The Monroe journal., 1910-08-16
The ACTION OF THREE STATES
Ohio clinched Taft to Stand Pat
Policy. and Iowa and Kansas
Spat Upon IL.

Spat Upon IL.
Washington Correspondence News and oessF'
yer.
Not since 1890 have conditions so
distinctly favored Democratic success
in a congressional campaign. Three
great Republican States have flung
into the equation events which have
upset the fondest administration
plans. Ohio, in the first place, un-
der the lead Of Standpatter Dick and
Autocrat Burton adopted q platform
as if it were inspired and framed by
Aldrich and Cannon, platform that
committed and tied President Taft
anew to his Winona speech in which
he declared that the Aldrich-P Payne
bill was the best tariff measure ever
presented and enacted by Congress.
The Ohio convention came first.
The regulars were in the majority
and carried things their way. Ii
President Taft ever had any conser-
yative notions about the tariff that
convention entirely disipated them.
Senator Dick, whose only idea of
commencing himself to Republican
voters has been to stand for the high
est possible tariff, was chairman OF
the committee on resolutions, and
had his way in eyey line and senti-
ment of platform construction. The
National Economist, which is the
press organ of the protected inter
ests, Immediately proclaimed the
Ohio Republican platform as ideally
Republican.
At the Democratic headquarters
today they we're looking at some
election statistics. They showed that
in 1890, the Congress which passed
the Mckinley tariff bill went before
the country for endorsement almost
solely upon the tariff issue. In the
6fty-fr Congress, which passed the
bill, Ohio had seventeen Republican
representatives out of twenty.one.
In the following Congress, on the
tariff issue, the Democrats gained
%, 900 votes and elected sixteen out
of the twenty.one Congressman, al
most reversing the complexion Of the
States delegation in Congress. That
was the Congress in which for the
first time in the history of political
parties in this country, the Demo
Gratis elected majority Of the men,
bers Of the House from the six New
England States. That was the Con-
gress in which the Republicans had
only Sc members of the House.
In the Iowa convention the insur-
gents obtained a striking vindica-
ton. Cummins and Dollver, insur-
gents par excellence, prevailed in
the convention completely. In the
speeches and platform President Taft
was treated almost with brutal con-
tempt. A party convention never 50
ignobly disported itself toward a
party leader.
In Kansas there was anything but
comfort for the Taft administration.
Speaker Jos. G. Cannon had gone
all over the State and made defiant
speeches for the six regular candi-
dates and fercely criticizing the two
insurgents, Madison and Murdoch.
The result was that Madison and
Murdoch did not even have opposi-
ton. In the other districts-the in
surgents elected four out Of the six.
Secretary Loudenslager of the Re-
publican congressional committee af-
fects to treat the Kansas result with
ridicule as just the Kansas way Of
doing things-a natural disposition
to freakish politics. But the per-
Torrance in Iowa, a great State,
which has produced the best inform
ed men of late years on questions
like the tariff and railroad legisla-
ton, is not to be whistled down the
wind with chat like that.
The Republican President, Mr..
Taft, is repudiated by two out Of
three Republican States that have
acted so far this year. 1t is said that
they are turning toward Col. Roose-
welt. That is because he is the
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