Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-29
CHAMP CLARK
Makes reply
DEMOCRATIC LEADER TAKES
TAFT's SPEECH TO HEART
AND MAKES COMMENTS.
In His Opinion the Democrats in Con-
gress by United Action Saved tho
President From humiliation,
(By Associated prsas)

QUINCY, ILL.,, Aug. 29.-Champ
Clark, speaker of the national house
of representatives, before leaving here
early today, replied emphatically to
President Taft's speech of defiance to
the insurgent Republicans and Demo-
Gratis delivered at Hamilton, Mass,
last aSturday: In sighting the inter-
view the speaker accused the presi-
dent OF not stating facts.
He said he did not reply for the in
surgent Republicans who mo doubt
will take up the cudgels in their own
behalf" He declared among other
things that if the tariff board is to
be used as a pretext for delaying the
tariff revision downward the Demo-
Gratis Will cut off it's supplies.
President Taft's speech at Hamil.
ton, Mass, last Saturday." said Speak.
er Clark, "can only be described as
remarkable when the history of the
recent past is taken into considera.
ton. He essayed the rather large
stunt OF running amuck on both Dem
ocrats and the insurgent Republicans
in congress, singing out Chairman
Underwood and myself particularly as
Democratic targets
II accept his onslaught as a badge
OF honor. The presidents criticism
of Underwood and myself, which is es.
sentially q criticism of all the Demo.
Gratis III the house and senate, because
all Democrats stood together, is abso-
ldtely uncalled for and is as ungrate-
ful performance as I can remember,
for if it had not been for the action
of the Democrats in the house in both
the Sixty-first and sixty-second con-
crosses in lining up almost unanimous
ly in favor of reciprocity with Canada,
he would have been the most thor
oughly discredited and Inundated
president since the days of Andrew
Johnson.
with all the influence and patron.
age of his great Office he could not
muster majority of the house repub-
llcans for reciprocity in either the
61st or 62nd congresses.
AFTER we pulled him out of the hole
in the 61st congress he wrote a let.
ter of thanks to Mccall of Massachu.
setts and the republicans, and not
word of thanks to the democrats.
When we repeated the performance
of pulling him out of the hole in the
62nd congress he did divide thanks
between the democrats and republi.
cans.
"That was after l and other demo.
Gratis had expressed our opinions with
considerable force and bluntness
about his letter Of thanks to Mccall.
President Taft says that he didn't
play politics about reciprocity but
that we did play politics about the
tariff. The only politics we played
was to keep faith with the people and
to religiously redeem the promises
we made in order to win the election
in 1910 which is the best and noblest
sort of politics.
IF any politics was played on re.
the president himself played
it. Personal at that. 1t will be noted
that while the presidents conscience
would not permit him to sign the bill
revising any one schedule, the wool
schedule. the rates of which he de.
clared to be too high, and in need of
reduction without recommendation
from his board of non-expertA he
promptly signed the outrageous Payne
Aldrich- Smoot tariff bill without
counsel or advice of any tariff board
what so ever" ~