The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-06
BEVER|DGE MEN
RETAIN CONTROL
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill Given
Hard Slap by Republicans
of Indiana.
CANNOT STAND WORK
OF Corporation GANG
Nominations Made Without
SembIance of Contest;
Beveridge IndOrsed.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 5.-Thc
Indiana Republican convention today
| adopted platform that ignores the
Payne-Aldrich tariff law and declares
for only protective tariff "that covers
the difference between the cost of pro-
duction here and Abroad
| The following nominations were made
by acclamatlon. there being but one can
didate for each office:
Secretary OF state, Otis l.. Guliey OF
Danvillc.
Auditor, John f. Reed OF Muncie.
Clerk supreme court, Edward " Fitz-
patrick of Portland
Statistician. John i. Pcetz OF Kokomo.
Geologist, w. H. Blatchley OF Terre
Haute.
Judge of the supreme court, Oscar II.
Montgomery OF Seymour.
Appellate judges. Ward II. Watson OF
Charlestown and {, c. Hadlcy OF Dam
vile.
Finley p. Mount OF Charlottesville was
nominated for attorney general.
When Senator Beveridge, in. his
speech as temporary chairman of the
convention today, declared his antag
onism TO the new tariff law, he was
greeted by great applause.
Repeating as a text. II could not stand
for Il then, and [ cannot stand for, 1t
now Senator Beveridge made i'm
FASHIONED defense OF the counts upon
which he had based his vote in the SEN
ate against the Payne Aldrich tariff bill,
which he did not call by name.
Like President Taft. / wanted free iron
ore, Of which we have the greatest de-
post on earth and which the steel trus;
controls he said. ''I could not stand
for the duty that was passed and l cam
not stand II now.
Like President Taft / wanted many
raw materials that needed no protection
put on the free list. Yet only one was so
treated.
Like President Taft, I wanted the
ancient wooden schedule reduced. 1t gives
TO the woolen trust unfair control and
Of the peoples clothing. ] stood against
this schedule when tie bill was passed.
and I stand against II now.
Cannot Stand for Bill.
"I could not stand for tie duty on lum-
ber when the tariff bill was passed and
/ cannot stand for IL Eow.
~ stood against the Increase OF the
duty on cotton goods and ! stand against
it nov.
the people get the slightest benefit.
II was for a Jaw that would have pro-
tccted the wages OF every working man
In Indiana. and yet enable that working
man to get his clothing and creature com
been written; II shall he written.
~ could not stand for an increase OF
duties on those linoicums which are the
poor mans carpet" Senator Beveridge
Continued Tor on zinc. which Is a uni
versal necessity. or on silk which is n
part OF the clothing or adornment OF
every American woman. rich or poor; ana
I cannot stand for them now.
Il could not stand for the obsolete and
infamous sugar schedule. which no man
in Indiana can read and understand, but
which the sugar trust can read and un-
derstand: yet efforts tp change thss
schedule were opposed by Democratic
votes.
3 cents per 100 pounds twentieth OF
cent, half OF i mill pound-Wnlch
was worse than no reduction because It
cannot possibly affect the price anu
therefore Is "A deception. Yet that is one
OF the boasted reductions we hear OF.
Not Honest Reductions.
"It is said that the law has made re-
auctions on articles entering into tne
consumption of the people 10 the value
of s. O60. 900 900; yet those articles are
nsds nm of such things az lumber, aSri-
cultural implements. meat and food prod :
ucts petroleum and its products, or all OF
which we are the greatest exporters IN
| the world steel rails and coal. %hicn VIC
| export: harhcd wire, monopollhcu py tnS
| steel trust: nails. manufactured anc solu
NV an international trust as complete as
| the interna tional tobacco monopoly.
/ ana lnrHdn>, lIA' -" 'I'''''
| ,elIilos on which textiles, when finished
| for Tho peoples use. the tariff was In
| creased; sugar. which NE did not reduce
! In fact. but only in prctense. 49,. -,
| "Above all I could not stand ior ths
eiauubtcr by the conference committee OF
the moderate beginning OF tariff com
! mission which | wrote lnto 'ne ON tHe
! nassod the senate; but all save ono on
| tbo democratic senators were the enemies
! NJ any Tariff commission. and are KS ene-
mics now. oa ,-,,n,t
them thcn-I am against them now;
| S1ornnronnIge Oh purely economic details If
oftan wise, but compromise win sheer
Injustice is always wrong, o.o ror =
,,otocfive tariff which covers the dlllcr,
ence In the cost OF production mere anu
abroad. Less than THAT Is unoqst |"
| hnnrican laborcrs; moro than that ~ ni-
| ins, to American consumers ln)usLlce
is The only toc that protection needs 20
| gear IL was To reduce the DlnGley tarlii
instice that We undertook It's revision,
"I:yery economic policy. every pollical
s,.sien, almost every government mas
been destroyed because 3i 1Tf,< 20 S'c tc
,inn,, secure a policy. n system or gov
crnrnont that In Itself IS good Is 10 hni1In ,ri
later it with justice and wiadoIa' W. , rs' 30
n,,iy way To keep party solid ano grow
TO- is 10 keep it right and progressive
Urges Tariff Commission.
.,..,u,inp that honest differences oi
-, ayist-and they DO; giving tc
tRose upright men who yG5ed inc for i6se1iS inc lN
as whole credit 11r. dGr al ba III Is T'e the waS
m, ena' or INC dlfflculty? Surely not to turr
I%e %Se e. government ; over to tnat sr9[esann' ln
band Of politicians in pT32lic misnamed 1e ane Th, IN,
want 10 e. narty The people know
Rhas such men aid in the t9r' sTGc SSgtss IS,
IN Tlcveland's day, for when tieVeihh, @
ti5S trn5Seu ur,tcst for which Bryan rebukec
,hem. iSei What honest Democrnt.whnat ,n non
est or ,be trpssn piaip 'rer remedy
Where. then, ; lGs ''e p'"'"
)" "A Commission OF experts as peftinaGnTInr, G,,Ir,
as the bureau Of labor. Win dusnGs 5sini rI,,i
dcserihcG i'm the law Itself; a c3mmlsslo'
| N3 trcr, tho accidents OF politics Sc
cure cure from The differing opinions SO o
changing greSiagnsgv 9"Tmanv oT To%n'SSh Japas@ihSi
: .r,t the Government needs; that Is VIVA