The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-14
HOT SHOT
Iowa Senator Tells How Presi-
 dent Was Hoodwinked
PRODUCES THE EVIDENCE


 sursenoy and Party ResuIarity-The
 Bargain Counter at Washington.
 Will Fight Corruption as Republican.
 Senator Deliver delivered on June 13 in the United States senate ring ing speech, which was a masteriy vindication of the insurgent position. The speech was very poorly reported in the newspapers The Johnstown Pa.) Democrat is the only paper we have seen that gives anything like an adequate report. We give below some of the more telling passages in the speech as it appeared in that paper. It is unfortunate for the people as a whole that they have not the oppor- tunity of reading this masterly defense of the anti-tariff Republicans:
 'When it is said that I betray my party, that 1 fight against the Repub- Hcan party, I deny it. I fight for the Republican party and propose, with millions of other people, to do what can to make it more than ever the servant of the great community which it has represented for so many years.
 Without undertaking to speak for others and measuring, as we'll as l have been able to do, the organized forces of politics and business, so called. already actively arrayed against me, propose to tell the Amer ican people exactly what went on here last summer and exactly what is going on here now.
 "It is disagreeable duty, but 1t could have been avoided altogether if the president. who had nothing or next to nothing to do with the framing of the tariff law, had felt content to leave members of congress to settle with their own constituencies the question of their party rela tions without inter posing the prestige of the greatest po- litical office in the world to humiliate and discredit and disparage men who, in failing effort to carry into effect his own campaign utterances, had al- ready been expelled from the party on the floor of both houses of congress by constructive statesmen,' who derided the candidates opinions when they were uttered in the campaign and laughed out loud when they were re- peated in the senate debates.
 eff those who were unable to vote to make the Republican support of the tariff act of 1909 unanimous have made any mistake it is that we have remained silent too long, while an or <yor dofo nf rnaIffiao1 I characters has been set on foot, pro- ceeding from the highest public officers of the government, executive and leg islative, and from a SO called 'cam- paign committed presided over by a multimilliOnaire promoter of street car franchises with treasury filled with rotten money, out of which is flowing steady stream of campaign Htera- ture. vest pocket literature, much of 1t bearing the mark of the bureau of engraving and printing. and a dull. muddy stream n of parasitic eloquence.
 Sherp Warning For Taft.
 "The president is in error It is not tariff law that is set before them or in conscience abandon the party. It is going to be very difficult thing to get me out of the old Republican party. It cannot be done by lying about me, as those have done who said that held a brief for foreign importers. It cannot be done by calling me names, like free may be selected to prejudice me in a Republican community"
 He quoted the president as saying, '"The house and senate took evidence" and said:
 "Who told him that? The house took evidence. though the chairman of the finance committee boasted on this floor that he had never read it, not withstanding the fact that 1t was printed in books, but the senate took no evidence. or if 1t did it was of the wireless kind Qaughter), taken in se- cret and the fact denied on this floor by the chairman of the committee.
 '"The house did take evidence, and have it right here. They took an evi- dence of people representing the Ark wright club, representing the textile industrial organizations, the wage working population of textile New England And what was the testi- mony? The wageworkers testified that they were satisfied, prosperous and contented and asked congress to make no change in the law. MT. Ross of the New Bedford mills made the same request in plain terms, and MT. Lippitt, who represented all the other cotton mills of New England, again and again asked the committee to make no change fin the schedule ap- plicable to the cotton cloths.
 How They Fooled Taft.
 "Now, with all these facts within easy reach. I intend to talk plainly, be- cause I am face to face with people who are talking plainly to me. It is discoura ging to all friends of fair deaI ing in the United States to have these brethren pass up to the president of the United States, to be used for pub lie instruction, statistical table which represents him as saying that the cot ton duties have not been increased ex- cept upon certain grades to the amount of S41, ,246 .OOO.3O. when, if he had had the table with him, a mere glance at it would have shown that that closely calculated S41 100000 did not refer to cotton cloths at all; that the only thing it purported to refer to