Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-19
SPECIAL WASHINGTON
REsPoNDENcE.
BY clyde H. Tavenner.

ng for the support of Republican
delegates to the 1912 convention, a
vigorous movement was started
among the genuine" progressives of
the West and Middle West looking
toward the withdrawal OF all sup
port from the former president.
Some of the leaders of the Con-
gressional delegation of progressives
quietly talked the situation over
and decided not to permit Roosevelt
TO run away with the leadership of
the national progressive movement If
necessary, to prevent the ex-president
from using the progressive movement
for his own personal advancement, |
these real progressives' will publicly
repudiate Roosevelt. They will direct
public attention to the gross duplic-
ity Roosevelt practiced on the people
by proclaiming himself progressive
and then straightaway turning about
and allowing the New York state
convention-over which he had abso-
lutte control-to adopt platform in
dorsing the Payne-A1drich tariff
jugglery and the reactionary Tafs
administration.
The New York platform squarely
describes the Payne-A ldrich law as
fullflllment of republican promises,
because 1t states there was an aver
age reduction Of all duties Of II per
cent, which, II true, would constitute
revision downward.
This is in contrast to the Wiscon-
sin republican platform which states
unequivocally that 1.-THE Payne-Aldrich
tariff is not compliance with the
pledge of the republican party" La
Toilette, Clapp. Bristow. Cummins
land Dolliver are on record as saying
the Republican promise of downward
revision was not carried out. There
fore If Roosevelt was right. the pro,
gressives who declared otherwise are
members of the Ananias club, which
they emphatically deny, and which
. the public does not believe.
The Roosevelt-made platform con
tains still another paragraph which
makes T. R. impossible as leader o
! the genuine progressiyes in 1912, to
wit: I'VE enthusiastically indors'
the progressive and statesmanlik'
leadership of William Howard Taft.
: The genuine progressives "enthusi
t astically" do not indorse the Taft ad
!, ministration. Progressives like La
y Toilette condemn Taft for having fill
e ed his cabinet with representative
J. OF the special interests; for havin
: Endorsed Cannon as another Lincoln
Aldrich as the greatest living finar
! cier and the tariff law as the hes
e tariff bill ever passed.; and last blu
d not least, for having throughout hi
d administration sought counsel iron
: men like Aldrich, Guggenheim, Steph
s enson, Dalzell and Fordney, while a
g the same time refusing to give eve
e respectful notice to the suggestion
n Of progressive Republicans.
}. Through Endorsing the tariff an
Taft, Roosevelt has queered himsel
with the progressives. They vii
! not permit him to enter the 1871
i progressive movement, much less I
bring in with him>Mr. Taft and Elih'
Root, the messenger boy of Wal
r street.
Roosevelt was in Control.
Roosevelt declares that had he bee
in absolute control Of the New Yorl
: republican convention he would hav
: written the tariff plank differently.
= He was in absolute control. He name
r the platform committee himself. i
y violation of all precedents AS temper
r airy chairman of the convention h
t removed four members of 4he CON
n mittee and substituted delegates pei
t sonally acceptable to himself. He ha
a made a rough draft of the platforT
c before he left his. home at Sagamor
C Hill. He made speech on the floo
l. of the convention in behalf of the d
rect nominations plank, but lie sal
= never a word about the tariff. Query
/, II he had pronounced views on tn
tariff why did he not air them?
would hae been an opportunity t
reveal his much-boasted courage an
fearlessness. Mr.. Roosevelt coul
= have prevented the platform from II
dorsing the tariff, or could have mad
q it say anything he wished on ths
subject.
fI Pity the Manufacturers.
vi I'VE must have more protection
d Otherwise the foreign manufacturer
o will drive us out of our home ma
kets." This was the cry that went u
from the Hobbies OF the manufacture
in Washington while the tariff wa
being revised. The fact is. howevel
that instead of being in danger of BIZ
y ing driven out Of home markets, on
manufacturers are competing success
fully with the manufacturers, in neal
ly every country on earth by sellin
their goods cheaper abroad than t
home consumers. During the eigl
months ended with August there wei
exported in all $1,027, 100000 wort
goods. Manufactured produas com
y Iposed more than So per cent of thai