The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-10

cratic party does not mean compact,
cohesive body of men who can make
progress in this country.
81 look forward with philosophc
temperament TO tho threatened inva-
sion of the halls of congress by the
Democrats. / say threatened-yes
threatened-in the imaginations of
Champ Clark, Henry Watterson and
others
81 am confident that when once il
comes, and has been for two or more
years, 1t means a long lease Of power
to the Republican party,
We want no schisms in the Repub.
llcau party. The time will come after
congress adjourns. when we shall have
all redeemed our pledges, that we can
90 before the American people and
argue out all the differences in the
suffrage of fellow citizens on its
record
The. president when he concluded
was given a great ovation.
lie was followed by Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, who took up the tariff
BILL of which the president had not
spoken.
Longworth Speaks Plainly.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
Of Ohio made a strong plea for the
tariff bill and the success of the Taft
administration. With his serious dis.
cussion of the tariff he facctiously
assaulted Edgar c. Snyder, president
of the League OF Republican clubs and
duclng him rs a son-in-law -
want TO assure you, said Repre-.
sentative Longworth, "that being
son-ln-law is not always a bed of roses.
When sonn-law says anything sensi-
bic the people say Your father-in-law
told you to say it. If you do or say
anything silly, they sympathize with
your father-in-law.'
In discussing the attitude of Sena
tor Beyeridge of Indiana, relating to
the tariff Mr.. Longworth referred to
the discussion of the lumber schedule
before the ways and means committee.
and brought In the name of Clifford
Plnchot, former chief forester. which
was family cheered. Mr., Pinchot he
SAID, had told the committee that con.
servation of tho forests required a re-
duction of the tariff or '.would be
aided by reduction of the tariff"
II thsre is one man., said Mr.
Longworth, "more responsible than any
other-more than all others put to-
gether-for the fact that today lumber
Is not upon the free list, it is Mr.. Gif-
ford Pinchot
1.-The time will soon be at hand
he said, "when we shall enter upou a
of vast consequence IT NAV
involve not only the success or failure
of the administration of President
Taft but it may involve the integrity
of the Republican party.
do not believe, with some Of my
party colleagues, that we should hy
signals of distress, but I do believe Il
is no time to merely try to laugh away
the seriousness of the situation. We
have been through tariff fight, which
always-and naturally-causes dis
agreement, if not discord, IN the ranks |
Of any party upon which the response |
bility has rested, We are engaged |
now in passing legislation which causes
wide difference of opinion, if not dis
cord, in the ranks of the party clothed |
'The Republican party cannot af- |
ford to have its bonfdes questioned |
1t cannot afford to have the sincerity
Of the pledges doubted He urged |
the necessity Of congress passing the |
legislation promised in the Republican |
platform and argued against an early |
unless the programme is |
carried out TO the full.
" am Taft man-not on the sur
face-but through and through CON
tinued Representative Longworth "I
am not willing to use his name as
cloak for my support of other men and
other interests. ] am not willing to
praise him in public and work against
him In private. y
On the tariff bill Mr. Longworth
spoke at length and said he was not
content to apologize for it, "but was
glad to boast of it - and If defeated
by Democrat for reelection to CON
gress, he would be resigned to his
fate.
He referred to the recent speech of
United States Senator Beveridge at
the Indiana state convention, in which
the senator denounced the iron orc
and lumber schedules of the tariff bill.
He makes no mention of the fact
said Mr.. Longworth, "that both these
duties are substantially different from
what they were in the Dingley law