The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-09
refuge in the Republican fold.


Asked by another voter If every
tariff bill were not business PROPOSE
ton and more or less a compromise.
Judge Wickham replied that Mr..
Payne himself, the Republican leader
and author of the tralf BILL had low
cred the rate on lumber to 81, while
Captain Lamb mad voted for higher
rate. Besides, he contended, the new
rate was not s1.25 only. but carried 25
per cent. ad valorem in addition.
1t was probably, he said, not the duty
of the East End Citizens Association
to make a tariff bill, but II 1t desired
to do so, it should elect man who
would stand on that platform. If he
We're elected on platform and did
not support it, he would not come back
and ask for a vote of confidence.
Federal Salaries.
Captain Lamb had said that. realiZ'
ing the increased cost of living, he
had endeavored to secure an increase
of salaries for the employees of the
Agricultural Department. Judge Wick
ham asked If any one in his audience
ever heard of an employe OF the ma
tional government who did not get all
he earned.
He did not think it right or fair for
Captain Lamb TO take refuge behind
big name in bringing into the dis
cussion Senator Martin, who was not
an issue.
Reverting to Captain Lambs failure
to vote for Mr.. Bryan because he for
got to transfer, Judge Wickham de-
clared that such an excuse would not
be accepted from street sweeper in
Richmond, and asked If 1t should stand
from one vino makes politics his bust
ness.
He requested his hearers to consider
If they had heard an argument from
his opponent which would help Mr.
Stuart In his campaign. He declared
the question in to-day's primary to be
wht>aer the district should be repre-.
sented by Democrat or by a man
who stands on platform of his own
making.
Congressman Replies.
In his close. Captain Lamb said he
had anticipated his opponents arsu-
ments. and had already answered
them He had spoken for Mr.. Bryan
in 1908 and was always loyal to him.
He had killed tho bill placing Con-
federate soldiers in national homes,
after receiving $50 kilograms from his
district asking him to do so. For
the first time he used the argument
that negro soldiers occupy these homes
He had not said, he declared, that
the high cost of living was not chief
ly due to the tariff. but it was not
entirely so due 1t was an economic
and not SO much political cues.
ton.
In his final appeal, which his ad
herents heartily applauded, Captain
| Lamb said he opposed both high
tariff and free trade It was true tina
Mr.. Payne had proposed tariff o.
| 81 per 1000 on lumber, protecting
everything New England had, ant
lowering the rate on the products O
Dixie. The Denver platform, he re
1 iterated, had no business making
schedules 1t might as we'll have fixes
the rate TN everything else as on lum
Der. 1t was those States which ha,
exhausted lumber supplies which want
ed it admitted free. The rate of ST.
was all there was, he said, on rougl
| lumber the ad yalorem tax applyin,
| to planed lumber. He denied tnat h
was false to the principles of the Dem
ocratic party because of his vote 70
a tariff on lumber. He would cheer
| fully have voted for a rate OF $3.50 o
$175, and his hearers could put that il
their pipes and smoke it, If the
thought he had done wrong becaus
of this vote, then they need not yot
for him.
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