The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-01
STAND PAT IN OHIO
HARMONY BETWEEN PRESIDENT
 AND STATE LEADERS.
Senator Dick Visits sagamore HilI and Tells Roosevelt That All Is
 We'll In Son-in-Lnws

Oyster Bay, July 31-Senator Charles Dick,of Ohio. and Elmer Dover. secre- tary of the Republican National Com mittee. made joint pilgrimage to Sag amore Hill today.
 President Roosevelt discussed with them; for two hours the political situa- ticns in Ohio. Aside from the advauS tages Of the discussion. the single fact that Senator Dick was guest at Sag arnore Hill and came away. bearing the Presidents expression of enthusiastic desire for harmony and success In the coming Congressional campaign, IS re- gar6ed as Q political occurrence which win have decided weight in the Repub- lican situation in Ohio
 It has been said in Ohio that Sem stors Foraker and Dick did not stana for the Roosevelt administration and this report bid fair to cause at. least a cegree of trouble. It has now been nailed to the mast" if these words from Senator Dick have meaning. Tt Is safe to make one prediction that President Rooaevslts administration and the work of Congress will receive sincere and enthusia stic endorsement in the Ohio Republican platform
 Senator Dick has for many years made the first draft of the State plat forms and this was one of he princi- ral topics of his discussion with the President today. As indicating the part President Roosevelt took in the conference, Senator Dick said:
 ssThe President is very greatly inter ested in the result of the Congressional election, and he does not hesitate to say so.
 ''Rishtfully he feels that he has in augOrated policies which he is hope fui of concluding successfully. This can only be accomplished with the help of Republican majority in the Six tieth Congress. The President is ready to do all he can to bring about a Re- publican victory In the coming cam paign. This does not mean that he is going on the stnmp;he could not do that. It does not necessarilysnean that he is to minaIs in local conferences. buthe will have keen genera U in ter tin the result ana vtn Aid Sp Ell
 aBesides the strong .epdorse- ment of the President with which the Ohio platform Is to be featured there is to be stand pat" declaration re- gardIng the tariff. General Dick ex- pressed himself freely on this point.
 sTt would be practically impossible for the Sixtieth Congress to revise the tariff." he remarked. Besides 1t would be decidedly bad political sense. There has never been an exception to the oc- eurrefce that when political party in contSoI of Congress undertook to re- wise the tariff two years preceding national election 1t failed to elect it's candidates in that election.
 isrhe Republican party of Ohio stands now as always for the protection of the American workingman. The pres ent tariff law known as the Dingley law has proved in this county unparel- leIed prosperity. ~I
 we must at the proper time, how- I- 1ra oaT tinent which demands revision or certain schedules. The Republican pol- fey has always been. and the express sions of the leading advocates Of the protective tariff idea, including Mo Kinley, it's greatest champion, have been for prudent revision. when needed on such tariff schedules as shall on account of changing conditions sooner or later need to be changed
 Senator Dick then gave his reasons for saying that the Republican poii- ticaI outlook in Ohio at the present moment Is decidedly better than 1t was a yss: ago. Herrick, he said, was de- Seatei for reelection as governor largely if not entirely on the temper ance question. This question is not now a factor. The defeat of Herrick had a salutary effect on Ohio Republi- cans, It had undoubtedly brought them to a realization that they could not be split up by dissensions and win an election. The lamented death of governor Pattison. the only man on the Democratic state ticket who was elected. coming as 1t did, shortly after his inauRuration, had placed the admin Istration of affairs in the hands of Governor Harris. His administration had been strong and well calculated to bring harmony to the Republicans throughout the state
 The State Convention this year is to be held on the 11th and 18th of Sep ten1ber, very much later than usual The convention is also to mark the opening of the campaign in the State and from that time on there are to be lively times politically. Of the twen ty-one Congressional districts, twenty are now represented by Republicans, At least three of these members se- cured their election in what are regard ad as Democratic districts. These Are fhe Fifth, Thirteenth and Seventeenth
 "It is hoping for a very great deal Ito bring yourself to believe that we can carry, all of those districts again" res marked Senator Dick We had the aId of the Presidents name on the ticket the last time, but we were never In better shape to put up hard fight to retain every one and shall try to do it."
 Secretary Dover remarked in answer to question that the Federal investi- cations of the Standard oil Company would have no bad effect on the Re- publican situation in the State.
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