New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-22
TARIFF PLANK DELAYS
FRAMING OF PLATFORM
Hitch, Too, Over River Improve.
ment Clause, but Rest of 0ocu.
ment Is Practically Ready.
Illustration is PRAISED
Draft as Completed About the
Same as Printed Exclusively
in The Tribune-Woman
Suffrage Ignored.

BY a stan Correspondent ~ The Tribun.l
Chicago. June 2l.--The final draft Of
the Republican national platform is now
practically completed, and copies have
been furnished TO the press association,
to avoid the possibility Of any newspaper
again publishing it exclusively, as did
The Tribune last Tuesday
That publication by The Tribune made
not little row in the committee OH res
Olutions Sarcastic remarks were made
by some of the members Of the com.
mttee on the futility Of asking such
committee to draft a platform when the
administration had already drafted the
! instrument and when it had been made
public in these columns.
The platform makers determined 10.
night to disregard entirely the question
Of woman suffrage.
There is one question which remainsto
be settled, and that concerns the tariff
plank. AS was told in these dispatches
last night, the stand patters' are in.
sisting that the tariff plank shall call for
sufficient duties 10 insure a rea sonabs
profit TO the manufacturers, I'm addition
to such rates as may be necessary 70
protect the workmen from foreign com.
petition, while the more progressive lead.
ers, among whom is President Taft. in.
sist that declaration for suficien,
duties 10 protect the workingmeu i- all
that should be included.
The chairman OF the committee. *
Vice President Fairbanks. will address
the convention briefly on the subject N
the platform before the motion ia mad.
to adopt the report Of the committee on
resolutions. The instrument will, IN ths
main, follow the lines Of the Original
draft as printed IN The Tribune. Even
now. however, the press associations -
which copies have been furnished have
been instructed 10 hold themselves IN
readiness TO make such corrections az
may be decided upon before The report 10
the convention is actually made.
After a brief session tonight devoted
10 the thrashing out Of differences on
the construction Of q plank in favor Of
Mississippi River improvements The
committee on resolutions adjourned until
tomorrow. leaving the subcommittee 70
continue its labors.
The ENHANCEMENT over III. Mississippi
proposition was unexpected. \ provision
committing the national government I'M
conditionally to the improvement Of thai
river had been agreed upon. but when
its terms were brought to the At.
tentiOn of Senator Burton. who Is del
egatn from Ohio. he expressed strong
disapprovaL lie succeeded in prevailIus
on the members n reopen the subject -
consider it from different angle Ia
does not believe that the national Treas.
ury should bear the entire burden 81
river improvement and urges the tu.
corporation Of that principle in the plat.
form.
The Taft administration indorsemer'
is coupled with an encomium upon the
services Of Presidents McKirlsy 'nd
Roosevelt. and proceeds.
We invite tho Intelligent judgment o. ne
: American people upon the administrator
or William II. Taft Tho country hos
prosperad and been az peace undei h'
Presidency He has preserved and car
ried forward, al that was valuable ;.
the policies that he took over from hs
predecessors Setting the good example OF
scrupulous obedience TO law in his own
words and acts he has enforced the az
as he found Il faithfully, impartislly anh
patiently.
During the years In which lie had the 20.
operation Of a Republican Congress, al NJ
cxampled amount Of constructive lcgis.s'
ton was framed and passed I'm the ,rtere.'
Of tho people and I'm obedience 20 Their
wish that legislation Is a record on voic'
any administration might appeal With con
ddpuce ~ the favorable judgment Of hts
tory. IF any promise made BY the Repuo.
Iican party IS stil urredeemAd, the f4V''
is not with President TAFT He has st-ivsr
conscieutiously and jealousy - fpl7l
them all