The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-27
1t Is Intended as a Model for
Others to Follow.
FOR A SECOND TERM
Commends Record of the Admin.
istratiCn and Congress.
Tariff Legislation Receives I'm
qualified Endorsement.

Columbus, o.. July 27.-The Repub
ican platform which is expected to be
a model for use by future Republican
state conventions as the expression of
the party in the presidents own state
opens with warm endorsement of the
chief executive. Senator Dick. who
seeks reelection was not singled out
for specific endorsement
The portions of the platform dealing
with the administration, congress and
with the tariff are in full as follows:
1--WE, the Republicans of Ohio, in
state convention assembled. commend
in highest terms, the splendid adminis-
tration of William H. Taft, are proud
of the results he has already achieved
in his seventeen months in office and
pledge him our hearty and united sup
port in further efforts as chief execu-
tive of the nation. We renew our
pledge Of loyal support given him in
1908, and endorse him for renomina-
ton in 1912.
Among the many accomplishments
of President Taft's administration
worthy of special praise are: Prosecu-
tion and conviction of those implicat-
ed in the sugar frauds against the
government and other violators of
federal statutes; prompt and success
full intervention to prevent arbitrary
increases in railway freight rates, ef-
fective enforcement of the law against
| illegal dealing in stocks; indictment
of those involved in the cotton pooL
formed to raise the price of one of the
necessities in every American life; i'm
] partial enforcement of the antitrust
| laws; substantial reduction in govern
ment expenses, saving a million dol
| lars month in the postoffice depart
ment. with a fair promise of wiping
| he deficit sue h
remarkable progress in the construc-
tion of the Panama canal as insures
its early comp mpletion, withdrawal from
private entry in order to preserve for
the public benefit, valuable coal and
other mineral deposits, timber land
and waterpower sites, of over II mil
lion acres of the public domain. It
has strengthened our prestige with
foreign nations and has treated with
vigor and wisdom important and de-
licate information problems. It has
dealt Justly and Hberally with our de-
Tendencies. The record of achieve
ment of this administration and the
61st congress is unequalled in our his
tory, and guarantees faithful adher-
ence to all the pledges of the last Re-
publican national platform. The cleo
ton of a Republican congress next
November is imperatively necessary
to accomplish the entire program of
the Taft administration.
Revision of the Tariff.
''The tariff has been revised in ac-
cordance with the Republican doctrine
of protecting home industries and
American labor. 1t did not raise the
rate of duty on a single common food
product. The increases made were on
luxuries and articles not of ordinary
use. 1t affords no more than adequate
protection to the industries of the ma
ton and is fair alike to consumers.
Ia hOrerS and producers No tariff bill
was more unjustly assailed. 1t has
justified the expectations of its friends
BY turning a national deficit into a
surplus, while at the same time re-
ducing the average rate of all duties.
Its maximum and minimum rates have
operated to give us for the first time
equality of opportunity with other ma
tions, in our foreign trade.
1.-The Republican party through con-
gress and the president has given free
trade with the Philippines with such
limitations as to sugar and tobacco,
as will afford protection to domestic