Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-13
DOLLNER ON TARIFF
Regulates Payne-AIdrich Act,
But Still a Republican.
REFUSES TO QUIT PARTY
Thinks President Inconsistent in De.
Tending Measure.
NOT SCARED BY THREATS
Would Rejoice at Being Relieved
From the "Yoke of Patronage"
Reply of Insurgents.
NOT SCARED BY THREATS

when it is said that I fight against
the republican party / deny it, fight for
| the party
This was the keynote of Senator Dol
liver's speech in the Senate today, made
in continuation of the debate in connec-
ton with the sundry civil appropriation
| of $25O,o00 to enable the President to col
lect information concerning the operation
of the present tariff law.
The speech was the reply of "insur-
gent senators to the charges of party
disloyalty. Frequent reference was made
to the Presidents name and speeches.
Mr.. Dolliver declared there was no longer
any freedom of conscience such as had
once made the republican party strong.
Telling how he had supported President
Taft's candidacy, Mr.. Dolliver added:
Will Not Leave Party.
II never dreamed that within a little
more than year l would be called upon
to defend myself and the little group of
men with whom I stand against the
charge of taking seriously the Presidents
speeches and the partys platform
pledges
He exclaimed that he had no intention
Of leaving the republican party, and
would continue to defend his position
and the interests of the people.
The President Is in error said Mr..
Dollfver. ut is not necessary for men
to swallow every tariff bill that is sent
before them. and it will be difficult to
get me out on such a charge. 1t cannot
be done by lying about me or calling me
names, such as free trader OR democrat.
Least of all, it can't be done by taking
from my neck the milestone of political
gustof making a great executive depart
ment the headquarters OF the awkward
squad of politics.
Submit, Quit or Fight.
Mr.. Dolliver said he was mot boasting
that he could live through a warfare in
which so many have perished.'' He added
that he must either submit, or quit, or
fight He said that the republican plat
form did not promise downward revision
OF the tariff, but that if 1t had the
promise could easily have been complied
with by reducing articles protected by
patents or controlled by an information
al trust.
"Then the tariff bin could have been
defended plausibly,' said Mr.. Deliver,
lust as 1t was at Winona. when the
President presented grotesque table of
reductions. prepared by a paymaster in
who assisted the Senate committee on
finance in drafting its tariff bill.
During his speech Mr.. Dolliver referred
to the 1.-TWO great hoaxes of the past
year, the discovery of the north pole by
DR.. Cock and the revision of the tariff
downward by Senator Aldrich.'' This
sally was greeted with general laughter.
Speeches Do Not Agree.
Mr.. Dolliver said that executive felici-
tations had been rendered upon both
events. He declared it was strategic
mistake to circulate as campaign litera-
ture the Presidents Winona speech,
along with his Lincoln day address. as
he said they were contradictory in
terms.
Entirely different reasons were given
in Che two speeches, he said. for con-
ssidering the Payne law the best tariff