The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-30
Hancock Department

a Progressive and that | have not re-
manned one. | find, too. that there are
many who are trying To believe they
are members of the Republican marty
While they are supporting another's
nominee for the presidency. but they
cannot maintain themselves i'm that
| position. j, myself. am a Progressive
republican. l challenge any one here
or elsewhere To refer To a single senti-
| ment that | uttered or endorsed dur
ing my campaign which does not
square with my conduct. If must
vote for some single man to be a Pro-
gressive-then / am out of line, but IL
true progress consists, not i'm what
this man says from this or from that
platform in Chicago but by work i'm
Congress to improve the conditions of
the many, then | am a Progressive.
we are approaching serious con-
dition. We are already i'm It, A grave
Crisis is impending. Not that / am
g pessimist. | am always hopeful for
the better but realize that we must
race the situation. This has become
a campaign of misunderstanding and
of misrepresentation. Never before i'm
my public life have | seen so much of
IL as I'm this campaign
President Taft was nominated i'm
1908 IN a progressive platform, a plat
form approved if not written by COL
onel Roosevelt The convention was
dominated by Colonel Roosevelt anG
II President Taft was not nominated
by Colonel Roosevelt at least he could
never have been nominated against
Mr.. Roosevelts opposition. Mr.. Taft
mas been president about three and
n half years now and during that time
his administration has passed more
progressive legislation than any other |
former administration had done. ANY
platform speaker could make such a |
statement about any man who has |
been president but | shall now prove |
IL 10 you.
1T mas often been charged that |
President Taft has broken his faith |
with the American people. AS | said |
before this is a campaign of misrep-
resentation and misunderstanding and
this is one of the instances i'm which
Mr.. Taft has both been misunderstood
md misrepresented.
in the first place it has often been
that Mr.. Taft has broken faith
With the people, has not lived up to his
promises to revise the tariff down
ward. 1t is not necessary for me to
stand mere as an advocate of the Re-
publican policy of protection before
his audience made up of northern
Michigan protcctionists.
Probably there Is not dozen peo-
lie here tonight who have read the
ariff plank in the Republican plat
orm of 1908. This platform does not .
ledge the party to "A downward revi-
ion of the tariff. President Taft
ONE time before election declared /
imsclf i'm favor of a downward revi-
ion because he believed the people to I
g In FAVOR of such a revision not be- !
ause the platform pledged the party /
0 such program. (Hcre Senator {
'ownsend read the tariff plank from :
ne 1908 PLATFORM i
From this YOU will be able To see a
hat the party pledges itself to a re-
ision Of the tariff but not necessarily G.
, a downward revision of the tariff Y
ent was pledged to call an extra SEES u
ION NJ Congress to revise the tariff n
nd this Mr.. Taft did. He was inau- J.
urated on March 4 and called the
Stra session April .. The tariff that
his session passed contained provi- r.
ons for "A maximum and minimum II
'ale SO that the president could lower Il
IT, tariff on goods belonging to a o
)untry that was favorable to the =
nitod States. This tariff also con- u
lined provisions for a tariff board g
scientifically study the tariff prob n
m ana to report at the next regular II
'ssion ON the wool schedule" a.
Mr.. Townsend then went on to tell -
bout the trouble the Congress was "
iving i'm securing data that would
Fable them to frame and adequate
riff under the plan bound upon them :,
the platform, the difference of pro- "
lction at home and abroad plus q
asonable profit 10 the home manufac-
rer and producer. Mr., Townsend
en- took up President Taft's part i'm
aiming this bill and showed how the
esdent had worked for the greatest VI
duction possible. That real re-
lction was made in the tariff, Sena-
+ Townsend assured the audience
I'd named a number of articles such
coal. hides, shoes lumber, etc. that
ERE either reduced or else placed on -
e free fist.