The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-05-05
CAMPAIGN PLANS
BEING MATURED
Republican Congressional Com
mittee Getting in Readiness
for Active Work.
ORATORS TO DEFEND TARIFF
Question Is Bound to Be One Of the
Principal Issues in the Coming
Elections-Democrats Deter
mined to Keep 1t in the
Front.

Washington.-If the Republican con-
gressional committee has its way,
defense of the tariff law will be made
by the principal campaign orators
during the two months prior to the
election next November. The Repub-
licans had hoped that the tariff was
buried as an issue past resurrection
for at least ten years, but members of
their own party have refused to at
tend a funeral or even to admit that
the issue is in any immediate danger
OF death.
Then the Democrats also have an
nounced that they are going to pay
their attentions to the tariff, and by
the use of frequent electrical oratori-
cal currents, keep it not only alive,
but with strength enough to dance
constantly before the public until the
November SHOWS come.
1t is extremely likely that President
Taft will have some things to say
about the tariff, maintaining posi-
tion of defense of his act in signing
the bill. 1t is believed, however, that
the president will pay most of his
speaking attention to his legislative
measures, and to his future program,
for Mr.. Taft, it is said, does not be-
lieve that the customs should by any
means be made the main issue during
the congressional campaign, even If
the Democrats make good their threats.
Middle West May Not Want Speakers.
Most of the members of the Repub-
l1can congressional committee are
high tariff men, and so naturally it is
to be expected that they will urge the
strongest kind of a defense of the
Payne-Aldrich schedules. 1t is under
stood that some Of the old time stand
pat Republicans will be sent into the
middle west to make tariff speeches
of the kind that were popular in the
days when William Mckinley was run
ming for the presidency. This means
that there will be a wide difference be-
tween the tone of the speeches made
during the Taft campaign and those to
be made during the congressional
campaign of the coming summer and
fall.
When the Taft-Bryan campaign was
on, the Republicans spoke of the tariff
in much the same spirit that they
spoke of 1t during the days of the ma
tional convention. They said they
were going to revise the tariff, and
the general understanding was that
they were going to revise it down.
ward. Now the Democrats charge that
there was no revision downward, or If
there was any lowering tendency at
all, it was too slight to be worthy of
attention. Some of the Insurgent Re-
pVblicans are in the same mood as the
Democrats, and in the Insurgent dis.
tricts it is probable that there will
be very little high tariff talk. This
means that the Republican congress
sional committee will find that the
speakers which they apparently intend
to provide will not be in demand in
the Tnsurgent districts
Tariff Worries Massachusetts.
Representative McKinlay of Cali
fornia, who must not be confused with
Representative Mckinley, chairman of
the Republican congressional commit.
tee although both are high protec.
tionists, recently made a speech in
the Chelsea (Mass) district repre-,
sented in congress by Ernest w. Rob.
erts. stanch Republican. The old
Bay State is much exercised over
tariff matters, and some of the Re-
publicans there fear that they are not
going to be reelected. They find they
can not repudiate their action on the
Payne tariff law, and so they have
made up their minds to defend the
law and to try to bring the doubters
back into the fold.
While the Republican congressional
committee is getting ready to send out
its best high tariff speakers, the Dem.
ocratic congressional committee is pre.
pairing to send out its best anti-high
tariff speakers. 1t is perfectly evi.
dent that the next campaign will be
one in which the tariff will figure lust
as largely as an issue as it has figured
any tlule III ING past, except IN the
J purely Insurgent districts. 1t may be
that the Insurgent Republicans, not
wishing to keep UP the animosity
within the party, will refrain from
talking about the Payne tariff law, and
will make their campaign on basis
of legislative progress in other direc.
tons, occasionally using a word, how.
ever, to the effect that under Demo.
cratic rule free trade will be a Ger.
tainty, and that while the Insurgents
are tariff revisionists, they are very