Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-20
/. SPLIT ON TARIFF PLANK.
Resolutions Committee Divided, Wit
Proaresaixes Strongest.

Resolutions Committee Divided, With
Progressixss Strongest.
Chicago. June 30.-Tariff has split
the resolutions committee wide open.
The compromise last suggested was
that a subcommittee be directed tu
prepare q tariff plank which can
square the Payne e-Aldrich tariff bill
with the presidents Winona speech
and still perfect q proposition upon
which President Taft could make a
campaign for reelection. ~ y
This condition arose after Former
Vice President Charles w. Fairbanks
had been elected. chairman OF the res
olutions committee at $3.50 o'clock las
night, and the first round Of claimants
for platform honors had intimated
their desires. 10.
At midnight the personnel OF the
tariff subcommittee had not been de-
termined. It was admitted the tariff
question had furnished the stiftest case
which has been put up to the presi-
dents managers.
The committee, by a lineup Of ap-
proxifnateiy 80 to 10, Is in the Taft
control, with four members unaccount-
ed for. There was no serious objection
to the election Of Mr.. Fairbanks as
chairman of the committee, and no de
mand for roll call.
Demand Made by prosrsssivss.
Progressive republicans, not the
Roosevelt men particularly, but the
representatives of the direct primary
states which were swept up In large
measure by the progressive candidates.
following the tariff slopover Of the Taft
administration and the republican con-
gress. topped by the Winona speech.
made the fiat demand within the COM
mittee that there be tariff plank upon
which republicans could stand, II they
are to be expected to remain regular.
The notice was served, according to
reports which emanated from the COM
mittee room at the Congress hotel, that
steam roller methods could not con-
troll the national platform, in view of
the many state, congressional, and
county candidates. classed as regular
republicans, who will be compelled, to
approve such platform as was sug-
gested last night by the Taft manage
ment. M
Tariff Reform Insisted on.
It is understood this proposition put
a soberer. upon the Taft rough shod-.
ders. who had figured, Immediately az
ter the roll call yesterday. that they
will be in complete possession Of the
convention committees and are now In
a position to dictate any sort OF a plat
form which suits the inner circle Of the,
Taft campaign.
Their minds were directly and im-'
mediately disabused Of this idea as
soon as the resolutions committee had
convened. Men from the so.called
doubtful states and men from the re-.
publican north served notice at once
that they would not indorse platform
constructed by the representatives of
the southern democratic states and
from the territories without the oppor-
tunity Of putting a leavening process
on the job.
This was made particularly plain q
to the tariff plank, and resulted in the
proposition that there. be . sub-com-5
mittee to handle this admittedly deli.
cate subject from the standpoint OF the,
Taft personal admirers.
Some New Pianlso ueGod.
: Aside from the tariff. the resolutions
committee encountered rocky .voyn6o
at the start Of proceedings. samuel
0ompers was at the door with IN asAnu.
Injunction plank, replica Of the ,reso-.
luton he offered to the lase republi.-
can national convention. Miss fame
Adams headed formidable squad az
suffragettAI who want 20 be heard on q
plank advocating votes TOR women, ana
for which they expect the hAekiHg, 08
the fw4s&ern states Ill the way THU
The medical plank which 1as osEereg
at tha Nnnvoutlnn f0uF svea - 49, WlIH7