Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-09-02
DAMAGE is .HEAVY.CLARK RAPS TAFT
Speaker Opens Fire on
Presidents "KayaOte.
ASSAaS VITO OF WOOL Bill.
Champ Clark Declares the President
Lost His Temper Seeing De-
feat Staring Elm in
the Face.

the Face.
Quincy, ILL.,, Aug 30.--Champ Clark.
speaker of the national house of repre-
sentatiyes, before leaving here, replied
emphatically to President Tafts key
note tariff" speech, delivered at Ham
ilton, Mass, last Saturday
In signed interview the speaker
| accused the president of not stating
facts. He said he did not reply for
the insurgent 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 pretext for delaying
tariff revision downward, the Demo.
Gratis will cut off It's supplies.
President Tafts speech at Hamilton,
Mass, last Saturday" said Speaker
Clark, 'can only be described as re-
markable when the history of the re-.
cent session is taken into considera-
ton. He essayed the rather large stunt
of running amuck on both the Demo-
cratic and the insurgent Republicans
in congress, singing out Chairman
Underwood and myself particularly asI
Democratic targets.
Il accept his onslaught as a badge
of honor. The president and are per
sonal friends. He has done me many
kindnesses and | have tried to repay
them as far as opportunity has served.
He is as a rule most amiable gentle
man; but at the time he. seemed toI
have been in bad temper because heI
saw defeat staring him in the face. Il
would say nothing unklnd about him,
but / cannot and will not permit his
personal structures and his bald
misstatement of historical facts to gol
unchallenged.
Insurgents Will Take UP Cudgels.
MY observation and experience
prove to my mind that Senator LaFo-
lette and the insurgents are able tol
take care of themselves. So | leavel
them out OF this interview. They will
no doubt take up the cudgels in their
own behalf
The presidents criticism of Mr.
Underwood and myself, which is es
sentially a criticism of all DemocratsI
in the house and senate. because all
Democrats stood together, Is absolute
ly uncalled for and is as ungrateful al
performance as / can remember, for i'll
it had not been for the action of the
Democrats in the house In both the
Sixty-first and Sixty congresses
in lining up almost unanimously inI
favor of reciprocity with Canada, he
would have been the most thoroughly
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 a majority of house Republi
cans for reciprocity in either thel
Sixty-frst or the Sixty-second con
gress After we pulled him out of thel
hole in the Sixty-first congress heI
wrote a letter of thanks to Mr.. Nc
Call, of Massachusetts. and the Re
publicans and not word of thanks tD
the Democrats.
when we repeated the performance
OF pulling him out of the hole In the
Sixty-second congress he did divide
the thanks between Democrats an
Republicans. That was after and 9th
err Democrats had expressed our opin-
ions with considerable force and blunt
ness about his letter of thanks to Mr..
| Mccall
1.-THE president says that we did not
| play politics about reciprocity, but
| that we did play politics about the
I tariff. The only politics we played was
| to keep faith with promises we made
| In order to win the election in 1910
l which is the best and noblest sort OF
| politics. If any politics was played on
reciprocity. the president himself
! played it-personal at that.
Raps Wool Veto.
"He had said the rates of the wool
| schedule in the Payne-Aldrich tariff
| bill we're too high and ought to be re-
/ duced. We reduced them. In the teeth
| of his Winona speech. and his other
| declarations to the effect that said
rates were too high, and ought to be
| reduced, he vetoed our wool bin which
| largely reduced the rates and would
| have greatly relieved the people by
| giving them much cheaper clothing
and blankets. He vetoed 1t. thereby
going over boots and breeches to the
stand patters.
I'VE cheerfully meet him on that is
sue We stand for the best interests
Of the masses; he stands for hand
full OF protected tariff barons. and by
his veto enables them to continue Il
levy unjust and exorbitant tribute on
the consumers of the land. He appears
to hope that the consumers will kiss
| his hand. which is the hand that smote
hem sorely.
THE president endeavors to convey
he impression that Mr.. underwood
md advocated his tariff commission
We did no such thing, What Under
wood and did advocate and vote fol
was board Of tariff experts to be gov
II armed nv and made responsive to the