The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-10
ROOSEVELT MUST
FACE TARIFF ISSUE
Insurgents Want Explana-
tiOn of Saratoga Plank.
SENATOR CUMMINS IS SILENT
Declines to Discuss His Talk with
the Colonel, who Relieves His
veIt's Attitude Toward Admiaistra-
tion Set Forth-SiIent on 1912.

Corinth, Miss, Oct. 9.-As Col. Roose-
welt swings from the South into the West
the question Of the tariff, which he
brought Up at Atlanta last night. looms
as an important issue upon which he viii
have TO make himself clear. The insur-
gents were puzzled over the fact that
the colonel had apparently stood for the
tariff plank in the Republican platform
al Saratoga Senator Cummins. OF Iowa,
had a long talk with Mr.. Roosevelt In
regard TO this the day before the trip
began Neither would discuss that then.
To-day between stops through Tennes-
see and Alabama and Mississippi the
colonel was besought TO make a state
ment in addition TO what he had said at
Atlanta. The Georgians were deeply in
terested in the matter.
No Change In Attitude.
Il have nothing 10 add to what said
last night" Mr. Roosevelt announced this
afternoon. except that in my speeches
at Syracuse and Saratoga about the
tariff and the administration | said ex.
actly what l had said In my speeches at
Sioux City. Sioux Falls, Cincinnati, and
other places in the West"
He believes that his course has been
consistent that his expressed attitudes
on the tariff and administration have
been in all essentials the same. His pol-
icy has been to commend those features
Of the Payne bill which he could consci
entiously commend. Mr.. Roosevelt re-
CARDS the Payne bill as being a better
one than the Dingley bill. but he does
not consider that IT is sufficiently an i'm
provement over the Dingley bin or a
sufficient fulfllment of the Republican
party promises to warrant his indorse-
ment.
AT Saratoga the tariff was scarcely dis
cussed, except as a thorn to stick in the
side OF the progressives Col Roose-
velt's friends declared that New York
State was not as much interested in that
matter as in the fight FOR the state-issue
principles on which they consider that
the fight should be made.
Wanted No Endorsement.
Long before the convention when his
friends came down TO Oyster Bay to hold
political confabs, the colonel told them
he would make no objection to an indorse-
ment Of the administration He did not
want 10 raise a rumpus on that account
He promised them, too. that he would
urge no condemnation of any proposition
for which the administration had msdo
itself responsible. provided no efforts
were made to commit the party in New
York to an Endorsement of Mr.. Taft for
1912
That 1912 matter has been a source
OF considerable discussion in the South
as we'll as in the North, despite the fact
that the Republicans are not so heavy
here as they are farther up. The colonel
knew what might happen if the 1912 in
dorsement plank were injected into the
platform He stated TO Otto T. Barnard
and others that he reserved entire liberty
TO act in whatey9 way the public inter
est should demand when the time comes
Perhaps they would not want MIR. Taft
then. II it turns out that they do. If
Is fairly safe 10 say that Mr.. Roosevelt
will stand by their desires.
Col. Roosevelt is going to talk more
about the tariff question when he reaches
st. Louis on Tuesday OF course, Indiana
VIII want an explanation of his attitude.