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The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
DEMOCRATIC YEAR,
SPEAKER DECLARES
Kentucky Legislature Told Tariff
and Trust Issues Will
Win for Party.

Frankfort, KY, March 9.-Predicting
that the tariff and the trust questions
will overshadow all other issues in the
coming Presidential campaign and de
claring the Democratic House had full
filed its every promise, Champ Clark
made a strong appeal for a national
Democratic victory in a speech before the
Kentucky legislature here this afternoon.
The Democrats have absolutely kept
faith with the people," declared the
Speaker. We have redeemed or are in
process of redeeming every promise we
maoc in order to win the election
$It has been given out in a manner
thar seems authoritative that President
Taft proposes to veto any tariff bills we
pass" he said. in reference to the tariff
I'VE welcome such an issue. We do not
believe Il can be blinked, sproposed or
minimized or shunted out of the way
The present tariff law raises about
$3.50 600, 600 a year. 1t is estimated that
every time one dollar goes into Uncle
Sans Golfers under the high protective
the pockets of the tariff barons. This
being true, then the high protective tarifr
costs the people Of this country a billion
and a half yearly. IT is a gross outrage
aid cruelty upon the taxpayers.
The Republicans will undoubtedly at
tempt 70 befog the impending issues and
irTe US away from the tarin and the
trust questions, because they realize that
en- these issues We viii defeat them
mosI decisively.'
The Speaker belittled the attempts at
reform by progressives of the Republican
standphtters because they were In the
minority in their party.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
RIVAL DELEGATES
FROM KANSAS CITY
Contradictory kilograms Received
at the Taft and Roosevelt
Headquarters Here.

The contest over Republican delegates
in Kansas City has now reached the
POINT where two sets OF delegates, one
instructed for Roosevelt and the other
Tledged TO Taft, have been elected The
situation is described in contradictory
teIegrams received at the Taft anC Roose-
Eelt headquarters in this city.
A telegram received from Joseph sc
Coy. secretary Of the Taft Republican
Club. Kansas City. No, reads as follows:
The Republicans representing Los
registered Republican voters of this, the
Fifth Congressional district OF Missouri
who declined to participate in the Kansas
City Star-RoOsevelt primaries on the 18th
instant, or in its convention following.
net here to-day in a duly called and
elected delegate convention and elected
two delegates and two alterrates to Chi
cagO as follows: Joseph Mccoy and
Charles F. Mead delegates, and George
T. Wassom and Edward L. Win, alter
mates, and instructed them to vote for
President Taft's denomination
The dispatch received by the Roosevelt
committee was as follows:
''Thirty-two members of the recently
organized Taft Club met behind a locked
door in a room in the Coates House Ho-
tel this morning. This meeting styled
itself the regular Republican convention
of the Fifth district The convention
elected Joseph Mccoy and C. F. Mead
as delegates to the Chicago national con-
vention. On this basis, the contest will
be taken to the national convention
Representatives of the Associated Press
and reporters of the Kansas City Star
were denied admission to this regular
Republican convention OF the Fifth dis
trict' At the same time that this con-
vention' was meeting in the Coates
House Hotel, the IA delegates elected in
a primary in Kansas City last Thursday
were meeting in another place in Kansas
City, and selected E. r. Sweeney and H.
B. Mann as delegates to the national
convention, and instructed them for
Roosevelt. The primary which selected
these IA delegates expressed its prefer
ence for Roosevelt by a vote of 5.565 for
Roosevelt. and $50 for Taft. Taft men
in Kansas City have been talking a
great deal about light votes at the Re-
publican primary. on Thursday, when
nearly 5000 votes were cast, but the Sig
nificance of these 5000 votes is proved
by the. fact that at the Democratic pri-
maries, held in Kansas City yesterday
(Friday), the total vote was 3,042."
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
AKIN REBUKED FOR
INSULT TO TAFT
Committee Appointed to Decide
Whether Language Shall Be Ex-
plunged from Record.

