Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-07-01
SENATOR IN BEST EFFORT OF
HIS CAREER FLAWS THE
REACTIONARIES.
QUESTION OF PARTY CONTROL
Democratic Party, Lacking Leadership
and Organization, Fails to Take
Advantage of Opportunities
Progressive Republicans
Win in Conference.

SpSSCu OI HIS career ana IuO SCrOuS-
est speech which has been delivered
setting forth the Progressive Repub-
lican viewpoint which has been made
in either house or senate. In it he
discussed the control of the Repub-
lican party, the effort to stife indie
pendent thought and action and the
manner in which the president has
been used by INSCRIPTIONS manipula-
tors in their schemes to betray public
interest and control the government
in the interest of what Senator Bev-
eridge has termed the powers of
pillage."
The speech of the Iowa senator was
delivered in support of the proposition
to create tariff commission and in
pointing out that the tariff board pro-
vided for in the sundry civil bill was
in no manner a compliance with the
promise to the people upon this ques-
ton. 1t is conceded by senators to
be the greatest effort of Delivers life
He epitomized the stand taken by
Progressive Republicans everywhere
and it was a complete reply to the at
tack made upon them by the presi-
dent and by reactionary senators and
representatives. Nothing that has
been uttered has so enraged the
forces Of reaction. For some inscru-
table reason the men making the fight
for special privilege in congress seem
to think that they have an inalienable
right to assail the Progressive Repub-
to stand quietly and take the lash.
The Progressives will not permit the
statements which have been made by
the vice-president, the president and
by reactionary members of congress,
in which they have misrepresented
legislation, the aims and purposes of
the men who have made the fight on
the floors of both houses for legisla-
ton in the interests of the people, to
remain unchallenged.
Party Conditions Reviewed.
1t may be that because of the long
silence which they have maintained
under the misrepresentation which
has been INDUCED in in regard to this
that the reactionaries believed the
PrOgressives would never assert the
truth. The Dolliver speech was dig
nifed and confined itself strictly to
the issue. 1t is not possible within
give any adequate idea of the thor
oughness with which he reviewed the
conditions within the Republican par
ty and set forth the idea that a new
dispensation has come, that the legis-
lation bargain counter, so far as Pro-
gressive Republicans are concerned,
has passed and that the time has
come when the laws in this country
will be made upon a different basis
and with greater regard to the public
interest and with less regard of the
interests of those who are specially
concerned in tariff and railroad legis-
lation. He said that he was fighting
for the party and that he felt that the
old party was to lead in the future
as it had in the past but that he want
ed it freed from the bad advice, ''freed
from corrupt influence and to become
the leader of the reforms which shall
make of the future a realization of all
the labors of the past and of the
dreams of those who have struggled
and sacrificed for the welfare of the
In common with good citizens ev-
erywhere, | share the universal dis
gust which has arisen on seeing the
greatest executive departments, those
departments which touch the business
of the nation most intimately, made a
headquarters for the awkward squad
in political futures upon margins cal
culated daily from the record of tho
yeas and nays"
Democrats Lack Leaders.
Almost daily there develops in
the discussions in congress some
evidence of the fact that the Dem
ocratic party is without organi-
cation and without leadership. The
pitiable exhibition which the mem
bers of the minority party in the
SGldlC anu tllS uOUSC gave d.
ton of the bill to amend the Inter
state Commerce act was a repetition
of what happened when the currency
legislation and the tariff legislation
was before congress in previous ses-
sions. 1t stands out, but not more
so than what happens almost daily,
especially in the senate.
The trouble with the Democratic
senators is that for the most part
they are too indolent to master the de-
tails of legislation or too engrossed
with matters outside of the legislative
halls to remain in attendance when
subjects of vital Importance to the
country are under consideration.
During the consideration of the
paragraph of the sundry civil bill
making appropriation of $25O.000 for
the tariff board Senator Bacon offered
an amendment providing that not
more than two-thirds of the member
ship of that body should belong to
one political party.
Hale Agreed to Proposition.
Senator Hale, the chairman Of the