCOISld COllS1Ooo4iAcAA - va
side excepting Mr.. Brantley. In his
last issue, however, he takes as his
text the letter evidently written by
Mr.. Brantley to one of his constltu-
ents and concludes that Mr.. Brant-
lev needs instruction" Here is the
letter:
NV Dear Sir:-I am duly in receipt
of. your letter of 18th inst. and am
= considerably surprised at same.
You have evidently been misin-
formed as to the purpose and effect
of the Fitzgerald amendments for
which I voted on March Is, 1909.
In this connection beg to enclose
herewith an article written by Mr..
James Ca laway, of the Macon Tele-
graph, setting forth from the Con-
gressionaI Record the proceedings of
that day and their meaning. | hope
you will read this over, and | am
sure that if you do your ideas upon
the subject will be diff rent from
what they now seem to be. The
idea that the action upon that day
contributed in the remotest way to
the passage of the Payne-Aldrich bill
is preposterous. So far as | know,
MIR. Roddenberry has never intro
duced any bill to repeal the Payne
Aldrich bill. Mr.. FITZGERALD, of New
York, however, a few weeks ago
made a motion, the effect of which,
if carried, would have been to repeal
this law, and | and all other Demo
Gratis voted to repeal it. The motion
was lost, however, because all of the
so-called insurgents voted against it.
| am,
Very truly yours,
W. G. Brantley,
Washington, D. c.
Then follows Mr. Watson's reply:
ANSWER.
ID If Mr.. Brantley does not know
that the Honorable S. A. Roddenberry
has introduced a bill to repeal the
Payne Aldrich tariff act, and to apply
a horizontal reduction to the sched-
ules. he needs to study the Con-
9ressional Record with more atten
ton. Mr.. Roddenberry had not been
in his seat more than a week or so
, before he had introduced just such
a measure as Mr.. Brantley declares
: he knows nothing about,
% Mr.. Brantley declares that the
idea of his desertion to the Repubh-
cans having contributed in the re-
hottest way to the passage of the
PAYNE AIdrich bill is preposterouS.
This statement is an outrageous at
tempt to impose upon the people. 1t
is true that Mr.. James Galloway OF
the Macon Telegraph has prepareda
series of articles, which have been
published as booklet, for the pur
pose of providing that the desertion
of the twenty-three Democrats to the
Republicans had nothing to do with
= the new tariff law. But, while Mr..
James Galloway is an honest man
and very capable newspaper cor
respondence, he is altogether off
the line when he attemps to prove
that the deserters did not save the
Republicans from overthrow, and
did not pave the way for the Payne
Aldrich bill.
SPEAKER CANYONS TESTIMONY.
The man who knows best what
was the value to the stand-pat Re-
publicans of the twenty-three Demo
cratic votes which came to him on
the fifteenth of March year ago, is
Joseph C. Cannon, Of Illinois, the
, R Republican speaker of the house.
Let us hear what he had to say as
to the effect upon the Republican
party of the detection Of the insur-
..sgents and the coming of the Demo-
SEfatic deserters to his relief. Speak
ing at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
night of November tWenty-siXth,
last year, Mr.. Cannon said:
!. Mr.. Clark's committee on rules
would have given the same protec-
ton to the tariff bill that the wolves
would have given to the sheep"
Now, stop and digest that asser-
ton What was Mr.. Clarke's COM
mittee on rules? He proposed that
the house itself should elect com
4 Toittee of fifteen, and inasmuch as