Evening journal., 1912-09-25
PRESIDENT TAFT SEES
REPUBLICAN VICTORY AND
PROMISES LOWER TARIFF
Hints at Extra Session TO Bring About Revision if Re-
pubLicans Control" -"Monsfrous Monopoly" if
Roosevelt Trust Plan Should Prevail.
WITH AN UNSCRUPULOUS PRESIDENT
1T MIGHT LEAD TO DICTATOROHIP
By The United Press.

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK, Sept 25-Supplement-
ing his statement Of late yesterday,
IN which he predicts that the Repub-
lican party will win i'm November,
President Taft gave out another in
terview today before going TO AL
tOona in which he unequivocally
promised revision of the tariff
downward should be reelected and
limited at an extra session to bring
about that revision, should the Re
publicans control the next Congress.
In his statements the President
said:
When I declared a few weeks ago
that | felt reasonably sure of my
own reelection in November and of
the success of the Republican party
! was regarded by some as entirely
oversanguine and unaware of tho
situation. Today, however, after a
number Of indications that the Re
publican party is still the dominant
party and that the expected growth
OF Democratic strength has failed so
materialize, my only declaration is
shown to be entitled to respect. The
Republicans necessarily will have a
reduced majority over 1908 because
of the presence of three tickets in
the field, but the Democratic party
viii suffer also The combined
strength Of the third-term party will
not be enough to change the liti-
mate result.
Says 6. q. r. Is Strengthened.
Five or six weeks ago it was as
serted generally that the Republican
party would secure the vote of the
solid East, inclusive of the New Eng
land states. with the exception OF
Maine and Vermont; that the Demo
cratic party would maintain its hold
on the solid South and that the third
term party would secure the solid
West, leaving only the Middle West
as debatable ground.
Today, with the election still one
month away, the Republican party
find itself with a strengthened hold
on the solid East, having routed the
third term party in Vermont and the
Democratic party in Maine. The third
term leaders recently conceded thai
we would pick the State Of Utah ou
OF the solid West and, after confcrrins
with Chairman Hilles and others re
Gently I'm the West. there is eyerl
reason to believe that the Republican
party will carry Michigan, Washing
ton, Idaho and Wyoming. Moreover
if the proper kind of a campaign il
waged, We will carry Oregon, Kansas
and Minnesota where the third tern
strength has rapidly waned since th'
recent tour through that section b.
the party's candidate.
Il am not familiar with the develop
ments in other Western States, al
though many good reports have com
to me, at Beverly concerning them
but even with the States alread
mentioned it can be seen that ther
is no longer a solid West back of th
new party, but, more nearly SOIL
West reunited i'm support of the Re
publican ticket. This strength, adde
10 the indisputable Republican hol
on the Eastern States, constitutes 1
itself, a sufficient strength 10 CIV
success to the party.
"It is scarcely necessary for me |
point to the necessity Of re-estat
fishing a Republican majority in tn
House of Representatives If this
dnoe. I feel confident that | VIII b
able to have placed on the statul
hooks workmen's compensation la
which I urged upon the last session
but which was sent to oblivion py "a
Democratic House. If the couhll
will give the Republican party con
plete victory in its Congressional
we'll as its Presidential ticket pro-
er tariff revision will be specify e
fected, with knowledge Of the rae
ascertained by a tariff commissio
which will harm no one ana reiho'
its present defects.
Might De Dictatorship. =,
President Taft declared that u