Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-04-09
WIDENING THE SPLIT Up IN
INDIANA.


Republican division means Demo
cratic opportunity. And the opportun-
ity to place Indiana back in the Dem
ocratic column grows stronger every
day. Try to conceal it as they may, ex-
plain all they will, the widening of the
gulf between the factional elements of
the G. 0. P. becomes more apparent
right along. On top of the recent re
fusal, for such it really was, of the
Republican State convention there to
endorse the Payne-AIdrich tariff,
comes the refusal of the President tc
visit indianapolis and make a speech.
Evidently Taft regards the actions of
the recent convention as, in a sense, a
Reputation of his administration that
no amount of salve can cover up. He
has endorsed the tariff legislation, a
refusal on the part of any branch of
the party to do likewise is consequent
ly in effect public disavowal Of the
Presidents own position.
Republican papers are becoming
more and more alarmed at the pros.
pect. The course of events in Indiana
has opened their eyes as nothing be-
fore had done to the abyss into which
the party seems about to fall. Some
are applauding the Presidents action
in refusing to visit Indianapolis under
the existing circumstances while 9TH
ers are decrying his position as calcH-
lated to add fuel to the fire of dis
content and dissatisfaction and in
creases the tendencies toward an open
revolt.
Senator Beyeridge makes no bones
of his opposition to the existing tariff
law. NO Democrat has analysed it
more pitilessly, or denounced it more
scathingly, and no Democrat is apt to
be more unsparing in his criticisms of
its iniquities. With Beveridge tearing
the tariff legislation Of his party into
sEreds, exposing it's weaknesses and
shams and demanding its reform, all
that is needed for the Democracy in
Indiana is to nominate good men and
appeal fearlessly to the people on the
old lines of tariff for revenue with
Incidental protection, for greater econ
omy in the conduct of the government,
and the ruthless roofing out of cor
ruDtion in all departments, to assure
the party a splendid victory
In his denunciation of the present
tariff Beveridge had this to say;
The only way to keep party solid
and growing is to keep it right and
progressive.
Mckinley saw this when he declared
in his last speech that in tariff mat
tiers 'the period of exclusiyeness is
past"
Senator Morrell, the father of the
war tariff of 1864, saw it when he de-
clared in 1870: 1T is the mistake of
the friends Of a sound tariff to insist
on extreme rates to secure the neces-
sary revenue"
| Garfield saw it when he said: The
/ wisest thing prOtectionists can do is to
unite on a moderate reduction Of du-
ties"
Roosevelt saw it when he said:
What we really need in this country
! is to treat TIE tariff as business prop
osition from the standpoint of the in
terests of the country as a whole and
not from the standpoint of the tenn
pOrary needs of any political party"
The great masses of Republican vot-
| ers understand it today when they re-
fuse to permit the great doctrine OF
protection to be used to excuse and
cloak tariff excess. Use a principle
to perpetuate fraud, and the friend
of the principle thus misused is more
offended than the enemy of the prin-
/ ciple itself.
Compromise on purely economic de-
tails is often wise; but compromise
with sheer injustice is always wrong.
| was for a law that would protect
the wages of every workingman in In
diana and yet enable that workingman
to get his clothing and creature COM
| forts cheaper-and such a law could
have been written, and it shall be
written.
| | was for a law that would have CIV
en- every manufacturer in Indiana am
1 pie protection, and yet enable him to
get his raw materials cheaper-and
such a law could have been written
and it shall be written.
! was for law that would have
taken the tariff out of the way of bust
ness for ten or a dozen years-and
such a law could have been written
and it shall be written. Business needs
tariffstability, and only satisfied peo-
pie can give tariff stability. TIE die
tates of justice; for the people obey
justice and defy bosses.
voted against the bill and for
| plighted honor ! voted against ex-
cess and for protection. l voted
against the interests and for the peo-
pie. / voted and fought for the genu-
| inc republicanism of Lincoln, the foun-
der of our ia tn; of Morrell, the father
of our tariff; of Garfield, the interpre-
ter of our principles; of Mckinley, the
apostle of protection; of Roosevelt, the
soldier of righteousness.
OPEN THY DOORS.