The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-28
NO QUIBBLE THERE
New York Platform OF Straight
From Shoulder Order.
Declares War on Legislative
Wrong Doing.
STAND UP FOR TAFT.
President and National Admin
istratiOn Are Endorsed.
The Payne Tariff Law Also Is
Upheld.
STAND UP FOR TAFT.

cupied the committee on resolutions
for the greater part of the night. 1t
was daybreak when the result of the
committees efforts was given out.
The platform endorses the admins
trations of President Taft and Gov
ernor Hughes; declares that the
Payne tariff law has been a success,
and refers with approval to the work
of the last congress. 1t pledges the
continuance of the state graft inquiry,
until all wrong doing capable of ex-
posture shall be brought to light"
The plank relating to direct prima-
ries is very brief, but admits of no
misconstruction. I'VE promise legis-
lation which will enact these prin-
ciples into law is the pledge.
The platform as drafted is as fol-
lows:
The Republicans of the state of
New York in convention represented,
resolve as follows:
Warfare Against Graft.
We declare relentless warfare
against official and legislative wrong
doing in this state. A Republican leg
islature ordered an immediate and
searching inquiry into all corrupt
practices and this inquiry is now going
forward vigorously We pledge it's
continuance, with additional authority
if required, and that all such wrong
doing capable of exposure shall be
brought to light, to the end that the
guilty shall be punished and the in
nocent relieved of unjust suspicion.
Dishonesty in public service is next
to treason, the most fragrant of
crimes. In Kidding our institutions
of this cancer growth, we know no
party distinction. The crimes which
have been committed have involved
members of both parties, and the fact
that some of the wrong doors have
masqueraded under the name of Re-
publicans neither has gained nor shall
gain them immunity from punishment
by Republicans.
Not only have they wronged the
people, but they have proved them
selves the worst enemies of the party.
The crook and CRATER and unfaithful
man in public service shall be put out
and kept out.
We enthusiastically endorse the pa
triotic and statesmanlilxe leadership
of William Howard Taft and declare
our pride in the achievements of his
first eighteen months as president of
the United States Each succeeding
month since his inauguration has con-
f1rmed the nation in its high estimate
of his greatness of character, intel
lectual ability, sturdy commonsense,
extraordinary patience and persever-
ance. broad and statesmanlike COM
prehension of public questions and I'M
faltering and answering adherence to
duty.
He has strengthened our prestige
with foreign nations and treated with
vigor and wisdom important internal
tional problems, notably our tariff re-
lations with Germany, France and
| Cana5a.
Under his administration, the prose-
cutiOn of those implicated in the sugar
and other customs frauds have been
continued and convictions obtained;
there have been impartial and ener-
| mt nf+ aT1fi
trust act; a substantial reduction Of
governmental expenses; the esta blish-
ment of better business methods, which
will result in greater efficiency and real
economy; remarkable progress in the
construction of the Panama canal, and
the withdrawal from private entry of
over II million acres of the public do
main. to preserve for public benefit,
valuable and other mineral deposits
timber land and waterpower sites.
On his recommendation, congress has
provided for a commission to inVeSti-
| gate and report on the regulation of
| the issuance of stocks and bonds by
| public service corporations engaged in
| interstate commerce. He has advocak
| ted new system of appropriations for
| river and harbor improvements under
which each item, after investigation by
| experts, shall be approved and carried
! to completion as a separate measure.
This recommendation we heartily en-
| dorse.
The Tariff.
The Payne tariff law reduced the
! averag rate of all duties II per cent.
| By increasing the duties on some
| luXuries and articles not of ordinary
| use, making, however, no increase on
| any common food product, it turned a
| national deficit into a surplus. Under
| it's first year of operation the value of
/ imports free of duty was the greatest
in our history by 10 million dollars
| and the average rate of duty was less
| than under the Wilson law.
| Unlike that Democratic law, its great
reductions of duty have not stopped
industry nor deprived labor of any
part of its hire. It gives free trade
! with the Philippine islands and it es-
! tablishes a customs court. Its maxi
| mum and minimum rates give us for
the first time equality of opportunity
with other nations in our foreign
trade.
In providing. upon the suggestion
of President Taft for tariff board, it
| affords the means of still more accur-
ately determining the difference in cost
| of production at home and abroad
! A Republican congress is necessary
to provide needed appropriations for
this board, and to assure business and
labor that changes in rates will be
made only to equalize the difference in
cost of production and not to reduce
rates to the free trade, or purely reve-
nue. basis favored by the Democratic
4 party
! To avoid disturbance of business. we
urge the adoption by the congress OF
a Joint rEle of the two houses recon-
mended by the president and leaders
in congress by which the two houses
! could consider single schedule or q
single paragraph of the tariff without
! the necessity for amendment which
! would lead to a general revision. Ad-
vances in the cost of living are only
the local reflection of a tendency that
is worldwide and cannot be truth
fully said to be due to the present tar
if.
The Congress.
1 The congress has responded to rec
! concentrations of the president by
| enacting measures of far reaching i'm
tportance TO the people including val