Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-28

24O,OO0 on the Standard OH company !
will make beautiful page in the next |
Republican campaign text book, wheth- |
er or not the judgment is affirmed or !
the fine collected by that time. So. |
too, perhaps will the declarations
that are coming at the rate of four or
five day from distinguished Repub- |
lican politicians that the tariff really
ought 10 be revised, but not by the
next congress. Perhaps there never
was time when Republican poll
ticians were not ready to admit the
need of tariff revision in the dim and
distant future. 1t always recedes as
the moment when 1t is possible draws
nigh, like a will-o'-the-wiSp or like
the moment Of granting self govern
ment to the Filipinos Today the only
really distinguished Republicans who
openly scout at revision are Foraker
Uncle Joe Cannon and Vice President
Fairbanks. All are something more
than receptive candidates for the Re
publican nomination. Each is firm
believer III the efficacy of money
In a campaign, and each is making q
play to protected industries with an
eye single to the campaign treasury.
1t Is worth noting, however that the
men who by common consent are held
to be strongest with the people are
those who are at least preaching ulti-
mate tariff revision. AS an issue it is
strong with the people. whatever its
, terrifying effect upon the political
| purse strings of the corporations.
The Ohio Republican Fight.
| Representative James Kennedy OF
the Eighteenth Ohio district, which in
| cludes the great manufacturing city of
/ Youngstown, is one of Mr.. Tafts chief
! political lieutenants in that state. Mr..
| Taft is not fortunate in his lieutenants.
At a time when the big secretary's
chief weakness before the country is
the knowledge of the fact that his
! nomination means a fractional fight in
q pivotal state Mr.. Kennedy comes
| to Washington and adds fuel to the
| Foraker flames. Most of the Taft
men are willing to let we'll enough
alone. II they can nominate their idol,
they are willing enough that Foraker
shall return to the senate. Not so Ken,
nedy. He demands the pound of flesh
with all the blood pertaining thereto
He would drive Foraker out of poll
! tics and out of the senate and substi
tute for him the ancient and pictur-
! eSQue General Grosvcnor, whose own
constituents declined TO send him back
| to Washington last fail. In the house
In which he has SO long served, Gen
eral Grosvenor has always been per
sOnally exceedingly popular. To him
alone among the retiring congressman
the house. regardless of party. tender
ed an ovation and presented testi
monial CT silver on the last day of the
session. Himself a bitter partisan, {
strenuous and somewhat acrid debat
CT, General GroSvenor has made Il hos
of friends and hardly an enemy on the
Democratic side. Yet his substitution
for Foraker in the senate would no
add to the intellect of that body OF
very materially liberalize its views
He is as narrow as Foraker, as com
plete n stand patter and quite rs mucl
impressed with the idea that the mis-
sion of his party is to serve the cor
porations and keep the stock markets
booming us the senior senator from
Ohio. The spectacle of Taft goin:
up and down the state preaching re
vision and permitting his lieutenant
to intrigue for the election of eros
venor to the senate would be mode
of inconsistency.
Tafts Latest Junket.
On the day that this is written Sec
| rot - ~ of Ia n IN
trip around the world. theoretically
on public business. He stopped in Obi
long enough to deliver Il speech on til
, essentially private business of recon
: mending himself to the favor of tn
people of that state. During his sery
ice in the war department the secrC
tary has probably Travelled more tha
any other living American unless
be those who go forth to seek matera
, for "travelogues" and illustrated LEI
lures. 1t is estimated that he has a
ready covered more than 100000 mile
and has yet this circumnavigation G
e the globe to complete If Mr.. Roost
e welt is intellectually restless, as eve
his friends admit. Taft is physically 81
:. Somehow, though, the necessity of a
: ways sending Taft to smooth out trol
: bles in the Panama zone, in the PHILIP
: pines, in Porto Rico, and now on sp'
: cial mission to Asia and Europe, sut
gests that it would be most disa!
trous thing for the national govern
ment should he be disabled. 1t wi
be remembered that when some owe
- jealous friend of an officehOlder undo
10 Lincoln succeeded in persuading I'll
T president that no other man was cap;
y BILE of discharging the duties of til
n Office he held Mr.. Lincoln replle
l. thoughtfully: "What disaster If !
II should die! l think III abolish II
~ office" And he did. This, howeve
l. would obviously be too drastic a rem
:, edy to apply to the secretary of war.
=. Wall Street In Turmoil.
te The stock gambling community he
y been going through CONFUSION th'
~ somewhat recalls the days of 1S9
- In that year, it will be remembers
so the New York banks concluded th'
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