Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-03-25
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Monthly Norman E. Mack publishes
an editorial styled "Corneredp' on the
pre- emf condition of the Republican
ADMINISTRATION. Because of the excel
lence with which he sums up the
matter in hard, we herewith reproducs
the article in part:
easily the foremost political ques-
ton of today centers in the condition
in which the Republican administra-
ton now finds itself. Everywhere par
ty men are incuIpated in some outrage
on the public. The strasgest part Of it
is, that the only resort is to the
strength Of the organization, the very
instrument that has created the havoc,
to save the party from general ruin.
Every energy is exerted now to save
Ohio and New York to the Republican
party in the coming congressional and
gubernatorial campaigns, for the lead
ers have in conference concluded, that
if they can weather the storm this
fall, they will be able to conserve sui
ncient resources in the Interim for
the presidential election two years
thereafter.
president Taft undoubtedly consld-
ers himself simply unfortunate to have
reaped so large crop of political dis
turbances SO early in his term, but if
the President will look about him he
cannot fail to observe that policy pur-
sued by the Republican party must
h ave sooner or later brought about this
distressing condition, The exposure
was inevitable. When the charges were
made that criminal corporations were
enjoying privileges by reason of con-
tributions to the Republican puolica-
tions and every stump orator, even
from the aggressively honest Roose-
welt, aud from Mr.. Taft, himself, that
such condition did not obtain that
the charges made by the Democratic
party we're false. OF course, they were
not false. Neither was the Democratic
party mistaken when it declared in
the last compaign that the Republican
party did not mean to reduce the
tariff even though it's platform and
campaign utterances were SO werded
as TO convey pledge of reduction
"The tariff is one Of those matters of
national concern, so filled with chan
nels, that it may be long while be-
fore those going in opposite directions
can be brought face to face, but hap
PLY for us, and unbappily fer the
President, we find an occasion to bring
Archangel Aldrich to the accounting.
In the course of the debate on the
WOODEN schedule which the President
now points to as the one CONSPICUOUS
failure of the party, there occurred in
the senate a clash between the Aldrich
standpatters and the tariff refermefs."
The editorial here includes an ex-
cerpt of the senate proceedings giving
Senator Aldrich's position GA the wool
len schedule. Continuing the article
reads
president Taft cannot continue con-
sistently to applaud Aldrich and con-
denn the wooden schedule, nor can we
see that those two notable authorities
on the Republican platform could :get
farther apart as to what the platform
said on that question. we are here
bound by every obligation of our plat
form X X X to resist all efforts at re-
duction in this (woolen) schedule evea
though made in tht name of reform )
said Mr.. Aldrich, while the President
new says: rhe one substantial defect
in compliance with the promise of the
platform was the failure to reduce
woolens.' We would respectively sug-
gest that it having been so clearly
demons traled that on the one point
where it is possible to nail effectually
side by side the utterances Of the Pres
ident, of senator Aldrich, and those
Democrats and Republicans who
fought for fair tariff reduction, the
burden of evidence is so conclusively
disconcerting to both the President
children Cry