The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-06-17
REPUBLICANS WILL MAKE
TARIFF DOMINANT ISSUE
IN COMING CAMPAIGy
Will Be Revised Downward No
Matter Whether Taft or
Roosevelt Wins
SILENCE ON RECIPROCITY
Neither Side Will Touch on
This Proposition Which Can
ada Rejected Recently
SILENCE ON RECIPROCITY

De revised DOWNWARD III the hepupll-
can party Is returned TO power, no
matter whether Taft or Roosevelt
controls the national convention.
I This was made certain today when
( II was found that the leaders or each
faction have determined that they
must declare to the people that the
tariff is agin the dominant Issue. Al
a series of conferences between the
steering committees OF both the
Roosevelt and Taft ends Of the party,
rough drafts OF the Proclamation OF
! principles have been completed. From
now until the convention committee
on resolutions is completed and gets
on the job, these leaders will keep
! busy They hope 10 have strong docu-
ments ready, so that the committee
will not have TO bother with the de-
/ tails
Both of the factions will declare for
a scientific downward revision OF the
tariff. Each will take the point that,
while American labor must be protect
ed, the fact that trust made goods are
sold abroad profitably less than half
what Is charged in the United States,
shows that the present rates are too
high. But In one respect the platforms
will differ. The Taft platform will in
sist that the present tariff board is
meeting the situation squarely and
that its recommendations are the
ones TO be followed. The Roosevelt
platform will insist that the present
board be strengthened. There VIII
be no mention OF reciprocity accord
ing 10 present plans.
Both Of the platforms also declare
for strong navy and both Will take
advanced ground on conservation OF
natural resources. The initiative and
referendum will be ignored by the
Taft trainers, on the ground that IL
is purely a state issue that can best
be disposed OF by the several states
themselves. The Roosevelt PLATFORM
will, IL is expected, endorse these
principles and also the recall All or
the western delegations are insistent
that there shall be no middle-of-the-
road ground taken, but that the party
shall go on record on these plans de-
signed to bring the people into con
troll of their own government.
The Taft platform will denounce
the recall as Vicious and abhorrent.
This will be especially so on the re-
call OF the judiciary as Senator Root,
the Taft candidate for temporary
chairman has framed a plank which
declares that AN Independent judic-
iary. knowing no friend or foe, Is the
greatest safeguard of true liberty" II
declares that the submission to judi
cial authority OF questions OF con-
troyersy marks the highest develop
ment which civilization has attained
and will declare that the recall OF
judges would make them dangerous.
The Taft platform will endorse
central financial organization such as
that suggested by the Aldrich plan,
but an attempt will be made TO
change IL enough so that criticism OF
the Aldrich plan cannot be applied TO
the suggested one. The Roosevelt
platform is expected specifically to
condemn the Aldrich play in detail.
The Taft platform will declares
emphatically for the retention OF the
Sherman antitrust law, but Will de-
mand supplementary legislation that
it's operation may be made more easy
and also that the individual responsi-
bility for monopolies can be easily
fixed. The Roosevelt plan Will de-
mand the enaction Of laws which will
make more easy the regulation OF all
big combinations of capital nd the
specific definition Of just what Is and
what Is not lawful.
The Roosevelt plan will be reolu-
tionary In one thing-it Will declare
unequivocally for woman's suffrage
and inasmuch as there is a wide diff
ference of opinion In the Roosevelt
camp on this plan, warm night on II
q alredy forecasted
The Taft platform will specifically
endorse and command the Taft ad-
ministration The Roosevelt docu-
ment will entirely ignore ie.
The Roosevelt platform is being
drafted by James r. Garfield, Clifford
Pinchot, Oscar Straus and William
Allen White. The Taft document will
be the handiwork OF Senator Root,
former Vice-President Chales w. Fair
banks, Senator Murray Crane. Secre-
tary Hilles, Nicholas Murray Butler
william Banes, Jr., and Congressmc-
Mckinley.