Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-08
FULL ENDORSEMENT
OF THE PRESIDENT
Will Be Central Idea Of Republican Plat
form, With Careful Attention to
Tariff, Labor and Finance.

Washington, June THAT the plat
| form which will be adopted at the Chi
| cagO convention and on which the Re-
publican party will stand during the
| next campaign has been completed
with the exception Of few details
which will be left for the committee
on resolutions to insert is the opinion
| of many who are in the confidence OF
| the Republican leaders. The work has
ben done by Wade Ellis, attorney gem
eral of Ohio, who drafted the recent
OHIO state platform. Senator Hopkins
of Illinois, who will be the chairman
of the committee on resolutions; Sem
ator Long of Kansas and few others
including the President and Secretary
Taft, who have been freely consulted.
The policies of President Roosevelt
will be endorsed unequivocally and
this endorsement will be the central
idea of the document. These policies
will be set forth as the embodiment OF
the principles of the Republican party,
whose achievements will be lauded as
at all times wise and beneficient; as
ever in the interest of all the people.
These principles it will be declared. are
quite in contrast with the policies or
the Democratic party, which as en-
bodied in the public utterances OF its
leader it will be said, promise Moth
ing good that can be assured of ac-
complishment.
The Republican party's record as the
party of protection and sound money
as the party Of progress and GOOD
principles. as the party that gave Tree
dom to Cuba and lifted the yoke from
the necks of the people of the Phlllp-
pines and Porto Rico, will be held up
for admiration and made the subject
of much praise, and the voting public
will be asked to continue to patronlze
the political craft that has carried 1t
across so many streams.
Specifically speaking, more attention
has been given by the platform markers
TO the tariff than to any other subject
There will be an unequlvocal ueclara-
ton for revision, but the disposition IS
to leave working out of the details 10
Congress- The action of the two houses
of Congress in instructing the commit
tees which will deal with the tariff, the
Senate committee on finance ana the
House committee on ways and means
TO make especial investigation OF the
situation, will afford sufficient excuse
for this course, for the results OF these
INQUIRIES will not be available to the
convention while they will supposedly
furnish Congress with basis for ac-
ton.
This preparatory step will be en-
do-sed and there will be q general pro-
nouncement in favor of such change In
the schedules as the advance of time
and the progress of the country may
have made necessary since the enact
ment of the Dingley law. The declara-
tion will take the shape of pledge
70 so coualize the duties as to give
the consumer the benefit of the most
favorable process consistent Win '"e
protection of domestic industries ana
home labor.
1t will be emphatically stated tiiat
there must be no innovation when VIII
hermit American labor to come INTO
competition with foreign labor ana &C
cordingly it will be specified that III
all cases the duty must be equal 10 tiie
difference between the American ana
the European cost Of production IN
Gliding a reasonable profit to the
American producer.
The nrinciple of protection will be en-
dorsed in general terms ana there may
he declaration Favorable 10 ihdAi-
mum and a minimum tariff as the one
host calculated to insure the promo
tion of American industry under vary
,ne conditions. A clause declaring
against the utilization of the tariff Tor
the promotion of monopoly Is also
among the probabilities.
Next to the tariff the financial plank
has received most careful attentons'
but tho enactment of the emergency
currency law, Just before the close OF
tho recent session Of Congress has
rendered the preparation of this plank
much simpler than it would have been
If there had been no such legislation.
congress and the administration will
he congratulated upon the passage OF
the Aldrich- Vreeland bill as in the in
terest of sound finance and as calcu-
lated to protect the business Woriu
against possible panics in the near tu-
ture and provide for the permanent
Improvement of our currency system
through the recommendations when,
il is anticipated, will be made by the
commission appointed under the ne"
law.
Reference will be made to the fin
ancial disturbance of last fall ana
while the seriousness Of that Crisis
will be recognized the claim will be
made that the Republican party was
found able to meet the situation ana
the country will be informed that by
it's prompt action, the business world
was saved from long drawn out fin-
ancial depression and industrial in
activity. The country will be accord
ingly congratulated upon the fact that
when this emergency arose the Re-
publican party was in power and in
position to come to the rescue.
The administration will be also es-
pecially complimented upon the pas
sage during the 59th Congress of the
railroad law and this legislation will
be pointed to as an example of what
the party will do for the country al