The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-25
Governor Reviews State
Issues and Hits RGpub-
IiCan Waste
REPUBLICANS HAVE NOT
KEPT THEIR PROMISES
Governor Harmon Attacks Payne Tariff
Bill as Entirely Inadequate for
American Commerce, Which
Is Growing Fast

| Canton, O., September 24.-In the middle
of steady drizzling rain, which lasted
the entire day, several thousand demo-
Gratis marched to the auditorium hall to-
day to listen to Gov. Judson Harmon de-
liver the first speech of the fall CAM
paign.
The event marked the real opening of
hostilities between the rival parties as
the republicans, under the leadership of
Warren G. Harding. gubernatorial nomi-
nee, fired their first gun week ago at
Kenton, o.
Governor Harmon confined his address
mainly to a review of state issues and
especially to what he claimed had been
the persistent efforts of the republican
legislature to block popular measures
which he had endeavored to have enacted.
In respect to national politics Mr.. Har-
mon scored the republican administra-
ton for what he termed it's wasteful ex-
penditure, and also attacked the Payne
Aldrich bill as legislation inimical to the
| interest of the consumers.
He declared that the republican party
had not kept it's campaign promises and
told his audience that the only hope for
| the people lies in the success of ma
tional democratic ticket.
| Atlee Pomerene, candidate for lieu-~
tenant governor. followed Governor Har-
mon. He made bitter attack upon
George B. Cox of Cincinnati and incl
dentally scored President Taft for the
alliance which the speaker said the
President had made with the Cincin-
natl leader in 1908. Mr.. Pomerene declared
tha .sahe state of Ohio moght be willing to
trus Mr.. Harding, but that they would
never trust Harding and Cox.
Governor Harmon spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Congress is now appropriating s1.0o0.-
100000 at each session, every cent of
which Is levied on the people of the
country by taxation in some form. And
| it is confessed that extravaganza and
rnismanagement caused waste of not
less than s3O000o,Ooo each year in the or
dinary conduct of the government, which
| Is more than the combined expenditures
| of all the states In the union.
"It Is surely time the people should
| bestir themselves in this matter, for
| everyone of them Is compelled to pay
| federal taxes on almost everything he
| DuyS LOT CuubuIup9OH OF OtutT uSes
whether he owns property subject to state
and local taxation or not.
"And everyone is not only compelled to
contribute to this enormous outlay of the
federal government, but is also made to
pay a much greater amount in the shape
| of increased prices on goods made In this
country because of q tariff law framed
| for the express purpose of making him
| to do this to swell the profits of manu-
| facturers.
1.-The people were long deceived about
| this, but they were aroused by the
awakening which came at last that the
| republican leaders were forced to prom
| ise prompt relief by reducing the tariff
| taxes special session of Congress was
called to make the promise good. How
they did It has been told by many re-
publican members of high standing a7d
| authority.
''These men have shown how slight re-
ductions were made where they would
l. give the people no relief, but furnish y
basis for the misleading of figures:
how by artful phrases whose meaning
and effect were not generally understood
pretended reductions made were really
increases, especially on the cheaper quail
tiles of goods used by citizens of small
means; how the whole performance was
nothing but evasion and deceit, dictated
by the very interests from whose oppres-
sion the people of the country were lod
to expect release.
AFTER vain attempts to pass Off the
new tariff bill as the keeping of faith,
It is virtually confessed that 1t was not
And the promise to reduce the tariff taxes
so as to give relief has now been re-
ferred to a. commission to decide at some
future time. whether 1t shall be kept or
not.
There Is plainly but one way open to
the voters-either to administer a rebuke
or to secure a redress-and that is By
election of democrats to represent ths0
in the making of national laws"