The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-07-08
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which means that he must uphold 2,
lbll which unfavorably affects every
agricultural. manufacturing ana husi-
ness interest in the state he repre-.
sents. HIS embarrassment IS made
-doubIy acute BY the faet that at
heart Chiffon Is believed to be as
strong prOtectionist as anybody who
openly subscribes to that policy 10
belief being predicted on proof as
amply furnished by himself when he
was not senator as any ever pro-
Educed by his partner, Ex-Governor
MacCorkIe, to show his attitude faY-
oring the protection Of West viz
ginfa's products. and the evidence
with regard to the latter s strong pro-
lection leaning Is matter Of record
we'll known for years. His personal
business interests, those Of his part
ners in business, his former clients
and the welfare Of men employed by
himsand by them he must vote direct
IL against, even IL he does not make
a speech against them. or course,
personal interest should not count
with a senator, and we do not say
that 1t does count with Chiffon, but
as his personal interests in the mat
ter are identified with every other
persons in the state he represents,
/, to be forced much against his will by
an iron-bound caucus dominated by
free trade theorists, to do this thing
, Is personally disagreeable1and likely
l.enoughct politIcally suicidal, Should
Senator Chiffon make this speech, it
will be the third notable speech he
! has-delvered since he became a SEN
batort inabach one of which he struck
a note discordant with tho best SEN
timent and thought OF his state. His
first was in opposition to the chill
dren's labor bureau appropriation. He
got in wrong there-very. The sec
ond was his speech to the Kern reso-
luton which many of his friends now
wish that he had never attempted.
The third will be his tarlf speech
perhaps.
Senator Cor finds himself in no
such unhappy predicamept. He is
| going to deliver at least one set tar
If speech, and probably, several first
hand, for he expects to mix up in that
debate and is hard at work thest days
preparing himself for the important
part he expects to take in that me-
morable engagement between the de-
tenders Il a protective tariff and its
assaliants. West Virginias interests
and her people will be ably defended
/ by Senator Cor. 1t was Con who
taught West virginians their first
tariff lessons and laid the founda5s=n
for the general acceptance of that
economic policy in that state. His
LEI believe in protecting American
labor by the broad shield of Ameri-
can law" in his campaign for COVER
nor in 1888 is as well known to West
Virginians as the motto on tier
commonwealth great seal; and his
marvellous series of tariff debates
with William L. Wilson is as well re-
membered by the older citizens as If
these champions of protective and
a free trade policy had met and arg
fued but yesterday.
Cor is getting ready for the tariff
fray He sniffs' the smoke Of battle,
and is keen for the charge to begin.
That he is ready and equipped for
his part let us but point to his rough
and-tumbIe debates over the Kern
resolution when he flashed with brill
IIianf an di9nnressiye effect on this
new" Senate body and forced jeal.
-1ous and reluctant recognition from It
las being one of its greatest constitu
Itional authorities ii, indeed, not the
greatest. Besides, this Senate tariff
debates is expected to give the cou.,.
try new angle on some new men,
and today some lines that are likely
to connect up closely on the next pres
idential situation in the Republican
party. Con or no other Republican
senator of presidential size and cali
her is to be charged with being obilv-