Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-07-20
.D0LL..|VE|R|:' HOT SHOT |.
Iowa Senator Tells How Presi-
dent Was Hoodwinked
PRODUCES THE EVIDENCE

Draws Scathing Contrast Between In
surgency and Party ResuIarity-The
Bargain Counter at WASHINGTON.
Will Fight Corruption a. Republic an.
Senator Dolliver delivered on June
13 In the United States senate a ring
Ing speech. which was a masterly
vindication Of the insurgent position.
The speech was very poorly reported
IN the newspapers. The Johnstown
tla.' 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
1t is unfortunate for the people as a
whole that they have not the oppor.
tunity of reading this mastery defense
OF the anti-tariff Republicans:
when 1t Is said that l betray nv
party. that fight against the Repub-
l1can party. | deny it. fight for the
Republican party and propose, with
millions of other people. to do what l
can to make 1t more than ever the
sery>,nt Of the great community which
1t has represented for so! MANY years.
without undertaking to speak for
others aud measuring. as we'll as /
have been able to do. the organized
forces Of politics and business. so
called. already actively .rrayed
against me. propose to tell the Amer
lean people exactly what went on here
last summer and exactly what Is going
on here now.
1T Is disagreeable duty. but it
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 relations 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.
If 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
| ganiZed defamation Of our political
characters has been set on foot. pro
ceeding from the highest public officers
| OF the government. executive and leg:
| 1slative. and from 80 called cam
| paign committee presided over by q
mutimil.ionairep promoter of street car
franchises with a treasury filled with
rotten money. out of which is flowing
a steady stream Of campaign iitera.
ture. vest pocket literature. much OF
1t hearing the mark of the bureau OF
engraving and printing. and dull
muddy stream of parasitic eloquence
| S"0sO Warmly
1.-THE president is in error. 1t Is no,
necessary for men to swallow every
tariff law that is set before them OF
In conscience abandon the party 1t is
| going to be a very difficult thing to &c,
me out Of the old Republican party. II
cannot be done by lying about me. as
those have done who said that l held q
brief for foreign importers. 1t canno,
be done by calling me names. like free
trader. Democrat or whatever names
may be selected to prejudice me in g
Republican community"
| He quoted the president as saying
'"rhe house and senate took evidence
! and said:
who told him that? The house
took evidence. though the chairman OF
the finance committee boosted on this
floor that he had never read 1t. not
withstanding the fact that 1t was
printed in books. but the senate TOOK
no evidence. or If it did 1t was Of the
wireless kind 'laughter,. taken in SO
cret and the fact denied on this fiool
by the chairman Of the committee
1.-THE house did take evidence. and
have 1t right here. They took an evi
denre 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
thar they were satisfied. prosperous
and contented and asked congress tc
make no change In the law Mr. Ross
of the New Bedford mills made the
same request in plain terms. and Mr.
1ippitt. who represented all the Other
cotton mills OF New England. again
and again asked the committee tC
make no change in the schedule ap
pIicable to the cotton cloths.
How They Fooled Taft.
"Now. with all these facts within
easy reach. l intend to talk plainly. be-
cause am face to face with people
who are talking plainly to me- 1t Is
dfscouraging to all friends of fair deal
ing IN the United States to have these
brethren pass up to the president OF
the Cnfted States. to be used for pub
lie instruction. a 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.OOO3O, when. If hi