Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-16
WILSON FOR FREE
SUGAR, DECLARES
HIS SPOKESMAN
James, Replying to RansdelI in
Senate, Denies President Ever
Held Opposite View.
ASSERTS STAND DOESN'T
MAKE HIM A FREE TRADER
vice-President Marshall, After
Remark to calIinger. Rules
Himself Out of Order.

WASHINGTON. May Ex-senator
James, accredited with speaking sor
President Wilson and the adminis-
tration, Interpreted the Baltimore
platform. 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
declarations by Senator Ransdell and
Senator-eiect Broussard. OF Louis
lana, that it did not In the gallery,
listening closely. was Joseph P. Tu-
multy. secretary to the President.
who went To the capitol to hear the
reply, and free-sugar Democrats, who
for two days have been assailing the
sugar schedule which President Will
son has declared will not be compro-
missed if he can help 1t.
Senator James declared that the
platform adopted at the Baltimore
convention approved the course Of
the Democratic House in the last
session of Congress. and that it in
cluded approval of the Underwood
free sugar bill. He read a paragraph
from the Democratic campaign text
book. approving the excellent record
of the House. in placing sugar on
the free list.
Senator Ransdell asked II President
Wilson had not declared in speech
at Pittsburgh that he did not stand
for free trade.
Not q Free Trade Bill.
Senator James returned that the
President was not free trader and
that the proposed bill, calculated to
raise $500. 100000 in revenue, was not
a free trade bill.
'.If you say President Wilson is
free trader because he favors free
sugar" demanded Senator James.
"did you call yourself free trader
when you voted for free bread and
free shoes2"
Senator Ransdeli denied he was a
free trader. and asked il the Demo
cratic national committee had moi
| instructed its orators In the west not
| to discuss free sugar, and also II the
party would not have been defeated
| il they had discussed it there.
II know the Chicago headquarters
so instructed Representative Aswell.
OF 1Ou1SldHd. ne .dttletl Cu-
Senator James referred to the point
made by the Louisiana leader that
President Wilson and the platform
had declared against tariff reductions
which would injure any legitimate
industry.
Defines Legitimate Industry.
rBy Legitimate industry in the
PLATFORM y said the Kentucky sem
ator. sis meant industrially legitimate
and commercially legitimate indus
try. 1t does not refer to an industry
which has had one hundred and
twenty-five years of government aid
and protection and is vet unable to
take care of itselfg
Senator James eloquently praised
President wilson's stand for free SUI
gar
IF William H. Taft had had half
/ the courage of Woodrow Wilson he
would have vetoed the Payne-Aldrich
bill and bonfires would have been
burned on every hillside in his ,onor,
and, in my opinion, he would have
been reelected.
President Wilson says he is in IA
AOT VI Tree sugar anu IACC 0tcA ~
says he wants no compromise. At
Pittsburgh he merely said he did not
want to destroy any legitimate indus
try. l challenge you to find anybody
to whom Woodrow Wilson ever said
he was not in favor of free sugar.
Senator Ransdell inquired If he con-
sidered the sugar business of the
South and West legitimate.
He Draws Distinction.
Legally but not economically" re-
piled Senator James.
Vice. President Marshall ruled him
self out of order during the debate.
When Senator James drew some ev-
idences of approval from the gal
leries By pointed remarks about the
Republicans. Senator Gallinger de-
manded that order be restored.
THE shoe was on the other foot
the other day and the vice-president
cautioned the galleries" responded
Mr.. Marshall. ~and he will do so to-
day"
Mr. Gallinger noted an exception
and sat down. At the conclusion of
the debate Mr.. Marshall announced
that he had been out of order in his
remark, and Senator Gallinger affa-
bly, accepted what he considered an
apology"