The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-05-13
TARIFF FOES
BOLSTERED BY
new FORCES
Republicans Likely To En-
counter Trouble - lnsurg-
ents One Snag Bankers
Now in Foreign Trade.
NEED ARTFUL STEERING
BY MARK SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 13.-It
is really now that the Republican
troubles on the tariff begin. Senator
Moses says detection on the emerg-
ency tariff bill did not matter. Moth
ing that was done on the emergency
bill mattered much. because nobody
took it seriously. But as the Repub-
licans step into the business of max
ing a permanent tariff, they take on
a world of trouble.
The making of tariff is sometimes
followed by a particular combination
of economic and political conditions
that makes for good luck It is also
sometimes followed by conditions that
make for bad luck. The last time the
Republicans made tariff 1t was bad
luck that awaited them. AS Senator
Moses expressed it this week:
History has trick of repeating it.
self. Twelve years ago Republican
president had just entered the White
House. Behind him stood the largest
vote that any president had up to that
time ever received. The Republican
majority in both houses of congress
was ample, and that majority wrote a
tariff bill. That tariff bill was pam
dora's box of political evil for Repub-
licanism. The year following its en-
actment saw the Republican majority
in the house of representatives swept
away: saw state after state previously
deemed safely Republican taken into
the Democratic column"
Full of Trouble.
1t isn't merely that no one can tell
how the country will feel about the
tariff that the Republicans make. In
the more immediate future the actual
making of that tariff is going to be
full of troubles for the Republican
leaders. Senator Moses insurgency
this week was portentous omen. Of
course it isn't every senator that can
go his own gait as careless of party
discipline as Moses is
Moses belongs to that class of SEN
ators who hold their tenure not by vir.
tue Of party regularity hut chiefly by
virtue of personality. Moses gets his
title to his seat in the senate not from
the Republican party as an organiza-
tion but from the individual voters OF
his state.
There is a considerable group Of
senators Of this kind. In many respects
they are the most attractive men in
the senate. Everybody realizes c
course, that the business of the gov
eminent can only be accomplished sat
isfactorily by certain amount of team
work nevertheless every one admires
those senators who go their own way.
| Because of some trait of personality,
because of some vehemence of convic-
ton, one way or the other their ap-
peal is to the individual voter. and
when election comes around they do
not need to go hat in hand to the party
organization.
Personality Appeals.
These senators frequently are less
successful and less energetic in get
ting postoffices and clerkships for
their constituents than are the reg
ular party workhorses, but their con-
stituents forgive them for their lack
Of diligence in patronage because of
their outstanding qualities of person
ality. Moses is the principal Republi-
can senator of this type in the east
| Brandegee, to some degree is in the
same class, so is Borah of Idaho, and
Norris of Nebraska.
The troubles the Republicans will
have in making their tariff bill will
not be merely those of individual in
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