Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-26
SEN ATOR BROWN SOUNDS
KEYNOTE OF CONVENTION

In assuming the temporary chairman
ship OF the Nebraska Republican state
convention, United States Senator Nor
ris Brown spoke only along general po-
litical lines. making no illusions TO the
questions uppermost In the minds OF
the delegates-the Enforcement OF the
Insurgency" OF some Of Nebraska
congressman, and the county option
plan OF regulating the liquor traffic,
Mentioning the Democratic state con-
vention being held today at Grand Is
land. Seb., Senator Brown declared
that IL is useless for Democrats 10
fight over a platform as a Democratic
platform is neither useful nor orna-
ment"
said he:
THE men who make 1t forget and the
men who are elected on IL are expected
10 repudiate It,"
To support this declaration he cite1
the record Of Democrats in the last
Congress. He said
Their last national platform pledged
the party TO free lumber, hut they voted
against free lumber. They promised
postal savings bank. They kept their
promise In the senate by casting 81
out OF 80 votes in that body against H.
They promised the people free coal;
they voted for a duty on coal. They
promised free iron ore; they voted no
on the proposition"
the Republican party, Senator Brown
said:
Fourteen years ago when Mckinley
was chosen president on the pledge
that he would pass a tariff law with
protection to American industries In IL,
he kept the pledge and the country
prospeTed Five years later Roosevelt
succeeded 20 tho presidency and In 1904
when reelected by the people he prom
ised to carry out the Mckinley poli-
Giles and retain the protective features
Of McKinley's tariff act. He too kept
the pledge and the country continued
TO prosper. When four years later In
1905 William II. Taft was chosen pres
ident on the pledge 20 revise the tarlff
law. but TO retain its protective princi-
pies he likewise kept the faith and the
country still prospered."
STATE MATTERS.
Turning TO state matters. the speaker
named a number OF beneficent laws
enacted under the leadership and in
SEPARATION of George Sheldon. the last
real governor of this state"
The elective railway commission and
other laws regulating common carriers;
the pure food law and the direct pri-
mary law were mentioned.
And remember" continued the sena-
tor during his administration and
since, under the whip-and spur energy
of Atty.-Gen. william r Thompson
every one OF these laws have been en-
forced"
Senator Brown again took up the rec
ord OF the Republican party in ma
tional affairs, declaring that never in
the history of the legislature has Con-
gress in a single session enacted so
many important and progressive laws
as did the Republican Congress just
adjourned
The conservation law; the postal saw
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zona and New Mexico; the provision
for a tariff board To investigate and to
report facts relating to manufacturing
and commerce, were mentioned as in
stances OF the Republican party redeem
ing it's platform pledges, the speaker
giving the credit to President Taft for
the success Of the measures
OF the new tariff law he said:
mo one has ever pretended that that |
act was perfect: Its warmost friends |
have always admitted it's lmperfec-
tions. But notwithstanding its inper- |
feotions with the information Congress |
had at the time Il was a better law |
than the law II superseded and Is en- |
titled TO the commendation and sup |
port Of the American people as a step |
toward the relief of the public from /
the duties OF the Dingley law, which |
the country had outgrown"
PRAISES INSURGENTS.
II am glad TO say" he continued, |
the entire Nebraska delegation i'm Con-
gress. those splendid lighting, cour-
ageous and progressive Republicans In |
the house-Kinkaid. Norris and Hin
shaw and your two senators voted for
he law They did IL because IL is
better law than the one IL repealed
they did IL because II contained the
provision which taxed the incomes OF
which alone has brought
nto the federal treasury In the first
year OF its operation more than SIS. O00.-
90 They did II because II contained
redemption OF tho platform pledge |
o establish a maximum and minimum ]
ariff. dual system employed by ev-
'ry tariff country OF any Importance in I
he world They did II because IL re-
luced the duty on many necessities Of