The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-08
UnequivocaI Declaration for
Revision, But Details Will
Be Left to the Hands of
Congress.
REPUBLICANS WORK ON
MEASURE IN WASHINGTON
The President and Secretary
Taft Are experimenting the
Work. Roosevelt Is Given
Much Praise.

Washington, June S-That the plat
form which will be adopted at the Chi
cago convention, and on which the re-
publican party will stand during the
next campaign, has been completed
with the exception Of a few details,
which will be left for the committee
on resolutions to insert. is the opinion
OF many who are in the confidence OF
the republican leaders. The work has
been done by Hon Wade Ellis, attor-
ney-General of Ohio, the craftsman
OF the recent Ohio state platform: Sen
ator Hopkins, who will be chairman of
the committee on resolutions: Senator
Long. of Kansas, and few others, in
Guiding the president and Secretary
Taft, who have been freely consulted,
The policies of President Roosevelt
will be endorsed unequIVOcaIiy and
this endorsement will be the central
idea of the document. These poll
cies will be set forth as the emb0di-
ment of the principles of the repubIl-
can party, whose achievements Will be
l2uded as at all times wise and bcnetI-
cent. as ever in the interest OF all The
people. These principles, it will be
declared are quite in contrast with the
policies of the democratic party, which
in nh1jr I1tfpr1nHpG
of it's leaders, it will be said. promise
nothing good that can be assured OF
accomplishment. The republican par
tvs record. as the party Of protection
and sound money, as the party OF
progress and good principles, as the
party that gave freedom to Cuba and
lifted the yoke from the nccks Of the
people of the Philippines and Porto
Rico, will be held up for admiration
and made the subject OF much praise,
and the voting public will be asked to
continue to patronizc the political craft
that has carried it across so many
streams.
Tariff Revision.
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 ont of details
to the ingenuity of congress. The ac-
ton Of the two houses Of congress, in
Structing 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 tie situation,
will afford sufficient excuse for this
course, as the result OF these inquiries
will be unavailable to the convention,
while they will supposedly furnish
congress with a basis for action.
The declaration will take the shape
Of a pledge to so eQualize the duties
as to give the consumer the benefit of
the most favorable prices consistent
with the protection Of domestic indus
tries and home labor.
Financial Plank.
Next TO the tariff. the financial
plank has received most careful atten-
ton. but the enactment of the emer-
gency currency law just before the
close of the recent session OF congress
has rendered the preparation of this
plank much simpler than it would
have been if there had been no such
legislation. Congress and the admin
istration will be congratulated upon
the passage Of the Aldrich-Ereeland
bill. as in the interest Of sound finance
and as calculated to protect the bust
ness world against panics in the near
future.
Railway Rate Law.
The administration also will be es
peCially cOmplimented upon the pas
sage during the fifty-ninth congress
of the railroad rate law and this legis-
lation will be pointed to as an exam,
pie of what the party will do for the
country at large in case il is given
such a lease OF power as to afford il
sufficient time for the changes which
are believed 10 be desirable. The
president also will be given much
credit for recent legislation looking
TO the preservation of the forests. the
conservation OF the public domain in
the interest of the arid county and
the reclamation of the arid lands ol
the west.
Antitrust Legislation.
The convention will place itself on
record as favorable to such an amend
ment of the Sherman antitrust law
as will enable the railroads TO enter
into reasonable agre ements without
taking the risk of prosecution in the
criminal courts. There will be a pro
nOuncement in favor of national own
ership.
Labor Demand.
Cognizance will be taken Of the de
mands OF labor TO the extent Of recon-