Gunnison news-champion., 1908-07-10
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nasias~i convention a. sgecfas.rs and
fosaee IN rfa demons ra;ion IN favar ~
President ksosesei, and Senator la
feiiette mast have fali Indignant as
thes watched a. panic Stricken a.,..
ssi.s ruuniH9 eSer each sth.r in their
effort 10 get suay from the La Toilette
reforms. sosne of which had been in
aorsed b. the presid.pi himself Con
gresham Fs~sg.r of Wisconsin,. repre-.
.sutinz ase La Foli.tf. men broaghf
IN a minority regori signed by himself
alone fffivf~o naeulhers OF the com
mitfee signed the majority reyar; and
On. signed tn. minority report The
Republican party vii Ind The ratio #
SO to one q very embarrassing one TO
aesl With in the coming campaign Mr.
CooPers report contained declars.
tiou IN favor % publicity as 10 cam.
paisn funds D. was lost by vote Of
IS" 10 -, more than nine 20 one. and
yet the president has been advocating
Legislation IN fsver OF pubiicity as 20
campaign cpntribufions and Secretary
Taft snute q letter 10 Mr burrows ad
VIBRATING the passage Of a publicity
hill How fortunate II ~ss that secre-
tary Taffs istter was nnally discov-
erred and published senator Burrows
the man 20 wbou the Taft letter vas
addressed Was the temporary chair
man of IN. convention. and the con
vention over which he presided turned
down the publicity plank by a vot. Of
nine To one Who will deny that on
this subject. the Republican party Is
rctreatins9
Another plank Of the La Toilette
platform authorized the ascert aiming
of the value Of the railroads This
plank was lost by a vote of sl7 to g.
nearly 10 To one-and vet President
Roosevelt has advocated this very
proposition. Here Is retreat ON the
railroad question
In another column reference is made
to the Injunction plank. The iniunc
tion plank adopted by the Republican
convention is a retreat from the posi-
tion taken by the president and from
the position taken by Secretary Taft
iti us rp~"h'ss vi
them went as far as they ought to have
gone in their EFFORT to prevent what is
known as government by injunction
Here is the third retreat
The president has advocated the in
come tax a means OF preventing e
swollen fortunes and ~ equaiizing the
burdens of government The Repnb-
.latT ..,l.. . \.
ject Was the president right In the
position he took If 30, then the con
vention was wrong in not indorsing
him. Will the Republican voters fol
low the president in this just demand
or viii they follow the Republican or
sanization in retreating from it?
The president advocated an inher-
itance tax, but the Republican conven-
ton is silent on that subject. Was the
president ahead of the Republican
party in advocating this reform, or has
the Republican party receded from the
presidents position" Did the president
give a false alarm on this question or
has the party sounded retreat?
In the presidents message to con
sress last spring he presented an in
dictment against the conspiracy formed
among the great lawbreakers to pre-
vent the enforcement of the law and
to evade the punishments provided by
law The platform adopted by the Re
publican convention contains no init
nation of danger. II there are any
conspiracies. the convention did not
-. "a
tions. il had not heard of them; If
there are any dangers ahead. II was
unconscious of them. Was the presi-
dent mistaken when he issued his de-
fiance. or are the Republican managers
deceived when they think that an
aroused public will calmly contemplate
the encroachments of predatory
wealth This is retreat number six
The convention. by vote of sec to
144-more than seven TO one-voted
down the plank in favor of the popular
election of United States senators. II
is true that the president and Secre-
tary Taft have never advocated the
popular election of senators. They
seem to take the Hamiltonian rather
than the Jenersonian view. but the
most popular reform in the United
States to-day is the reform that has
for its object the election of United
States senators by direct vote. II has
FIVE times been indorsed by the ma
tional house of representatives-th
times when the house of representa-
tives was Republican. II has been in
dorsed by nearly two-thirds Of the
states of the union. and there is prob
ably not a state in the union in which
it would not be indorsed at a popular
election and yet in spite Of the record
made in the house of representatives
and by the various states, this reform
is rejected by a seven-to-one vote in a
Republican national convention.
There are seven propositions upon
which the Republican party. in ma
tional convention assembled. has re-
treated from the position taken by that