The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-07-02
The Republican Platform


With the political excitement Incl
dent to the Chicago convention sub.
sided, the people of the nation have
turned their attention to the Republi-
can platform adopted at the con-
ventlon and are finding init an ideal
with which to go before the people
for suffrage.
Doubtless. those who looked for
ultra-radical resolutions are disap-
pointed. The party is not radical
one but is progressive. and as stated
by newspapers. which have carefully
analysed the platform. 1t is progress
sive in the best and truest sense. The
Roosevelt policies are fairly advanced
and Endorsed. 1t does not surrender
to the reactionarfes nor does 1t heed
the demagogue on the other hand Tho
course OF wisdom and patriotism is
upheld. and, II supported at the
polls. 1t is course that will bring
back our greatest prosperity quickest,
while permitting of no check in the
campaign against dishonesty and for
domestic reform. which make the
Roosevelt administration the most
notable in American history.
Revision of the tariff Is called for
at special session of congress. The
emergency currency bill Is approved
and praised, but declaration is made
for further steps. after careful study,
for the perfection of the nations cur
rency system. 1t advocates the estab-
lishment of postal savings banks and
calls for greater supervision and con-
troll over that class of corporations
engaged in Interstate commerce hav-
ing power and opportunity to effect
monopolles." 1t refers to the en-
ployers' liability law. which owes its
existence to Republican votes in con-
gress and to the active support of
President Roosevelt and calls atten-
ton to the fact that there is more
work to be done along these lines.
A plank arousing the most interest
thus far is that which refers to court
injunctions. Eloquent gentlemen ut
the Chicago convention opposed any
expression on the subject, other emil
nent gentlemen asked for a radical
attitude, even more radical than that
embodied In Bryan's free silver gov
eminent by Injunction" platform OF
1896. But, plank was adopted and
1t carries an avowal of continued 10y
atty OF the Republican party to the
American courts. But, at the same
time. as the Cincinnati Times-Star
states. 1t demands return to the old
form of procedure in the granting of
injunctions. 1t has been the issuing
of temporary injunctions without no
tice to those enjoined, and the long
delay which has some times followed
which have given an anti-injunction
cause much of It's support from intel
ligent Americans in the last few years.
Great efforts will be made to per-
suade the trades unionists and other
laborers that William II. Taft is their
enemy and that TIE platform does
not go far enough on the labor ques-
ton. Bryan himself has already ex-
pressed such views for campaign eff
feet and his followers will do so in
due time on the stump Their efforts
in this respect ought not to meet with
any success and will not with the
course of Taft fully presented to the
people. On this subject the Times
Star says:
The man who says Mr.. Taft is an
enemy of American labor consciously
or unconsciously speaks an untruth.
Judge Taft, in the famous Phelan
case-to use the words of Frederick
NJ. Judson. the well known attorney
of st. Louis, who has frequently rep
resented the cause of labor in the
courts-.;made a declaration of the
right of organization and representa-
tion of labor unions which has often
been cited and quoted in support of
the unions and was applied most eff
fectively in their behalf in the Wa
bash strike of 1907 Mr.. Taft is not,
and never has been, an enemy of la
Dor. He Is believer In the square
deal and those who believe that this
fact will hurt him in the eyes of
American workingmen, after the rec
ords have been brought out in tho
campaign. we believe are doomed to
disappointment"
The platform is clean and strong.
1t is one adopted by convention In
full sympathy with Theodore Roose-
welt and with all the knowledge ana
experience of his administrations nj
its command. The election of Taft
and the Endorsement at the polls of
the platform will mean that the gov
eminent at Washington will continue
straightforward along those paths OF
progress It has followed with conspic-
uous success in recent years. Defeat
would mean Organism and chaos in
the ational capital and throughout the
country revivab of distrust and a
spread of businf depression thai
would make all zane men wonder nj
the pessimism that called the finan.
cial furry this year panic.