For using scurrilous language in re-
ferring TO President TAFT, and character
iZing Senator Root as that refriger-
ated yulture Of the dead" Representa-
tive Theron W. Akin, OF New York. the
man without a party was called to
account In the House yesterday. Rep
resentative Foster. OF Illinois, a Demo-
crat, introduced q resolution authoriz-
ing the appointment of a committee OF
FIVE members 10 make an inquiry with
view TO striking the Objectionable
language from the record. The speech
Of MIR. Akin that II believed to have
transgressed the rules was inserted in
the Record on March I under the leave
to print" rule.
In the speech Mr.. Akin attacked the
President because OF his action in re-
jecting recommendations for the ap-
pointment of postmasters made by Mr..
Akin. Mr.. Akin dragged in the Ray
case. declaring, in substance, that the
President had protected this lecherous,
lascivious human field, by the name OF
Ray"
Think of II" continued Mr. Akin.
The President Of the United States PAN
dering to a man who prowled around
the service, debauChing the lives and
virtue OF subordinates' wives. What can
the American people think Of a man who
would cOuntenance and thereby encour-
age a continuation of such foul and de-
plorable conditions in the army OF the
United States
A lively debate marked the passage
of the Foster resolution Of inquiry.
Representative Bartlett of Georgia,
said that Mr.. Atkins remarks were man.
ifestly improper and indecent, and he
eulogized Mr.. Taft as "a great patriot
and a great President"
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
NEW MEXICO'S DELEGATION.

To offset the claim OF the Taft national
bureau that five of the eight delegates
elected in New Mexico are for Taft. the
Roosevelt campaign headquarters last
night issued the following:
"Advices have just been received of the
election of eight delegates from New
Mexico to the Chicago Republican Ma
tional convention. NOminally these eight
delegates are uninstructed, but actually
they are for Roosevelt. These eight
New Mexico delegates were uninstructed
chiefly because of local differences over
the Senatorship. Coupled with the Okla
homa story this OF New Mexico is sig
nificant because, for the first time, the
people are now having the opportunity
OF expressing themselves on the Presi-
Dental question. Hitherto the delegates
to the national conventions have been
elected by Federal officeholders in the
South and in the Philippines, and in
other States the delegates nave been
elected in snap conventions such as that
held in Michigan the other day. The
change is important"
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
ONCE AGAIN |. R.
CHANGES HIS VIEW
Now Rsyerses Himself Upon
the Question of Canadian
Reciprocity.
PARALLEL QUOTATIONS

The latest effort to prove the incon-
sistency OF Col. Roosevelt dealS with his
attitude on reciprocity. According to
statements given out yesterday. Mr..
Roosevelt was formerly an enthusiastic
advocate OF reciprocity, but now he is
equally certain that the farmer ought
of tax reduction.
On February u, 1911, Col. Roosevelt
was quoted by the Grand Rapids Her
aid as expressing his qualification upon
the likelihood of closer reciprocal tariff
and trade relations with Canada, and
with wishing to see the two peoples, the
Canadians and the Americans. drawn to-
gether by the closest ties on a footing
OF equality. interest, and mutual respect.
On the following day he spoke at the Lin
coin Day dinner of the Republican Club
in New York as follows:
Endorsed Reciprocity.
'T want to say how glad am at the
way in which the members Of the club
hero tonight responded to the two ap-
peals made to them to uphold the hands
OF President Taft, both in his efforts to
secure reciprocity with Canada and in
his effort to secure fortification of the
Panama Canal And in addition to what
mas Dtcu sdlQ dDOul TGClpEOGllg Will IAN
ada / would like to make this point: 1t
should always be a cardinal point in our
foreign policy to establish the closest and
most friendly relations to equal respect
and advantage with our great neighbor
on the north. And hail the reciprocity
arrangement, because IL represents an ef-
fort TO bring about closer and more inti-
mate and a more friendly relationship
OF mutual advantage on equal terms De-
~. Il T-NN WnNa
Now SoIicitous for Farmers.
Under date Of February .. 1872, Mr.
Roosevelt wrote a letter to p. V. Collins,
publisher of the Northwestern Agricul-
turist, which clrculates in the Northwest
ern country. particularly Minnesota,
where II has its home. This letter, which
expresses Roosevelt's solicitude for the
American farmer. is printed in the cur
rent issGe OF the paper:
My Dear Mr.. Collins:
You are welcome to make thb letter
public. The reciprocity treaty is now
dead. No useful purpose can be served
by discussing 1t. In any further at
tempt. by reciprocity treaty or otherwise.
to bring about a rearrangement OF the
tariff, there must be no discrimination
against the farmer. no effort to make
him pay the entire burden of reduction.
HIS interests must be considered with the
same care that is given to the consider
alton OF the interests OF other American
citizens.
The welfare OF the farmer. like the
welfare Of the wage-worker, is vital to our
general welfare, and no tariff system -
proper that does not recognize as a
fundamental necessity the need OF caring
for the welfare OF both the wage-earner
and the farmer.
May I ask you to look at the speech
which 1 made in Sioux Falls. September
3, 1910? Before making that speech. l
went over II carefully with Senator Dol
liver: 1t expresses the views I then held
and which / now hold. You will find 1t
on pages 10O-l13 OF the accompanying vol
ume. Sincerely,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
HARMON MANAGERS
ARE CONFIDENT

