Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
CHICAGO PLATFORM
READY TO ADOPT
ONLY FEW DETAILS ARE LEFT
FOR CONVENTION
Policies OF Roosevelt Fully Endorsed,
and Revision of Tariff Is Advo-
Gated After Next Con-
gress Convenes
BY Associated Press.


platform which will be adopted at the
Chicago convention and on which the
Republican party will stand during the
next campaign has been competed
with the exception of few details
which will be left for the committee on
resolutions to insert, is the opinion Oh
many who are in the confidence Oh tne
Republican leaders
The work has been done by WADE
Ellis. attorney general of Ohio, the
craftsman of the recent ONO state
PLATFORM; Senator Hopkins of ILLINOIS,
who will be the chairman of the COM
mittee on resolutions; Senator Long OF
Kansas and a few others, including
the president and Secretary Tart, VINO
have been freely consulted. :,
The policies of President RooseVei'
will be indorsed unequivocally ana thls
Endorsement will be the central ldea
of the document. These policies Will De
set forth as the embodiment or the
principles of the Republican party
whose achievements will be lauded as
at all times wise and beneficial; as ever
in the interest of the people.
These principles, 1t will be declared
are quite in contrast with the pollcies
of the Democratic party, which, as EN-
bodied in the public utterances of It's
leaders, 1t will be said, promise noth'
complishment.
The Republican party's record as the
party of protection and SOUND money
as the party of progress and good pIln'
ciples, as the party that gave freeoon
to Cuba and lifted the yoke from tht
necks of the people of the Philippines
and from Porto Rico, will be upheld fol
admiration and made the subject OF
much praise, and the voting power VII
he asked to continue to patronize the
political craft that has carried 1t across
so many streams.
Attention TO Tariff
Specifically speaking. more attention
has been given by the platform makers
to the tariff than to any otner supJec, .;o,
There will be an equivocal declara tiof
for revision, but the disposition is t'
leave the working out of details 10 th'
ingenuity Of congress.
The action of the two houses OF con
gress in instructing the two conlnit
tees that will deal with the tarltt t'
make a special investigation OF the sit'
uation will afford sufficient excuse To-
this course, as the results of these IN
ouiries will be unavailable to the con
yention, while they supposedly VIII fur'
nish congress with basis for acton.
This preparatory step VIII De III
dorsed and there will be a general pro
nouncement in favor of such change:
in the schedules as the advance o.
times and the progress OF the couhtr,
may have made necessary since Ih'
enactment of the Dingley law. The
declaration will take the shape or ap'
nearing to so equalize the duties as t(
give the consumer the benefit OF tht
most favorable prices consistent VIII
the protection of domestic industries
and home labor.
II will be emphatically stated thai
there must be no innovation that WI
permit American labor to come 1nt'
competition with foreign labor, and &C
cordingly it will be specified that II
all cases the duty must be equal u
the differences between the American
and the European cost of production
The principle of protection VIII pc IN
dorsed in general terms, and there
NAV be a declaration favorable to
maximum and a minimum tariff as tn'
one best calculated to insure the pro
motion of American interests unoei
varying conditions.
Financial Plank
Next to the tariff, the financial planH
has received most careful attention
but the enactment of the emergency
currency law just before the close o.
the recent session of congress has rem
dered the preparation of this planr
much simpler than 1t would nave peer
if there had been no such legislation
Congress will be congratulated on the
Aldrich- -Vreeland bill as in the interes
of sound finance and as calculated u
nrotect the business world against pos
sible panics in the near future, and a.
the same time provide for the perma
nent improvement of our currency sys
tenn through the recommendatloil'
which it is anticipated will be mad'
by the commission appointed under th'
new law.
reference will be made to the f1nan
cial disturbance of last fall, and while
the seriousness of that crisis Will b'
recognized the claim will be made
that the Republican party was foun'
able to meet the situation, ana tns
country will be informed that by III
prompt action the business world wal
saved from long-draWn-out nnancid
depression and industrial inactivity.
The country will be accordingly con
graduated upon the fact that Whef
This emergency arose the Republican
Marty was in power, and in position II
come to the rescue. The Republican
administration will also be compliment
ed on the passage during the flIty
ninth congress of the railroad rate law
and this legislation will be pointed u
as a sample of the Legislation the pa.
will do for the country at large, II
case 1t is given such a lease or poWel
as TO afford it sufficient time for th'
changes which are believed to be de-
sirable.
Credit to President
The president also will be given muci
credit for recent legislation looking u
preservation of the forests, conserva
tion of the natural resources In the IN
terest of the entire country and recla
nation of timber lands of the west.
The presidents attitude in the mattel
of the general protection of the re
sources of the country will be favor
ably commented on as indicating I'M
best course for future legislation. Hi
position in favor of deepening the chan
mel of the Mississippi river and genera
Improvement of the inland waterway
will come in for Endorsement. as VII
his vigorous work in prosecuting CON
struction of the Panama canal.
The convention will place itseif OF
record as favoring such an amendmen
of the Sherman antitrust law as vii
enable the railroads to enter int