Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-06-11
TARIFF FIGHT PROBAB BILE
Chicago Convention Likely to
Struggle over Platform.
Republican Delegates of discretionary,
LcnniDgs Also Likely to Resist
Jnrescrved Endorsement of the
Presidents Policies.

"
York Evening Post says:
Experienced forecasters are predicting
stubborn fight at Chicago over the
adoption Of tariff plank 1t Is being
said hereabouts that the chief interest
furnished by the republican convention
will come from the resistance following
the effort 10 impose upon the delegates,
| not only a candidate selected elsewhere,
but complete set Of policies. II MIR.
| Roosevelt has his way the convention
| will unreservedly endorse not only all
that the present adminstrat ton has done,
| hut all that 1t has tried to do.
The President desires the convention
to accept his political beliefs as the pres
ent creed Of the Republican party. In
| addition to this Mr. Taft Will ask for a
clean-cut tariff revision plank. From all
present indications neither OF these de-
mands will he granted without con-
| test.
| Some of the republicans still In town
believe that the big fight at Chicago will
be over the tariff plank. Others, whose
| political vision is just as good, declare
| that the main clash OF opinion will come
! in deciding how FAR the convention shall
go in indorsng all that Mr. Roosevelt has
said and done and tried to do since 1904,
"OLD GUARD" INTEND TO WRITE
PLATFORM
While all present indica tons point to
the nomination OF Secretary Taft, it is
not to be inferred that the "Old Guard
in the Republican party. now known va
| riously as the "reactionary" or the al
| lies" have given up hope OF writing the
partys declaration of principles. Speaker
| Cannon, Dalzel OF Pennsylvania, Payne
OF New York. and their associates in the
House, and Aldrich and the elder repub-
licans in the Senate, have not spent the
winter suppressing and sde-track!nS tar
| III talk only to allow a atfootcd dec.ar-
| alton for reduced schedules TO so into
the Chicago platform.
| The stand-pattcrs gained a point when
julius Caesar Burrows OF Michigan was
selected to be temporary chairman of the
convention. He will step with pussy
| footed tread on the tariff plank. Already
Mr.. Burrows is getting letters like tho
following which comes from the head OF
wool house In Philadelphia:
| My Dear Senator:-I am delighted ia
learn that you have been selected as tenn
| porary chairman Of the republican ma
uohal convention lor' holoihs the views
| Whleh you 40 win regard 20 'He promo
tlon OF the Wefareahu happiness OF a.!
OF OF our people ssh'ereiy nope 'ha'
| your influence Will De apIe TO Keep ou'
| OF the repuplcah platform any express
| sions that VIII proIonS the present dis
| 'ress'nE rear OF tarl1 REVISION "hlch
| in my judgment. Is the main factor TO-
day In preventing industrial recovery
| from the stagnation caused by last sum
mer's financial panic.
| near men say that "heh you
| begin to revise the tarh you never car
tell what you are going To get. Inc
| l)ingley act was the most sclentihcahS
| constructed and Well-ba!anced act ever
| enjoyed in the history or the world ah'
1t Is not reasonable to expect that TINKER