American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1912-10-24
Midday Address Listened to by Large
Crowd at the Auditorium Tuesday.
Gave Brief Outline of His Work in the Senate Upon That Record
Asks the Voters Support him by Voting the Republican
Ticket--His Election Rests in the Election of a
Republican State Legislature.

ca oil HuHuIeu III Lne west VINO
would have not been able TO have
lived upon the land without the
water to produce their crops.
My friend Governor. Hawley at
I HALEY the other evening said that
this was only loan and that the
people would have to pay it back.
This is true it will have to be paid
pack, but it will have to be paid
back only in the same way as it
would have to have been paid back
had the projects been complet-
ed without the loan. There is not
settler upon any of the govern
! ment projects in the west but who
Is willing and more than willing to
] pay it back than to have tried to
wait upon the land for several years
until the reclamation service could
have accumulated sufficient money
to complete them. will say to Go
vernon Hawley that the government
loan to complete these projects are
of less financial interest to the farm
ers than his cash valuation plan, an
if it was enforced often under
existing conditions they would have
to take up collection to pay
their taxes"
The senator took up the matter
of the election of United States sem
ators by direct vote and went over
briefly the history of this from the
first attempt to change it some 80
years ago and how the, bill had been
killed in the senate committee often
after passing the lower house. Il
introduced a resolution and it was
hard work to keep it alive" said
the senator. Il found the same in
terests fighting it that had fought it
for SO many years, but there Was
something's which helped US. For
instance the election of a United
States senator from the state of
Illinois a few years ago. The peo-
Pile of that state had expressed
choice at the general election but
when the legislature met, certain in
terests in Chicago thought that they
had a special representative whom
they would much rather have in the
senate than the one named by the
people. A delegation OF men from
that city with plenty Of money went
20 Springfield and labored with the
members OF the legislature with the
result that the representative OF the
special interests was substituted for
the man the people had by their yo q
named That man was not chosen
because he was more capable but
because he was a friend OF the in
tereSts and their wishes rather than
the wishes of the people prevailed
very peculiar thing developed at
that invests ation, the republicans
did the h1lvinp and tbe democrats
did the selling 1t took three and
half years to pass that resolution
and it is safe 60 say that it will be
ratified by every state legislature in
the union excepting perhaps few
in the south on account of the negro
question, and when you are called
upon to vote for your next senator 10
will be by direct vote. 1t was a
proud moment of my life when that
resolution passed after so many at
tempts made and to know that
could claim a large percentage OF
the responsi bility."
He touched upon the tariff ques-
tion in a few remarks, but so fash
iOned after his style of speaking
that he made many things clear in
the minds of his audience. The
tariff question is large one and Is
one only a few people can under
stand after much study. but the SEN
ator in his talk brought it so close
to home that all understood.
"A very important question" con-
tinued the senator, sis the subject
referred to by Governor Brady, the
tariff. To begin at the beginning. It