The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-06-01
OHIO REPUBLICANS MEET.
Convention Nominates Herrick fl
G0yernor. hu AccIa.nafio.,


Governor by Acclamation.
Columbus correspondence;
Republicans of Ohio were represent
ed by more than 1.1OO delegates when
the State convention to nominate can
didates for governor and othes State
offices was called to order Wednesday
afternoon. Many visitors had been at
tracted by the fact that Secretary of
War Taft, as temporary chairman,
was to deliver the opening speech in
the campaign.
Secretary Taft said in part:
Fellow Republicans of Ohio: 1 con-
gratulate you on the prosperous politi
cal calm in which you meet. The tre-
mendous victory of last fall so stunned
our ancient enemy. the Democracy.
that as party it is hardly even now
showing any sign of life. When
President like Theodore Roosevelt. a
consistent and orthodox Republican, is
welcomed with bursts of enthusiastic
admiration in Texas and in the Demo-
cratic Iroquois Club OF Chicago, we
may well liken the present to the era
Of political good feeling which pre-
vailed early in the last century,
The secretary described the attitude
of the Republican party on the curren-
cy question since 1896, referred to the
Spanish war and its results, and then
said:
'1n the campaign of 1904 the Demo-
cratic managers ignored the fact that
they ever had been in favor of free sill
yer, and sought to make the chief issue
the personality of Theodore Roosevelt.
Against him they charged Imperialism,
miiitarism, usurpation of power, viola
tons Of the constitution, dangerous
foreign policy of intermeddling and an
attempt to introduce personal govern
ment."
Secretary Taft referred to the Demo
cratic charges of corruption against the
President and the chairman of the Re
publican national committee and to
tiS OotUuiot VI
from the President, which the secre-
tary said should serve as a lesson to
those tempted to calumny at a cam
paign's end.
The secretary said that the inter-
state commerce law had accomplished
much, but that inequality and injus-
tice remained. Discussing the proposed
remedial bill as it passed the House
of Representatives, the secretary said
1t attempts to give more power to
the railroad commission, so that its or
ders when made shall be effective
until set aside by judicial hearing. II
does not as yet provide for general
fixing of table of rates by the com.
mission, but only calls for a fixing of q
maximum rate upon complaint with
respect to a specific instance Of In
justice. 1t seems a moderate meas
ure, calculated to give the added pow
er to the commission necessary to eff
fectiveness in remedying specific
wrongs in rates without creating ar
| all-powerful tribunal which in advance
shall take from railways the power ol
ratemaking and of elastically respond
ing to varying conditions. 1t will mo-
thus paralyze Individual effort in meet
ing the changing demands of trade
We can certainly trust our lawgiver:
to respond to the popular demand and
to regulate the railways so far as they
ought to be regulated. without inter
fering with that control over their owl
property and with that motive for eff
ficiency and economic management
which are still required to make sue
cessful the enormous business of rail
| way transportation in America.
Secretary Taft discussed the defici
| in the revenues and said the Repub
licans must provide a suitable mean;
Of avoiding a real and permanent
shortage of cash if next year Wit
nesses a repetition of the deficit
There remain two alternatives" ht
said, "either to impose additional in
ternal taxes or to readjust and revise
the tariff"