The Detroit times., 1910-05-21
DEMOCRATS WILL
MARCH TO VICTORY
CHAMP CLARK.
Minority Leader Of House Denounces
Taft Regime in Keynote
Speech in House.
CHAMP CLARK.

WASHINGTON, May 2l.--A Demo
cratic keynote for this years cam
paign was sounded In the house today
by Champ Clark, OF Missouri, leader
OF the house minority.
"The proposed appropriation Of
$3.50, 900 per annum to support q tariif
commission" he said. should be en-
titled a motion TO postpone the YER
dict OF the people on the Payne
Aldrich-Smoot tariff to a season more
convenient for the standpat leaders.
1t Is another EFFORT, desperate effort
to hoodwink the voters OF the land
The creation of such a commission
would be only another startling Illus
tration OF how far the legislative
branch Of the government has surren-
dered Its constitutional rights TO the
executive branch, process that has
gone on for quarter OF q century.
1T matters not whether the execu-
tive operates with the big stick Or
with a smile which will not come OF,
the power OF the congress steadily
dwindles, while that OF the executive
mounts 10 imperial, even autocratic
proportions" he continued.
so soon as they come into the pres
ence OF the president their courage
oozes out as did that OF Bob Acres.
Every new Office we create adds 10
the growing power OF the executive
and yet we go on constantly augment
Ing the bread and butter brigade.
The tariff commission provision
begins in this wise:
ITO enable the president to secure
information II there is a man In the
country that needs information on the
tariff question, II is the present occu-
pant Of the white house. | submit that
II we are to send out a rowing COM
mission after facts, they should report
to congress rather than TO the presi-
dent. In the next congress will most
probably originate a tariff bill without
any recommendation from the white
house.
This tariff commission project is
being pushed because OF the wide
spread dissatisfaction with the Payne
Aldrich tariff law and this dissatisfac-
ton Is clearly manifest in the Indiana
Republican state platform recently
adopted.
One thing more as to this expen-
siye tariff commission. What has be-
come OF the much .-aunted economies
which this administration was going
to bring about in Jig time? Have they
gone glimmering along with the 1908
promises OF tariff revision down
ward?"
Clark analysed and condemned the
cotton, sugar and WOODEN schedules OF
the tariff law and particularly de-
nounced the increased duty on stock
ings.
Mr.. Payne says that he and HIS
cohorts will meet us in November"
Clark continued. Il never looked for
ward to any day with such JOY as I
do to the first Tuesday after the first
Monday OF November, except to my
wedding day and the days on which
my children were born. My democratic
brethren, at least, after hard trials
and great tribulations, thank God, we
stand here shoulder to shoulder, heart
to heart, solid as a stone wall, In
spired by the hopes of certain victory.
Democrats are getting together every.
where, while the Republican party pre-
sents to the astonished gaze of men
the appearance Of dissolying view.
Oh, yes, you will meet US In Novem-
Der, because you cannot help your
selves. And when you do meet US In
November you will receive the blood
lest licking you have had since 1892