The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-22

/ Il will now drop the gentleman
from New York" exclaimed Mr.. Clark,
and go after bigger game. to-
wit. the President of the United
States. He is not only the chief trav-
eler. but Is the chief spokesman for
B his party. He deserves To be treated
with candor amt respect, but have
perfect right to discuss his utter
ances as ! would those of any other
public man. | wish TO call attention
OF all concerned to the fact that the
President said on the jth OF August,
1909. that the bill is not perfect bill
or complete compliance with the
promises made, strictly interpreted. |
President Is flat contradiction OF the
assertion of the gentleman from New
York that his bill is a perfect compli-
ance with the promises made prior
To the election OF 1909. In Septcm-
ber. 1909, the President went on an
extensive speech-making tour. begin
ming with Il speech in Boston, in which
/ he euloeized Senator Adrich to the
skies. That was the first serious
wound which the President inflicted
upon his own popularity, for right or
/ wrong, and | think right. the Ameri-
can people hold Senator Aldrich large
/ ly responsible for the enormity of the
/ Payne-Aldrch tariff bill. On the 18th
OF September. 1909. the President said
in Winona, Mimi: on the whole. how
ever. am bound to say that | think
the Payne tariff bill is the best tariff
bill that the Republican party ever
passed
When the American people read
that declaration the next morning
/ and remembered the utterance which
statement of August ;. they wondered
what change had come over the spirit
of his dream. They could not recon
/ cile the two statements. They knew
/ that the tariff bill had not changed
since August ), 1909, and they mar
yelled as to how a bill, which the
/ President declared on that day to be
neither "A perfect bill nor n complete
compliance with the promises made,
could on the 18th day of September
be the best tariff bill that the Re
t.t,h a,tts hn.
perfumes of 'Araby the Blest. cannot
sweeten the Payne-Aldrich tariff bln
to please the dainty nostrils of the
| people. They believe il to be the
worst tariff bill ever passed by the
American congress That speech was
| the serious wound number two, which
the President inflicted on his own
1 popularity"
/ Mr.. Clark then devoted himself TO
the steel schedule of the tariff law
and President Taft's endorsement Of
/ 1t. He declared that what the people
wanted in revision of the tariff
was IA reduction OF prices to just
basis. which is precisely what they
did not get"
Turning to the wooden schedule
which he said the President admitted
was too high. and facing the Republi
can side of the House, Mr.. Clark eX-
claimed:
II have a fair proposition TO make
to the President and my Republican
friends which will promote harmony
and which will bring untold blessings
to the consumers in the land That
the President send message to con
gress, short and vigorous. which shows
that he means business. PROPOSING
substantial reductions In the wooden
goods schedule: let Mr.. Chairman
Payne report that bill from his com.
mittee and put 1t on It's passage. and
without having consulted a single
] Democrat in the House l will give
bond for tho proposition that every
Democrat will line up and vote for Il
n he would recommend Il. II will 90