The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-21
(concIuded.)

branch of my theme that / approach
with some reluctance. / have been a
Republican long time. have never
had any occasion to repent. but my
heart is greatly touched sometimes
when / hear Republicans say, Yes, |
am Republican, but am progress
siye;;' kind of an apology for being
caught with the gang. I am a Re-
publican, but / do not work at it
much; ! am progressive want to
say to these progressive brethren
that you have got to come back TO
your fathers house. Q.aughter.) /
am the keeper of the ark and cove
nant OF Republicanism: it is my mis-
sion to communicate the truth; and
err chamber the seat of William Nc
Kinley Is to be filled in the next Con-
gress by Democrat; and when you
| find that in the same house the seat
once occupied by James A. Garfield.
for the first time l believe in the his
tory of the district, is to be filled by
a Democrat, these circumstances
should give You pause. want to say,
| if there is progressive here who
wishes to recant, will see him after
! the meeting is out, uaughter)
They say it is a question of sched-
ules. Do you know that glib-tongued
orator could make any schedule writ
ten by the Angel Michael in Heaven
look like thirty cents. if you gave
him time enough to study and play
upon the words therein? They used to
say that in Chic there was man by
the name OF Frank Hurd--I do not
know whether he is now living or
dead, but | presume such men never
die-who, when he had an audience
of farmers in the state OF Ohio, could
take the tariff schedules and make
them so ridiculous that the good ag-
riculturists were prepared, then and
there to go from the schoolhouses
and the churches and boil Republican
leaders in oil out of very Indignation.
He was elected to congress about ev-
cry other term on that doctrine. You
can not elect free trader twice in
succession any more than you can
find man who advocates low tariff
defending low tariff when that tar
if is in operation
do not now recall having read in
history where any party ever defend
ed a low tariff Our Democratic
friends are worried now as to what
they are going to do, because the
south is getting to be nearly as sell
fish as we are. Every man in the
south, including the distinguished
senator from South Carolina (Mr. Till
man), whose seat | have this day in
vaded, has voted for the protection of
his own southern peoples interests.
The Democrats are going to have
trouble, but they are used to it.
(Laughter.) There is one thing | like
about Democratic never knows
when he is whipped. ] heard Champ
Clark say the other night that stead
lily every two years for 16 years he
mad told Uncle Joe Cannon he was
going to have his place and never ar
rived until now. Now he denies the
mule story and the Pennsylvania av.
enue proposition. In fact, the Demo-
Gratis are trembling to know what to
I do. They had this country at one time,
all branches of the government. and
they are not in hurry to try it again.
met Col. Bryan on a train the 9th.
er day. This shows the picturesque
character of our friends, the Demo
Gratis. Col. Bryan and myself are
neighbors and friends. said, Colon
I Ell, just in proportion that you pro-
gress toward fitness for the Presi
dency just in that proportion yopr
chances of getting 1t disappear
Iaughter.) When you we're a danger
GUS man you had a chance Now that
you are conservative you are told you
have none" AS the Gridiron club II.
Illustrated the other night, they wonld
not even consider William Jennings
Bryan. Our Democratic fIiends, whom
tLey had both branches OF congress,
were afraid that by soma means they
would lose one of them, and finally
they did; in fact, they lost it at the
first opportunity the voters had, and
tie Democrats are go'ng to lose on
| THIS proposition. IL was not schedule
X that lost the house. Schedule X is
popular in Chic. where she ep are ind
where wooden mills are The cotton
SCI edule did not do any harm On
election day They ignored the cn.ton
schedule IN Massachusetts They
thought they had that riveted down and
/ u ~ would fight to get something
more.
/ / say the schedules can be torn II
pieces any time, anywhere, IL an ora
! tor is out with them alone before an
audience and nobody is thsre IL cal
attention 10 his sophistry and his in
consistency. A man never comes out
10 Iowa to talk about the farmers
schedules. When he comes to Iowa he
! does not talk about the agricultural
schedule. What does he do? He says,
Iowa Is the best agricultural state
I In the Union and he commences
/ iamba citing somebody else and some