Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-09
NOW IS THE TIME
FOR ALL GOOD MEN"
To Come to Aid of Their Party,
Say Speakers at Jackson
Dinner.
CHAMP CLARK URGES
MISSOURI INTO FOLD
Representative H. T. Rainey Speaks
in Similar Optimistic Vein.
MACK'S SENTIMENTS WRITTEN
Harmony Banquet at Kansas City.
Democratic Floor Leader of House
Has Fling at Cannon.

Democratic Floor Leader of House
Has Fling at Cannon.
KANSAS CITY. January s.-Following
the harmony conference of today GOO Mis-
souri, democrats sat down 10 an elaborate
Jackson day banquet tonight.
Representative Champ Clark, minority
leader In the national House Of Repre-
sentatives was the principal speaker.
Following the sentiment of the speakers
OF the day meeting, ne pleaded for a
united democracy that should swing Mis-
souri, back into the democratic column.
Mr.. Clark also urged the necessity of
gaining control of Congress. This, he
said, was necessary. not only to help
elect !, democratic President In 1912. but
to effect an honest revision of the tariff.
Norman l.. Mack. chairman of the
democratic national committee. sent a
letter OF regret, in which he predicted
that his party would control the next
House OF Representatives.
Representative III. L. Rainey of Illinois
declared strongly against ship subsidy.
and insisted that present shipping regu-
lations handicap the American ship
owners.
Champ Clark's Address.
Champ Clark. expressing the purpose Of
the gathering. said:
This vast convocation Of enthusiastic
Missouri democrats Is the first gun of the
campaign of 1910, which it is hoped will
give us a democratic House at Washing
ton, the first step TO electng a demo
cratic President in 1912. We meet under
auspices more favorable than We have
been blessed with since 1924.
Thrice is he armed that hath his
quarrel just And surely no people ever
had q juster quarrel than the American
people now have against the powers
that be.
We owe it to the country, to the
state, to ourselves and our posterity to
sink all personal differences, to heal all
wounds to exercise mutual forbeafance.
10 practice self -abnegation. to the end
that, this year, We may elsct demo-
cratic state ticket. democratic legis-
lature. a democratic United States sen
ator, and, at least fifteen democratic
representatives in Congress; and that IN
TO Arkansas and from the Mississippi 20
the mouth of the raging kaW
Republican Promises Not Kept.
THE republicans Won the last election
under false pretenses. They promised a
revision of the tariff downward in order
TO get i'll. and, when in, revised it upward.
The average rate of the Payne-Aldrich-
Smoot tariff bill is | I1-1oO per cent higher
than the average rate of the Dingiey tar
III bill.
..The people asked for bread, and the
aldrich- Cannon crowd gave them Il stone.
They asked for fish and are requested
TO regale themselves with serpent.
.'In the congressional campaign OF 1910
the oyershadowing question will be wheth-
er public men are under any sort of 0bi-
cation to tell the truth Unless the pub
lie conscience Is absolutely dead-wnich
! do not believe-the republicans viii re-
ceive the bOOdleSt licking they nave nad
since 1870
Are ante-eIection promises things TO
he depended upon and lived up to. or are
they mere tricks with which to deceive
the unwary, enticing bats with which
to catch gudeons? If the latter. then poll
tbs has fallen to a low estate and a
ccutemptible condition.
Taft Interpretation of Revision.
1T will not help them any when ar
raigned at the bar Of public opinion TO say
that the republican platform simply de-
cared for tariff revision. without ind-
Eating whether that revision was to be
up or down. for their standard bearer.
William H. Taft. everywhere interpreted
that platform declaration meanini;
81 downward revision. and on that inter
Yretation he won the greatest political
prize known among men,
Suppose he had interpreted the re-
publican promise of tariff revision &c
mean a revision upward, Does any ra-
tional being believe that he would now
be President of the United States?
Had the republicans fulfilled theil
promise to revise the tariff downward :
said Mr.. Clark; had they cut 1t down
cent-they would have eliminated 1t from
the political equation for generation
But they did no such thing.
Burden Not All Loaded Yet.
on the contrary, they increased the
average LII per cent over the average
of the Dingley bill. that. too. withou,
counting the increase caused by taking
articles from the free list and placing
them on the tariff list, which will prob
ably raise the increase to something
above per cent. They thereby made
the tarin question the most important
Issue in 1910 and 1872.
Also. it must be remembered that or
the 3lst day Of next March the Aldricf
maximum tariff Of - per cent must be
added against tie imports from any coun
Try which does not grant its minimum
rate, which Will make the average in
countries about - per cent above Tho
average OF the ID ngley rates.
Surely, since the morning stars firs
sang together for joy such a stupendou.
confidence game was never played upof
a confid'ng people.
In asking for tariff revision and at tn,
same time continuing the republicans IL
power the American voters repeated tn,
condemned performance of jumping ou
OF the frying pan into the fire. Thei
last condition is worse than the first.
This Payne-Adrich-S -Smoot monstrosit,
invites trade war with every CONNER
cial nation under heaven
Hot Shot for Cannon.
Mr.. Clark referred to Speaker Cannon:
EIgnl speech. in which the latter sale
the Payne tariff bill was the best eve
passed, and that Representative Mann O
Illinois was the most valuable Legislator
IN Congress
Il am doing Uncle joe Kindness
said Mr.. Clark, by suggesting that ht
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