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Notable tariff debate energizes Ames event crowd
A large crowd greets Representative Longworth and Senators Lodge and Draper at an Ames rally. They defend tariff policy, tout tariff board plans, and contrast Republican aims with Democratic critique while spotlighting Taft’s influence and local Massachusetts legislation on town notes and bank audits.
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Ned” Glines
Walter Glidden
Representative Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
Congressman Longworth
Colonel Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Ohio
Massachusetts
Harvard
Mabel
Longworth
Republican National
Lodge
Butler Ames
Senator Lodge
Draper
Foss
Vahey
Fitzgerald
Governor Draper
Samuel McCall
Woods
Congress
Taft
Republican Party
Chicago
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
House
Finance Committee
Tariff Board
Democratic Party
Washington
Framingham
State House
Bureau of Statistics
Southbridge Savings Bank
Bank Commissioner's Department
Ma’‘Ter
Somerville
Lowell
Lawrence
Fall River
New Bedford
Samuel W. McCall
William Howard Taft
United States
House of Representatives