Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-05

INDlANAPOLlSr Ind, April 5.-When
United States Senator Albert ]. Beveridge.
in his speech as temporary chairman OF
the Indiana republican convention today,
declared his antagonism to the tariff law
passed at the preceding session of Con-
gress his remarks were received with
storms OF applause from the delegates ana
the crowded galleries in Tomlinson Hall.
Repeating as text, Il could not stand
for it then. and / cannot stand for u
now" Senator Beveridge made an i'm
passioned defense of the counts upon
which he had based his vote in the Senate
against the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill.
which he did not call by nam
In ringing voice he sent his short sem
tences through the hall.
Like President Taft / wanted free iron
ore, Of which We have the greatest de-
posits on earth and which the steel trust
chiefly controls. 1 could not stand rot the
duty that was passed and / cannot stand
for il now.
Like President Taft, L wanted on the
flee list many raw materials that needed
no protection. Yet only one was so
treated. 1 could not stand for the duties
on these articles then, and L cannot stand
for them now.
Against It Then and Now.
Like President Taft, / wanted the an
cient woolen schedule reduced. 1t gives
to the woolen trust unfair control and
raises the price and reduces the weight
of the peoples clothing. / stood against
this schedule when the bill was passed,
and / stand against it now.
II could not stand for the duty on lum-
ba ,;ff
1 cannot stand for it now.
Il stood against the increase Of the
duty on cotton goods, and 1 stand against
II now.
THE reduction of the tariff on refined
sugar is a deception, because it cannot
affect the price. Yet that is one of the
boasted reductions we hear of.
These are examples of increases. I
was against them then, and l am against
them now.
From few. If any, of the decreases do
the people get the slightest benefit
Il was for law that would have pro-
tected the wages of every workingman
in Indiana and yet enable that working
man to get his clothing and creature
comforts cheaper-and such law could
have been written and it shall be writ
ten.
For Beveridge and Taft.
George A. Cunningham of Evansville.
permanent chairman of the convention,
spoke. in part, as follows:
I'VE can make no adequate answer to
the address of your temporary chairman.
Senator, Beverdge, at this time. The real
answer will be made at the polls in No
vember.
I'VE are all of us for the reelection Of
Albert j. Beveridge to the Senate in 1911.
In this campaign. so far as it affects ma
fha oil nf
Beveridge has become the overshadOwing
issue on account of the principles in
which we all believe and for which he
has stood and continues to stand in the
United States Senate.
THE republicans of Indiana have equal
faith in the rugged honesty, great capac-
ity and ultimate triumph of the chief ex-
ecutive of the nation, William II. Taft
We are in full sympathy with the rem
edial legslatio that he has recommend
ed to Congress 1t requires no prophet to
foresee that two years hence he will be
the unanimous choice of the republican
party for reelection. l venture to say,
further that in his campaign he will have
no more loyal supporter. no more able
generals, no more aggressive and deter
mined fighters than Albert j. Beveridge
and Theodore Roosevelt"
Text of the Platform.
Following is the platform which the
committee on resolutions voted undnl-
mously to submit to the convention:
1--WE, the republicans Of Indiana. de-
clare our determined support OF those
great policies for the common good de-
veloped under Theodore Roosevelt and
bea ring his name. and we demand that
they be given effect in legislation and ad-
minstration.
I'VE believe in a protective tariff.
measured by the difference between the
cost Of production here and abroad. Less
than this is unjust to American laborers;
more is unjust to American consumers.
That difference should be ascertatned
with the utmost speed, and the presen1
law modified accordingly.
I'VE demand the immediate creation OF
a genuine permanent, non-partisan tari6
commission with ample powers and def-
mite duties fixed in the law itself.
We believe. with President McKin-
ley. In his last tariff utterances. that
'sThe period Of exclusiveness is past"
and we heartily favor the republicans
policy OF reciprocity. first announced
by Blaine and later advocated by Mo-
Kinley.
We demand comprehensive laws for