The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-16
Foss Urges
Insurgency

ROCHESTER,, n. Y, April 15.-The
campaign in the 32nd congressional
district reached its stage of greatest
interest tonight when the largest meet
ing of the contest in behalf of the DEM
ocratic candidate, James S, Ravens,
was held in Convention hall. The main
speaker was Congressman Eugene N
Foss, the democrat recently elected in
the 14th district of Massachusetts.
Urging his "insurgent republican"
friends to get down from the fence
and join the ranks of democracy, Rep
res ntative Eugene n. FOSs of Massa-
chusetts, recently elected to congress
from a formerly rOck-ribbed republic
can district, assailed insurgency" and
the protective tariff policy of the rul-
ing party.
He declared that he now enjoyed
in his various business enterprises
from As to 100 per cent protection"
1T is too much" he added. Il don't
need the protection and / ought not
to have it, All that / have above a
certain point represents tariff graft.
| am willing that the protection should
be cut right in half and then l would
have all l am entitled to or need.
MY insurgent republicans friends,
if you want to accomplish the re-
j Suits YOU ucSilt, YOU nave SoI W SeSP
aside and join the opposition party
and force legislation along lines that
will bring relief. You have been in
surgents' long enough and what prac-
teal results have you secured?
Senator Lodge read me out of the
republican party six years ago, but L
clung to it, for l loved it, until my
self-respect and my Judgment forced
me into the party of opposition.
went out of the party last fall and
, in a 30-day campaign on the same
issues / cut down a majority of $4,000
TO one of less than 5000. Senator
Lodge said that / could not make the
tariff an issue last fall But before
the campaign ended he was defending
and praising the Aldrich bill when
ever and wherever he spoke. 1t was
the dominant isue. 1t was along the
same lines when the opportunity came
this spring that / fought the cam
paign in the 18th district and the dis
trict which defeated me last fall for
lieutenant governor by 5000, has just
sent me to congress by q majority of
5000 The insurgent republicans hope
as 1 hope for eight long years, to bring
about reform within their own party.
It's a mistake. It can't be done"
Party names mean little today, he
declared, to the average man who
thinks seriously.
1T was not a party victory in the
14th district. 1t was protest by men
CT all shades of political belief against
an economic policy which has made,
and is still making it more difficult
for the average man to stretch his
income to meet absolutely necessary
living expenses.
Lifelong republicans sat on the
platform side by side with lifelong
democrats when I discussed the tariff
issues, and the applause was as hearty
from the one as from the other"
Mr. FoSs declared that his election
means that the people are tired of
the Aldrich bill. TT is demand of
Massachusetts and of all New Eng
land for free raw material, untaXed
food products and wider markets. 1t
is demand that we treat Canada de-
Gently and that we take down our
| tariff wall against her.
Il would go so far as to say" he
continued. that we should do this
whether Canada lowered hers or not.
We are the sufferers. We need her
| lumber, her coal and iron. her wood
pulp and her other products