The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-17
TARIFF MUST:
 BE REVISED AND DOWNWARD Roosevelt and Taft Platforms to Agree Upon This Pr0pO- sitiOn Taft Platform Will DenOunce Recall, Especially of
 Judges

Chicago, June 1.-The tariff will be
 revised downward if the Republican party is returned to power, no mat ter whether Taft or Roosevelt controls the national convention.
 This was made certain today when 1t 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
 a series of conferences between the steering committees of both the Roose- drafts of a proclamation of principles have been completed. From now on until the committee on resolutions is completed and gets on the job, these leaders will keep busy. They hope to have strong documents ready so that the committee will not have to bother with the details.
 Both of the factions will declare for a scientific downward revision of the tariff. Each will take the point that, while American labor must be pro- tected, the fact that trust-made goods are sold abroad profitably at less than half what is charged in the rates are too high. But in one re- spect the platforms will be similar.
 The Taft platform will insist that its recommendations are the ones to be followed. The Roosevelt platform will insist that the present board should be strengthened:- The initia- tive and referendum will be ignored by the Taft document on the ground that it is purely State issue. The Roosevelt platform, it is expected, ' will endorse these principles and also the recall All of the Western delegations are in- sistent that there shall be no middle of-the-road ground taken.
 HS,H y>1o z .&h "a recall as vicious and abhorent." :" This will be especially so on the re- call of the Judiciary as Senator Root, the Taft candidate for temporary chairman, has framed plank which declares independent judiciary know ing no friend or foe is the best safe- guard of true liberty" It declares that the submission to judicial au- thority of questions of controversy marks the highest development which civilization has attained and will de- clare the recall of judges would make them dangerous
 Tn Taft platform will endorse a cen- tral financial organization such as that suggested by the Aldrich plan, but'an attempt will be made to change it so that the criticism of the Aldrich plan cannot be hurled at the suggest ed one The platform also will de- clare emphatically for the retention of the sherman antitrust law but will demand supplementary legislation that it's operation may be made more easy and also that the individual responsi- bility for monopolies can be more cas- fly fixed.
 The Roosevelt plan will demand the enaction of laws which will make more easy the regulation of all big combinations of capital and the speci- fic definition of just what Is unlaw- full.
 Tn Roosevelt plan will be revolu- tionary in one thing-it will declare uneQuivocally for women's suffrage and inasmuch as there is a wide diff erence of opinion in the Roosevelt camp on this plan, a warm fight is already forecasted
 The Taft platform will specifically endorse and commend the Taft ad- The Roosevelt docu- ment will entirely ignore it.