The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-05-04
MUIR AND DMLEl1
Republican Platform Will
Not Be a Burdensome Doc
ument 1t Is Said.
OF TARIFF
This Will BE One OF the Most Inn.
portant Subjects Dealt With In
the COMING Campaign.
of Leaders of the Party
With a View to Preparing De-
claration of Principles.

washington, May 4.-Ine plaIIoIm
to be adopted by the Republican ma
tional convention has been among the
topics discussed at the conferences
which have taken place recently at
the White House, in committee rooms
at the capitol and at different resi-
dences where a number of Republicans
have been assembled. Senator Lodge,
who is slated for chairman Of the COM
mittee on resolutions at the con-
vention. has prepared preliminary
sketches of various topics that he
thinks should be treated and has SUBJ
mitted them to senators and others
for their approval or suggestion as to
amendment. 1t is expected that be-
fore convention meets complete
platform will be prepared which will
have the approval of the president.
The principal feature of the plat
form will be the tariff plank, which
will declare in the strongest terms the
adherence of the Republican party to
the principles of protection, but will
not bind the party not to revise the
tariff 1t will say that the party is not
committed to any schedule, but that
changes should be made only when
changed conditions of business or the
treasury render it necessary or advisa-
BILE. Persons present at the recent
conference say it already has been
agreed that the tariff will be revised
in the 59th congress if the Republicans
win in November.
There is at present determination
to make the platform as brief as pos
sible, consequently the endorsement OF
the administration and the acts of the
party will be put in compact form
This endorsement will be general
approval of the course of the president
and of the actions of the Republicans
in congress.
The plank concerning trusts in eff
feet will declare that the laws for the
regulation of monopolies and the re-
straint of conspiracy against com
merce were enacted by the Republic
cans and that the enforcement of such
laws have been only by a Republican
administration. 1t also will say that
it is not the policy or intention of the
Republican party to assail legitimate
industry and business or to infringe
on the rights of persons or property
Special attention will be devoted to
the pharseology of this plank
Some difficulty has been experienced
in finding the proper wording for rec
iprocity suggestion. Nearly all the
senators who have attended the recent
conferences have contributed their
share toward keeping the reciprocity
treaties negotiated by the Mckinley
administration closely confined in
committee pigeon-holes. Reciprocity
has not been popular in congress, and
it was with great effort that the Gu
ban legislation was passed.
Senator Aldrich announced when
the Cuban bill was under consideration
that there would be no more tariff leg
islation by treaty. If anything is said
about reciprocity it will be SO wQrded
as to mean that reciprocity shall be
confined to such articles as are not in
competition with products of the
United States.
Mention of the financial question
will consist of an allusion to the main
tenance of the gold standard by the
Republican party and a promise tc
continue the finances of the country
upon a sound basis.
Disfranchisement of the negroes II
Southern states will be denounced a:
an encroachment on rights guaranteed
by the constitution.
The demand for restoration of thu
merchant marine of the country will
be renewed, but it is not the intention
to endorse any specific plan.
There are some other Suggestion
as to planks in the platform, but tn
decision to have the platform as brie
as nnSsihle NAV eliminato them from