Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-08-31
Asserts Tariff Yoke Was Re-
garded To Light Heart
edly by President.
THE BOARD MUST HURRY
Revisionists Downward Will
Not Wait Long for Ex-
perts Information

QUINCY, H.. Aug. 20.-Champ
Clark, speaker Of the national house
of representatives, before leaving here
early today, replied emphaticaliy to
President Iaft's speech of defiance
to insurgent Republicans and Demo.
Gratis, delivered at Hamilton Mass,
last Saturday.
In a 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 a preteXt for delaying tariff revi-
sion downward the Democrats will cut
off its supplies.
Pleased to Be a Target
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-
5tion. He essayed the rather large
stunt of running amuck on behalf
of the Democrats and the insurgent
Republicans in congress, singing out
Mr.. Chairman Underwood and my
self particularly as Democratic tar.
gets.
II accept his onslaught as a badge
of honor.
"The president and l are personal
friends. He has done me many kind.
nesses and have tried to repay them
SO far as opportunity has served. He
is as a rule most amiable gentle
man, but at this time he seems to
have been in bad temper; because
he sees defeat staring him in the
face | will say nothing unkind about
him, but ! cannot and will not per-
nit his personal structures and his
bald misstatement of historical facts
to so unchallenged.
Calls Criticism urgrateful
''The presidents criticism of Mr..
Underwood and myself. which is es.
sentially criticism of all Democrats
in the house and senate, because all
Democrats stood together. is absO.
1utely uncalled for and is as migrate,
full performance as | can remember
for, if it had not been for the ac-
tion of the Democrats in the house
in both the Sixty first and Sixty-sec-
Ond congresses in lining up almost
unanimously in favor of reciprocity
with Canada. he would have been the
most thoroughly discredited and hui
inflated president since the days of
Andrew Johnson.
Playing Politics.
'The president says that we didn't
that we did play politics about the
tariff The only politics we played
was to keep faith with the people
and to 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 play
ed on reciprocity, the president him
self played it-personal at that.
''He seems to think that we ought
to have adjourned as soon as recip-
rOcity was disposed of-that is, he
seems to think that congress is COM
posed of lot of schoolboys to be
ordered about by him as head teacher;
but he was forewarned both by Mr..
Underwood and myself that if he call
ed the extraordinary session, we
would pass tariff measures and such
other bills as the Democrats deemed
advisable. He will not deny that
statement
Hit Wool Schedule.
Tile had said the rates Of the wool
schedule in the PayneAldrich tariff
bill were too high and ought to be
reduced 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
bill, which largely reduced the eXpens
es of the people by giving them much
cheaper clothing and blankets. He