New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-11
ROOSEVELT ANXIOUS
TO PLEASE THE WEST
To Advocate Revision of Tariff in
Answer to Demand for Quick
Downward Action.
WILL ISSUE A STATEMENT
Bringing His Doctrines Into
Shape for Campaign Will
Occupy Candidate Until
Convention Meets.
by Telegraph 10 The Tribune !

by Telegraph TO The Tribune
oyster Bay, n. Y. July 10-Ex- President
Roosevelt has been told that the West.
where he must look for the bulk Of the
support Of his candidacy for a third term.
is emphatically in favor of quick action on
a downward revision OF the tariff. Those
who talked with the candidate to-day said
Colonel Roosevelt would come out for A
downward revision plank in the new party
| platform, to be promulgated by the colonel
! himself at Chicago next month. He would
not commit himself to reporters on the
subject to-day. but It Is known that he will
approve "A demand for immediate revision.
Present indications are that the demand
for action on the part of the coloneIs con-
vention Will be restricted to those schedules
| which. In the opinion of the party heads,
are obviously too high. The woollen and
| cotton schedules have been cited as the
best examples.
1t is pretty certain however. that the
| leaders haven't decided yet whether the
| platform will enumerate specific schedules
or content itself merely with Il general
declaration of the principles OH which the
! new party will act.
OF course, Colonel Roosevelt will write
the platform. but he isn't turning a deaf
ear to his advisers 4 bit Of history. such
| as the election OF Democratic House OF
Representatives In 1910. said by some to
| have been due largely to the attitude Of
the present administration toward down
ward revision, has been dug up and poured
into the coloners ear.
Tariff Vows Well Known"
The ex-President. however. holds that
the country, knows his views on the tariff
pretty well. He said recently that he stood
for protection and he denounced the Demo
cratic platform plan of tariff for revenue
as either an insincere document for cam
paign uses or as an avowal which. II
fulfilled, would work the ruin OF the coun-
try. He said to-day, however that IL was
for the convention to decide what the
tariff plank ought TO be
In the near future. he added, he would
issue a statement OF his position on vari-
Gus campaign issues and II was possible
that his new tariT attitude would be out
lined among the other issues He wanted
1t understood that whatever he was to say
he would prepare with great care
The eX-President is anxious not TO lie
misunderstood on such a delicate matter as
his attitude toward the tariff question.
Colonel Roosevelt has repeatedly declared
In the last few weeks that he did not CON
slider that the tariff was the cause OF the
high cost OF living. lie has pointed to free
trade nations where the prices OF necessa-
ries have been gradually soaring I'm the last
few years. During his primary campaigns
in Ohio, New Jersey. etc. the ex-President
took great care to avoid q compromising
attitude on tariff subjects.
He declared IN favor OF commission TO
investigate the difference In cost Of produc-
ton at home and abroad and to devise
some system OF schedules that would help
the wage Garner. permitting the benefits Of
the tariff to get into the pay envelope.
Twill Be in SecIusion."
From this time on until the convention is
held on August Colonel Roosevelt will re-
main In seclusion at Sycamore Hll to de-
vote himself to the broad principles upon
which he intends 10 stand. and 10 reduce
those principles into a workable campaign
basis"
The details of organization Of party ma
chinery, he said would be left to his lIeu-
tenants in New York and elsewhere
we are getting our New York State or
ganIzation into shape" he said to-day
"and hope that those who wish to discuss
the details OF that work will call at our
headquarters IN New York. rather than
come out 20 Sycamore Hill. ] must devote
myself to consideration OF the economic and
social problems which we must work out
~. y,. hay sial
10 suggest upon such subjects rather than
with those who are dealing with the party
machinery
The candidate has said that the various
remedial measures such as the initiative,
referendum or recall are secondary" as fer
as his interests are concerned. They are
all q part OF our fight to get Justice he
continued you can get my doctrines from
nv speeches ] am trying to get them into
nracticaI shape for the campaign, the oaslc
idea Of which II to be the solution. as FAR
az possible. OF the great economic and So
c!al problems.
Among the visitors at Sycamore Hill to-
dav was Herbert Knox Smith, Commission
or NJ CORPORATIONS, who served under
roosevelt He talked government control
Of corporations with his former chief.
Tonight Colonel Roosevelt was asked
what he thought OF Senator Cumminss at
tack on the nomination Of President Tart
nv demanding that It be investigated by
the Iowa State Republican Committee.
Nothing to say" he replied smilingly.
Don't you believe that the same tactics
,,,1 he followed in other states where Re-
n,,bI,cans who topped to Taft find that
poosevelt sentiment is developing?' he was
asked.
"racb state must decide those matters
for itself" he said.