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Show SENATOR BRISTOW CRITICISES TARIFF Oshkosh, Wis., Aug. ! Criticism of the tariff law, which he deMgnatcJ r.s a repudiation of the pledges of the Republican party, praise for Senator Sen-ator LaFollette and severe condemnation condem-nation for Senator Aldrlch, Speaker Cannon and Attorney General Wlck-trsham Wlck-trsham these were the principal features fea-tures of an address here last nigh, by Senator Joseph L. Brlstow of Kau-sat. Kau-sat. In opening the campaign for United States Senator LaFollette In his content before the primaries for reiiomlnatlon. In opening his address, he said h-3 had come to Wisconsin upon the Invitation In-vitation of Senator LaFollette and dit so to render what service he could toward promoting the LaFollette Ideas, which, he ttald, arc for the benefit bene-fit ol the people. Mr. IJrlstow quoted the tariff plank in the Republican platform and said that the party pledge had been broken. brok-en. He said that the tariff. Instead of being revised for the benefit of the consumer, wavs detrimental to the American standard of living. At ttils point he went Into details concerning con-cerning the so-called lead trust which he said "controlled ninety per cent of the production and also controlled the cost ' He said the "reason Aldrich had secured legislation favorable to this trust was because the American Smelting compauy wonted it." Ho also spoke In detail of the so-cnlled so-cnlled rubber trust saying, "This trust has raised the price of rubber to the consumer about 2j per cent." He said Aldrlrh and Cannon had called him a "Mar-' but they had fail ed to specify wherein he had lied and he was leody to meet them with proof for every ytalement he had made thus far in the campaign. In closing, Mr. Bristow said th-5 organized trusts had no party lines reaching out to get control of legislation legis-lation for their Interest and so the voters should draw no party lines In the coming election, but stand by the men who were trying to defend their interests. Mr. Brlstow also took up the railway rail-way bill and told of the fight of the "insurgents" to "wipe out virions features fea-tures pioposed by Mr. Wkkersbani." " He tald he favored the direct vote I for the I'nlted States senate. |