The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-10
Kansas Senator Says Fight of |nsurgent Repubf-
 cans Is Just Begun
DOMINION OF CANNON IS
 FINALLY OvERTHROWN
Have Representatives in Congress Whose Purpose Is to Look
 After Big Interests

Winfield, Kas.. July 9.--Asserting that hel4 just begun, United States Senator
 Joseph L. Bristow of salina this after
 noon delivered his first public utterance
 since Saturday last when with Represen- tatives Murdock and Madison also insur- gent republicans. he journeyed to Oyster
 Bay and held three hours conference
 with Theodore Roosevelt.
 "The House progressives,' said the sen-
 ator. "have made great progress. They
 have practically overthrown the dominion of Cannon and the coterie of men who
 surround him. but the great work is but
 only fairly begun
 The speech of Senator Bristow was de- livered at the Winfield chautauqua. He
 analysed the tariff and sketched the work of the progressive republicans in attend ing the railroad bill conferences. There
 has never been a time in American his- tory" said he. when greater responsi- bility rested upon the average citizen than today. The country has never faced problems more perplexing. The funda- mental question to be determined Is whether this government shall be admin istered in the interest of the average or for the benefit of special privileges
 "The gigantic monopolies of the day. said the senator 'have representatives in the halls of Congress whose sole purpose is to protect their interests and to keep open the opportunities they now have to plunder the American republic. This was forcefully demonstrated in the tariff fight year ago"
 Continuing, the senator said:
 '.The republican party in it's national convention declared for a revision of the tariff, maintaining the principle of pro- lection and further stating that duties should be based upon the differences In the case of production at home and those abroad. plus a reasonable profit to the home manufacturer.
 Upon that platform the party won the fight and I believe nine-tenths of the republicans throughout the land expected the pledges to be carried out in good faith.
 There are those, I believe, whQ would have carried out their pledges but for the perfidy and selfishness of certain designing legislators who were more desirious of favoring special in terests than of promoting the welfare of the people.
 Under the leadership of these men, instead of revising the tariff as was promised, duties were fixed not with ! view of protecting legitimate Amer lean industries or of securing revenue for governmental purposes, but wers Increased for promoting the financial of certain individuals or con cerns
 The great work before us," said the senator. "is only beginning This year We had to fight as hard to hold what had been secured In years past IS we did to get additional legisla- ion. To hold what we now have and ecure those other necessary provi- ions Is the fight for the future. It can lot be won without the determined upport of all classes of people"
 Continuing he concluded:
 our hope Is in the intelligent, and atriotic purpose of the people them elves. Those determined influences of riminal selfishness and greed ara sainst us. They have means illimit- Die, but If the people will select their representatives, In Congress, men with ot only the inclination but the cour- ge or stand against the people with reed and evil intention, right will triumph. As a republican want it to rlumph under the banner of the old epuplican party which does not sad. ie mammoth debts of posterity."