Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-08
PRESENT LIST OF REPUBLICAN,
CANDIDATES IN DiSFAvoR
AMONG TRUSTS.
TAFT IS DisLIkEp FOR
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY
Cuban and German Treaties Of Roess'
vslt Embellishments and laFoi.
letts Entirely Objectionable to Tar'tf
Lsasuers and High Proteetionist
Candidate 10 Demanded.
Special Correspondence

WASHINGTON. March S.-These are
days of unhappiness for the American
Protective Tariff League. Not only Is
the house busy stirring up all manner
of high tariff trouble, reducing duties
on steel, on chemicals, on sugar and
threatening cotton and wool and other
schedules. but the senate is showing
distinct symptoms Of unrest over the
existing duties and evincing a leaning
toward the passing Of bills cutting
duties in important particulars.
This. however, is not all. The list OF
republican presidential candidates does
not satisfy the American Protective
Tariff League. This is made known
thru the most recent issue Of the AM
erican Economist, which scores the
tariff record alike Of Taft, Roosevelt.
LaFoilette, and Cummins.
Taft Reciprocity in Disfavor.
President Taft is found fault with
because Of his record on Canadian re-
ciprocity and because OF such recon-
mendations he has made for down
ward revision. Roosevelt is scored De
cause of the fact that away back IN
1903 he forced the Cuban reciprocity
treaty thru congress. Coming down 10
a later date. the German agreement
which was made in 1907. in the Roose-
welt administration. is assailed.
Speaking from protection1st
standpoint, why should 1t be necessary
to narrow down the choice between as
nirants Of doubtful protectionism
asks the Economist. 1T ought not 10
be inevitable that the selection must
be restricted between Roosevelt. with
the bad tariff record. above stated:
Taft. with his downward revision and
Canadian free-trade reciprocity rec
ord: .cummins. with his record Of de-
claring that the protective tarin is re-
sponsible for more corruption. more ex-
tortion and more graft than can be
found In the annals OF life insurance
since the world began: LaFollette.
with his record OF tariff destroying
propensities."
Wants New Man.
And then the organ OF the tar1n
lea eue invites the party to hunt for
new man who shall be in all respects
Ioval to high tariff. It does not say
whether II refers to Sunny Jim" Sher-
man or Nelson Wiuarth Aldrich OF
Rhode Island. or Eugene Hale OF
Maine. or Senator Penrose Of Pennsyl-
vania. It puts the situation thus:
Would it not be q splendid thing
If the party OF protection should de-
eide to go outside this entire group OF
aspirants and nominate for the pres
idency a candidate who could ana
would stand on a sound. uncomprom-
Using protection platform and who
would after his election. continue to
stand on such platform"
Feeling that the tariff is getting
good deal Of unceremonious lambast-
ing around these days and that the
time has come when it ought to stop,
the tariff league is giving wide distri-
button to a new version Of the noun
song that has swept the state oi
souri, and that Champ Clark thinks
will sweep him like a bosom Of public
sentiment into the White House. This
song was composed by c. E. Richard
son. a Washington, D. c., man. and the
first verse of it reads:
Statesmen. when they get to town,
start kickin' the tariff round:
They're runnin' 1t way into the
ground:
"They gotta quit knockin' the tariff
down"
Up at Champ Clark's headquarters
they asseverate this is an unauthor-
| tied version of the Ozark melody and
disown II completely.