Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-06-03
Roosevelt and Taft Managers
Both Insist That They Have
Sufficient Strength to Con-
troll Convention.
POLITICIANS FLOCK TO
COLUMBUS FOR FIGHT
Temporary Chairman Burton
Sounds Keynote Speech De-
plOring Small Percentage Of
Vote Recorded in Primary.

Vote Recorded in Primary.
(ny Eveniag Herald A. p Lea~ed wireD
Columbus o.. June s.-"No COM
promise" Was the slogan Of both TAFT
ana Roosevelt leaders as the hvrr
approached today when they 20 into
convention 90 fight for Ohio's six dei-
eEotes nc large 20 the national con-
ventlpn. United States Senator BUR-
ten. temporary chairman Of the con-
Nentlon. alho declared there would
be no compromise IN the convention
e and said that the gossip that the deli
ogauun would be split was not found
cd on fGCt.
"Cuyahoga county's instructed dele
cation 81 a3 stands 90 for TAFT and
for Roosevelt said senator Bur
ton.
Committee Chairman Brown lead
or of the Roosevelt camp said his fig
uree ~ ieO 0f the Iaf delegates had
been reached without counting any of
the Cnyahoga delegation.
l.. c. Iaylin. Taft's state manager.
holds 10 the claim that the president
viii have f0s delegates.
Special trains and traction cars
early today bogan pouring delegates
and politicians into Columbus. while
delegates and Officials are already 0u
the ground busy making the final
organizations for the opcning Of the
Republican state convention AZ
o'clock this afternoon at Memorial
hail
Numerous conferences were Ia
progress during the morning between
the Taft and Roosevelt managers and
the Verlous delegations,
United states senator Theodore E
burton ~ Ohio, delivering the Key
q 49,
state contention, declared the coun.
try was confronted with q crisis fai
surpaanlng any through which Il hui
passed iu the memory Of the present
generation. He deplorcd the absence
from the polls of great percentage
of voters IN raCent state primaries.
He foreshad0wed many of the ten
cts that We're laid down IN the plat
form 10 be adopted az the c0mint
national Republican convention. anS
reviewed the high cost Of hyinH
which he traced tu various causes
and declared they were not atirib
utable 20 the present tariff law.
Senator Burton dcplored the spec
tacle OF vote barely one-half tha
OF the total electorate in recent pTi
marioH go Ohio and other states rh'
absence Of voluntary interest la
ballot box hr chEyagtrfi1ed AZ alarm
Ing. The p7imnry. be said. seems tn
ideal system, but equally good result
could be ontalned 10 the electors de
sired that representative men b
chosen O. select she candidates.
Senator Burton predicted that M
radical Chnnges looking toward ciVl
botterment would follow such reform
40 tho primary, the Initiative. the ref
erendum and certainly not The recall
''unleRa there be widespread awRls
10 % new ana abiding sense VI his ~
aponaihlilsy to the state ana 90 th
community
Passing by the record of the Re
publican partp'a earlier achieNemenu
f'the days of itH unsuccessful Htruhei
under Fremont ana its matches
record under Lincoln and his success
ora," senator Burton traced th
course % events up to the preser
campaign
control of the nation" he said 'hav
Deon marked with an unpFecedente
amount of boncllCeut legislauOn
"Our party organization has take
the lead FOR now these fifty years an
we can congratulate ourselves upp
record unequallod by any politci
organization in the whole history
government
senator Burton urged monetary r,
forms. revision of the tariff 'in n
lance upon accurate infOrmetion an
not under ihe pressure of local
he said will include the ioweriI
OF some duties. hut should az ~
numn time afford adequate and pc
manent aid 10 American iHdustr
The Republican party has been 10y
10 a policy baRed upon q mnRnificcl
conception. namely that this connt
should be-. az far az possible sci
sufficient. that with unlimited p
sources ln field. the forest and
mine. a development shall he mai
tanned in which the prosperity 40
comes from the Workshop ana n
factory shall be joined 10 prosperi
on Tho farm.
"Eytn II exlasinR tariff schedul
are high we have adjusted Ourselv
FOR many YEARS Ga the present prote
tive tariff system. Any lmmedih
or serious change viii cause a wren
whicE will involve our whole huslne
airnciure ID Wldespreed disaster.
this connection let me say that a
anticipation Of material decrehee
prices "a the consumer uuder TAR
reductions IA sure tu prove ucluHi'
Vfanaler of the scat Of manuiacturi
any product from our own country
fofelen countries would. in view
the qfeai extent of oHr markf
cause material rise abroad es "
az az home
Mr.. Burton reviewed che press
high cost OF Lying az . cause of pr
nlfnt dlaCoutrnt Hud rNOnefatcO
Payne Aldrich tariff law ffom
sponuibllty.
rhe future he said. "wiil mar
IA the inaccurate thinking 90 den
goEioai appeals which have foster