The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-06-21
TAFT'S PLATFORM TRAINERS
PROMISE TARIFF REVISION
ALONG SCIENTIFIC LINES
Trust Plank Provides Law De-
fining How Far Business
Combination May Go
IGNORE GOMPERS' DEMAND
Committee is Also Silent oil
Initiative, Referendum and
Recall
IGNORE GOMPERS' DEMAND

CHICAGO, June 21.-When the sub
committee, which has In charge the
| drafting Of the 1912 Republican plat.
form, went into executive session at
a. m. today, its members announced
that they would submit the final draft
sometime during the forenoon. The
committeeman were certain that the
platform would be completed before
the credentials committee reported.
All the early information as TO the
text of the various planks indicated
that ii would be marked throughout
! Dy a tone OF conservatism going fur
ther in this direction In some respects
than the 1908 document
The tariff plank on which Charles
w. Fairbanks, OF Indiana, and William
Barnes, Jr, OF New York, have put
much labor. will promise tariff revi-
sion under President Tafts commits
sion plan. the latter being indorsed
as the only sensible scheme OF tariff
revision now before the nation. The
trust plank proposes the enactment OF
law defining how far business COM
bination may go without rendering IT.
self liable to prosecution under the
Sherman act, Ito the end" the tenta-
tive draft OF the platform says, so
those who honestly intend TO obey the
law may have a guide for their ac-
tions, and that those who intend to
violate the law may more surely be
punished"
Practically none Of the planks asked
by Samuel Gompers In behalf OF the
American Federation OF Labor are
touched upon in the platform tenta-
lively agreed to.
The Taft men refused to permit the
Roosevelt forces to get any support
from the women OF the country that Is
denied to them and they have adopted
a plank which puts the party on rec
ord as favoring the decision by the
voters of every state of whether or
not they want womans suffrage The
plank of the subcommittee Is adriot-
ly drawn, but In effect II provides
that the question should be disposed
OF on its merits and not killed through
resorting 10 technicalities.
In addition TO ignoring the demand
OF Samuel Gompers and the other
! leaders that the convention place the
party on record as favoring the pro
lhiDition OF the use or the injunction
in labor cases without full notification
and hearings TO both sides, the sub
stitute committee passed up the initia-
| tive, referendum and recall A strong
plank opposing the recall OF the Judic-
| larry was submitted to the sub-commit.
| tee. but IL was the concensus OF opin.
ion OF the members that II would be
unwise to try to place the party on
record on this proposition at the pres.
enr time. There was chance, how.
ever, that the demand for the plank
would be renewed befor IN full com
mite.
The subcommittee also turned down
the proposed Endorsement OF the Aid
rich currency plan, apparently fearing
the opposition 10 the plan under Its
present name. II has contented IL
self with simple declaration that
currency reform must be effected and
has In this manner left TO teh admn.
istration. II the party candidate Is
elected in November. an open course
10 choose any plan Il may elect, or
any modification OF the present Aid
rich plan.
The Roosevelt members OF the sub
committee paid little attention to the
flaming OF the document They re-
mained away from most OF the ses-
sions. insisting that. as the Taft men
we're I'm control. they must shoulder
tie entire responsibility for the plat
form.