The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-22
CHAMP CLARK DENOUNCES TARIFF
LAW As TRANSPARENT HUMBUC

Washington. May 2l.-Denouncing
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law As
transparent humbug,' attacking the
tarin views of its author, Represen.
tatiye Serene Payne. republican. New
York. and vigorously assailing Pres
idcnt Taft for his support of that
law. Representative Champ Clark OF
Missouri. leader of the democratic
minority today delivered IN the house
So hat is regarded as the democratic
Keynote speech of the coming con
grcssional campaign. Mr.. Clark had
prepared his address with great care
and spoke at length. giving facts and
figures in support Il his contention
that the tariff had not been honestly
revised and that the republican ma
iority ia congress had endeavored to
trick the people Mr. Clark also paid
his respects incidentally 20 the $3.50
600 item in the Sundry Civil appro-
priation bill for the creation of
tariff board. He said in part:
During this debate we have wit
messed spectacle perhaps without
parallel in the annals of congress.
First. we heard the gentlemen from
New York CMr. Payne) chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee and
the republican floor leader. make
vitrl5lic attack on the speech of the
Hon Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver,
republican senator from Iowa. recent
| ly delivered in the city of Des Moines
both speeches being upon the subject
OF the tariff a subject which will not
down at any mans bidding, and
/ which. like the poor. We have with
us always Nobody appointed me
| to defend Senator Dolliver. This
| much. however. | will say for him.
| have for years regarded him as
/ the greatest orator in the republican
! party | would travel far to hear
debate on the stump between him
and the gentleman from New York.
When it was over. am certain that
the country. for considerable dis
tance around would be so fairly sat
uratcd with oil that It would be dan
gerous to strike match in the
neighborhood. and it would not be oil
! out of Mr.. Delivers coporcsity
! The next day We heard the gentle
man from Michigan CMr. Fordney)
who Is republican of high degree,
deliver most bitter and vicious as
sault upon Senator Beveridge. the
republican boss of Indiana. On ac-
count of a speech delivered recently
at Indianapolis \ stump debate
between these two eminent rcpub-
Leans would double discount in iu-
tercst any vaudeville show ever pull.
ed of in America Listening to the
attack OF the republican gentleman
from New York upon the republican
senator from Iowa. and the attack
of the republican gentleman from
Michigan upon The republican senator
the Psalmist: Behold how good and
how pleasant II Is for brethren 10
dwell in unity and then comes TO
my mind the question now ringing
through the land, What is IA rcpubli-
can?'
In making a speech in defense Of
his tariff bill Mr.. Chairman Payne
appeared To be performing disagree.
able stunt He did not eNhibi; his
usual enthusiasm CT his oldtime fc-
licity Of expression He appeared
to be in about as cheerful a frame
oi mind as a lawyer appointed by the
court defending without fee maa
that he feels certain will be con
victed and hanged. Clearly. II was
20 him a repulsive job but II had
80 be- gone through with some way.
lie appeared I. be in the frame OF
mind OF Macbeth when about to mur-
der Duncan: III it. were done, when
It's done then 'twere Wei it were
done quickly
MIR Chairman Payne wae evident.
ly I'm very fretful state. lie also
seems to be- afflicted with new
disease Intermittent forgetfulness
He remembered with great vivid
ness the soup houses of 1898 and
1894, but when It came to the soup
houses ,f 1907. a very recent oc-
curreuce and the soup houses of 1873
his memory failed him utterly, Il
does not need psychologist or
phrenologist 10 account for this state
e mind on his part. the reason being
that the soup houses of 1873 and
1907 were under republican admins
twtion and under tariff laws passed
by the republican party, while the
soup houses of 1898, throght the out
growth Of a panic caused by a repub