The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-08-25
Hicks Pours Hot Shot Into
RepublicansW VOtedWith
Democrats in Congress
DEFENDS PAYNE TARIFF ACT
Declares That Men Who Failed to Sup
port Republican Measures in Congress
Are Not Entitled to the Support of
Their Party.

Urging the nomination of men who
would be Republicans in office as well
as Republicans for ofice-for men who
would support Republican policies in
Congress and in the U. S. Senate rath-
er than glory in the number OF times
they had voted with the Democrats IN
an effort to prevent legislation urged
for the best interests of the Republican
party, E. r. Hicks of Oshkosh. form
erly attorney general OF the state and
man widely known in state politics
spoke at the Rhode Opera House on
Friday evening. Mr.. Hicks was given
respectful hearing but the crowd in
attendance showed that there is no
fever heat politics in Kenosha at the
present time. It was almost a dupll-
cate Of the crowd which had heard
Judge Lindsey in his argument for the
reelection of Senator LaFollette a
week before and strange as it may seem
the crowd was made up of almost the
same people. Judge Clifford E. Ran
dali introduced Mr.. Hicks and he was
heartily applauded as he swung his
lance free and full against the ranks
of the insurgents and so-called pro-
gressives.
There is no doubt as to the attitude
taken by the speaker Notwithstanding
the fact that he spoke only of the can
didacy of Samuel A. Cook for United
States Senator. He arraigned the men
who have been classed as insurgents
in no uncertain language declaring that
they were not Republicans but men who
had betrayed their party and had
sought to sell it into the hands Of the
enemy. He declared that these men
were agitators and reformers only so
far as the reform aided in the advance
ment of their own personal interests
and that they had no place in the ranks
Of the Republican party. He declared
that the coming of Judge Lindsey of
Colorado to Wisconsin was an insult
to the Republican party in the state
and the very fact that he stood on
the platform and declared himself to
be a Democrat was in itself abhorent
to good Republicans who believed that
the Republicans themselves were able
to settle all the differences which might
arise in the party. He paid his re-
spects to Senator Bristow of Kansas
declaring that Bristow was one of the
men who prided himself on the mum
Der Of times he had voted with the
Democrats i'll an effort to prevent the
Republicans carrying out the pledges
of the Chicago platform.
The speaker paid great tribute to
President Taft declaring that he was
the greatest statesman that had ever
been elected to the presidency and that
he had made good. He declared that
the men who had set themselves up as
insurgents were the men who sought
to unite with the Democrats an. tie
the hands of the president in his effort
to carry out the party pledges. He de-
clared that these men had no part in
the Republican party and that they
should 60 to the Democratic party
where they belonged and seek Office on
the proper grounds.
A large portion of the address Of Mr..
Hicks was given over to a defense Of
the Payne tariff bill and he declared
that the bill had come as a. fulfllment
OF all the pledges of the Republican
party. He charged that the opponents
of the bill had taken out isolated sche-
dulles and had sought by these to prove
the bill legislation in favor of the
trusts and monopolies but that an ex-
animation of the bill in it's entirety
would show that it was the lowest
tariff bill ever passed by congress
of the United States. He showed that
the rates were lower than the Free
Trade bill passed in the Cleveland adj
ministration which was designed as
tariff for revenue only. He said that
the only measure of the success of the
tariff legislation was to be found in the
great uplift that had been given to-
the business of the country since it
was enacted into law and he declared
that the fact that all industries were
working and that labor was finding en-.
ployment for twenty-four hours in the
day if it sought it was sufficient to
prove that the tariff legislation had
been in keeping with the platform
pledges of the Republican party.
During the entire address Mr.. Hicks
made no mention of the various candi-
dates making his speech entirely on
| the question Of the election of Congress
men and the United States Senator.
Mary Dersch aged | year daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Derseh died at