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Show ' declared that tho revision was to be ' downward. On that promise tbey woo. Having got In, they proceeded to revise it upward. So that In tho Impending campaign the overEhadow-Ing overEhadow-Ing issuo la whether men In conducting conduct-ing a campaign are under an obligation obliga-tion to tell tho truth or whether tbey are licensed to palter in a double Query: 13 It any less dishonest to secure offices under false pretenses than to obtain money In that felonious felon-ious manner? sense to keep the word of promlao to the ear and break It to tho hope. "President Taft himself admitted In his Winona speech that the woolen wool-en goods schedule Is too high auJ oubt to be reduced. I agree with him on that; so do you all. Why then have they not reduced It? It is eleven elev-en mouths lacking one day since he signed the Payue-Aldrlch-Smoot tariff bill. He Is a Republican, Both houses hous-es of congress are Republican by overwhelming over-whelming majorities. As the Democratic Dem-ocratic floor leader In the house I guaranteed that If the president would send In a message urging that the woolen goods schedule bo cut to a reasonable ba-.l?, so that the reo pie could have cheaper clothing and cheaper blankets, and Mr. Chairman Payne would report such a bill and put It upon Its passage every Democrat Demo-crat would vote for It, and every Democrat In tho hauso applauded my offer, thereby proving that I cpoke their sentiments. That was on May 21, but the President has never sent In any such message and Mr. Chairman Chair-man Payne has never reported any such bill. "Every newspaper In the land that commented on my offer to the President Pres-ident said that It was a fair proposition proposi-tion and should be accepted. By reason of Republican refusal to cure that great outrage hundreds of thousands thous-ands of people must phlver and freeze through tho ensuing winter. Doctors and philanthropists are waging war against the Great White Plague which the wooln goods schedulo of th3 Payne-Aldrlch-Smoot tariff bill docs so much to foster. Shame upon men who will not remedy such a gross outrage, out-rage, an outrage whoso existence they admit, an outrage which cauen Incalculable Incal-culable Blckneas, suffering and death, an outrage which they have abundant power to stop! "If we have tho neit house, as I bellevo we will have, we will honestly honest-ly and courageously report a bill to revise the tariff down to a revenue basis, pass It through the house and eend it over to the senate, Terhaps by that time the senate yielding to the public demand will also pass It. If It does not, we will go to the people peo-ple on that Issue In 1912. "A Democrat Is a man who rrellove3 In Democratic principles and who Totes the Democratic ticket. In recent re-cent years there has been much straggling strag-gling from the ranks. I cordially Invite In-vite all back sliders to come back home. I also heartily invite all others who arc dissatisfied with Republican Re-publican misrule and Republican extravagance ex-travagance to Join with us In the crusade cru-sade for the overthrow of the Republican Repub-lican machine. We will give them a warm welcome, not inquiring too closely Into their political pedigrees or political antecedents. The doors stand wide open. There Is no mourners' mourn-ers' bench In the church Democratic. Even life-long Republicans will be welcomed ou tho grand old principle that "While the lamb holds out to burn, "The vilest sinner may return." DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK BYJCLARK New York, July 4. Champ Clark of Missouri, Democratic lender of the house of representatives attacked the Republican party ond spoke of tho Democratic outlook ;n a speech at the Tammany hall celebration of July 4 day. He said: "Democrats celebrate the birthday of the republic under more favorablo auspices this year than at any time I since 1893. "Republican factlonlsts are at each other'8 throats In the hou3o cf representatives repre-sentatives In the senate and throughout through-out the land. More power to them! "I bring you the glad tiding of great Joy that the Democrats In the the house of representatives have laid aside the weight which for years did so easily benet us, that of fighting each other, and recently havo presented present-ed a solid and united front to tho common enemy. We are no longer a feeble, wrangling, querulous, dispirited dis-pirited body but a courageous, vigilant vigi-lant virile, hopeful, militant band not only ready but eager for the fray. "Notwithstanding the fact that at the beginning of this congress the Republicans Re-publicans had forty-seven majority In the house and even after the casualties casual-ties In the Fourteenth district of Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts and the Rochester district of Now York, they etill have forty-three forty-three majority, wo have fought several sev-eral drawn battles wdth them and