The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-26
NEBRASKA 5
REF PUBLICANS
Senator Brown Praises
the Work of Last
Congress


braska Republican state convention.
United States Senator Norris Brown
spoke only along general political
lines. making no allusions TO the ques-
tions uppermost in the minds of the
delegateS-the Endorsement of the in
Surgency' of some of NebraSka's CON
gTessmen, and the county option plan
Of regulating the liquor traffic.
Mentioning the Democratic state
convention being held today at Grand
Island. Neb., Senator Brown declared
that It is useless for Democrats 10
fight over platform as Democratic
platform is neither useful nor orna-
mental" Said he:
THE men who make IL forget and
the men who are elected on 1t are
expected TO repudiate IL"
To support this declaration, he cit
ed the record of Democrats in the
last congress-. He said
Their last national platform pledg-
ed the rarty to free lumber, but they
voted against free lumber. They
promised a postal savings bank. They
kept their promise in the senate by
votes in that body against it They
voted for a duty on coal. They prom
= ised free iron ore; they voted no on
the proposition"
Contrasting this record with that Of
the Republican party, Senator Brown
said;
Fourteen years ago, when McKin-
ley was chosen President on the
pledge that he would pass a tariff law
MFl a. A Arfnn ind 1t,g.-
iries In 1t. he kept the pledge and the
country prospered. Five years later
Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency
and In 1904, when reelected by the
people. he promised TO carry out the
Mckinley policies and retain the pro-
tectiye features of McKinley's tarlff
act he too kept the pledge and the
country continued to prosper When
four years later. in 1908, William H.
Taft was chosen president on the
pledge to revise the tariff law but TO
retain It's protective principles, he
likewise kept the faith and the conn.
try still prospered."
Turning to state matters, the speak
or named a number OF beneflcient
laws enacted under the leadership
of rhis State.
and other laws regulating common
carriers. the pure food law and the
direct primary law were mentionad
And remember" continued the SEN
alor during his administration and
since. under the whip-and-spur ener-
gy OF Attorney General William T.
Thompson everyone of these laws
have been enforced"
Senator Brown again took uD the
record of the Republican party in
national affairs. declaring that never
In the history of the legislature has
congress In single session enacted
so many important and progressive
laws as did the Republican congress
Just adjourned"
The conservation law. the postal
savings bank law, the admission OF
Arizona and New Mexico: the provs-
Ion for a tariff board TO investigate
and TO report facts relating TO man
uiacturiDg and commerce. were men
Toned as instances of the Republican
party redeeming it's platform pledges.
the speaker giving the credit TO Pres
ident Taft for the success of the meas
ures
OF the new tariff laws he said:
NO one has ever pretended that
that act was perfect. It's warme6t
friends have always admitted its I'M
perfectl0ns. But notwithstanding its
imperiectlons. with the Information
congress had at the time. it was a
better law than the law 1t suppressed
ed, and Is entitled TO the commenda-
uon and support of the American
people as a steu toward the relief of
tne public from the duties Of the Ding
leg law, which the country had out
grown"
1 am glad to say" he continued,
the entire Nebraska delegation in
congress. those splendid lighting.
courageous and progressive Republi-
cans In the house-Kinkalde, Norris
and Hinshaw and your two senators
voted for the law. They did 1t be-
cause ii Is a better law than the one
1t repealed They did II because It
contained the provision which taxed
me Incomes OF corporations which
alone has brought into the federal
treasury In the first year Of its oDer-
alton more than twenty-three million
dollars. They did 1t because it con-
aimed redemption Of the platform
pledge TO establish a maximum and
minimum tariff, a dual system employ
so by every tarIii country OF any i'm
portance IN the world. They did It
because 1t reduced the duty on many
necessities of life and because the
principal increases OF the law touched
Injuries Of life'
The senator told Of the amendment
vi The law passed under the Roosevelt
regime and perfected under the direc-
ton and urging OF President Taft, in
creasing the powers of the Interstate
commerce commission relative to
rates.
lie closed with warm tribute to
'he President