Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-10-06
ROOSEVELT CONTROLS
NEW YORK CONVENTION
Endorses President Taft And His
Administration, And Dictates
The Platform And Ticket. !.

~ HI0ShVAIs Au0 BSAObs
New York Republicans had roaring
time at their State Convention last week.
Some members of the old guard wanted
to control matters and COL Roosevelt
and his friends wanted to drive the re-
publican team themselves. Roosevelt
won out by good majority, acted as
temporary chairman. made the address
and run things generally but not with
ont hard fight. In his keynote
speech he gives unqualified
4 PRAISE To PRESIDENT TAFT.
1--WE come here to appeal to the peo-
pie from the standpoint alike of national
and state achievement. In the last
eighteen months long list of laws, en-
bodying legislation most heartily to be
commended as combining wisdom with
progress have been enacted by congress
and approved by President Taft. The
amendments to the interstate commerce
law; beginning of national executive
programme for the exercise of the tax
ing power in connection with big cor
pOrations doing an interstate business;
the appointment of commission to
frame measures that do away with the
evils of over capitalization and improper
and excessive issues of stock and bonds;
the law providing for publicity of cam
paign expenses; the establishment of
the maximum and minimum tariff pro-
vision, and the exceedingly able nego-
tiatiOn of the Canadian and other
treaties in accordance Herewith; the
Inauguration of the policy of providing
for disinterested revision of tariff
schedules through high class commits
sion of experts which will treat each
schedule purely on its own merits with
view of both to protecting the consumer
from excessive prices and to securing
the American producer, and especially
the American wage worger. what will
represent the difference of cost in pro-
duction here as compared with the cost
of production in countries where labor
is less literally rewarded; the extension
of the laws regulating safety appliances
for the protection of labor; the creation
of a bureau of mines-these and similar
laws, backed up by executive action,
reflect high credit upon all who succeed
ed in putting them in their present
shape upon the statute books; they re-
present an earnest of the achievement
which is yet to come; and the beneficence
and the far reaching results of this
work done for the whole people mea-
sure the credit which is rightly due to
the congress and to our able, upright
and distinguished president, William
Howard Taft.
PRAISES COOP OLD PARTY.
II believe in the party to which we
belong because believe in the principles
for which the republican party stood in
the days of Abraham Lincoln; and fur.
thermore, and especially. because ! be-
lieve in treating these principles not as
dead, but as living Empty glorifcation
of our past amounts to less than nothing
if we put it forward as an excuse for not
doing our duty in the living present.
We can deserve the confidence of the
people by proving in deed as well as in
word that we face the problem of deal
ing with political and business corrup-
ton and of working for social and
economic justice and for the betterment
of the conditions of life and the uplifting
of our people with the same fervor and
sincerity that Lincoln and his followers
brought to the great tasks allotted to
them in their day.