havo gained some great victories notably on March 19 last, when wo performed the great surgical operation opera-tion of clipping Mr. Speaker Cannon's Can-non's claws. In that momentous movement In the cause of good government gov-ernment every Democratic member did his duty and. In the Immortal words of Admiral Scbley, 'There la glory enough for all.' So utterly wero the Republicans routed, so thorbughly were they demoralized that Mr. Speaker Cannon declared publicly that there was no longer a Republican Repub-lican majority in the house. "If a member of the Sixtieth congress con-gress had gone to sleep March 4 1909, and, after the manner of Rip Van Winkle bad slumbered till the evening even-ing of June 17 1910, and had then looked Into the house and seen It pass a rule by tho enormous majority of I 201 to 1 to prevent committees from pigeon holing or smothering bills, which resolution I Introduced, ho would have pinched himself to see If he were awake. Had any man been bold enough In the early days of this congress to predict that such a thing would come to pass before the summer sum-mer solstice In 1910, he would have been In immediate danger of being clapped Into a straight Jacket and a padded cell. "The regular Republicans gavo In their adhesion because they knew full, well that if they did not do so, we would force it through without their help and in spite of their opposition. "Most assuredly that was a pitiful conclusion for that vast array of Republican Re-publican pie-hunters which, drunk with their victory and power paraded the streets of Washington March 4, 1909, with flags flying, drums boating and bugles blowing. Their arrogance then as their serried ranks swept by and their utter demoralization now recall re-call tho opening stanzas of Byron's splendid poem, 'The Destruction of Sennacherib.' "I submit to a candid world that the Democrats of tho house of representatives repre-sentatives have set a fine example to Democrats everywhere and deserve well of the country. Our unity of; purpose and unity of action should becomo contagious to the ond that we may sweep the land from sea to sea and hurl from power those who have abused the 6acred trust which the people committed to their hands. "But we must fight If we would win. The Republicans are 6o split up that some people seem to think that all we have to do is to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Such overconfldence may cost us dear. The sure way to win is to fight today tomorrow and every day till the polls close on the first Tuesday Tues-day after the first Monday In November. Novem-ber. "Special privilege which Jefferson, fought In bis day and over which Andrew An-drew Jackson, of bles?ed and heroic memory, triumphed In his day, is firmly Intrenched In power now through years and years of Republican Repub-lican maladministration and cannot be rooted out wlthoet a terrific struggle. strug-gle. The beneficiaries thereof will pour a stream of gold like unto tho river Pactolus into the Republican boodle fund wuu which to debauch the voters of tl i land, .nnd then re-coiip re-coiip themselves by more special privilers granted by the men for whom they buy the ofilces. For years that endless chain has been in operation, opera-tion, and It will continue to operate till our system of government Is thoroughly thor-oughly purged of every variety and cvprv vestige of special prlvilnge. "The tariff graft one species of special privileges became so offensive offens-ive that five or six years ago certain Republicans became dlspatlsHed and begau to demand a revision downward down-ward First there were only what the doctors ca" sporadic cases of Ro publican dlnsati. '-'ctlon; but the Republican Re-publican dissemeis increased so rapidly rap-idly that In the spring of 1908, Hon. Sereno E. Payne, chairman of tho groat committee on ways and means and ex-olflclo Republican floor leader lead-er In tho house, was driven Into declaring de-claring that he Violated no confidence In stating that the Republicans would revise tho tariff. His statement was equivocal, as he did not say whether the revision was to be down or up, but considering all the circumstances circumstan-ces under which his utterance was made he intended It to be understood ns a promise of revision downward; find to do him perfect Justice he claims that his bill is a revision downward. down-ward. "Clearly he has been Imposed upon by his arithmeticians, for his bill revises re-vises It up about 1.71 per cent ou the average. Hl3 declaration, however, how-ever, did not nllay the clamor among Republicans. It swelled Into such a roar that whti the Republicans held their national convention lu 19AS, they wero forced to promise tariff revision revi-sion In their, platform. Again the promise was equivocal, as It did not etate whether the revision was to bo up or down. But the demand for tariff revision downward was so strong and so insistent that a majority major-ity of Republican orators and editors |