Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1909 — ALDRICH LAUDS GERMAN RULER [ARTICLE]

ALDRICH LAUDS GERMAN RULER

Replies to Remark That Teutons Were Offended. LA FOLLETTE CRITICISED Wisconsin Statesman’s Absence From the Night Tariff Session Is the Cause of Comment —Plea of illness Results is Remark by Penrose That Missing Solon |« Weil Enough to Be Abroad |r»* oensultatlon With Yellow Journal an* Uplift Representatives. Washington, June 4. —The atmosphere of the senate chamber was surcharged with electricity when the tariff bill was taken up in the first night’s session. Senator La Follette was absent. On account of a recess taken in the day to give La Follette opportunity to recover from the illeffects of overexertion during hia speech, some Senators sought to show that he had received unusual consideration. Senator Beveridge asserted that no senator would question that La Follette was ill. Senator Penrose declared that he would be able to prove that La Follette was well enough to be abroad in the streets, “consulting with the representatives of yellow journals and uplift magazines.’’ Senator Stone said he had a report that Germany was displeased with recent utterances by Senator Aldrich who, in replying, said: “When the senator from Missouri interrupted me, I was expressing my ad-

miration lor the great statesman who presides over the German empire. If there is one thing he is entitled to admiration for on the part of the whole world, it is the support and encouragement that he has given, by every means in his power, to the industries of the German empire. He has been the one conspicuous ruler who, under all conditions, has made supreme in every field the interest of the German people. “I realize that he would be the last man in the world to suggest that German interests should control the action of the congress of ( the United States. "It will not do to say that I have made any attack of any kind upon the German nation or upon its representatives. They have followed the policy of protection in recent years to an extent that no other country in the world has, not only by customs duties but by rebates and in freight rates and in a thousand different ways which, we have never thought of." Finally Aldrich 'insinuated that Btone was sj.caking as a representa tlve of th^German j?o v e/;nir.ent "That is an In:; e: ’;r cnee—a efos? Impertinence.' i. •; ; ted Stone TRAVELERS ELEuV iuDIANAN P. J. O’Meara Defeats Carey King For Presidency of Association. Asheville, N. C., June 4. —The Travelers’ Protective association election of officers resulted as follows: P. J. O’Meara of Indianapolis defeaL ed Carey King of Rome, for president on the first ballot. L. T. La Bourne of SL Louis, was unanimously elected secretary treasurer.