The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-10
Republican Campaign Textbook
Reflects Only Views of Regulars

tull employment TO our wage earners at
the highest wages ever known. is the law
to be unequivocally defended and law
mat should remain unchanged until II Is
shown without doubt that further reyi-
industries"
II will be observed that the editor OF
the textbook makes effort to reconcile
this statement with President Taft's an
nounced policy OF taking UP the mmedi-
ate revision OF the tariff by pIecemeal.
But president Tafts letter WAS written
after the rest Of the campaign textbook
had been printed, and therefore. to bor-
row the saying OF the street. there Ia
reason"
Book "standpat'' Document
The compilers OF the textbook did not
consult the progressive Republicans. II is
evident that while the progressives were
busy carrying Kansas, Iowa. California
and few other outlying sections, the
standpatters carried the textbook by q
large majority. Representative Boutell
OF Chicago was one OF the heaviest con-
tributors to the volume, He was mem-
her OF the ways and means committee
that helped to frame the Aldrich- Payne
bill and has been one Of its strongest
defenders. Vice President Sherman Is
another contributor Representative
considerable space In the book with a
review OF national expenditures, and Rep
! resentative Hill OF Connecticut. another
standpatter. Is quoted at length from
gressional speeches that are quoted ap-
| provingly are by Representative Long
worth, Representative Fordney. Repre-
sentative olmsted OF Pennsylvania, and
Senator Smoot Of Utah. One chapter Is
taken up with Senator Lodges report on
wages and prices, and still another Is
given up TO pointing out what the Re-
publican publ party has done for the negro,
Citizens" 1t shows that there are more
than $4,000 Afro Americans" in govern
ment employ. and that their salaries ag-
gregate more than $4,000 900, A list OF
the more important of these offlcehold-
| ers is given from which It appears that
the highest-salar!ed representative of tho
Furniss OF Indianapolis, minister to Hal
| II, who draws $4,000 a year salary
In a chapter entitled Rubber Duty and
nnportatlons, an effort Is made TO de-
| made by his colleague Senator Bristow
OF Kansas, In connection with the In
creased duty on manufactures of rubber.
Insurgents Ignored
| The editor of the textbook asserts that
| there is not a single Democratic, speech
within Its covers, and by this statement
he gently slaps Chairman Lloyd OF the
Democratic congressional committee on
the wrist, for the latter's boast that the
best material the Democrats were send
| Ing out was speeches of the progressive
! Republicans. Notwithstanding President
| Taft's general invitation TO the voters to
| re-elect all Republicans. there Is a no.
table absence from the Republican cam
| paign textbook OF the speeches OF the So
| called insurgents" Not one OF the in
| surgent senators or representatives Is
| mentioned IN the volume. but this is not
surprising in view OF the standpat ten
denotes OF the Republican congressional
| committee. Furthermore, at the time the
great body OF the textbook was prepared
| the exped!ency of getting the factions
| together and reeelectIng insurgents as
we'll as conservatives. had not occurred
to the Republican leaders.