The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-20
fspecia1 from United Pregs.o


 Rochester, N T., April 20.-Manu- featuring, rock-ribbed in principle, has repudiated the new Repub1can tariff law in no uncertain terms. IhaL is the construction party leaders of the dominant parties place today on the emphatic defeat by James $. Ha- vens of George w. Aldridge In his fight for the vacant Congressional seat or the late James B. Perkins. Close scru- tiny of the figures today only empha- size this opinion and while national Republican leaders are explaining the personal equation settlement, the cleo tion, Republican insist, today olstofts the issue.
 Not only did Ravens carry the city, but he carried every town in the coun- ty except one. The issue in the eoun- try towns was the Thigh cost of l1V- ing" This was blamed on the new tariff law and the farmers apparently voted accordingly.
 The tariff that had the most effect on the result was the wool schedule that fiured materially in the recent Massachusetts election. There are more clothing factories in Rochester than in any other city in this country and the industry seemingly took the stand that the present wool schedule is unfair. The Republican leaders, realizing that the feeling against this schedule was intense, sent broadcast through the district President Taft's defense of it and his complete en- dorsement of the tariff law as meet ing the RGDuDllCan CdT1II p10OS0 O1 CAO last national convention. Owners of business establishments were warned that the defeat of Aldridge would mean that the country wide demand for the re-opening of the tariff ques- tion would be emphasized instead of checked and possible tariff t1nkerlng with renewed agitation in business must be expected.
 There was nothing left undone to force these points home to the voters and local Republican leaders today in sist the verdict of the voters must be accepted as a repudiation of the tar
 The acceptance of a check of s1,ooo by Aldridge for his influence in pas. sing an insurance law may have had some effect on the result but the Democratic leaders insist that the votes it swayed played no material part in the result. They point out to- day that they kept personalities en- tirely to the rear and Ravens and his aides on the stump made their argu- ment on tariff for revenue only'
 The Democratic leaders also assert that the endorsement of Ravens by the officials of the American Fedora tion of Labor through a letter signed by Gornpers and Morrison, has had but little effect on the vote. They insist that for the most part their preten- tions are concurred in by the progress sive Republican leaders that the in- surgency that is sweeping the coun- try is fully as strong in New York as it is in Kansas or Iowa
 As an instance of the manner in which party lines are being smashed it is recalled today that Ravens, al- though a Democrat supported Cover nor Hughes. Commenting on his vic tory he refers to that fact by saying:
 ssWhiIe this may be justly heralded as a great Democratic victory, it was no less a victory such as the progress sive Republicans have been winning both in the east and in the west. It is a victory over the things for which Cannon had stood and for the ideals which Governor Hughes typif1es."
 Ravens victory, in many other re- spects parallals that of Eugene N. F'oss in Massachusetts.