Show with Utah Delegation I IN CONGRESS FRO FROM M CON CONGRESSIONAL G RE S S ION A L R RECORD E COR D During the debate over the tariff measure in which an amendment was proposed to the Smoot Hawley bill of 1930 Senator William H. H King said I think my friend from Indiana Mr Watson whose knowledge of political po po- matters is perhaps not surpassed surpassed surpassed sur sur- passed by that of any member of ot the senate has forgotten the fact that Mr 1 Roosevelt's candidacy was in part due to what he believed to be reactionary policies pursued by Mr Taft and the Republican party part Including the enactment enactment enactment en en- of hi high h tariff laws It is true as the senator said that Mr Roosevelt was a protectionist but buthe buthe he lie was not an extreme protectionist as were Mr 1 Aldrich and Mr Payne He did not support that brand hrand of protection protection protection pro pro- which found expression in the Payne Aldrich law The support by Mr Taft of the high protectionists contributed very ven much to induce Mr Roosevelt and the progressives in the Republican party to organize the Progressive Progressive Pro Pro- party and to nominate Mr Roosevelt as a 3 candidate for president president dent Senator Watson replied I respectfully assert that I was accurate accurate accurate ac ac- ac- ac curate and in support of my mj position I read from the national platform of o the Progressive party adopted at Chicago August 7 1912 It was understood understood un un- at the time that Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt veit wrote the platform it was his political creed he not only organized the Bull Moose or Progressive party but was its ils leader and articulate voice Senator King replied Roosevelt wrote into the tho platform We condemn the Payne Aldrich billas bill billas as unjust to the people Another plank declared that We demand tariff tar tar- H iff revision I have called attention to Mr Roosevelt's Roosevell's platform only because because because be be- cause of the statement by the senator from Indiana |