The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-03
Country is Facing Declared SEN
ator Burton Before Convention
OF OHIO REPUBLICANS
Convention Met To-day to Elect Six Del
egates to Chicago-Both Sides Ex-
press Confidence That They Con-
troll Majority of Votes.

Columbus O., June 3.-Unlted states
Senator Theodore Z. Burton OF ONO, de-
livering the keynote speech before the
Republican state convention here to-day,
declared the country was confronted win
a crisis far surprising any through which
it has passed in the memory OF the pres
ent generation.
Foreshadowing many of the tenets that
will be laid down in the platform to be
adopted at the coming national Repub-
lican convention, he urged monetary re-
forms. tariff revision based upon accurate
information the lowering of some duties,
with due regard to adequate aid to Amer
lean industry; federal Incorporation
law safeguarding labor, and workmens
compensation law, effective steps Tor
peace among nations, and other polieles.
He reviewed the high cost OF living,
which he traced to various causes, ana
declared they were not attributable to
the present tariff law.
''Alen in high positions of public re-
sponsibility," he said, "have shown dfre-
liction in performance of heir trusts
The great body OF the peo pie, however,
have been responsible in no small degree
for existing evils. While harmful com
binations and organizations in commerce
and industry have been formed, the peo'
pie have stood idly by, ueteriy unable
to suggest constructive legislation or
provide sufficient remedy.
Fortunately there has been wide
spread awakening. There is tendency
to talk less about the growth OF bank
deposits. and more about those move
ments which pertain directly to human
happiness and welfare
Senator Brrton Geplored the spectacle
Of a vote uarely one-half that OF the
total elect crate in recent primaries III
Ohio and other states and contended for
q revival Of interest in civic matters.
He pr redicted that no radical changes
looking toward civic betterment would
follow such reforms as the primary, IN
iti1tiye. the referendum, and certainly
rot the recall ''unless there be a wide
spread awakening which shall arouse the
citizen to a new and abiding sense OF
his responsibility to the state and to the
community of which he is member"
Certain benefits indirect in their ma
trre would no doubt result from the
adoption of some of these changes he
added, nor shall we fear that revolu
tionary or destructive changes win fol-
low properly safeguarded methods for d.
rect legislation"
Passing by the record of the party's
earlier achievements, Senator Burton
traced the course of events up to the
present campaign
"The last four years of Republican
control of the nation" he said, have
been marked with an unprecedented
amount of beneficient legislation. The
present administration has been marked
by an unprecedented number of success
full prosecutions under the Sherman anti
trust law and the most powerful corpor-
ations of the land have been hailed into
court and taught that laws must be
obeyed'.'
Mr.. Burton reviewed the present high
cost of living as a cause of prevalent
discomfort and eXonerated the Payne
Aldrieh tariff law from responsibility.
"The future" he said. will marvel
at the accurate thinking of demogogical
appeals which have fostered the idea
that the present scale of prices results
from the tariff legislation of this, or
any other administration"
Rival Claims of Convention.
Senator Burton reached here yester-
day and at once went into conference
with Walter 4. Brown chairman of the
Republican state central committee and
manager of Colonel Roosevelts campaign
in the state. Following this, he held a
long discussion with Lewis o. Laylin,
manager of the Taft forces in the state.
In a staement Ir. Laylin claimed that
the Taft delegates win control the con-
vention and the election of the six dele
gates large to the national convention
at Chicago, with more than 400 of the 754
delegates composing the convention.
Roosevelt supporters, while claiming
confidence that a big six delegation IA
vorable to the former president will be
selected. declared that in the event the
convention should be controlled by Taft
delegates the strength of the Roosevelt
forces would probably cause the Taft
supporters to agree to a split delegation.