The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-05-30
Prosperous Condition of Conn
try Will Be Keynote of Re-
publican Campaign
OHIO BATTLE PLAN HAS RECEIVED
APPROVAL OF PRESIDENT TAFT
Primary Vote in That State Showed
Sentiment In Favor of the Present
Tariff Law and Those Who Stood
For It.

Washington, May 30.-With the set
tlement Of the contention over the
breadth Of the tariff board provision
and the appropriation of $3.50, 900 for
the use of the president in pursuing
investigations into tariff questions,
the Republican lines have been
strengthened and the Democrats have
been robbed Of their principal weapon
In the forthcoming campaign.
So impressed have the leaders be-
come with this idea that in Ohio,
where one Of the hottest fights of the
fall will be waged, the Republicans
have already decided to enter the
campaign upon the tariff issue, stand
pat on the Payne-Aldrich bill and
support the tariff board provision.
President Taft is understood to be in
favor of this plan Of campaign. Sem
ators and congressman from Ohio be-
lieve it is the best thing to do and
tariff campaign in Ohio seems now to
be a certainty.
The real Significance of Judson
Harmon's candidacy for the COVER
norship is appreciated by everyone.
sured that he will be the presidential
candidate in 1912 and will enter the
tight with the prestige of having twice
carried President Taft's own state.
That 1t is Governor Harmon's inten-
ton to make the issue the tariff and
the high cost Of living. connecting the
two questions in a manner to arouse
the interest and attract the votes of
the people there is little doubt.
Republicans are Prepared.
The Republicans have decided to
meet this attack and fight the battle
along these lines, defending the ac-
hon Of this administration and this
congress: They are encouraged to
follow truck :beciuse of the ont
come Of the recent primaries in Ohio,
where only one regular Republican
candidate for denomination, Ralph d.
Cole, fell and his defeat is accounted
for by other reasons.
Senator Charles Dick, who polled
more than 10000 votes at the pri-
mary as the party candidate for SEN
ator, called at the white house today
to consult the president on patronage
questions and he took occasion to
speak his sympathy with the plan for
a tariff campaign. Dick is q stand
patter of the Hanna type, and is in
favor of meeting the Democratic at
tacks with stanch support of the
Payne-Aldrich law.
Representative James Kennedy e..
Youngstown, who braved a fusillade
Of all the insurgent newspapers of
the Western Reserve and was renomi-
mated by decisive majority, also
called on the president. He is strong
ly in favor of tariff campaign and
has confidence that 1t will have VIC
tory.
Back to the Old Idea.
"Let US go back to the old McKin-
ley ideas Of protection, fight the DEM
ocrats to a standstill on that issue.
and we will win." he said. "The
people Of Ohio are beginning to see
through this mud singing and I pre-
dict that II we make the tariff the
issue and fight the Democrats upon
that, we will win with ease."
Republican sentiment in the house
is crystalizing from individual belief
into the general conviction that the
Lawrey tariff board amendments
adoption has blasted Democratic
hopes of success in more than a score
of close congressional districts in the
middle west, where disaffection with
the Payne-Aldrich tariff act has made
hot-beds Of insurgents. Chairman
Tawney himself feels assured the
amendment will conciliate even his
most disgruntled constituents, who
declined to be won over even by Pres
ident Taft's famous tariff defense at
Winona last September.
Tawney's political sagacity in hand
ling the amendment fight is strongly
commended. BY wording his first Of
fering in the most emphatic language
he induced the Democrats to go on
record as opposing letting in the
light" on the so-called tariff "inequali
ties" Published conclusions that he
had failed to get what he wanted do
not represent the true situation.
Tawney q Strategist.
The "inside view" is that the sue
cession Of Tawney amendments was
entirely a political plan to help the
party in the middle west and that the
veteran Minnesota man got exactly
what he wanted and put the Demo-
Gratis exactl'- where he wanted them
for campaign purposes. Tawney's.
place in the heart of his colleagues
has grown in the past twenty-four
hours and has renewed attention to
his availability as speakership can
didate. The man who can save a
score Of doubtful districts in the in
surgent west by legislative strategy
may prove to have saved the next
congress to the Republicans.
There are other developments in
the tariff board matter which are now
being kept under cover, but which
Will shortly assume political import