The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-18
Platform. to Promise That Who
ever Wins
TO BE AN IMPORTANT ISSUE
Suffrage Plank May Cause Trouble in
T. K. Can,2-Taft Platform for
Retention of Sherman Anti
Trust Law.

Chicago, June lS.--The Republican
party will promise to revise the tariff
downward, no matter whether Taft or
Roosevelt controls the national conven'
ticn.
This was made certain yesterday when
i. was found that the leaders of each
faction have determined that they must
declare to the people that the tariff is
again the dominant issue. At series
Of conferences between the steering com
4 mittees of both the Roosevelt aud Taft
/ ends Of the party, rough drafts of the
4 proclamation Of principles have been
completed. From now until the conven-
ton committee on resolutions is COM
Melted and gets on the job, these leaders
! will keep busy. They hope to have
I strong documents ready, so that the com.
mittee win not have to bother with the
details.
Both factions will declare for a scien.
tiAc downward revision Of the tariff.
Each will take the attitude that while
American labor must be we'll paid the
the fact that trust made goods are some
times sold abroad profitably at less than
half OF 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 declare
that the present tariff board is meeting
the situation squarely and that its rec
concentrations ought to be followed, The
Roosevelt platform will insist that the
present board be strengthened. There
will be no mention of reciprocity, accord
ing to the present plans Both of the
platforms will declare for strong navy
and both will take advanced ground on
the conservation of natural resources.
The initiative and referendum will be
ignored by the Taft trainers on the
ground that it is purely state issue
that can best be disposed of by the sew.
eral states themselves The Roosevelt
platform viii, it is expected, indorse
these principles and also the recall. All
OF the western delegations are insistent
that there shall be no middle-of the road
ground taken, but that the party shall
20 on record on these measures.
The Taft platform will, it is said, de.
nonnce the recall as vicious and abhor-
rent" especially the recall of the judi
ciary. Senator Root, the Taft candi-
date for temporary chairman, has framed
a plank which declares that "an indie.
pendent judiciary knowing no friend or
foe is the greatest safeguard of true
liberty It declares that the submits
sion to Judicial authority of questions of
controversy marks the highest develop
ment which civilization has attained
The Taft platform will declare EN-
phatically for the retention Of the Sher-
man anti trust law but will demand
supplementary legislation in order that
its operation may be made more easy
and also that the individual responsible
ity for monopolies may be easily fixed.
The Roosevelt platform will demand
the enaction of laws which will make
more easy the regulation of all big com
binations of capital and the specific def
milton of Just what is and what is not
lawful in this regard.
The Taft platform will specifically in.
dorse and commend the Taft admins
ira atom. The Roosevelt document will
entirely ignore the Taft administration.
The Roosevelt platform is being drafted
by James r. Garfield, Clifford Pinchot
Oscar Straus and William Allen White. |
The Taft document viii be the handi- /
work of Senator Root, former Vice Presi- |
dent Charles Fairbanks, Senator Murray |
Crane, Secretary Hilles, Nicholas Murray |
Butler, William Barnes, ir., and Repre- |
sentative Mckinley.