Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
c ANNON IN
AN SWER TO
I HE SENATOR
SPEAKER SAYS THAT REPuB-
LlcAN PARTY PASSED RATE
BILL BEFORE IoWAN WAS IN
THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

Washington, ID. c., Jan. 3.-"Sena-
Tor Cummlns' speech contains nothing
newt Is reiteration of what he has
SAID Defore, simply q renewal of his
war on the Republican party. He has
added nothing to his controversy with
! his party, which requires an answer.
suppose he is afraid that the people
Will forget the war he is waging unless
he keeps reminding them Of it,
! In this manner Speaker Cannon dis
posed of the attack on himself and
other so-called standpatters, made by
senator Cummins Of Iowa at the Des
Moines dollar dinner" Saturday night.
Bryan and Cummns One.
The only statements he has added
10 MS attacks on his party in his lat
est speech were those which denied
his party the credit OF passing some
legislation touching on transportation
subjects" continued the speaker.
Ihat is a question of fact A Republi-
can congress adopted the Hepburn
law, the rebate law and the employ
ers' liability law, and Republican
president approved them. Mr.. Cum
minis was not in congress then-we
were. | voted for those bills and Sena-
tor Cummins was out in Iowa when
we passed them
i can add nothing to the answer l
have already made to Senator Cum
MINIS and to Bryan, too, for their case
is common one--a war on the Re
publican party. When | made my
speech In Kansas City made the an
swer which still fits the case. and |
can sum 1T up in the following extract
from that speech:
Senator Cummins declares that
the Payne law is reputation Of the
chicago platform. President Taft.
when he signed the bill made a public
statement in which he said:
There have been a greater num-
Der OF real decreases in rates, and
they constitute a sufficient amount to
justify statement that the bill is
substantial downward revision and q 4
reduction of excessive rates.
In his Wfnona speech the president
declared, The Payne tariff bill is the
best tariff bill the Republican party
has ever passed.
Senator Cummins declares that the
issue from now until the national CON
vention Of 1912 Is Shall the men now
IN control OF party destinies be per-
mitted further to disregard plain par
ty platforms?
president Taft is the recognized
leader of the Republican party, and
the great majority of the Republicans
are his followers. The president and !
the Republican majority in congress
co-operated in the Legislation that has |
been written on the statute books. |
With whom did Senator Cummins CO.
operate? Let the record of the vote on
this legislation from beginning to end /
decide.
Likened to "copperheads.D
Mr.. Bryan wants the war against
the Republicans who enacted this leg
islation to go on; Senator Cummins
also wants 1t to go on. When Lincoln
found an army marching on the ma
tional capital from the south, and a
body of sympathizers in the north en-
couraging that army, he said it was
difficult to. determine which was the
most threatening to the welfare Of the
nation. History repeats itself. and
when Senators Cummins, La Toilette.
Bristow and their so-caIled progress
sive followers join hands with Mr.
Bryan in making war upon Republi-
can members of congress who passed
the tariff bill, and upon the president
who signed it, in that contest / know
of but one way to treat them. and that
ls to fight them, just as we fight Mr..
Bryan and his followers L