Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-06-08
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Draft Of Chicago ResoIu-
tons Given Ont.
PRESIDENT IS INDORSED.

UnequivooaI Support Given to Policies
Of Present National Administration.
Main Plank, However, Is Devoted to
the Question Of Tariff Revision,
Which Is Indorssd = Disposition to
Leave Working Out of Details to
Committees Of Congress Which Have
Matter In Hand.
Washington, June S.-What is gen
orally understood to be the draft Of
the Republican party's platform to be
adopted by the Chicago national con-
vention was given forth here.
The platform as given out is very
circumstantial. In official circles it is
believed that the administration has
made 1t public thus far ahead of the
convention in order to test public SEN
timent regarding its provisions.
The platform has been written by
Wade H. Ellis, attorney general of
Ohio, who drafted the recent Ohio state
platform; Senator Hopkins, who will
be the chairman of the committee on
resolutions; Senator Long of Kansas
and few others, including the presi-
dent and Secretary Taft, who have
been consulted.
Endorsement For Mr.. Roosevelt.
The policies of President Roosevelt
will be indorsed unequivocally, and
this Endorsement will be the central
idea of the document. These policies
will be set forth as the embodiment of
the principles Of the Republican party,
whose achievements will be lauded as
at all times wise and beneficent, as
ever in the interest of all the people.
The Republican party's record as the
party of protection and sound money,
as the party Of progress and good prin-
ciples, as the party that gave freedom
to Cuba and lifted the yoke from the
necks of the people of the Philippines
and Porto Rico, will be held up for
admiration.
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
tion for revision But the disposition
lis to leave the working out of details
to the ingenuity of congress. The ac
tion of the two houses of congress II
instructing the committees which will
deal with the tariff, the senate com
mittee on finance and the house com
/ txs1 n me-
especial investigation Of the situation
will afford sufficient excuse for this
course, as the results of these inquiries
will be unavailable to the convention
while they will supposedly furnish
congress with basis for action. This
preparatory step will be indorsed, and
there will be general pronouncemeni
in favor of such changes in the sched
ules as the advance of time and the
progress of the country may have made
necessary since the enactment Of the
Dingley law. The declaration will
take the shape of pledge to 80 equal
ize the duties as to give the consumer
the benefit of the most favorable prices
consistent with the protection Of do
nestle industries and home labor. II
will be emphatically stated that there
must be no innovation that will per
NIT American labor to come into com
petition with foreign labor, and &C
cordingly It will be specified that in al
cases the duty must be equal to th'
difference between the American ant
the European cost Of production, In
cluding a reasonable profit to thu
/ American producer. The principle Of
protection will be indorsed in genera
terms, and there may be declaration
favorable to a maximum tariff as thu
one best calculated to insure the pro
motion of American industry undel
varying conditions. A clause declar
ing against the utilization of the tariff
for the promotion Of monopoly is als'
among the probabilities.
Financial Plank Second In Importance
Next to the tariff, the financial planl
has received most careful attention
but the enactment of the emergenc,
currency law just before the close O
the recent session of congress has rem
dered the preparation of this planl
much simpler than it would have beer
If there had been no such legislation
Congress and the administration will
be congratulated upon the passage o.
the Aldrich- Vreeland bill as In the In
terest of sound finance and as calcu
lated to protect the business worlt
against possible panlcs in the near fu
ture and at the same time provide TO
the permanent Improvement of oul
currency system through the recon
mendations which 1t is anticipated will
be made by the commission appointed
under the new law. Reference will b,
made to the financial disturbance o
last fall, and while the seriousness o
that crisis will be recognized, the CLAIM
will be made that the Republican part!
, was found able to meet the situation
and the country will be informed tina
by its prompt action the business worl'
was saved from long drawn out fnan
cial depression and industrial inac
tIvity.