The chronicle=news., 1914-08-18
ROOT SHOWS WAY
To- REPUBLICAN
SUCCESS IN.
1914 s4

dressing the New York Republican
state convention which met here to-
day under the novel condition OF be-
ing without power to nominate can
didates for office, since the new pri-
mary law calls for their selection by
the voters of the party at the 2riL
mary election on September 2S. Unit
ed States Senator Elihu' Root, the
temporary chairman of the conven-
tion, pointed out the most essential
factors which might lead to Repub-
iican success this fall.
1t is. as he noted, the first time In
IS years that the Republican party
OF the state comes to the election of
its state government and its nation
al representatives as the party Of op-
position both in the state and nation.
The party was about to appeal, he
said. to the voters OF the state not
only for a judgment on the conduct
of the government by the Democratic
party at Albany, but also in Wasn
ington.
He charged that since the Demo-
cratic party took possession of the
half ago, with program 'by which
they proposed to set free every
American from the incumbus Of too
great success by others. to reduce the
cost of living, and to give new life
and prosperity to American produce
tion and commerce." 1t had failed.
He took up particularly the ex2eri-
ments with the tariff, which he as
serted had been carried out in &
spirit OF hostility to American indus
try, and suggested that perhaps the
time has now come when the Amer
ican people are ready again to try
the protective system upon its mer-
its and to call for legislation inspired
by spirit Of friehdliness toward
American industry. He believed no
one could claim any reduction in the
general cost Of living as a result OF
the tariff for revenue only.
He likewise attacked the Demo-
cratic program in relation to the fin
nncial system and the control Of
trusts and corporations. He remarked
that some eight months had passed
sine the banking and currency act
became law. and that the delay in
putting this into operation. togeth-
er with the. proposed legislation
against trusts and corporations had
had an Ill effect on the country.
THE spirit of the dominant party"
he said in dealing with these busi-
ness problems. impressed the enter
prise of the country with a sense
that the government is hostile"
Enterprise halts," he continued,
because 1t distrusts and fears the
Democratic party. In the meantime.
while private ENTERPRISE is repressed.
government control grows. It has
been discovered that by graduating
tho income tax and fixing high ex-
emption, practically the entire tax
may be drawn from the great indus
trial communities of New England,
the middle states, and the central
west. while the disposition of the
money raised by taxation may be de-
termined by representatives of other
parts of the country which have paid
none Of the tax; so that one set of
Americans is to pay the money and
another set of Americans is to spend
It," He pointed to the $35,OOO.OOO
voted to build railroads in Alaska,
and to $25.O0O.OOO voted by the
house for good roads, as the prelude
Of schemes running up into the bill
lions" for spending the money taken
from rich states by taxation.
His estimate of the Progressive
rrnr MT 1, f1r
I'm this controversy with the
Democratic party the Republican
party stands alone. The threat of n
third party. which alarmed so many
Republicans two years ago and still,
yexed us one year ago has practice
ally disappeared. 1t is now plain
that 1t never had any real substance
apart from the powerful personality
OF Mr.. Roosevelt .,.-s.
At the coming state primaries the
Republican voters are to select candf-
dates for twenty-four offices to be
filled by the voters of the Empire
State: ~
United States senator. Judge of the
court of appeals, governor. lieuten-.
ant governor. secretary OF state,
comptroller. attorney general. state
treasurer. state engineer and survey
or, and fifteen delegates at large to
the constitutional convention.
Under the conditions of the new
primaries, Senator Root saw many
pitfalls. He saw defects in the pri-
mary law but urged on the Repub-
licans that it was their Obvious duty
to accept 1t for the present in good
faith. The duties Of the convention,
he said, were to adopt platform on
which the Republican candidates
chosen at the primaries might stand:
to approve the proposal of the ma
tional committee OF the party to
make representation in the national
conventions conform more closely to
the Republican vote in the several
states: and to represent the Repub-
e,