The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-08-25
BIames Taft and Tariff.

Kansas City, Aug. $50 many
reasons exist why the Democrats will
carry the next House of Representa-
tiveS, says Congressman James 7.
Lloyd of the First Missouri District,
chairman of the National Democratic
Congressional Committee, that it is
quite confusing to single out any par
ticular one. The Democratic majority
will be about forty, Mr.. Lloyd de-
clareS.
Mr.. Lloyd came here to-day from
Chicago to address the Young Mems
Democratic club at a MONDAY lunch
con.
As to the causes for the reversion
of sentiment in the country, Mr.. Lloyd
puts at the top of the list the Payne
Aldrich tariff, the high cost of living,
and President Taft.
President Taft is conducting sim
gular administration" Mr.. Lloyd
said. For the first time in the his
tord of the country an extensive press
censorship exists at Washington.
There is disposition to hide every
thing from the people. An executive
order prevents the giving out of in
formation to anybody, anywhere, I'M
less you get that from a cabinet Of
ficer.
"The people began to distrust the
President when they learned who
was in his cabinet. II is too closely
identified with the interests. OF
course, the chief trouble has been
that the President has failed to carry
out his campaign promises as they
were understood by the people, espe-
cially as to tariff legislation. In the
face of that he said it is the best tariff
bill ever passed. In Legislative way
the people are thoroughly tired Of
the Cannon system and its results.
They may tell you that Cannon
will be eliminated. But eliminating
Cannon does not eliminate his sys-
TEN. We have nothing against Can
non personally. Unless conditions
change, Cannon will be the next Re-
PUBLICAN caucus nominee for Speaker.
For example, you start with twenty
eight Republicans from Pennsylvania,
every one regular. The regular
Republican nominees, wherever they
dare to assert themselves, will be for
Cannon. The only regulars who will
not support Cannon will be the men
forced by local conditions, as in the
case of Congressman Longworth,
to be against him. The man who
may be made, Speaker by the regu-
lars will carry out the same policies.
Mr.. Lloyd had good word for the
insurgents "You can put it down."
he said, 'that any legislation benefi-
cial to the people that has been en-
acted during the administration of
President Taft has been the result of
the combined action of the insurgents
and Democrats. If it had not been
for the insurgents and Democrats
there would have been no statehood
legislation, and the railroad-rate leg
islation would have lost its effective
ness. Next to the election of Demo-
crat, an insurgent is the best kind of
Congressman to elect. But to get rid
of Cannonism in its entirety the peo-
pie should elect Democratic House"
Mr.. Lloyd declared the platform of
the Republican insurgents was dec
laration against party perfidy, the
protest that Democrats had been
making for twenty years.
Representative C. c. Dickinson, of
the Sixth Missouri district, and Rep
tentative Joshua Alexander, of the
Third district, spoke. Among the
guests were ]. N. Dougherty, Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in the
Fifteenth Missouri district, and Rep
resentative w. P. Borland, of Kansas
City.