Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1910-11-03
MARTIN in
HOT SPRINGS
Popular Congressman Talks to
Good Sized Audience Last
Evening.
MADE A FINE. SPEECH.
Urges Republicans to Support Entire
Ticket at the Coming Election on
November Sth.

Outlining the policies in the future
and explaining the actions of congress
in the past and giving thorough in-
sight into the principles of republican,
ism of the present day, Congressman
ID. w. Martin was greeted by large
and enthusiastic audience at the New
Opera house last evening 1t was one
of the last speeches Of the campaign
and his reasoning and logic were clinch-
ers to all wavering republicans and
made those Of the democrats who we're
on the fence decide to cast their lot and
vote with the republicans at the com.
ing election.
He stated al the outset of his speech
that he was making no excuses for the
party nor was he retreating one step
from the position he has personally
maintained during the last session of
congress. In support of this he took
up the different phases of the political
question and analyzed each separately
thus explaining to the satisfaction of
his hearers measures that are and have
been criticized by the opposition party.
And by the way it might be said that
he gave all due credit to the minority
party in this much, that they were eX.
perts when it come to oriticizing as this
had been their occupation for the past
fifty years.
A short review of the republican
party since the time of Lincoln, or the
time of its infancy, just fifty years
ago this month and some of the meas
ures that have been supported and
placed on the statutes of this great re !.
public brought him to the one vital
question that has in tho past and is at
present interesting the American
people, that vital question of the
tariff.
In talking of the tariff he asserted
that it should be remembered that the
democrats are not promising to correct
mistakes made by the republicans but
are planning on instituting a new prin
ciple, not that of protection. Protec-
tion and revenue are the foundation of
the tariff. The revision of the last
tariff was downward in the majority of
cases. one reason better job was
not done was the lack of information.
and as he put it, Shy revising the whole
tariff at one time, a certain amount of
barter and trade enters into the mat
ter. notwithstanding the fact that
congressman are elected to legislate
for the good of the entire country,
there are men, both republicans
and democrats alike, who are bound to
protect their own interests and dis.
tricts as much as possible so that
when some schedule comes up effect
ing same will, and did, vote for the
interest of the few"
Since the last Payne tariff bill he said
that commission had been established
composed of experts whose duty it is
to gather information regarding any
and all industries and the actual
cost OF production, and to report the
same. Now instead Of an entire
revision, any one matter might be
taken up separately end bill intro.
duced to correct any mistakes that
might have been made In this manner
the idea OF barter and trade would be
eliminated. For this measure he gave
our president. w. II. Taft, the credit
as it was his original thought.
One argument that members of the
democratic party advance is that il
should be the men and not the party
that the people should look to. His
explanation regarding party lines and
men was this. That it took good intel
llgent men to legislate properly and
that there were as many and more in
the republican ranks who were capable
as in the democratic party. To add
to this the republican PRINCIPLES
and doctrines had been put into
practice and had proven successful for
the past fifty years, with the exception
OF four years, and on that one occasion
when the democrats were in power.
all who remembered it and went
thru it, referred to it as the dark
ages. 1t was signal failure and
III MS opinion the people of this grest
United States were too wise to atsem pt
a second administration by the demo
Gratis. If suoh thing ever did come
to pass 1t would be as means of
ohastisement to republican leaders
who misappiied ide power rather than
because of unsoupd principles.
In closing he urged republicans to 20
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