Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1908-10-15
RAPS ITS OWN PLATFORM BY
SEVERELY cRiTiciSING RE.
PUBLICAN TARIFF PLANK.
LoNGwoRTH ON DYNASTY
PRESIDENTS SON-iN-LAW De.
cLAREs 8 YEARS TAFT
THEN ROOSEVELT.
Republicans Are lncensed at the Re.
marks Made by LongWorth in His
Rock island UIl.) Speech on the
Succession of Presidency.

The Omaha Bee, published by Vic
tor Rosewater, member of the Repub-
lican national committee, and head OF
the Republican campaign publicity bu-
reau, has made the blunder Of CRITICS
ing vigorously part of the tariff plank
of the Republican platform, the writer
being under the impression that he
was really pouring hot shot into Mr..
Bryan. The Democratic leader, in a
recent speech, had quoted that part OF
the Republican platform which is
criticised.
The editorial in Mr.. Rosewater's pa
per goes on the theory that this Ian
guage was Mr. Bryan's own, the wri-
ter falling to notice that the language
was really part of the platform on
which Mr.. Taft is running.
The consequence of this Is that Mr..
Bryan and his friends have on broad
grin and they think that the smiles at
Fafrview are likely to spread to all
Democrats in the country.
The words complained of in the Bee
editorial were these:
In all tariff legislation the true
principle is best maintained by the i'm
position of such duties as will equal
the difference between the cost OF
az hOlAO oAu OiOOuy W
gether with reasonable profit to Amer.
team Industries"
The Bee went on to punctine this
language ia the following style:
Nothing prettier in the catch-all
line has been offered In this campaign.
The most hide-bound staAdpatter in
the country can accept that as salts
factory and the rankest free trader
can find delight in 1t. The declaration
means simply nothing. An attempt to
legiSlate along that line would simply
open the way to interminable wrang-
ling as to what constitutes "a reasona.
BILE profit for hair-splitting on wages
on one industry price Of raw materials
in another. rebates and drawbacks in
d third and so on through the list of
thousands Of articles that are now on
the tariff revision. at Bryan's direc-
ton. would serve only to halt indus
trial and commercial progress and
keep business unsettled during his
term of Office"
The Omaha World-Herald shows
that the words complained Of are not
part of any speech Of Mr. Bryan, but
part of the tariff plank of the Repub.
iican platform.
Mr.. Bryan had this 10 say when the
81 am very much surprised that Mr..
Bosewater should have attempted to
Inisrepresent my position, A good
~any unfair things have been said
but nothing more unfair than that said
by Mr.. RoSewater. To accuse me- of
using the language OF the Republican
platform is an outrage. He ought to
apologize for this injustice and ex
plain to his readers that the language
which he criticises was taken from the
Republican platform and not from any
speech of mine.
This Is a rich find. 1t shows how
absurd the Republican platform looks
70 a Republican when the Republican
has a chance to look at it in disin
Yeees' ed way. When Mr.. Rosewater
thought that the language quoted was
enkeu from sreech of mine he could
see how ridiculous the language was
fkore that lis opinion of the Language
will not changs when he finds that he
was shooting at his own platform in
stead Of at me.
sThe amusing blunder of the Omaha
Fee suggests new diversion for the
campaign Let the Democrats accuse
me of using various sections from the
Republican platform and from MIR
Teft's 81 eeches ana see how the Re
publican editors will rtdicul, the Ian
Euage"
No utterance Of the campaign has
attracted more ~ eatioa tfaa the pre-
Gicaons Of gong-eSsme n Nicholas Los 3
worth. thv. Presidents son-in-lay. w;.C
II a speech at Rock aad. IL, dec!are-
that after ei.i.t ysaJs Of Tart. it woull
be Roosevelt in the White House
&gsin This 8t;e.ance his cassed Re
nubiiean taSrLaign u,anauess no Ii Tie
f. taEoyaaee The REF ubliean view 81
de inciSent 10 well sat forth by the
Gtica 20 En.sr DC an, one % tie LEAD
tpg Rsri:bIie an assei : IA the entire
west Tic Int at' 3al ST