Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1911-09-07

ms connection . wlsn to ask the RspuD-
iIean candidate for governor. Judge
o'Rear, questions which are very inter-
sstIno to all the people of kentucky and
which Involve cheaper clothing. cheaper
goods. cheaper farming machinery and
Implements, cheaper mechanics tools and
also Justice under the law.
Do you indorse President Taft's veto OF
the bill known a. the farmers free Hat
blnf
DO you indorse President Taft's veto Of
the blu reducing the existing tariff taxes
on wool and WOODEN ooods7
Do you Indorse President Tafts veto Of
cotton eoods7
Do you Inoorse the votes against the
farmers free list bill which were cast by
Senator Bradley and Representative Pow
ere and your campaign chairman. Repre-
sentative LsneIey7
Do you Lndorse the Ryan-AIdrtch tariff
bill which President Tart signed and
which he said was the best Republican
tariff lew ever pssssdf
Do you Indorse the pardon BY Governor
WiIison Of Taylor, Finley. Howard and
powers7
You have been silent on those great
questions, some OF which Involve the re-
duetIon Of the price Of clothing. food,
farming machinery and mechanics tools
to the amount Of hundreds OF millions Of
dollars. These questions are o. grave
and vital Importance to the people Of
Kentucky, and the people OF Kentucky
want to know where you stand. Come
out esndIdy and say whore you are.
Judge O'Rear inconsistent.
Judge O'Rear appears to be incon-
sistent. He claims to be a progress
sive, yet he is for Taft for reelection
as President, and Taft is a standpat-
ter, and O'Rear commended In his
platform Senator Bradley and ReIre-
sentatives Langley and Powers, who
are standpatters. and he has Langley
as his campaign manager, and Bradley
and Langley and Powers voted against
the farmers and laborers' free list bill.
apd the bills reducing tariff duties or
Vol and WOODEN goods aud Oh cotton.
Democratic Tsrln Va. Republican
Tariff. z
PRESIDENT Taft started the tariff
c1-apaign a few days ago at Hamilton,
Mass. when on the 26th of August he
made a speech and severely criticized
Speaker Clark and Representatives
Underwood and Senator LaFollette
and other Senators and Representa-
t.ves for passing the bills he vetoed.
and he accused them Of ignorance o,
TIE effect Of the legislation. and he
reached his climax when he said /,
Men Of Massachnsetts, Il Seems to
re taat the slogan of the Republican
Tarty should involve a National cry
and not be confined to mere State is
sues. Democrats everywhere are ready
to accept this challenge. and we be.
lieve our cause of justice, right and
fair taxation, will be victorious. Il
Both of the great political parties
IN Congress now face the rea!i=st .on
.Sct the defeat by the President OF
so much needed. just and important
tariff legislation at the special session
"a Congress makes certain a tariff bat
tie at the regular session beginning
on the first Monday in December,
next. which will exceed in ferceness
any tariff Rattle which ever occurred,
and that the tariff will go into the
Presidential election next year with
force and fierceness never equaled be-
fore. In all the Presidential contests
where the tariff has been the great is
s-e. Democrats have always been viz
torious, and I hope and believe his
tory will repeat itself in 1912. The
arguments are convincing and unan-
swerable, In support Of the Democratic
position for tariff reduction so as to
get tariff for revenue only as soon as
possible.
The Robert Walker tariff bill, en-.
acted in 1916, Is said to have been TIE
best tariff bill ever passed b. the Con-
gress Of the United States, and its av-
erage rate was less than half the av-
erage rate Of the existing tariff law
II remained on the statute books un-
changed until 1857. period OF eleven
years. James G. Blaine, In his book,
Twenty Years Of Congress-" stated
that the eleven years Of the Walker
tariff were the most prosperous In the
life Of the Republic, and that the peo-
pie were so satisfied with II that In
1856. after II had been In operation ten
years. neither Of the great political
parties which presented Presidential
candidates referred to the tariff In its
platform.
The Morrill, tariff bill was passed in
1865. after the Civil War commenced,
and the Republican party has since
that time In every National platform
promised a revision of the tariff. The
revtsions have always been upward in
stead Of downward. until we now live
under the highest tariff schedule ever
known In the world.
Republicans promised In the last
National contest for President to re-
wise the tariff downward in the inter
est Of the consumers. They revised
Il upward In the interest OF monopo
Hes and manufacturers, but In doinl,
this they made palmer and clearer to
the people than ever before that the
true Democratic doctrine as to the
tariff Is that the Government has no
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