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


o'Rear. questions which are very inter-
estIno 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 lndorse President Taft's veto Of
the bill known as the farmers free list
blnf
Do you Indorse President Tafts veto u
the bill reducing the existing tariff taxes
on wool and WOODEN eoods7
Do you Indorse President Tafts veto Of
the bill reducing the existing taxes on
cotton soods7
Do you inoorse tho votes against the
farmers free list bill which were cast by
Senator Bradley and Representative Pow
ere and your campaign chairman. Repre-
sentative LangIey7
Do you Lndorse the Ryan AIdrtch tariff
bill which President Taft signed and
which he said was the best Republican
tariff law ever passed.
Do you Indorse the pardon by Governor
Wilson Of Taylor. Finley, Howard and
Powers7
You have been silent on these great
questions, some Of which involve the re-
ductIon Of the price Of clothing, food,
farming machinery and mechanics tooIs
to the amount OF hundreds Of millions OF
dollars. These questions are Of grave
and vital Importance to the people OF
Kentucky, and the people Of Kentucky
want to know where you stand. Come
out canoIdy and say where 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 Rel re-
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 AID laborers' free list bill.
and the bills reducing tariff duties or
uOUi aud wooden goods aud on cotton.
Democratic Tarltf vs.. Republican
Tariff. -,
PRESIDENT TAFT started the tariff
| ,--9raign few days ago al Hamilton,
Mass, when on the 2Gth of August he
made a speech ana severely criticized
Speaker Clark and Representatives
Underwood and Senator LaFollette
and other Senators and Representa-
| t.Nes for passing the bills he vetoed
and he accused them Of ignorance o,
tie effect of the legislation. and he
/ -dched his climax when he said,>
Men Of massachusetts,, It seems to
e That the slogan of the Republican
arty should involve a National cry
i and not be confined to mere State is
| sues. Democrats everywhere are ready
| t. 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 reali-a, on
.Nct the defeat by the President of
so much needed, just and important
tariff legislation at the special session
q Congress makes certain 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
force and ferceness never equaled be-
fore. In all the Presidential contests
where the tariff has been the great is
s"e, Democrats have always beer vic
torious, and | 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
arifp fnr
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 ay-.
erage rate of the existing tariff law.
It remained on the statute books I'M
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 1t that In
1856. after It 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 revision Of the tariff. The
revisions have always been upward in
stead Of downward, until we now live
under the highest tariff schedule ever
known In the world.
National contest for President to re-
wise the tariff downward In the inter
est Of the consumers. They revised
II upward In the interest of monopo
lies and manufacturers. but in doina
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
right in equity or In law to collect a
dollar Of taxation except for its own
support. and that Republican doctrine