The local bureau OF the Harmon cam
paign last night issued a statement to the
effect that ''the public will be interested
to learn that latest advices received from
all sections of the country confirm the
belief, which Is steadily growing, that
Gov. Harmon will be nominated by th'
Baltimore convention"
The statement also quotes Democratic
National Committeeman r. H. Johnson
of Texas, as saying that Gov. Harmon Is
the only Democrat who can carry New
York, Ohio, and Indiana. Advices from
Tennessee are quoted as showing ar
increased Harmon interest in that State
and it is added that the Harmon head
quarters in Chicago will be enlarged to-
morrow.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
TAYLOR SYSTEM Is
OPPOSED In HOUSE
Employees in Government Arsenals
and Navy Yards Sustained
by Solons.

Sustaining protests Of thousands Of gov
ernment workmen in navy yards and ar
senals. both here and elsewhere, the
special labor investigating committee OF
the House in its final report yesterday
criticised the so-calIed Taylor system OF
scientific operation. That the Taylor sys-
tenn is not tit for adoption in its entirety
in any government workshop is the con-
clusion Of Representative Wilson, OF
Pennsylvania, chairman of the House La
Dor Committee: Representative Redheld,
OF New York, and Representative Tilson.
OF Connecticut, comprising the commit
tee appointed by the House last Au-
gust.
System Caused Much Trouble.
Employees Of the watertown CMass.)
government arsenal went out on a strike
when the Taylor system was installed.
Strikes at the Rock Island m) arsenal
and the navy yard in this city were
threatened.
Because there are some loafers," says
the committee in its report, lis no rea-
son why the remainder Of the workmen
should be compelled or induced to work
up to the very edge Of a breaking strain
tc hold their positions. There is no eco
nOmic necessity 10 require Workmen to
speed up to the highest point to the in
jury Of their health. To place workmen
in that position is to put them in a posi-
ton OF a beast of burden.
The margin between the work of i
loafer and the maximum work Of men
lies in the proper days work. It cannot
be determined by a stop watch. The
workman would be less than a man II he
did not resent the introduction of any
system which deals with him the same
way as a beast of burden"
Oppose New Wage.
Declaring none of the new-fangIed cost
systems Of regulating output OF workmen
can be recommended for adoption IN
government shops, the committee says
straight day wages at the highest pre-
vailinS rates are the preferable methods.
with piecework orly applied when work
men are assured that their wages will
not be cut unless working conditions are
materially changed.
One Of the chief faults found with the
Taylor system Is that it attempts drastic
changes without regard for the thousands
affected, and who have a right to say
how they shall be governed.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
SENATOR DIXON ASKS
Mr.. M'KINLEY'S AID

Having received a telegram stating that
the bill providing for direct primaries for
delegates-ai-large in Massachusetts has
gone to the Senate, where 1t was pre-
viously defeated by tie vote, Senator
Dixon, the Roosevelt manager, yester-
day addressed a letter TO Director Nc
Kinley, of the Taft bureau, in which he
said:
IF you are sincere in your expression
OF willingness to submit President Taft's
candidacy to the vote of the rank and
file Of Republicans, in direct primary,
wherever such is provided by law, YOU
will Join with me in urging Senator
Crane and his followers in the Massa-
chusetts senate to concur in the House
amendment and thereby provide that all
delegates from Massachusetts shall be
elected In direct primary"
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
SENATOR PERCY
CLINGS TO TOGA
Tells Mississippi Legislators They
Have No Right to Demand
His Resignation.

