Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-25
such a talkfest should occur, we would
put our money up on his side.
Whence and How.


Some Of our friends down at Lincoln
seem to persist in distressing them
selves over the origin of the tariff
plank adopted by Nebraska republic
cans al their late platform convention,
and the Lincoln Star asks the question.
Whence came it?7 with these numer-
Gus variations:
Was II a homemade affair. or was II
donated for the occasion by philanthropic
gentlemen down in Washington who have
given up a great deal Of their time to
lettering around the Hobbies Of congress
to see that the dykes were kept up TO
curb any tendency toward vagrancy on the
part Of legislation? Was it one Of the
leftover winkers which had been used
upon the weakened, weak-minded con-
gressmen? Doesn'. it reanlnd one of what
he has heard about Speaker Cannon? do
you suppose that President Taft ever saw
1t before young Mr.. Rosewater brought IL
west and put it over the eyes of the state
c~onvention?
After thus exhausting it's question
mark box, the Star concludes:
OF course these are question which only
WI NbNE aANA dAh n lew VI Ills NApoNA NbA
fidents can answer, and one hardly dares
hope that any of them will answer
Assuming the risk of Disappointing
our Lincoln friends, we see no reason
why these questions should not be an
swered. The republican platform was
reported unanimously by the resolu-
lions committee appointed by Chair
man Charles o. Whedon, consisting of
the following members:
Chairman-Victor Rosewater, Douglas.
First District-Judge r. p. Holmes, Ian
caster.
Second District-I. c. Eller, Washington.
Third District-Attorney General Thomp-
son, Me1rlck.
Fourth District-Samuel Rinaker, Gage;
Charles H. Sloan, Fillmore.
Fifth Distriet-W. II. Harrison, Hall.
Sixth Dlstrict-C. p. Mcdonald, Buffalo.
The tariff plank, as drawn and sub
mitted to the committee by the chair
man. who, by the way, had not been
in Washington since the preceding
March, read originally as follows:
We approve. commend and unqualifledly
endorse the stand taken by President Taft
in the matter OF tariff revision. We are
counting on him to see to it that the
promise Of revision wnw is redeemed
by the enactment of a tariff bill accept
able to the people, and we call upon hin
to use his veto on any bill that does no
conform to his construction OF the plat
form pledge which he has said means re
vision downward within the limitations Of
the protective principle" We look to oui
senators and representatives in congress L
continue to sustain the president in THU
position.
This draft underwent several modi.
fcations in committee at the sugges.
ton OF the various members, and as
finally revised and adopted reads az
follows:
We approve, commend and unqualifiedly
endorse the stand taken by President Taf'
In the matter Of tariff revision. We are
counting on him to see to II that thu
party's platform of revision is redeemed
by THE enactment of a tariff bill accept
able to the people, and we would approx
the exercise of his veto on any bill thu
does not conform to his construction of tn,
platform pledges, which he has said meani
revision downward within the limitation!
of the protective principle" We look t.
our senators and representatives in con
gress to sustain the president in this posi-
ton, and we commend them for their eff
forts in support of the party's pledges ant
the presidents policies.
Please note that the committee or
resolutions included in its member.
ship representatives Of all the ele.
ments of the republican party in Ne.
braska, who went over the wording
carefully and critically, and that 1t waI
approved without dissent by the con,
vention In which several of the present
fault-inders sat as delegates without
protest or attempt at further modifica
ton.
If any other pertinent information
on the subject is desired it will bt
cheerfully furnished.
It is the right and privilege of ever!