Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-05
HOT FIGHT EXPECTED
Tariff Standpatters Begin
Work at Chicago.
SUPPORT I0uN nAl 7ElI
SUPPORT JOHN DALZELL
Favored for Chairman of the Plat
form Committee.
HOPE OF COMPROMISE PLANK

HOPE OF COMPROMISE PLANK
Dismay at Reported Roosevelt-Taf
Agreement on Extra Session for
Revision-vice Presidency.
From present indications. the stand
patters of the republican party will not
give up the ghost at Chicago without the
hottest kind of fight. The announce
ments that have gone out from Washing
ton Of late with respect to the reported
unanimous agreement OF the Roosevelt
Taft platform builders on the Ohio idea
a 8 one of the planks has stirred up every
old-line standpatter in the country. and
these let-well-enoush-al alone champions
are paving the dust and getting ready
for Chicago and action.
Standpatters for Dalzell.
Charles A. Moore and Wilbur Wake
man. who are president and secretary.
respectively. of the Protective League.
will open headquarters tomorrow in Chi
caRo. which. from now until convention
time. will be the general rendezvous of
the anti-revisionists Representative John
Dalzell of Pittsburg. which is reputed to
be the happy hunting ground Of the tariff
protected infant" industry. Is the can
didate of the Protective League for the
Craftsmanship of the resolutions commit
tee of the national convention. and the
choice as we'll Of most of the other stand
patters from Maine to California. Mr..
inc IO
standpattiest of all standpatters and the
opponents Of the Ohio idea believe that IL
they can only succeed In placing their
Mahomet at the head of the resolutions
committee the tariff mountain will have
to come to him. It's 1O-to-1 shot he
will not go to the mountain.
Working for a Compromise.
Opponents of revision considered 1t bad
enough when, some little time ago, 1t
was generally conceded that there must
be some sort of q declaration in the re-
publican platform for revision at some
time in the future. But they consider it
nothing short of q calamity that the ad
ministration and the administration 8
candidate should have declared, without
eQuivoca tion. this early in the game. for
at special session of the Congress to he
called Immediately after the 4th of March,
And the tariff plank that will be submit
ted by the Taft Roosevelt forces to the
resolutions committee, declaring for q
tariff that will equal the difference he
tween the cost Of production at home and
abroad together with q reasonable prof
It," Is not the sort of a plank the stand
patters can sit on with any degree of
comfort. There will be nails in 1t for
some Of them and splinters for others,
and not a one OF them but realizes the
fact Yet they realize, too. that there is a
great and growing sentiment for revision
and that the best they can do Is to fight
with their coats of In an EFFORT to Sc
cure. II possible. compromise plank and
more conservative declaration OF prin-
ciple.
The Work of Wade Ellis.
Heretofore since there began to be some
little stir in various quarters with respect
to the unvarying altitude Of the tarin
wall. 1t has been possible to get away
with the difficulty through the adoption of
a tariff plank that was measured to the
inch. mortised to nicely. and was as
smooth as sandpaper could make it. But
IT, as is generally understood. the task
of putting the platform ideas Of the Taft
Roosevelt forces into shape for presenta-
ton to the resolutions committee has been
delegated to Wade Ellis. the Ohio attor-
that there will be nothing ambiguous
othing left to the imagination, when he
gets through.
Mr.. Ellis is an expert in the use of
clear-cut. concise. straight 'front.' the shout
der English. and the Ohio platform. which
is admittedly model. from a literary
standpoint, whatever other views may be
held on the subject by those who do not
agree with one or all Of the principles II
enunciates. rings az clear as bell, and
oI1,v hot oIr1 - ton
can read and understand. 80 any tarin
plank that Mr.. Ellis may prepare in the
same way and along the lines Of the Ohio
idea is pretty certain to properly enrage
comma nders-in- chief. rank and file and
hangers-on Of the stand-pat army.
The fight at Chicago between these two
principles. and notifications of each. will
undoubtedly be interesting and instructive.
but ii is thought that the immediate
revisionists will win out in the end.
Taft's Choise Of Running Mate.
'Tis pretty well settled that in a couple
of days the Taft managers will let 1t be
known authorititively the name OF the
man who is preferred by the War Sec
rotary and his friends for second place
on the republican national ticket. In
Washington just now the impression
seems 10 be that the Roosevelt. TAFT COM
bination would like 1t If that honor went
to Senator Dolliver of Iowa. GeoSraph-
ically the hook-up might possibly be i'm
proved upon. tits thiught. but there are
a number Of other reasons why the 1owan
is fancied for Vice President. prominent
among them being that he was one OF
the first men to predict first honors for
Taft.
The senator has never made any claims
that he was the first man to suggest Mr..
Taft for the presidency. but he has been
a consistent supporter for good while.
OF all the other combinations that are
being tentatively framed. that of Taft
and Fairbanks appears to the most
seriously considered by politicians in this
neck of woods. and this. too. despite the
declaration reported to have been made
by Mr. Fairbanks manager that the In
diana man would not accept second place
again Mr.. Roosevelt said the same thing
in a good deal stronger language at Phil
adelphia. but the ensuing frame-up landed
him there Just the same.
DENIED BY MEYER.