Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-01

Address the Courier Prlnt'ns
pany, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Entered % second class mater
October II, 1903. at the postoftice. ~
tumwa, Iowa, under the Act OF con-
gress Of March 8. 1879.
NEW YORK STATE CONVENTION.
The New York state convention is
over, the platform has been adopted
and the ticket has been nominated.
The convention was controlled abso-
lutely by ex-President Roosevelt. He
was made temporary chairman. al
though the state committee had
selected another man for that place.
In addition Roosevelt was given the
right to name men of his own choice
on the resolutions committee, which
drew UP the platform. This Is a
radical departure from the methods
that obtain in the middle west, where
the convention committees are named
by the congressional district caucuses,
the temporary chairman having no
voice in the proceedings, other than
to cast his vote In his own district
caucus II he happens to be delegate.
This resolutions committee named
by the ex-president enthusiastically
endorsed the administration of Presi-
dent Taft. The Payne tariff law is de-
clared to have been revision down
ward, the tariff board, suggested by
President Taft, and the adoption by
congress Of joint rule to permit the
consideration of a single schedule OF
the tariff, also urged by President
Taft. are given the warmest endorse
ment. The man nominated for gov
ernor had been Endorsed by President
Taft and Governor Hughes.
1t would be difficult to frame a
stronger endorsement for the adj
ADMINISTRATION and it's accomplishments
than is contained in the New York
platform. President Taft is lauded as
a leader. His official acts as they az
feet both foreign and domestic inter-
ests are endorsed in the highest
terms. The platform further says
that the new tariff is an average re-
duction Of II per cent, and that by
raising the duty on luxuries and not in
'creasing the duty on common food
products, the national deficit Is now
turned into surplus.
The strongest states rights advocate
certainly has no room for complaint
as TO the conservation plank The
plank endorsing the administration OF
President Taft follows:
eve enthusiastically indorse the
patriotic and statesmanlike leader
ship OF William Howard Taft and de-
clare our pride in the achievements OF
his first eighteen months as president.
"He has strengthened our prestige
with foreign nations and treated with
yieor and wisdom important inter
national problems, notably our tariff
relations with Germany, France, and
Canada. Under his administration the
prosecution of those implicated In the
sugar and other customs frauds have
been continued and convictions OBJ
tanned; there have been impartial and
energetic enforcement Of the Sherman
antitrust act; a substantial reduc-
ton of governmental expenses; the
establishment of better business
methods, which will result in greater
efficiency and real economy; remark
able progress in the construction OF
the Panama canal, and the withdrawal
from private entry Of over 71,OuO,O0O
acres OF the public domain, to preserve
for public benefit valuable and other
mineral d eposits, timber land, and
water power sites.
ION his recommendation congress
has provided for commission to in
vestigate and report on the regula-
ton of the issuance of stocks and
bonds by public service corporations
engaged in Interstate comm cree. He
has advocated a new system Of ap-
propriations for river and harbor i'm
provements which we heartily In
dorse."
The tariff plank says:
ssThe Payne tariff law reduced the
average rate Of all duties II per cent.
"By increasing the duties On some
luxuries and articles not of ordinary
use making, however, no increase on
any common food product, 1t turned
4 national deficit into surplus. Under
It's first year OF operation the value OF
lmports free Of duty was the greatest
Al our history by s109, 100000, and the
average rate of duty was less than un-
der the Wilson law. Unlike that
democratic law, it's great reductions
Of duty have not stopped industry nor
deprived labor of any part of it's hire.
a1n providing, upon the suggestion
OF President Taft, for tariff board
the bill affords the means of still more
accurately determining the difference
In cost Of production at home and
abroad. A republican congress is
necessary to assure business and labor
that changes in rates will be made
only to equalize the difference in cost
of production and not to reduce rates
to the free trade, or purely revenue
basis favored by the democratic party.
"To avoid disturbance of business,
we urge the adoption of joint rule
by which the two houses could con-
slider single schedule or a single
paragraph Of the tariff without the