Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-08
PLATFORM
 FORECAST
Draft of Chicago Resolu=
 tions Given Out.
PRESIDENT IS INDORSED.

Unequivocal Support Given to Policies
 of Present National Administration.
 Main Plank, However, Is Devoted to
 the Question of Tariff Revision,
 Which Is Indorsed - Disposition to
 Leave Working Out of Details to
 Committees of Congress Which Have
 Matter In Hand.
 Washington, June S.-What is gen. erally understood to be the draft oE the Republican party's platform to be adopted by the Chicago national con- vention was given forth here.
 The platform as given out is very circumstantial. In official circles it is believed that the administration has made it public thus far ahead of the convention in order to test public sen timent regarding its provisions.
 The platform has been written by Wade H. Ellis, attorney general of Ohio, who drafted the recent Ohio state platform; Senator Hopkins, who will be the chairman of the committee on resolutions; Senator Long of Kansas and few others, including the presi- dent and Secretary Taft, who have been consulted.
 Endorsement For Mir. Roosevelt.
 The policies of President Roosevelt will be indorsed unequivocally, and this indorsement 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 benefcent, as ever in the interest of all the people. The Republican party's record as the party of protection and sound money, as the party of progress and good prin- ciples, as the party that gave freedom to Cuba and lifted the yoke from the necks of the people of the Philippines and Porto Rico, will be held up for admiration.
 Specifically speaking, more attention has been given by the platform makers to the tariff than to any other subject. There will be an unequivocal declara- ton for revision. But the disposition is to leave the working out of details to the ingenuity of congress. The ac- ton of the two houses of congress in instructing the committees which will deal with the tariff. the senate com mittee on finance and the house com mittee on ways and means, to make especial investigation of the situation, will afford sufficient excuse for this course. as the results of these inquiries will be unavailable to the convention, while they will supposedly furnish congress with basis for action. This preparatory step will be indorsed. and there will be general procurement in favor of such changes in the sched ules as the advance of time and the progress of the country may have made necessary since the enactment of the Dingley law. The declaration will take the shape of a pledge to so equal ize the duties as to give the consumer the benefit of the most favorable prices consistent with the protection of do- mestic industries and home labor. It will be emphatically stated that there must be no innovation that will per init American labor to come into com petition with foreign labor. and ac- cordingly it will be specified that in all cases the duty must be equal to the difference between the American and the European cost of production, in- cluding a reasonable profit to the American producer. The principle of protection will be indorsed in general terms, and there may be a declaration favorable to a maximum tariff as the one best calculated to insure the pro motion of American industry under varying conditions. A clause declar- ing against the utilization of the tariff for the promotion of monopoly is also among the probabilities.
 Financial Plank Second ln importance.
 Next to the tariff. the financial plank has received most careful attention. but the enactment of the emergency currency law just before the close of the recent session of congress has ren- dered the preparation of this plank much simpler than 1t would have been if there had been no such legislation. Congress and the administration will be congratulated upon the passage ot the Aldrich-YreeIand bill as in the in- terest of sound finance and as caleu- lated to protect the business world against possible panics in the near fu- ture and at the same time provide for the permanent improvement Of our currency system through the recon uendatious which f. Is anticipated viii be made by the commission appointed under the new law Reference will b. made Co the financial disturbance of last fall. and 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. and the country will be informed that by its prompt action the business world was saved from long drawn out fnaa- cial depression and industrial inac- tivity
 Vale ssnisr Droxns-
 New Haven. Conn June s-Cer-e