Senator Leroy Percy. OF Mississippi,
yesterday replied to the demand made
upon him by the general assembly Of
Mississippi that he resign his seat in the
Senate. He told the legislators in an
apen letter that he would not resign He
reminded them that a former legislature
had elected him. In his letter TO the
Mississippi legislature the Senator says,
among other things:
You do not in any way question the
fairness of my election to the Senate,
you negatively admit that ! was fairly
and honorably elected; you do not allege
that during my service in the Senate l
have by word spoken or vote cast been
untrue to the people OF Mississippi
The Senator refers to an alleged prom
ise he is charged with having made that
he would resign his seat IL he failed OF
reelection in the primary. He explains
that his pledge that he would resign had
reference to his request for an extraor-
dinary primary to be held in 1910 instead
Of 1911. His offer, he declared, was not
accepted
ANY statement to the contrary is ut
terly false" writes the Senator to the
Mississippi legislators, and every mem
Der OF your honorable body voting for
the resolution voted for and thereby gave
utterance TO a deliberate and unqualified
falsehocd."
There is other language in the letter
quite as severe as that quoted above, and
the Senator's letter TO his legislators
includes the following statement of his
attitude:
Il shall pay no heed to your resolution; /;
did not receive my commission from
you; 1 will not lay il down at your be-
hest; but / shall continue to do my duty
tn the DeoDle Of NffSSfsSinDI in the ITptted
States Senate as God gives ME TO see II,
conscious that my course will meet the
approval of the brain and manhood Of
my State"
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
New England said to Be solid.
RAY TRANSFER PAPERS LOST :
Committee Is Told Officers Transfer
Is Not Recorded.

The celebrated case of Maj. Beecher B.
Ray, paymaster in the army, again
bobbed up before the House Committee
on Expenditures in the War Department.
yesterday. The Democrats of the COM
mittee are attempting to show mat Maj.
Ray has some political influence and
that he is a f9vorite of the Taft admin
istration.
Maj. Gen. Carter, acting chief of staff,
told how the White House had directed
that Mai. Ray be sent TO Chicago, can
ceiling department order directing his
assignment elsewhere.
The committee tried TO ascertain from
Gen. Carter the whereabouts of the
missing papers" in the Ray case. Gen.
Carter said the department documents
relating to Rays transfer from the
Philippines to Chicago, where he was
connected with the Republican National
Committee in 1908, were missing from the
Adjutant Generals files. He could not
say who abstracted them or where they
ore now.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
WANTS PRIMARY IN VIRGINIA.
Col. browning Wants Preference
for President Made Known.

Bristol, Va. March 9.-State Chair
man c. 5. Slemp, of the Republican
committee of Virginia tonight ad-
dressed a reply to the proposition of
Col ]. S. Browning, for a Presidential
primary in Virginia to determine for
which candidate the vote of the State
shall be cast at Chicago.
He informs Col. Browning that he
has no authority to change the meth
DDS of selecting delegates and that the
method that has been used was abso-
lutely fair to all Presidential candi-
dates.
Browning wrote to Chairman Slemp
urging a State primary, in the interest
of Roosevelt. whom he declared had
also been Slemp's faithful friend. In
closing Mr.. Slemp invites Col Brown
ing to be at the State convention at
Roanoke and make his proposition.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
UNDERWOoD's CAMPAIGN.
Senator Bankhead Announces fhut
1t Is Making Progress.

Senator John H. Bankhead. chairman
of the Underwood national campaign
committee, gave out a statement yes
terday in which he expressed, for him.
self and for other friends of Mr.. Under
wood, their qualification at the progress
of his campaign up 10 date.
The progress of Mr.. Underwood's cam
paign to date. said Senator Bankhead,
''is altogether satisfactory. Since the
formal opening of headquarters, about
ten days since, We have had hundreds
of expressions from all parts of the
country, pledging support These proffers
have come from quarters wholly Unex-
pected. and in many instances from peo-
pie and sections hitherto believed to be
committed to other candidates. Having
gone into the campaign with the reason
able assurance that Mr.. Underwood could
win. these expressions have intensified
that feeling, and make us more confident
than before"
Senator Bankhead says that Mr.. I'm
derwod will not leave his Congressional
duties to make addresses and denies that
he will be a party to any trades or COM
binations.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10

ROOSEVELT WILL
CONTROL OKLAHOMA

The Roosevelt national committee last
night made public the following telegram
giving the result Of the election OF dele
gates held in Oklahoma yesterday:
MY figures show $50 delegates TO the
State convention instructed for Roose-
welt, 107 for Taft, and "A unin-
structed. There were fifty-three contests.
We should be able to organize the State
convention with nearly 400 delegates for
Roosevelt. out Of 543. We should also
control four district conventions, giving
US eighteen out Of twenty delegates to
Chicago"
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
NEW PENSION PLAN
OPPOSED BY CARLIN
Says Redfield Bill Will Be Disap-
proved bysDistriet as Viola
ton of Organic Act.

