Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-10-09

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You endorse his prsdigality; his cut
ting out Of appropriations for Con-
federate widows, and the running of
the Legislature from the State and
consequent confusion and wasteful ex-
pense. Then you endorse Newell SAM
ders' rotten record.
When he appointed Newell Sanders
10 the Senate-a defender Of Force
bills and high oppressive tariifs-he
manifested rank partisanship. There
by he justified all the tariffs that rob
you, and all the trusts that Cypress,
for Sanders stood by and for them.
You approve all these things when
you support Hooper. To Illustrate:
The Democrats passed a bill to put
agricultural implements and machines
on the free list. They are manufac-
tured by the trust and sold cheaper in
| Europe than here. Also to make cot
ton ties, cotton bagging and grain
bags free. A greater boon to agri-
culture could not be given or imagined
than this. It is a burden under
which the farmer has groaned all his
life. Yet when these measures went
to Taft they were vetoed by him, and
you left to groan. Hooper and his
platform and Sanders approved this,
and ask you to approve it and retain
them in power. They have smitten
your left cheek, and invite you TO turn
the right also to their itching palms.
Hear more of Gov. Hooper and Pres
ident Taft, whose platforms you en-
dorse when you support Hooper. The
keystone in the arch Of protection is
the tariff on wool and woolens. 1t is
the most cruel and outrageous of all
of tariffs robberies The duties on
some of the coarser grades go as high
as $50 per cent, or $50 duty on every
$50 worth of goods. To mention this
rate of duty is to remind us Of the
old piratical hordes that infested
Tariffa, and first laid an embargo on
commerce. Our party did not pro-
pose to remove all these duties, but
only to reduce them from a prohibitive
to a reasonable revenue basis. 1t was
a work for the poor and toiling Here
again President Taft interviewed, by
his veto stayed the hand of justice
and stopped relief, where he and all
others admit there should be relief.
Yet, you are called upon to approve
Hooper when he stands for and de-
tends this.
The Democratic House, with the
Democrats and Insurgents in the SEN
ate, revised the iron and steel sched-
ule. It is the homestead of the great
est trust ever organized in the his
tory of the human race. Within and
about the iron and steel schedules
more trusts and monopolies cluster
than anywhere else on earth. Here,
as in the wooden schedule, the rates of
duty are internationally high. These
commodities are also sold higher to
our own people than to foreigners
These duties, too, were shielded and
saved by President Taft from the big
reduction which would greatly benefit
the people and not destroy legitimate
industry. And now they ask you to
praise him for it.
The Republican party promised a
revision downward and gave a re-
vision upward. So did President Taft
Yet, when the people have been be-
trayed, he went forth and praised the
tariff bill that did it as the greatest
of all tariff measures. This betrayal
of the peoples trust, this surrender
to selfshness and greed, by their rep
resentatives, is one potent cause OF
the great division and fall of the Re-
publican party which is now going on
From Maine to California the cry
for relief has gone up in vain, till, al
:, last, the hour for redemption is al
= hand. Justice has had to trdUeL aUiti
= a leGden heel, bat is ready to STRIKE
= Nth an iron hand; and 1vhep she does
" nothing will be left of those Uho haze
: betrayed or robbed the people bNi
. scattered fragments.
it WIDOWS PENSION; INCREASED SAIL
10 ARIES.
e In the appropriation bill passed by
d the Legislature was an item of $50,
r 900 to pay pensions to deserving wild
/ ows of ex-Confederate soldiers. TIT
IS Governor objected to the bill, and, thi
z and certain other items were elimina5
> ed to meet the objections of the Gov
y ernor and make it so he would approve
Re it. Many of the Governors apologist
have tried in vain to free him fron
t. the responsibility of causing this APP
y preparation to be left out. Vain will
L be the effort in the future The Sen
L ate and House proved that they boil
ID favored it by placing and keeping /
in the bill. Only when it fell unde
IS the Governors "eagle eye" did it en-
lie counter trouble.
'r He threatened to veto it. He ha,
e. the meeting to consider it held in hi
ot rooms at the Executive mansion wher
p he could attend. There, under hi
Id eye, the committee cut out what wa
ot Objectionable to him. Among othe
t. things dropped wasthe widows pen
sion. But it did not stop here. Fortu
nate for the Governor as professe
watchdog of the treasury if it haC
- He had recently come to power; Dem
~ ocrats had been put out of the office
y and Republicans in. Many of the sal
~ aries of the officers appointed, or t
o. be appointed by him or his Republica
officials, were largely increased. TIL
Governor kicked not, complained nc
at this. New offices were created tina
more of the faithful could have ia
jobs. The Governor was silent.
In this notable conference, made ur
der the supervision of the Governor
the amount cut out of the general az