The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-22
NOT A DEBATE.
But McKinlay and Rees Both
Spoke at Manhattan.
Standpatter and Insurgent Made
Mild Statements.
BOTH PRAISED TAFT.
Rees Applauded McKinlay in
the Afternoon.
But He Made a Strong Insur-
gent Speech at Night.

Manhattan. March 22.-Congressman
McKinlay of California, standpatter,
and Judge Rees, insurgent candidate
for congress in this, the Fifth district,
spoke here Monday afternoon and night
respectively. Both speakers used the
same hall and both had good sized
audiences in attendance. Their adj
dresses were marked by moderation
and lack of any bitter feeling or per-
sonalities. Neither made any direct
reference to the other, or undertook to
answer the arguments made for and
against the Payne-A1drich bill.
Never will the Republican party
vote for a Democratic system of tariff
publican to congress to vote for a DEM
ocratic tariff, must understand that
you are voting for Democrat, for
that is all he is. The man who stands
for low tariff, or tariff for revenue,
as the Democrats are pleased to call it,
is a Democrat, no matter what he
claims to be-
This was the opening declaration OF
Congressman McKinlay in his speech
in the afternoon. This is the nearest
he has come in any of his Kansas
speeches to treading on the toes of the
insurgents. He emphasized the point
because some of the Republicans here
had told him that Judge r. r. Reese,
who was to answer him at night, was
wavering toward a low tariff; that
Rees was making a fight on the Payne
tariff bill.
In his reply, Judge Rees made no di-
rect answer to this statement, but OBJ
served:
''The feeling is widespread that the
present tariff bill passed at a special
session called by President Taft, after
his election, to redeem the party
pledge, did not fulfill the reasonable
expectations of the people"
The people of Manhattan heard the
tariff discussed from the presidents
point of view in the afternoon and from
an insurgent point of view at night.
Mr.. McKinIay spoke at the opera house
to a good sized crowd. Judge Rees
spoke at night in public hall, also to
good crowd.
Judge Rees' First Campaign Speech.
1t was Judge Rees' opening cam
paign speech against Congressman |
Calderhead. whom he is trying to dis |
lodge. While he was advertised to re- |
ply to McKinlay, his talk did not take
that range to any great extent, for the |
reason, as Judge Rees himself said |
after hearing McKinlay:
1--WE do not disagree on the broad |
principles of Repubicanism or the pro- !
tective tariff system as laid down by |
him." In fact, Judge Rees Joined with |
others in applauding the McKinlay |
speech.
Congressman Mck1nidy TOOK Occa-
sion to predict that former President
Roosevelt would soon return and back
up President Taft in his great fight to
carry out the Republican policies. He
said that while the ex-president had
not uttered a word one way or the |
other while in Africa, it was certain
that he would stand by Taft to the
last.
McKinlay said that the Outlook, one
end of which was edited by Colonel
Roosevelt, had recently paid a high
tribute to President Taft, and had in
dorsed the new tariff bill. In reply to
this, Judge Rees said that the Outlook
former president is not responsible for
its attitude on any question except
when over his own signature
McKinlay took the tariff as his text
from start to finish. He said that the
people of this country showed by their
votes at the last presidential election
that they did not want Democratic
tariff; if they had, they would have
elected Bryan and a Democratic con-
gress.
."These agents of the low tariff bunch
are telling YOU farmers that you are
being robbed by the Eastern factories
and are telling the Eastern factory
workers that they are being robbed by
Won 1t is a finn fam game; they tell
YOU that you ought to vote for low
tariff because your products must COM
Dete in the worlds market Well If it
does not make any difference, why is
if that YOU cid not get as much for
vo1Ir products in the worlds market
under Cleveland's administration as
you are getting now2 You had the /
worlds market then. as now. The fact
is your best market is the nome mar
your products fall in price. You sell