The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-05-08

sion, held a boiling convention. The
regular party convention sent delegates
uninstructed.
The West Virginia Republican con-
gention instructed for Taft.
The South Carolina Republican con-
gention was favorable TO the Roose-
velt candidate. but did not instruct the
delegation to Chicago.
Hearst Sounds His Trumpet.
Calling upon all Republicans and
Democrats who are tired of reaction
and talk to join him in smashing bEh
the old parties, William r. Hearst.
speaking at the first dinner OF the In
dependence league leaders from all
parts of the country at New York. as
sailed Roosevelt. Taft and Bryan in
the same breath. He called the presi-
dent 'the most active and artful can
didate of them ALL and charged him
with shifting from Che side to the 9TH
er Of many questions. He Lat ut Bryari
on the same score. referring to the
Nebraskan's change of front on the
government ownership question and on
the referendum and ridiculing the sur
render to Sullivan in Illinois. "These
men of words" he said, "are not given
20 action. These parties of promises
are not given to performance" He
pointed to the failure to pass a cur
rency bill and denounced the Hepburn
bill as "the browning insult to labor"
Neither of the old parties could be
trusted to reform the tariff. He in
dorsed the Roosevelt programme of
bigger navy.
Johnson Talks Politics.
The passive candidacy of Governor
Johnson of Minnesota for the Demo
cratic nomination has been favored by
his lecture tour in Michigan. during
which several interviews have been
widely quoted in the anti-Bryan press.
Federal Capitalization and predatory
wealth he regarded as the two great
dangers Of this republic, saying that
the tariff itself is in restraint of trade
While denying that he is for free trade,
he says that settlement of the tariff
along reasonable lines would settle the
trust question. In his opinion there
should be restraint of monopoly. but
not Of intelligent cooperation of man..
ufacturers to lessen the cost of produc-
ton. The johnson managers now claim
most of the uninstructed delegations
and say that Bryan will have less than
q majority.
Taft Says Bryan Will Win.
In his speech at q Republican dinner
at Bridgeport, Conn.,, Secretary Taft
discussed the questions likely to be up
permost with Bryan as the Democratic
nominee, anticipating that result of the
Denver convention. He charged Bryan
with having helped thrust the Philip
pines upon the country by advocating
the treaty Of Paris.
Taft delivered a-sset address before
the Civic Forum at New York and an
swered questions from the audience.
His subject was THE Laws Delays"
To one questioner he replied that there
is no necessary connection between the
high prices and the tariff. He denied
that he was stand patter on the tariff,
but believed in the protective theory.
The much discussed answer which be
had made at Cooper Union some weeks
ago to man who asked what man
out of work should do-namely, "God
only knows; don't" came in for some
revision when that questionepopped up.
He asserted that there was still much
need of labor on the farms out west,
and he would favor helping in every
way possible to bring together the I'M
employed and the demand for labor.
He had always been in favor of wom-
an suffrage, but thought it is a radical
step until it was certain that 1t would
be approved by all the women. AS to
the laws delays, he would have the ap-
pellate jurisdiction of the supreme
court limited to typical cases and not
more than one appeal allowed.
Socialists Approve Taft.
The New York section of the Social
list party has issued a statement COM
mending the sentiments expressed by
Secretary Taft to the Conductors 5
union recently at Chicago-namely
that it is right and inevitable that
both labor and capital combine and
that great controversy must yet set
tie the question as to the relative share
of each in the products of industry.
Say the Socialists, Here we have the
remarkable spectacle of Republican
presidential aspirant coolly dropping
all the cant about there being no
classes in this country and admitting