The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-19
NOT RADICAL If
HE'S NOMINATED
Colonel's Platform Will Ignore
Boss Rule, and Questionable
Political Tenets.
NOT UNLIKE TAFT's
His Views on Trusts Very Much
Like Those OF the
President.

Chicago. June ls.-S:nee his arrival
here Colonel Roosevelt has consider
aSly disconnected his lieutenants by
making 1t plain that hs intends to
Aght before the country. II nominated.
on issues entirely different from those
on which he bases his claims to the
contro! of the party machinery. The
sh.aboleths OF reform which he used
In his canpaign state by State will he
discarded from now on. New issues
have been designated By the Colonel
for his War with the Democrats. and
the Issues. which have been designed
particularly for effect in doubtful
States, will be appended to platform
which will be. from I Roosevelt view
point, particularly conservative.
The Colonel IS still In the position Of
thinking that one essential thing for
him to do is to get the nomination.
That problem has not been made casiar
by his coming, and for the present he
IS leaving the drafting of the platform
almost entirely to mis- lieutenants. But
he has insisted upon three planks. and
thcy give the complexion OF the whole.
and Snow what his idea is in gonS
into battle against the Democrats
with an entirely fresh supply Of am
Munit!on.
In Tnft's Footsteps.
In his present more conservative
mood the Colonel is hard put to it TO
d'ncrcntiate between himself and the
policies OF President Taft whom he has
SO oxcoriated for supporting them. The
Mississippi River project is, of course. a
bid for local strength. pure and simple.
But i'll his trust plank Colonel Roose-
welt is following close IN the tracks Of
the President.
The strange thing about 1t is that in
advocating national corporations
which, by the way. he did in an incon-
spicuous way long ago, the Colonel is
taking the issue for which President
Taft was most bitterly denounced by
the Colonevs supporters i'll the senate
in the parliamentary battle OF l9lo. Inc
insurgent Senators, all of whom are
now supporters of the Colonel, II they
are not themselves candidates for the
presidency, grouped that plan along
with the Commerce Court for sweeping
denunciation as scheme for white-
washing offensive corporations But
since that time MIR. Tafts plan has
grown in popular favor. and the insur-
gents, one after the other, have taken
IL up The Industrial Commission is
embodied in the La Toilette bill now
pending before a Senate committee. and
Mr.. Cummins has Endorsed that. Ana
Federal incorporation for interstate
companies is now claimed original by
all. The Colonel claims 1T, too
Changes His TEriT views.
In tariff matters, Colonel Roosevelt
until he became candidate. hau con
sistently approved OF President TAFT
course in tariff legislation Even MI
Tafts disastrous handling of the tarih
battle of 1909 won him letters OF en-
coura cement from the hunter in africa
And the platform on which the freSi'
dent stood and upon which he has sc
unfaltcringly based his vetoes wa:
prepared for him in the White lious'
nv Colonel Roosevalts direction.
That is forgotten in the plank IN
sisted upon now by the Colonel. 1t WIZ
recite at great length new history o.
protection, IN WHICH II will be set tortr
entirely TO the workingmcn's delight
1t will rccite that evil days haViht
ecome. in which the manufacturer wrune
profit from tho tariff those DAYS mus
now depart The purpose OF protectioI
should be TO protect the workinSmah
tbis nlatform will declare, and tina
nnrpose must now be resumed and ful
dned. Though the Colonel has repeat
cdly approved the Payne Aldrich ACT
nc will night the Democrats with oo
,nand for further revision downward
This revision will come on a'r'ieles i"l
ticularly in demand by The work'hs
man. but as the plank Will set fTth
7ytl be so de,icately devised as not t'
hur, the protection which the worker:
themselves require.
To Drop the Recall Issue.
The Initiative referendum. and re-
call will not be heard from again IT
IN. campaign IL the Colonel is at il:
head. Even the recall OF judicial de
cisions which was the opening blast o.
his claim for the party's leadership
viii he laid aside as a state issue
purely local. IL ever he is nominated
Those planks simply made a sound
ing board for his cry for the nomina
ton. and If he gets the nomination
n will pick up other planks witt
which to slap the Democrats.
Before the convention, through hi
former Assistant Secretary of state
John Calian OLoughlin. Colonc
Roosevelt issued bid for the supper
of delegates from the South general
~ by promising a plank for the re
clamation Of Southern swamp lands
But the Colonel knows better thai
any one that there are no clectorn
votes for MIN in the south. and tina
the bid that might help get ncgr
delegates at Chicago will not hci
him. after nomination. In his race he
fore the country That explains hi
switch to the Mississippi River pro
tect. which may figure heavily in til
final votes of doubtful valley State
like Missouri and Tennessee
AS to the initiative, referendum re
call. and the recall Of judicial decis
ions. somewhat the same thing wa
true. Even Immediately following tn
Columbus speech the Colonel SCENE
to realize he had gone too far. but
was too late TO rctract then. But no,
he plans II nc gets the nomination t
make no moro use Of these extrcmel
radical lssues ihau he Nill of his de