The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-16
Republican Convention Will IndOrSH Taft and Tariff
 Law Without Reserve
ISSUES SET FORTH WILL
 BE INDEX TO CAMPAIGN
President Taft Is Informed That the Ohio Platform Will Embody All That Is Necessary to Set
 Forth Party Principles

Beverly, Mass, July 15.-President Taft was told today that the Ohio state re- publican platform to be adopted at Co., lumbus the latter part of this month would contain a ringing indorsement of the entire Taft administration. includ- ing the Payne-Aldrich tariff law
 It has been proposed that the form of indorsement written into the Ohio plat form shall serve as model to other states that intend standing Loyalty by MT. Taft, the President was told.
 The Ohio platform. taken in connection with the keynote speech to be delivered at the convention by Representative Nich- olas Longworth, as temporary chairman. it Is stated. will serve as an index to the campaign to be waged throughout the country by the republicans this fall. {,
 The issues of the congressional cam paign will be set forth clearly, MT. Taft was told, and they will include an in- dorsement of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law as step in the right direction for future success.
 Tariff Commission
 The tariff commission feature of the bill, by which it is proposed in the near future to put the tariff on a scientific basis of protection. gauged by the actual difference In the cost of production at home and abroad, as against the catch- penny policy of the democrats.1t is said, will be brought out most prominently.
 A strong denial of the charge that the tariff would be inimical in it's campaign usage, as between servile and free labor,
 
 the result would be far-fetched. was again strongly made.
 The name of Speaker Cannon and the change of the rules was made patent to MT. Taft and the conservation squabble with MT. Pnchot were discounted in the same breath
 The name of former President Roose- welt who. upon his returnd from Europe, declared that the foreign hourses, well as the American Wall street clique. did not want uniformity of currency be- cause the markets woulds be destroyed with one dollar the equal of another. did not seem to have any effect on Mir. Taft
 The President it is said, asserted that any declaration coming from the source quoted must come from the former Pres ident himself, as he did not want to see the people defrauded through pyramided speculation, no matter how much gold was imported or exported, and he de- cisvely stated the ideals of Wall street could not enter the Ohio political stua- ton because the son-in-law of the former President was to preside as the temporary chairman.
 Conservation of Resources
 That the nation should think of it's conservation of resources at so late an hour, the President declared, was a cor rection of evils inherited from slothful- ness He said a new school of policies was being inculcated in the United States which could not be controlled by any one state convention.
 Reverting to the speeches of MT. Can- non in the House at which many of the stalwarts had suddenly become offended and had aligned themselves with the so- called insurgents, MT. Taft, 1t is asserted. declared the essential questions before the people are within party lines. In looking over the names of those who} voted for the Payne Aldrich tariff billj he said, anyone could be led to believe the republicans and democrats alike had aided one another in framing measure which all agreed time should be amply extended to obtain a scientific study of it's benefits. and if any inadequacy de- veloped the same could be treated by republicans and democrats alike, in Con~ gress assembled. If the urgency was found necessary
 The Ohio platform, indorsing the na- tonal administration. was, it is stateds received with smile by the President. it being recalled that Hamilton county ! in the last presidential campaign had early capitulated in the interests of party harmony and had acclaimed the party nominee with enthusiasm.