The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-28
RICHARDSON ON
NATIONAL POLITICS
Flags Republicans in Speech at
Town Greek
DINGLEY TARIFF LAW
stnudnatters CreatIy Disturbed Over
DINGLEY TARIFF LAW
stnndpatters Greatly Disturbed Over
Demand for Change-The Congress-
man Handles Speaker Cannon
without Gloves

Huntsville. July p7.-(speciaD.-
day at Town Creek In the presence of
a great crowd assembled in the picnic
grove and went at length into a discus
sion of national politics and the issues
that are now of greatest interest
throughout the country. Judge Richard
soon has republican opposition this time
and he is going to stump the district
just as If there were some doubt Of
outcome in the election. His speech to-
day was the first of his campaign.
Doubtless no session of congress has
aroused public interest throughout the
country more than the session just clos
ed" he said. 1.-The most significant fact
claiming public attention was that the
republicans had clean, clear majority
of forty-eight over the democrats in the
House, quite two-thirds in the senate
yet there was no peace in their ranks
Discord, strife and chickering's prevailed
In their councils. By the joint action of
democrats and dissatisfied republican
insurgents, great work was done and of
lasting benefit to the country, by over
throwing the majority of the republic
cans.
"a natural and proper inquiry is what
was It that brought about this grave
and important strife that overthrow the
republican majority In the House and
placed democrats and Insurgents in con-
troll? No petty personal grievance or
complaint could hau, possibly brought
about such a result in the republican
party in its blatant egotism and conceit
Plainly speaking, it is fact throughout
the country that the people know that
republican party violated its word and
deceived the people; deliberately and
wickedly violated it's solemn pledge to
reduce the burdens of the Dingley tariff
law. For twenty-five years before that
the republicans had deceived and mis-
led the people. Their platform cry had
been down with the party or the man
that does not uphold American labor
over the pauper labor of Europe pr1n-
ciple that no American citizen contra
diets. While the republican party was
Justify proclaiming its undying loyalty to
the interests of the American laborer, it
interests upheld by the money taken
from the people by the tariff law that
they stood for
Demand for Change
"It's sins have at last been found out.
At last small voice that was first
heard in the old colonial state Of Massa-
chusetts, demanding that the Dingley
tariff law be revised-that its tax bur
dens were onerous and unjust. The
stand-pat leaders declared that 1t was
simple impudence, yea insolence, for such
a demand to be made by Massachusetts
republicans and at the proper time the
leaders of the party-friends to the tar
iff-would revise the schedules If revis-
ion was needed They did not reckon
that the patriotic people of Massachus-
etts retained the spirit and courage that
prompted our forefathers to sink King
Georges load of tea to the bottom of
the ocean and invite revolution.
THAT voice In Massachusetts, small
and scarcely audible. smanding revis-
ion, grew into a mighty storm. 1t spread
over the broad plains Of the west IT
found an easy Judgement in the methodi-
cal business lives of the men OF the
east. Every section where the republi-
can party had a hold, this voice of de-
mand for revision WIS heard. The stand
matters. Cannon, Aldrich, Dalzell. Hale
and others, stood appalled,, and the cry
went up from the leaders: Men and
brothers, what shall We do to be saved?'
NO rule said Uncle Joe. that we may
make bv the important rules committee
will, curb this demand In a faltering,
hesitating, reluctant manner, these
stand-pat republicans made the promise
to allay the surging storm of passion;
that they would insert into the Chicago
platform a plank to revise the tarin ana
to call an extra session of the Sixty-first
Congress for that purpose With this
promise and pledge. the republican party
led by Mr.. Taft went before the coun-
irv and on that plank the confidence of
the public was secured.
How that pledge made In that plat
form-made by the candidates Tor presi-
dent and vice-president and every re-
nubIican that took the stump-was kept
the country knows and knows well.
REGARDING Speaker Cannon
"Speaker Cannon in recent speech
IN Kansas said he stood out against re-
vision. I know tariff could not be re-
yised without somebody lying about 1t,
he said Uncle Joe certainly told tho
truth when he made that remark. But
who is 1t that did the lying? There Is
hut one possible answer. 1t was Speak
or Cannon. Senator Aldrich, Mr.. Dalzell
and other stand-rat leaders who reluct-
antly and under coercion promised re-
vision, fully intending never to comply
with the pledge to revise. Mr.. TART was.
in my opinion, the innocent victim OF
these ugly and INSCRIPTIONS leaders of a
pretended revision and he is suffering
today in public opinion.
I'm this campaign the republican party
faces three embarrassing propositions
upon which the public attention is already
focused: First, q wilfu falsehood about
a revision of the Dingley tariff; second,
the disreputable, arbitrary, selfish and
unpatriotic rule of Cannonism; third, the
I'm paralleled and exhorbitant prices OF
food products. These are the three prop
ositions, and the tariff, the greatest Of
all issues, is but the forerunner and con-
Meeting link between the second ana
third.
..Uncle Joe was most artistically
trimmed up by cutting his comb. gills
and tearing out his tail feathers, by
refusal to let him appoint or serve on
the rules committee. 1t was the first time
during the incumbency Of Speaker Can
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