Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-08-28
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Official Paper Of City and County
Issued on Friday of Each Week.
Our Washington Letter.

Our Washington Letter.
The most important political develop.
ment OF the past week was the com.
plete breakdown of the plan for Repub.
: lican. Progressive fusion in New :. ork
: and the consequent renewal with added
bitterness of the feud between the old
: guard faction of Republicanism and the
Roosevelt following. Finding them.
: selves in the saddle again, the old-time
leaders at the New York state conven-
ton, led by Senator Root, decided to
:. 20 into battle under their old flag, ask
ing no quarter and giving none.
If any further evidence were needed
that the much Wanted harmony in
the ranks of the Republicans is still as
far away as ever, the Saratoga conven.
ton furnished it. First, Harvey D.
Human, who had been picked by Col.
Roosevelt as fusion candidate for
governor, repudiated the progressives
and announced he had elected to stand
with the Republican ticket. Then
Senator Root, the same Root who, as
permanent chairman of the 1912 Repu..
lican convention, rode over the Roose-
welt forces, rubbed it in. In speech
to the convention he said:
''The threat of third party. which
I alarmed 80 many Republicans two
years ago and still vexed US one year
ago. has practically disappeared. 1t is
now PLAIN that it never had any real
substance apart from the powerful
personality of Mr.. Roosevelt. =
The same day Root was making this
speech. Col. Roosevelt was in Lewiston,
Maine, addressing a Progressive party
conference. Col Roosevelt declared
that 1.-THE Republican party is as bour-
bon and reactionary now as it was two
years ago and if anything it is worse"
He declared there should be 'no COM
promise with the reactionaries in any
form.
Senator Root did not content himself
with plea for return to the old
policy of high protection, but he made
an attack on the Democratic income
tax, which is perhaps the most popular
legislation with the ra~k and file of the
people enacted by the Democratic
administration. 1t may be worth while
ut this time to quote Senator Roots
reference to the income tax as showing
the capitalistic view of this legislation.
He said:
st has been discovered that by grad
uating the income tax and fixing high
exemption, practically the entire tax
may be drawn from the great industrial
communities of New England, the
middle stat Is and the central west,
while the disposition of the mono y
raised by taxation may be determined
by representatives of other parts of
the country which have paid none of
the tax; so that one set of Americans
10 to pay the money and another set of
Americans is to spend it. The $25. 000,-
600 voted by the House for good roats
10 the prelude of schemes running Up
into the billions for spending the money
taken from rich states by taxation
The income tax is not popular with
men of the Root point of view. They
do not believe the coal and oil and rail-
road barons Of New York and Pennsyl-
vsnia, the Wall Street kings. the
millionaire automobile manufacturers
Of Detroit, and the rich brewers and
distillers of Cincinnati should be taxed
TO build good roads. Rather they would
continue the old system of raising the
millions now taken by the government
in taxes off swollen incomes, by build
ing up again the high tariff wall, which
would place the burden upon the
shoulders Of the great consuming public.
Boiled down Senator Roots view is
that the Democratic administration
should be censured for putting any
burden on the men of wealth in the
great industrial centers of the East and
using taxes collected from them in
building roads for the benefit of the
great producing classes of the agricul.
tural states. 1t is highly probable that
the Republican national committee in
the press matter it sends out to the
West will not give much prominence to
the Root speech.
Congressman Maurice Connolly is in
Iowa for few days. stay, taking final
steps in the organization of his cam
paign for United States Senator. Mr.
Connolly g stay will be 80 short that he
will be unable to comply with mapy
requests for speeches, but when he
returns to Iowa after adjournment,
which is now expected to come about
September 18th, he will enter the fight
with vigor, and will then have the aid
of many of the leaders in Senate and
House who will stump the state in his
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