Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
ENDORSEMENT
OF ROOSEVELT TO
BE VIGOROUS
CONFERENCE IS HELD ON
CHICAGO PLATFORM
TAFT TO PLEDGE HIMSELF TO
CARRY OUT POLICIES
la for Revision of Tariff at Special
Session of Sixty-flrst Congress
Immediately After lnau-
guratlon
By Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, June There will
be no lukewarm Endorsement of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his policies in the
Republican national platform, If the
wishes of Secretary Taft and his friends
have potency in the framing of that
document.
This much was made known today
after the first of a series of confer
ences to be held on the subject of the
platform. Should the Chicago conyen-
ton adopt this sort of platform and
nominate Secretary Taft it is predicted
in authoritative quarters that his let
ter, or speech, of acceptance VIII con-
tain a pledge to carry out the Roosevelt
policies already inaugurated, and earn
cstly strive for those not enacted, which
will have a ring similar to that pro-
nounced by President Roosevelt on TAX
ing the oath of office over the body of
the dead Mckinley.
Wade Ellis, attorney general or ONO,
who has prospects of being the Ohio
member of the resolutions committee
of that convention and who was largely
responsible for the conceded Virility of
the Ohio Republican platform, is here
for a thorough understanding with the
secretary of war. He was with Mr..
Taft at his office today and at his resi-
dence tonight for several hours. An
other conference is to be held, and 1t is
not unlikely that the matter will then
be brought to the attention of the presi-
dent.
Secretary Taft made no secret of his
position on the tariff. He is for revis-
ion at a special session of the Sixty
first congress, to be called Immediately
after the inauguration, March A. 1909
Ideas on Tariff
His ideas as to what the tariff should
be also are public property. The sched-
ules should be drawn as near as possi-
BILE to cover the difference between the
lesser cost of production of given
article in foreign countries and the cost
to produce that article in the United
States. This. he regards as "protec-
ton" in its true and fair sense.
Schedules which are fixed at a rate
higher than this difference, he believes,
are not only unnecessary. as means of
protection, but are evidence of their
temptation to capitalists to form mono-
poles and trusts in this country for
the control of the market in that par
ticular product From this informa-
tion the prediction is declared to be a
safe one that the tariff plank to be
presented to the resolutions committee
by the Taft adherents will follow close
ly the lines of the Ohio platform.
with the added specifications regarding
the manner of arriving at the amount
of-ta4'iff which should be levied.
Mr.. Ellis is known to be in favor of
plank stipulating that amendments
should be made to the Sherman anti
trust law. and Secretary Taft is known
to be thorough believer in the efficacy
of trust control through federal laws
The embodiment of these ideas into
plank. T~hich might take the form of
an Endorsement of the Hepburn bill
which died a peaceful death in the
house Judiciary committee, is said to
be a safe prediction.
The conferences will not be restricted
I'm their personnel. and it Is believed
that before the Taft platform is finally
perfected for submission the views of
many of the party leaders Will have
been obtained.