The Washington herald., 1910-06-14
DOLLIVER SCORES
PRESIDENT TAFT
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content to leave MEMBERS OF Congress to
settle with their own constituency the
question of their party relations without
interposing the prestige of the greatest
political Office in the world TO humiliate
and discredlt and disparage men who in
a falling effort TO carry into effect his
own campaign utteranees had already
been expelled from the party on the floor
Of both houses Of Congress by construct
I've statesmen who derided the candi-
dates opinions when they we're uttered in
the campaign and laughed out loud when
they were repeated in the Senate de-
bates.
Keep silence Too Long.
Senator Dolliver added that IL the IN
surgents have made any mistake. il was
In remaining silent too long. while an
organized campaign of defamation has
been set on foot proceeding from the
highest public officers of the government
and from a sO-called campaign commit
tee presided over by multi-millionaire
promoter of street car franchises. with
treasury filed with rotten money, out Or
which is flowing a steady stream OF cam
paign literature, much OF 1t bearing the
mark of the Bureau OF Engraving and
Printing and a dull. muddy stream OF
parasitic eloquence."
Senator Dolliver said the President was
in error If he thought It necessary for
men TO swallow every tarfff law set be-
fore them or else in conscience abandon
the party.
at cannot be DONE" said Senator Dol
liver, "by lying about me, as those have
done who said that I held a brief for
foreign importers. 1t cannot be done by
calling me names like freetrader OF DEM
ocrat. Least OF all, can it be done by
taking from about my neck the MILL
stone OF political patronage through
which even Presidents OF the United
States have more than once been drowned
IN the midst of the sea
shares Disgust of Public.
In common with good citizens every
where. 1 share the universal disgust
which has arisen on seeing the greatest
executive department made the head
quarters for the awkward squad of poll
tics, bucket shops for dealing in political
futures upon margins calculated from the
record of the yeas and nays.
II cannot forbear to express my sorrow
that with nearly three full years 10 win
confidence of the American people by an
intelligent Interpretation OF the public
will II should be thought necessary TO
bolster a falling political enterprise. 10
revive the most odious degradations Of
parliamentary government in other lands
by doing out the Offices which belong to
the people, In exchange for the votes
which their representatives hold by a
solemn trust"
Downward Revision a Myth
The Iowa Senator said Il was true. as
President Taft remarked in his IIneoln's
birthday speech in New York. that We
did not promise 10 revise the tariff down
ward
"The President" said Senator Dolli-
yer, spoke the literal truth. We made
no promise for the downward revision OF
| the tariff. II we had made a promise
1 like that Il would have been compare
| lively easy to have executed 1t. A few
reductions, judiciousiy made, and it
would have literally fulfilled the promise,
and It would be possible for stump
! speakers to repeat. as was done at
| Winona. that grotesque table OF alleged
/ statistics about the effect Of the tariff
/ reductions. a curious table made Up FOR
| the guidance OF Congress by a paymastef
in the army and attributed by the Presi-
dent to the midnight researches Of Mr..
| Payne"
Senator Dolliver contended that any
| body who analysed the statistics would
| find out that the reductions for the most
| part were insignificant and without com,
mercial Importance Of any sort.
Defense Left to Strangers.
Senator Dolliver said that the tariff Of
1909 had been revised by its friends, who
thereupon had left It's defense practically
10 strangers.
IT suppose" said Senator Dolliver,
that there was reasonable ground for
the idea that the exact character OF the
measure could be concealed from the
public, but I doubt very much whether
the most buoyant lobbyist about this
Capitol ever dreamed that the laundering
work OF Congress, when once read and
| known OF all men, could be surrounded
by bogus statistics and so fortified by
high official sanctions as to create q
favorable impression in the minds OF a
very large number OF discreet citizens,
The tariff legislation in this body
the Senator added, was lifted bodily out
OF the hands a the peoples representa-
tlves and made a mere interchange of
mutual interests, In which the public got
no share.
'T want 10 divorce the Republican
party" said Senator Dolliver, in con-
elusion. from the corrupt leadership
and the corrupt influences that have
dominated it, and make it the active
force behind the new and greater
movement that Is coming"
Senator Dolliver spoke in favor OF
the s25o,000 appropriation for the tar
if board TO enable them to obtain
facts for future revision.
After Senator Delivers speech, the
Clay motion TO eliminate the appTo-
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