Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-10-16
RAPo ITS OWN PLATFORM BY
SEVERELY cRlTICIsING RE.
PUBLICAN TARIFF PLANK.
L0NCW0RTH ON DYNASTY
PREolDENT'9 soN-IN-lAW, DE-
cLAREs 8 YEARS TAFT
Then ROOSEVELT.
Republicans Are incensed at the Re-
marks Made by Longworth In HE
Rock Island QlI.) Speech on the
Succession Of Presidency.

The Omaha Beo, published Dy VIC
tor Rosewater, member of the Repub-
Ncan national committee, and head OF
the Republican campaign publicity bu'
reau, has made the blunder of CRITICS
Ing vigorously part Of the tariff plank
Of the Republican platform, the writer
being under the impression that he
was really pouring hot shot into Mr..
Bryan The Democratic leader, In q
recent speech, had quoted that part OF
the Republican platform which 10
criticised.
The editorial in Mr.. Rosewater's pa.
Per goes on the theory that this Ian.
guage was Mr.. Bryan's own, the wri-
tor failing to notice that the language
was really part of the platform on
which Mr.. Taft is running.
The consequence of this 10 that Mr..
Bryan and his friends have on broad
grin and they think that the smiles at
FAirview are likely to spread to all
Democrats in the country. ...
The words complained Of in the Bee
editorial were these: ;af .... ....- ,..,
I'm all tariff legislation the true
principle is best maintained by the i'm
position of such duties as will equal
The difference between the cost Of
production at home and abroad, to-
tether with reasS1abls profit to Amer
lean industries" ... SIS. so
The Bee went on to punctUe this
language in the following style:
Nothing prettier, in the ~catch-all
line has been offered in this campaign,
The most hide bound standpatter:- In
the country can accept that Us salts
factory and the rankest free trader
can ind delight in It, The declaration
means simply nothing: An attempt to
leSislate along that line would simply
open tho way to interminable wrang-
bng a. to what constitutes a reasona-
Die profit for hair-splitting on wages
On one industry, price Of raw materials
IN another, rebates and drawbacks in
> third and 30 on through the list Of
thousands Of articles that are now on
the tariff revision, at Bryan's direc-
ton, would serve only to halt indus
trial and commercial progress and
keep business unsettled during his
The Omaha World. Herald shows
that the words complained Of are not
d part Of any speech OF Mr.. Bryan, but
\ bart Of the tariff plank Of the Repub-
'dcan platform.
Mr.. Bryan had this to say when the
matter was called to his attentions: s..
II am very much surprised that Mr..
4osewater should have attempted to
lpisrepresent my position. A good
3hany unfair things have been said.
PIT Nothing m9Ys unfair thaR that SAID q
ttss e |snqs.f. th SIZES 81 &
Platform 10 An outrage. He ought to
fpologi1s for this injustice and e1.
1lain to his readers that the Language
Rh1ch he criticises was taken from tho
Republican platform and not from any
speech Of mine.
"This Is q rich ind. 1t shows how
absurd the Republican platform looks
to q Republican when the Republican
has a chance to look at it In disin-
terested way. When Mr.. Rosewater
thought that the language quoted was
taken from a speech of mine he could
see how ridiculous the language was.
hope that his opinion of the language
will not change when he finds that he
was shooting at his own platform in.
ptead o. at me.
1.-THE amusing blunder Of the Omaha
Bee suggests new diversion for the
campaign. Let the Democrats accuse
me Of using various sections from the
Republican platform and from Mr..
Taft's speeches and see how the Re-
publican editors will ridicule the Ian
guage.'
No utterance Of the campaign has
attracted more attention than the pre-
diction Of Congressman Nicholas Long
worth, the presidents son-in-law, who
in speech at Rock Island, ILL.,, declared
that after eight years of Taft, it would
be Roosevelt in the White House
again. This utterance has caused Re
publican campaign managers no little
annoyance. The Republican view OF
the incident is well set forth by the
Chicago Inter Ocean, one Of the lead
Ing Republican papers in the. entire
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