Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-20
Raps Its Own Platform by ss- vessly criticizing Repub.
 l|oan Tariff Plank.
,R. IoHowoRrH ON DYNASTY
presidsnts Son.in-Law Declares Eight
 Year Taft-..Then Roosevelt
Republicans are Inccnscd at tho Ro. marks Made by I,ongworth in His M Rock Island. Ill.,, Speech on the f Succession of Presidency.


 Cor Rosewater, member of the Repub- lican national committee, and head of the Republican campaign publicity bu- reau, has made the blunder of criti- cising vigorously part of the tariff plank of the Republican platform, the writer being under the impression that he was really pouring hot shot into Mir. Bryan. The Democratic leader, in recent speech, had quoted that part of the Republican platform which is criticised.
 The editorial In Mir. Rosewater's pa- per goes on the theory that this lam Ruage was MT. Bryan's own. the writer falling to notice that the Ian. guage was really part of the platform on which Mir. Taft is running.
 The consequence of this is that MT. Bryan and his friends have on a 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:
 "In all tariff legislation the true principle is best maintained by the im- position of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, to- gether with reasonable profit to Amer ican industries"
 The Bee went on to puncture this language in the following style:
 Nothing prettier in the catch-all line has been offered in this cam paign. The most hide-bound stand batter in the country can accept that as satisfactory and the rankest free trader can find delight in 1t. The dec laration means simply nothing. An at tempt to legIslate along that line woud simply open the way to inter- ininable wrangling as to what conSti. tutes a reasonable profit for hair splitting on wages on one industry, price of raw materials in another, re- bates and drawbacks in third and 50 on through the list of thousands of articles that are now on the tariff re- vision, at Bryan's direction, would serve only to halt industrial and com mercial progress and keep business un- settled during his term of office."
 The Omaha World-Herald shows that the words complained of are not a part of any speech of Mir. Bryan, but a part of the tariff plank of the Republican platform.
 MT. Bryan had this to say when the matter was called to his atten- ton:
 "I am very much surprised that MT. Rosewater should have attempted to misrepresent my position. A good many unfair things have been said by Mr. Rosewater. To accuse me of using the language of the Republican platform Is an outrage. He ought to apologize for this injustice and ex- plain to his readers that the language which he criticiEes was taken from the Republican platform and not from any speech of mine.
 This is a rich find. It shawn how absurd the Republican platform looks to a Republican when the Republican has . chance to look at 1t in disin- terested way. When Mir Rosewater thought that the language quoted was taken from a speech of mine he could see how ridioulcus 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- stead o at me.
 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 ricicule the lan- guagc."