The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-08-04
BRANDS TARIFF FAILURE
Senators cummins and Deliver and In
Surgent Delegation at Washington
EndOrsed--Taft Only Mildly
Endorsed.

time.
Senators Cummins and Dolliver and
the iusurgent delegation at Washington
were enthusiastically endorsed.
The new tariff law was branded as
a failure in the light Of the party pledge
Of 1908, President Taft receiving only a
luke warm endorsement
4 sop to harmony was loung out in
The endorsement Of the administration
OF Governor Carroll.
An attempt to use the steam roller
and make the state central committee
Overwhelmingly progressive was called
off, presumably at the hint Of Senator
Cummins.
Senator Cummins was temporary
cl,airmani Senator Dolliver permanent
chairman.
The progressive majority ranged close
to three hundred on every question.
The resolutions committee was pro-
gressiye, six to five.
The foregoing is q synopsis Of the
days events. To il may be added
cheers and jeers, applause and Kisses,
music and howls Of discord.
Tie appearance and disappearance Of
tho steam roller was one Of the divert
ing Incidents Of the day. Il came about
through the insistence Of the stand pat
members Of the platform committee in
demanding an unqualified endorsement
Of the Taft administration, the legisls.
tive acts Of the regulars and hostility
10 Cummins and Deliver The progress
ives determined to exert little press.
ure, just TO show the minority which is
running Republican politics in Iowa. The
primary law, which provides that mem
beers Of the state central committee shall
be chosen by the convention, wss fas-
tened upon a. the means to this end,
Il was proposed to disregard the caucus
selections Of the frat and ninth dis
tricts, which are stand-pat, and to have
the convention substitute progressives IN
their places.
Attorney General Byers, as a chauf.
feur Of the progressive steam roller
brought that engine into view with
motion that the convention proceed 10
the selection Of the state central com.
mttemen. Eventually. after much de-
bate, Chairman Dolliver surprised every
one BY ordering chauffeur Byers back
to the garage, aud the caucus nominees
were confirmed This, Ike the endorse.
ment Of Governor Carroll, was con
eession to harmony.
What may have been an attempt toll
stampede the delegates in favor Of the
sttalwart Republicans was made when
former Congressman Ellsworth Rominger
hoisted i portrait 81 President Taft
amid stand-pat cheers But the other
side answered with silence Or jeers
Later, progressive delegate exposed
picture 81 Roosevelt, occasioning a dem
Senator Cummins began his speech on
taking the chair by declaring liar,
mon Wis ike the poet: It i born and
not made Then he said that the pri.
maries had declared the position Of Iowa
Republicans, and it would be folly to try
and conceal It BY compromising on
platform He asserted that the Aldrieh-
Payne tariff was direct reputation
Of the platform on which Taft was
elected president He added.
The logical, sensible thing to do il
To correct our mistakenone but Re
publieans can correct itand under the
impulse Of the sentiment, growing now
bg leaps and bounds everywhere, they
will correct it and leave the Republican
name and Republican pledge without
stain in all its wonderful history
Speaking Of conservation, this tribute
was paid to the man Of Oyster Bay:
In the abstract, Theodore Roosevelt /
vas not the first apostle 81 the policy, /
but TO him must be accorded the ever
lasting honor Of planting il in the
American mind, Of making rs all under
stand its tremendous Importance, and Of
slystallizing it into the forms and prae-
Hiaaa az government z
Mr.. Murdoek said to the Associated
Press:
"The significance OF the overwhelming
insurgent victory in Kansas is two
fold.
First, It is a complete reputation
IF both Cannon and the system by which
he has robbed the people Of free govern
nent in the house. Scott Miller and
Bdear were chairmen Of important
House committees, while calderhead was
ii the ways and means committee. All
we're beaten because they subscribed to
he Cannon system.
Second, the Kansas iusurgent victory
5 an effort by the Republicans of kan.
as to say with emphasis to the nation
hat the Republican party Of Kansas BY
Governor Stubs and the Kan
as insurgents in Congress stands for
aud effective legislation.
framed to drive special selfish interests
M ~ centred IN Auser;ean na1iffes