Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-28
NEW YORK PLATFORM
STRONG FOR Taft
ROOSEVELT FOLLOWERS EN-
DoRsE PRESIDENT AND PAYNE
TARIFF BILL.
TAFT A GREAT SALESMAN,
TARIFF BILL BENEFlcENT
Platform Committee After Albright
Session Lauds President for Many
Observation-Disclosures Primaries
Plank, Made. Issue by Roosevelt,
Brief But Pointed.

Brief But Pointed.
Saratoga, NJ Y, Sept. 2s.-The work
Of drafting platform for presentation
to the republican convention occupied
the committee the greater part of the
night. 1t was daybreak when the draft
was given out.
The platform endorses the admins
trations of Taft and Hughes, declares
the Payne tariff law has been sue
cess, and refers with approval to the
work OF the last congress- 1t pledges
a continuance Of the state graft in
quiry until all the wrong doing cap
able of exposure shall be brought to
light" The plank relating to direct
primaries is brief, but admits OF no
misconstruction. We promise legisla-
ton which will enact these principles
into law" is the pledge.
The resolutions laud the labor legis-
lation enacted by the republicans;
pledges encouragement of agriculture
by enactment Of favorable legislation;
favors conservation of natural re-
sources; recounts the beneficial legisla-
ton enacted by the last congress and
approved by the president, and com
mends the republican congress for the
enactment Of these laws.
Taft Strongly Endorsed.
The plank endorsing Taft follows:
1--WE enthusiastically endorse the pa
triotic and statesmanlike leadership of
William Howard Taft and declare our
pride in the achievements of his first
eighteen months as president of the
United States. Each succeeding month
since his inauguration has confirmed
the nation in its high estimate OF his
greatness of character, intellectual
ability, sturdy common sense, extraor-
binary patience and perseverance, broad
and statesmanlike comprehension of
public questions and unfaltering and
answering adherence to duty. He has
strengthened our prestige with foreign
nations and treated with vigor and
| wisdom important International prob
lens under his administration, the
prosecution Of those implicated in the
sugnar and other customs frauds has
been continued and convictions obtain
ed; there has been an impartial and
energetic enforcement of the Sherman
anti trust act; substantial reduction Of
governm entail expenses; the establish
ment of better business methods which
will result in greater efficiency and
real economy: remarkable progress in
the construction of the Panama canal
and the withdrawal from private en-
try of over 100000 acres of public
domain, to preserve for the public
benefit valuable and other mineral de-
sites. On his recommendation. congress
has provided for a commission to in
vestigate and report on the regulation
Of the issuance Of stocks and bonds by
public service corporations engaged in
interstate commerce He has advocated
new system Of appropriations for
river and harbor improvements, under
which each item after investigation by
experts shall be approved and carried
to completion as a separate measure"
Tariff Law Real Revision.
On the tariff the resolutions declare:
"The Payne tariff law reduced the av-
erage rate of all duties II per cent BY
increasing the duties on some luxuries
and articles not Of ordinary use. maxi
ing. however, no increase on any COM
mon food product, it turned the nation
first year Of operation the value OF i'm
ports free of duty was the greatest in
our history by s10OOo0.OOO and the av-
erage rate of duty less than under the
Wilson law. Unlike the democratic
law, its great reductions of duty have
not stopped industry nor deprived labor
Of any part of it's hire. 1t gives free
trade with the Philippine Islands and it
establishes a customs cOurt
For Tariff Board.
I'm providing, upon the suggestion Of
President Taft, for a tariff board, it af-
fords means of still more accurately
determining the difference in cost of
production at home and abroad. A re-
publican congress is necessary to pro-
vided the needed appropriation for this
board and to assure business and la
bor that changes in rates will be made
only to equalize the difference in the
cost of production and not to reduce
the rates to the free trade, or purely
revenue basis favored by the demo-
cratic party. To avoid the disturbance
Of business we urge the adoption by
congress of a joint rule of the two
houses recommended by the president
and leaders in congress, by which the
IWO LOuoCS Soulo SOIlolucI d SlHSIe
schedule or single paragraph of the
tariff without the necessity for amend
ment which would lead to general re-
vision. Advances in the cost Of living
are only the local reflection of a tend
ency that is worldwide and can not
be truthfully said to be due to the
present tariff
Root Permanent Chairman.
Roosevelt called the convention to
order at 11:1s. The report of the Gre
dentials committee was adopted. Sen
ator Root was named as permanent
chairman and after an introduction by
Roosevelt made a brief speech, in
which he called attention to the revolt
all over the country against the time
''orn form OF political organization"