The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-09-04
CREAM Of the SPECIALS
Muzz1E ROOSEVELT.
Republicans Try to Dodge Issue Over
Tariff.

From Washington to Chicago Chronicle.
President Roosevelts tour of New Eng,
land, notwithstanding that 1t has aroused
public interest in the Congressional CAM
of constant alarm to the Republican
managers They are afraid that the
President will increase their burden by
taking cognizance Of the widespread dis
cussion Of the tariff in the newspapers
and introduce that subject into his own
speeches. If he should do this the mama
gers say they could not keep the tarfn
out OF the campaign. Whether he De,
Tended the Dingley schedules or onered
a panacea for the evils created by them
the effect would be the same.
Thus far the President has consented
to be maraged so far as tariff discussion
Is concerned. According to news dis
patch to the chief Republican organ in
Hampshire where the President visited.
three New England Senators held a con-
ference with the President and obtained
from him specific promise to ignore
tariff discussion. Obviously the Sena-
tors were acting as ambassadors Of the
Republican Congressional Committee
apart from any connection they might
have with New England industries that
are beneficiaries of the Dingley act. This
amazing story was printed In good faith
and inasmuch as 1t did not evoke denial
from those concerned 1t Is accepted as
truth.
The President had been verging close
to discussion of the tariff in his numer-
Gus speeches. He had undertaken dis
cussion of reciprocity and prosperity and
his tariff friends feared that sooner or
later he would be led by inadvertence or
through desire to tell some truths about
the tariff.
The news dispatch In question says that
the President permitted himself to be
muzzled so far as that subject Is con-
cerned. Nevertheless the Republican
IL n. Naat hot
at heart the President is a free trader.
They know that his leanings were In
that direction before he became Pres1-
dent They appreciate that his present
attitude is the result OF desire TO AVOID
unfortunate complications inside of the.
Republican organization. Therefore, they
are insisting that he shall let the subject
of tariff alone in his speeches. While he
has been obliging them in New England
they have no assurance that he will con-
tinue to do so after he reaches the mid
die west, where the propaganda of tariff
reform Is gaining recruits by the thou
sands each year. They fear that the
President will discern the trend of public
opinion and talk about tariff regardless OF
consequences.
The party managers are also disturbed
because the President has chosen to diff
fer from them about trusts. They said
in their campaign textbook that trusts
are worthy organizations, entitled to the
fullest confidence of the people. The
President is urging the enactment of
law that will require them to submit their
affairs to the fullest publicity. By this
course the President is cutting down
the revenues of Mr.. Babcock's executive
committee, and that Is serious thing
in the eyes of Mr.. Babcock and his
friends. They need money in their bust
ness. They had supposed that the sub
jects of tariff and trusts were disposed of
altogether so far as the administration Is
concerned in the speech delivered by
Secretary Shaw In Vermont but they
did not count on the Presidents capacity
to throw overheard cut and dried pro-
grams.