New-York tribune., 1910-06-27
RUNS ON TAFT RECORD
Senator Carter Praises Admin
istration for Achievements.
HE SEEKS A REELECTION
Campaign in Montana TO BE
Conducted on Strictly Stand
Pat" Platform.

Helena, Mont, June 26-Praising PreSi-
dent Taft one of the ''broadest, kiiioile''
and ablest men" the White House mas
ever known, indorsing the recent taFiII pii'
as q measure which redeems the party
pledge and bitterly denouncing insurgency
Thomas H Carter has begun his campaign
for reelection to the United States senate
from Montana. Senator Garter is the first
Western Senator to come out fatfooteoiy
on a "stand-pat" platform, and his an
nouncement has created d stir throughou'
the mountain states.
In stating his views concerning the IN
surgents, in his comrnendation of the Presi-
dent and of the work of the present Con-
gress. Senator Carter announces unequlVo-
cably his willingness and determination to
stand for reelection on the Taft record.
The Senator announced his platform in q
letter which has just been received by the
State Central Committee Of the Republican
party of Montana.
Throughout the state the letter Is con-
sidered remarkable document. There is
practically no insurgency in the state, and
with Senator Carter running on strictly
Taft "stand-pat' platform the fall CAM
paign, according to present indications, will
be fought out on straight party lines. SEN
ator Carter says In his letter:
Comparative degrees of prosperity may
readily be made to excite more commoton
than comparative degrees of adversely.
rIoe %e IS d As IS
instructive; each generation must have its
own" Taking advantage of the truth
wrapped up in this saying, 1t has seerned
wise to individual Republicans here and
there throughout the country to command
temporary notice by blaming the old party
not for making bad times, but for faillhS
to make good times better.
Their contention is that thousands OF
items affecting every part of our conidIoal adlsa
bill recently passed in a perfectly equitable
and correctly scientific way. They omit 10
mention the fact that tariff which seems
possessed OF all the virtues in one section
is regarded as possessing all the vices In
another section of the country. No better
be furnished than that supplied by the wool
schedule which was continued in the late
tariff bill in substantially the same phrase
bill. We of Montana. realizing that the
protection of some sixty million dollars
worth of our property hangs upon the VOC WOO
schedule. regard the schedule as fair. equi.
table and necessary whereas the owner OF
the woollen mill in New England looks upon
the duty as indefensible The case mere s
throughout the thousands OF items EN-
braced In the schedule
insurgents Scored.
Those who ouibble over the details and
adjustments fail to mention that the DUTY
on all the great products of the mlgnty
steel manufacturing plants OF the country
was practically reduced nnS-half. and that
such increases as were made placed the
burden If burden there be. upon those VINO
buy the 1,1xuries. rather t,isn tpon ati, t.t
who i,1iy the necesartes of life. This meth
cd of n1agnifyinE tho details into monstrou3
proportions and overlooking broad. general
principles has given ffeeting tenure to So
ca lied insurgency.
The insurgents met universal Democratic
approval and their special pleading occa-
sicnally disturbed the confidence OF scne
Republicans; but time. the settier OF oloss
and the master healer OF disorders. ras
been performing !ts customary work. me
present administration not only attempted,
in good faith and with pronounced success,
to redeem the party pledge to revise the
tariff. but has likewise sought. with re
narkables zeal and fidelity, TO reoeeh every
other outstanding pledge.
After reciting some of the achievements
of the present Consress-the railroad Dill
the postal savings bank bill. the statehood
measure and others-Senator Carter con-
tinues:
In the presence Of these conditions the
pecple of Iowa, at a recent primary eiec-
tiop. marched to the polls OF their own Voii-
ton and placed the seal of their dfsap-
provaI upon Mr.. Cummins and his scnehle
of insuTgenc .,o
The defeat of Cummins was an assertion
of the plain common sense of the Repuoh-
cans of Iowa. This was case OF a cap
tiyating leader entering the field practicaiiy
unopposed by any one approaching MS
capacity. and meeting a pronounced defeat
on the merits of his appeal; which was an
swered bv the ballots of the citizens who
had figured the thing out for themselves
The flood tide of insurgency was turned
back by the organized voters, led only by
their own intelligent comprehension or tne
situation The people on their own account
stood by and guarded the old party In that
contest.
Farmers Control Banks.
The Democrats can only profit by Re
Dubiican BETRAYAL of the Republican cause.
They have no other hope on earth than
that which they gain through hope for
treason in the Republican camp. How can
a Democrat go out and persuade a farmer
to vote the Democratic ticket when the
farmer knows that during the last Demo-
cratic administration a 250-pound hog could
lated sugar whereas a hog of the same
weight to-day will bring 500 pounds of the
same kind of sugar?
And the same comparison can be made
with calico and woollen goods and every
thing farmer has to buy. Fifteen years
go the banks controlled the farmers: to-
day the farmers control the banks, and
these changes have come to pass under the
reign of the Republican party. It seems
to me the only question Is whether We can
keep our heads and avoid being made
dizzy by the force and power of the prog
reSs being made
In speaking OF President Taft Senator
Carter says:
THE national administration is presided
over by one of the broadest, kindliest and
ahIest men the Presidential chair has ever
known. Our old friend Theodore Roosevelt
made no mistake when he unqualifiedly
commended William H. Taft TO the Amer