Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-17

: garet and Cleaner Wilson and par
, ty of friends. They remained until 4
vote had been taken.
: Washington, -, May Ex-senator
| James, credited with speaking for
President Wilson and the administra-
ton. interpreted the Baltimore plat
form in a speech in the Senate, today,
as committing the President and the
Democratic party to free sugar. His
remarks were in reply to the deelara-
/ lions by Senator Ramsdell and Sena-
tor elect Broussard of Louisiana, that
it did not In the gallery. listening
closely, was Joseph p. Tumulty, see
rotary to the President. who went to
the Capitol to hear the reply to the
anti-free sugar Democrats. who For
two days have been assailing the SUI
gar schedule which President Wilson
has declared will not be compromised
| if he can help it..
I Senator James said that the plat
| form adopted at the Baltimore conyen-
! ton approved the course of the Dem
ocratic House in the last session of
Congress and that it included APPROX
al of the Underwood free sugar bill
He read a paragraph from the Demo-
cratic campaign textbook approving
the excellent record of the House"
in placing sugar on the free list.
Senator Ransdell asked if President
Wilson did not declare in a speech at
Pittsburgh that he did not stand for
free trade.
Senator James returned that the
President was not a free trader and
that the proposed bill calculated to
raise s300,o00.oo0 in revenue was not
a free trade bin.
| If you say President Wilson is a
free trader because he favors free
sugar. demanded Senator James, did
you call yourself free trader when
you voted for free bread and free
shoes"
Senator Ransdell denied he was a
free trader and asked if the Demo-
cratic national committee had not in
structed its orators in the west not to
discuss free sugar and also, if the
party would not have been defeated
| if they had discussed it there.
Il know the Chicago headquarters
so instructed Representative Aswell of
Louisiana he said.
| Senator James referred to the point
made by the Louisiana leaders that
President Wilson and the platform
/ had declared against tariff reductions
(which would injure any legitimate in
dustry.
by legitimate industry in the plat
FORM said the Kentucky senator, u
meant industrially legitimate and
commercially legitimate industry. 1t
does not refer to an industry which
has had l25 years of government aid
, land protection and is yet unable to
take care of itself"
. Senator James eloquently praised
President Wilson's stand for free
: sugar.
IF William H. Taft had had half
the courage of Woodrow Wilson, he
would have vetoed the Payne ldrich
q bill and bonfires would have been
/ burned on every hillside in his honor
and, in my opinion. he would have
been reelected.
4 President Wilson says he is in favor
q of free sugar ard free wool and wants
no compromise. At Pittsburgh he
merely said he did not want to DESTROY
: any legitimate industry. 1 challenge
: you to find anybody to whom Wood
r favor of free sugar. Senator Ransdell
n inquired if he considered the sugar
G business of the South and West legiti-
e mate.
| Legally, but not economically" re-
r piled Senator James.
e, Senator Smoot and Senator Smith
: of Georgia clashed when the Utah
senator called on his colleagues &c
n compare the bill as it now appears and
II when 1t comes from the finance com.
o mittee.
" Il have no doubt" SAID he. that thu
S cotton schedule will be changed. l have
: no doubt that some interests will bs
: taken care of. Why cotton any NOR,
: than wool, any more than sugar."
Does the senator mean that the rat,
/. on cotton is to be changed becaus,
n people in my state are interested il
it?" demanded Senator Smith.
Does the senator say that he has no
q promised that the cotton rate shall b.
A ehanged?" retorted Senator Smoot.
!, Il have promised nobody anything
q Not a suggestion has come to me 70
a raise on the cotton rate from Geor
!. gia, but suggestions have come fron
:, | New Englanders for raises"
Senator Smith indicated that tn
purpose of the Democrats was to hay
Il schedules approved by subcommittee
: then by the full Democratic member
!, ship OF the finance committee and the
y by a Caucus.
= Senator Meyers of Montana read
3 telegram from the Commercial Gu
:. Of Moore, Mont, asking him to "stan
= pat" for proper protection on suga
and wool.
J, Il assure you am standing pat 70
y the great American people-the peopl
( of my state and not for any specia
= irterast, declared the senator. "Tha
= will tc my renly to all such reuue SITS