The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-08
PLATFORM ALL
READY FOR THE
REPUBLICANS
Precious Document Which
Will Be Handed Down
From White House.
NOTHING LEFT FOR THE
CHICAGO CONVENTION
HORN OF ADMINISTRATION is
footed AND SAME OLD
PROMISES MADE.

Washington, June 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 viii be left for the committee
on resolutions TO insert. is the opin-
ion of many who are in the confidence
of the Republican leaders.
The work has been done by Wade
Ellis. attorney general of Ohio, the
craftsman of the recent Ohio state
platform; Senator Hopkins, who viii be
the chairman of the committee on res
Olutions: Senator Long of Kansas and
a few others, including the president
and Secretary Taft, who have been
freely consulted.
Endorsement of Roosevelt.
The policies of President Roosevelt
will be endorsed unequivOcany, and
this endorsement will be the CEN
trail idea Of the document These
policies will be set forth as the en-
bOdiment OF the principles of the Re
publican party, whose achievements
viii be lauded as at all times wise and
beneficial; as ever in the interest of
the people. These principles. II viii be
declared. are quite in contrast with
the policies of the Democratic party,
which, as embodied in the public ut
terances of it's leaders, it will be said,
promise nothing good that can be as
sured Of accomplishment. The Repub-
lican party's 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 necks of
the people of the Philippines and from
Porto Rico viii be upheld for admira-
ton and made the subject of much
praise, and the voting power will be
asked to continue to paronize the pO-
litical craft that has carried il across
so many streams.
Much About the Tariff.
Specifically speaking, more attention
has been given by the platform makers
TO the tariff than To any other subject
There viii be an unequiyOcal declara-
ton for revision, but the disposition is
10 leave the working out of details to
the ingenuity of congress. The action
or the two houses of congress in 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 a
special investigation of the situation.
will afford sufficient excuse for this
course. as the results of these inquiries
will be unavailable 10 the convention,
while they supposedly will furnish con-
gress with a basis for action. This
preparatory step Will be endorsed. and
there viii be a general pronouncement
in favor of such changes in the sched-
ules as the advice of time and the pre- z
ress Of the country may have made
necessary since the enactment of the
Digley law.
Pledge TO Equalize Duties.
The declaration viii take the shape
OF a pledge 10 so equalize the duties
"a to give the consumer the benefit of
the most favorable prices consistent
with the protection of domestic indus
tries and home labor 1t will be en-
phatically stated that there must be no
innovation that Will permit American
labor 10 come into competition with for
eign labor. and accordingly il will be
specified that in all cases the duty must
be equal to the difference between the
American and the European cost of
production. The principle of protec-
ton will be endorsed in general terms
and there may be a declaration favor
able 10 maximum and minimum tar
iff as the one best calculated to insure
the promotion of American interests
under varying conditions. A clause de-
claring against utilization OF the tariff
for the promotion OF monopoly is also
among the probabilities.
"sound" Finance.
Next to the tariff, the financial plank
has received most careful attention, but
the enactment Of the emergency cur
rency law just before the close of the
recent session of congress has rem
dered the preparation of this plank
much simpler than il would have been
if there had been no such legislation.
Congress will be congratulated on the
Aldrich-Vreeland bill as in the interest
of sound finance and as calculated TO
protect the business world against pos
sDle panics in the near future and at
the same time provide for the perma-
nent improvement of our currency sys-
tenn through the recommendations
which it is anticipated will be made by
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