New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-29
NORTH DAKOTA SOLID FOR ROOSEVELT.
Greatest Republican Majority in the States
History Predicted-The Tariff Policy.

Washington. May 2S-Private advices from North
Dakota indicate the utmost enthusiasm for Presi-
dent Roosevelt. and it is predicted that the State
will roll up larger Republican majority than
before in its history. Following the suggestion OF
Senator Aldrch. and going him one better. North
Dakota declares in favor OF revision OF the tariff
20 be conducted by its friends
The platform adopted last week says this sub
ject.
ncan policy OF protection 70 american labor Auerl-
can enterprise, American institutions and American
citizenship policy which has brought marvellous
prosperity 10 every branch Of Industry. We favor
change OF the things We produce for the commodi-
Ties that We DO not produce. As TO competing prod
nations as win stimulate International commerce.
Ma.out covering me hlEh staEoard OF living OF the
We favor a revision OF the tarin schedules to
-sist that such revision shall he made by the friends
OF our excellent fiscal system
We revert with Just enthusiasm TO the success OF
me ePg1 a POLICY IN dealing with f9Teign ma
lions Of Mckinley and Roosevelt has 40 parsiiei
Through the achievements OF these patriotic Re
and the pacdcton Of The PhpPnes 10 The oPea
Goor IN ne orient, the great American nation has
brought lasting benefits 10 humanity and opened
the worlds markets to our commerce.
Senator Hansbrough delivered the principal speech
at the convention. He said OF the political situa-
ton generally:
and justice OF position before the world with
Cor national righteousness we turn in sorrow 10
behold our opponents calling themselves Demo-
Gratis We see them divided into factions. the
body dismembeTed, separated into Contending fac
tons and wings with no TWO wings Mapping to-
Pether, and prospect OF getting together In
New-York State they have the David s. Hin wing,
indorsing q candidate redolent with the musty
smell OF Wall Street. running upon a platform OF
ElItterng generaties With but one coherent plank
in t., and that plank contending for the ancient
states rights doctrine upon which the Southern
Confederacy founded. It declares that 'cor-
porauons chartered by the State must be subject
10 regulation by the State" This means and IL
means nothing else. that any State In the Union
may create a corporation 70 monopoze any line
OF interstate commerce IN defiance OF federal au-
thority. II IS like a voice from the tomb.
Then note the aspirations OF the candidate OF
the Tammany wing. with his string OF yellow
journals stretching from ocean to ocean dissent
mating the most dangerous and demoralizing doc
triTes. the himself ready with his inherited
millions 10 buy the Presidency OF the United
States.
From the fats Of Nebraska come the sonorous
notes OF alarm from tho who has led two
disastrous Democratic campaigns. but who now
claims that n last he has discovered a new idea
and he had 20 20 Europe TO get 1t. He repudi-
ates the New-York platform and in effect points
to the remarkable spectacle Of the Empire State
DemocTacy going deliberately 10 Wall Street for its
candidate. Does not this utterance make W. J.
Bryan again the logical candidate OF his party7