The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-11
HILLES WILL MANAGE

The selection of the Hon, Charles D
Hiiles TO be head Of the committe,
which will manage the Republican
campaign, is undoubtedly good one
Mr.. Hilles, as secretary to President
Taft, is well and favorably known
throughout the country. and his 10y
atty to President Taft is unquestion
able. This matter of LOYALTY is a very
serious one during the present cam
paign, when so many Republicans are
found TO be disaffected and inclined to
betray the administration and to fol
low after a false light
1T is noteworthy. Also in this con
nection that in both parties the nomi-
nee is given the power Of controlling
the selection For the management OF the
campaign, which shows the growth or
sentiment which has not been fully
recognized heretofore, that the candl-
| date for President should have the
chief selection of who shall tight the
battle. It is so this year almost neces-
sarily with President Taft. 1t is so
| this wear also with Governor Wilson,
on the Democratic side. openly and
| without dissent This marks the estab-
| lishment of new procedure in this
country, and a precedent For, al
though the Presidential nominee has
been heretofore deferred to very largely
on this account. it is now openly con-
ceded as his right to name the manager
of the campaign.
Chairman Hilles has the confidence
Of the President, and OF all the Presi-
dent s friends, as well as of the Ma
tional Committee. He will undoubt-
edlv do excellent work in the campaign.
He has already struck the keynote in
his preliminary statement, where he
draws attention TO the actual achieve
ments of the Republican party, and
the pledge OF that party to continue on
the line of progress that has been so
efficiently pursued by the party in
the past, He refers to the solid rock
of the rights OF the individual which
the Republican party has always recog-
nized in behalf of labor through the
protective tariff, contrasting this with
the denial by the Democratic party not
only Of the benefits Of the protective
tariff. but OF the constitutionality Of
levying customs duties under a pro-
tective system, 1t would seem indeed
too late to challenge the constitutions
ality of the protective tariff. The Su-
preme Court Of the United States has
fully upheld that doctrine, and it has
been the practical doctrine Of the pro-
grossive people Of the United States
rom the foundation Of the govern
ment.
The fact that Mr.. Hillcs makes the
protective tariff so prominent in his
statement shows that this is the
chosen ground on which he desires to
fight the Presidential battle this year
On that ground he can undoubtedly
win, as the Republicans have won in
the past, by the agreement Of the
American people that protective tar
iff is necessary on such industries as
are dependent upon National help TO
establish themselves and to flourish
II will necessarily he that in some of
the articles which are now protected
by duty. and that do not need any
such protection: there will be q dis
elimination made in the levying of
duties. 1t will not Of course be claimed
that the present tariff is sufficient,
and that the Republican party is stand
ing by the tariff rs il is, for that is
not the case. The truth is that The
standpat position of the Senators in
1909 in revising the tariff upward in
place of downward, and giving the lie
TO President Taft S campaign promise
that the tariff would be revised down
ward, made the whole trouble that we
have, and lost the control Of the
House Of Representatives TO the Re-
publican party in the election of 1910
This selection Of Chairman Hilles is
a good one. and his preliminary state
ment is first-class as a principle, but
in the application of that principle
there will have TO be sound judgment
and practical sense displayed