Representative Carlin yesterday de-
clared himself opposed to the Redfield
bill, favorably reported by the House
District Committee last Friday, and as
serted that the plan proposed therein
to pay the deficiency In the police and
firemen's pension fund from the District
property tax alone-would meet with the
disapproval Of the people Of Washington
as a violation OF the organic act Of 1878.
This view, which is supported by the
District Commissioners, has led Mr.. Car
lin to urge the adoption by the House of
the measure introduced in the Senate by
Mr.. Martin a few days ago. allowing the
deficiency to be made up from licenses
other than those paid by liquor houses.
Senator Martins bill was almost a re-
pIica OF the original Carlin bill. for which
Representative Redfield's measure was
substituted In the House committee.
Mr.. Carlin pointed out that the Red
field bill calls for a special tax on prop
erty In the District TO provide for the
pension fund. This was In opposition TO
the half-and-haf plan of taxation. said
Mr.. Carlin, while his bill allowing the
sum to be taken from licenses imposed
no extra burden on the community.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10

at Toledo Friday night. He reiterated his
opposition to the doctrines and declared
that much of the criticism Of the courts
has shown 4 nonprogressive spirit.
The President suggested as a way Of
remedying the present situation the crea-
tion Of tribunal for the hearing of COM
plants against judges. President Taft
ended his address by declaring that II the
people OF the nation give the Republican
party and his administration a vote Of
approval the march of progressive legis-
lation will continue.
Eleven hundred men were in attend
ance at the banquet which brought to an
end the annual convention of the Swed-
ish-American Republican League. c. W.
Westman acted as toastmaster.
Other speakers were Gov. Deneen, whose
topic was illinois, Gov. Eberhart, Of
Minnesota, whose subject was Looking
forward" Representative George E.
Foss, who spoke on Capt. John Erics-
son. and Senator Charles r. Hurburgh,
candidate for governor, indorsed by the
league, whose topic was "Swedish-Ameri-
cans"
President Taft was the guest Of honor
at a luncheon given by the Union League
Club at noon. Addressing the members
of the club the President said that what
business needed was confidence in the
government.
Reception on West Side.
The charge that has gone most deeply
I" my heart" said he. ''is that / have
enforced the antitrust law to the in
jury of business. The trust law is on the
statute books and must be enforced, and
business must adapt itself to it Laws
governing the combinations of business
must not be framed overnight ready to
serve up for breakfast
Later in the afternoon the President
was driven through the Italian and
Greek quarters on the West Side. The
colonies were profusely placarded with
pictures of Taft, and the President was
given the heartiest reception of the day.
He was forced to bow and cast his IA
nous smile upon thousands who lined the
sidewalks and cheered him every step of
the way for blocks. The President Wis
tied Hull House and then addressed an
audience composed of Jews, Bohemians.
Italians, and Greeks at Palace Opera
House. He spoke on Immigration"
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
Sending More children Away.

Philadelphia, March s.-One hundred
children OF the striking mill workers Of
Lawrence, Mass, are promised to clamor-
inE foster parents in Philadelphia. who
want to care for the tots until the present
trouble Is over. A telegram was received
at the headquarters OF the Socialist party,
1906 Arch street, to-day, saying that un-
less the strike is ended before next week
another detachment will be sent, in addi-
tIon TO the forty-nine youngsters now
being cared for in homes here. The
youngsters viii be given an opportunity
to attend school while they are here.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
MONEY TRUST CONFERENCE.
Probers VIII Go Over situatIou
with Accountants.

The Committee on Banking and Cur
rency, which is about to begin an in
quiry into the affairs Of the money trust,
will confer tomorrow with expert 40
countants who have been summoned
from New York.
With the return here next week of Rep
resentative PujO, OF Louisiana, chairman
of the committee, the plan OF pro-
cedure will be perfected, and probably
by the latter part OF the week public
hearings will be begun.
The Washington herald., 1912-03-10
SAY BILL VIOLATES LAW.
Measure Restricting Liquor ship
ment Called Unconstitutional.

Lawrence Maxwell. of Cincinnati, rep
resenting the Wholesale Liquor Dealers
Association, made an argument yeseter-
day before the Senate Committee on the
Judiciary against the webb-Kenyon bill
to prevent the shipment of liquor from
wet to dry territory.
He maintained that such practice would
be turning over to the States the regu-
lating of interstate commerce guaran-
teed to Congress by the Constitution.