The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-17
Hill Frantic When Underwood
 Brands Him as Standpatter of Type That is Fast Passing Away

There ...4s massive wall Of ;,rotec-
 ton built up for the profit Of the man ufacturer- But I would not consent to let it stand.
 l MY FRIEND HILL IS 4 SINCERE
 MAN BUT HE IS A TYPE OF THE OLD CITIZENSHIP OF THE RE- ING AWAY IF THERE ESVER WAS
 A MAN WHO MORE FAIRLY AND
 aoNE l5,C ESTL4Y REPREsIscSTED TtdE5
 REPUBLICAN PARTY THAN MY FRIEND FROM CONNECTICUT,
 1Rf90f3oI R1GHlT KMqW zG.III Wa2 I5E Is HE Is HE BELIEVES, BUT THE ALIFsrsT- | CAN PEOPLE NO LONGER. N My
 JuDGMENT, 5lI7I SIAi RELIEVE IE THOSE 1 Applause and laughter
 | Then he went back to tne question
 of Cannonism and Reedism. ~Can- nonism was Reedism, safd he "aud | Cannonism and Republication gere
 the same thing.
 1 The speaker named the r-uIee com 1 n1ttee of the House under the old
 rules He appointed all the cOnuaft- | tee and absolutely exercised @ veto
 power and your Representative could 1 terests without the consent or fs1e | speaker of the House or the rules com | nItttee, which vas the speaker Of the ! House, than you yourself could dO
 And Cannon sat there and blocked | Legislation in the interests Of the peo- lp1e. You know when q great labor 0r-. l ganization of this country went Defore Congress Cannon refused t9- give them l recogna nation.''
 Then he told of how tie Democrats and insurgent Republicans finally
 stripped the speaker of his autocratlc powers. He entrusted @he old school with the new, and pointed out the procedure under the present conditions. When the rules committee is reDrs- l sentative of the real mem bership Of l the House, My friend FdiIl, z said he. says that the mantle of Canuonfs1n has fallen on my snoulders- -I AlI THE LEADER OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES ONLY ISO LONG AS THE MAJORITY OF THE REPRESENTATIVES, or THE 1 AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTE THAT
 SHALL CONTINUE TO BE THE
 Cannon sat there and controlled the situation regardless of the will and 1 the power of the majority. Cann0nisnn | is Republicanism and my friend. De- ] longing to that old school of stafee- , stood for CannoniEn add ReDublicasl- 1 ism But Norris wouldn't stand for i- , Norris, the Progressive Republican. came to the Democratic standard sn the interest of fair legislatiou-
 Under the Democratic caucus rule said he, "any member has the cal- GUS right to announce that he desires | to exempt himself from being bound by the caucus because he mas prom ised his constituency to vote dlIfsrti1l-
 Turning to MT Bnl. he querfed. ''Is that Cannonisn?'' Is that Czarisrn
 ''The only bills we have caucused on are tariff bills.'' said he, with the
 exception of the naval bin. ..--.
 He took issue :, with 1, the t,,s sta5eIsIl a,5I, licans were willing to give the peopls the election of the C- S. Senator's sfThe Republican Senate belevin9 that the South, as represented in tiie House, would not take a bill tnaL | gave the federal government n chance ] to walk into the states and supefFise 1 local elections, put that provision ID | for what purpose? Not to pass it, plit | to kill ft.' Lodge of New Engiano, and Penrose Of Pennsylvania voted to put the provision in the bill, but Lney were mistaken When the DIu cau3e 1 before the House and there was no other chance to give the American people the right to vote on WnY should represent them in the Senate of the United tSates, I did not stand for secfionaIisrn or AIab bauna and - did what I believed to be right Tor the people of the United States so as my friend knows I realized thar
 the only way to do business and get
 results and to get for the American people the right to control the men who made laws for them In the sen ate was to accept the Senate amend ment and we did accept it. "The same tEing is true in the suE- ar bill My friend did not believe in free sugar He knew that the tax
 on sugar if taken off would save every man one and one half cents on every pound of sugar he buys. Yet because some Southern Senator spoke againsI it, he accused the great Democratic party of sectionaIisn. But Heurr Cabot Lodge and Bofes Penrose rep
 resented the Republican party and
 they would not agree with me on Tree sugar The bill is in Conference thl9 hour. Congress had to adjourn with the bill in conference because Lodge
 of Massachusetts and Penrose of
 Pennsylvania, both ideal stand pat
 Republicans would not agree to take
 that burden off you Now rernemoe
 my fri friends; the great susaF .ists section 5sf9 Louisiana. Was l legislating from a. sectional standpoint Was dhere any
 biil?''
 Then referring to Hil1s charge that the Democratic party stands absolute Iy for three trade, he said, not with out show of grim humor:
 T bow to my friend HiFs abilitV ana slncerits- iSul wren WI 9s is & 1Elssa declaration made before the civil war
 by a southern state Is an indication of the stand of the Democratic party on free trade, he is straining the cable pretty hard.
 @I CHALLENGE THE GENTLE SHOW THIS AUDIENCE ANY DE CLARATION IN ANY NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM THAT WAS EVER WRITTEN THAT STOOD FOR FREE TRADE. CHALLENGE HIM TO SHOW ME ANY TARIFF BILL THAT WAS HVI5R WRlTTIsN IN CONTROL FOR SO YEARS BE- FORE THE CIVIL WAR CITATs- LENGE HIM TO SHOW ME ANY BILL EVER WRITTEN BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THAT WAS A FREE TRADE BILL.
 ITO say that we are in favor of the policy of free trade cannot be alrs- tained unless he wants to go back to South Carolina before the war. or perhaps and he turned with a smile to the Connecticut congressman, Cor perhaps to Europe next week"
 Underwood insisted that Demo cratic doctrine is that tariff fs for revenue only.
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