The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-04
Presidents Friends Capture
Ohio State Conventional
Elect 12 out of 21 Members of
Each Committee.
BURTON IS MADE CHAIRMAN
He Opens Proceedings With a
Standpat Speech.
Outlines What the National
Platform Will Contain.

Columbus. O., June 4.-With clever
and a possible II votes, the Taft forces
will control the committees of the state
convention and the next state central
&C mmittee. The delegates from the va
rious districts met late ond an
selected one member for each of the
committees. Roosevelt supporters sue
ceeded in electing only 8 members Of
the q of each COMMITTEES. The Eighth
district by a vote of 20 to 10 seated a
caft committeeman, thus giving Iatt
control. This means Walter +. Brown
probably will not again be chairman.
u. S. Senator Theodore E. Burton
delivered the keynote speech before the
Republican state convention and de-
cIared the country was confronted with
a crisis far surpassir any through
which it has passed in the memory Of
the present generation. He deplored
the absence from the polls of a great
percentage of voters ii recent state
primaries
He foreshadowed many of the teners
that will be laid down in the platform
to be adopted at the coming national
Republican convention and reviewed
the high cost of living, which he traced
to various causes and declared they
were not attributable o the present
tariff laws.
senator burton u6plOT6Q Tie Sp6CCd-
Gle of a vote barely one-half of the To-
tai electorate in recent primaries in
Ohio and other states. The absence nf
voluntary interest in the ballot box he
characterized as alarming. The pri-
mary, he said, seems the ideal system
but equally good resultc could be OBJ
tanned if the electors desired that rep
Tesentative men be chosen to select
candidates.
Senator Burton predicted that no
betterment would follow such reforms
as the primary, the initiative, the ref
erendum and certainly not the recall,
unless there be a widespread awaken
Ing which shall arouse the citizen to a
new and abiding sense of his RESPONSE
bility to the state and to the
ty."
The Party Record.
Passing by the record of the Re-
publican party's earlier achievements,
"the d5Ss of its successful struggle
under Fremont and its matches rec
ord un1er Lincoln and his successor"
Senator Burton traced the course of
events up to the present campaign.
The asst four cars of Republican
contro! of h nation" he said. "have
been nam ked with an unprecedented
amount of beneficent legislation.
Our party organization has taken
n lead Ior now these fifty years and
we can congratulate ourselves upon a
record uI.equalled by any political or
ganizat on in the whole history of
g-overnn.nt.~
forms, revision o. the tariff ain re-
lance upon accurate information and
not undo- the pressure of local or per-
SOnal Interests"
Tariff '~eVision, he said. will include
the lowering of some duties. but should
at the same time afford adequate and
permanent aid to American industry.
The party has been loyal
IN a -. U his cod .-nnn n -ao-o
conception, namely, that his country,
should br as IA as possible self-suffi-
Gent, that with unlimited in
field, forest and tne mine, a develop
ment shall be maintained, in which the
prosperity and abundance of employ
ment which comes from the workshop |
and tn" factory snail be joined to
prosperity On the farm.
Tariff Tinkerinp Means Disaster.
Even if e~xistiLE tariff d are
high We have adjusted ourselves for
many FEARS to th5 present protective
tariff system. Any immediate or SER
1ous ch3I-ge will cause a wrench which
Will involve our whole business struc-
ture in widespread disaster. In This
connection let me say that any antici-
patton Of material decrease in prices
to the consumer under tariff reduction
is sure to prove delusive. Transfer of
the seat ! manufacturing any
from Our own cou1 Try to foreign coun-
tries would, in view of the great ex- J
tent OF cur market, cause a material |
Else abroad as well as at home"
Mr. Burton reviewed the present
n1gh cost of living as a cause of preva-
lent d~lSContent and exonerated the
-Alorich tariff law from re-
The Future" he said, will marvel
at the inaccurate thinking or dema-
gogical appeals which have fostered
the idea that the present scale of
prices results from the tariff legisla-
ton Of this or any other administra-
ton. We are witnessing an inward
movement in prices which is world |
wide.
People demand a larger
OF the co~nveniences of life and a great
or share of it's Injuries. Farming pom
ulation has barely held its own while
n citizens Of our and
through the country have Increase
enormously Consumers of food are in
c1easing out of all proportion to pro-
ducers and there is a like increase IN
their average consumption.
Added to all these is the general rise
in prices due to the enormous increase
in the production of gold which was
11S.O00,0O0 in 1890. and $3.50, 900, 600 in
1910 !"
1.-THE future will bring new iss,,,s
pew questions must be solved" he CON
Guided.
1.-The patriotic citizen will hesitate
long before he turns over tsSs fabric
of government from that political or
ganization which has proved many
times and i'm many emergencies. its
ability to meet the demands of a great
which is becoming more and !,
more the one mighty and progressive
nation of the earth"
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