The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-19
SEN. ROOT ATTACKED
DEMOCRATIC PROGRAM
Addressed Republican State Convention
in New York State and Scored the
Democrats for Failure to Put
Through Their Promises.

the New 1Ork hepuDliedh st"ee No"'"h
ton which met here yesterday under the
novel condition of being without power
TO nominate candidates for office, since
the new primary law calls for their Sc
lection by the voters of the party at the
primary election on Sept. %, United
States Senator Root, the temporary
chairman of the convention, pointed out
the most essential factors which might
lead to Republican 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 national representa-
tives as the party of opposition both
in the state and nation. The party was
about to appeal, he said, to the voters
of the state not only for judgment
upon the conduct of the government by
the democratic party at Albany, but also
in Washington.
He charged that since the Democratic
party took possession of the national
government year and half ago, with
ID program "by which they proposed to
set free every American from the IN
eubus of too great success by others, to
reduce the cost of living, and to give
new life and prosperity to American
production and commerce." it had failed.
i He took up particularly the experl.
ments with the tariff, which he asserted
had been carried out in a spirit OF hos
I'm Ind, frxt and
gested that perhaps the time has now
come when the American people are
ready again to try the protective system
upon its merits and to call for legisla-
tion inspired by spirit OF friendllness
toward American industry" He believed
ne enc could claim any reduction in the
general cost. OF living as a result OF the
tariff for revenue only
He likewise attacked the Democratic
program in relation to the financial sys-
tenn and the control of trusts and cor
poratIons. He remarked that eight
months had passed since the banking
land currency act became law, and that
the delay in putting this into operation,
together with the proposed legislation
against trusts and corporations had had
Ian i'll effect on the country. The spirit
OF the dominant party" he said, in deal
ing with these business problems, i'm
pressed the enterprise of the country
with sense that the government IS
hostile"
Enterprise haIts" he continued, be
cause it dstrusts and fears the Demo
cratic party. In the meantime, while
private enterprise is rerressed, govern
ment control grows, 1t has been dis
covered that by graduating the income
tax and fixing a high exemption, prac-
tically the entire tax may BE- drawn from
the great industrial communities OF New
England the middle states, and the cen
trail 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 oil
| Americans s TO pay the money and an
other set Of Americans is to spend it."
He pointed TO the S35,000000 voted to
build railroads in Alaska, and the S25,-
900 100 voted by the House for good
roads, as "the prelude of schemes run
ming up into the billions for spending
the money taken from rich states by
| taxation.
His estimate of the Progressive move
ment he reflected as follows: In this
controversy with the Democratic party
the Republican party stands alone. The
threat of third party, which alarmed
so many Republicans two years ago and
still vexed us one year ago has prae-
ticalIv disappeared. 1t is now plain that
| it never had any real substance apart
from the powerful personality OF Mr..
Roosevelt"
At the coming state primaries the he
publican voters are to select candidates
for "a offices to be filled by the voters
of the entire state: United States SEN
ator. Judge of the court of appeals, gov
ernor lieutenant governor, secretary OF
state, comptroller, attorney general,
state treasurer, state engineer and sur
veyor. and 80 delegates-at-large to the
constitutional convention.
Under the conditions of the new pri-
maries. Senator Root saw many pitfalls.
He saw defects in the primary law, but
urged upon the Republicans that it was
their obvious duty to accept it for the
present in good faith. The duties of
the convention. he said, were to adopt
platform upon which the Republican
candidates chosen at the primaries might
stand; to approve the proposal OF the
national committee Of the party to make
representation in the national conyen-
tions conform more closely TO the Repub-
lican vote in the several states; and to
represent the Republican voters Of the
state in consulting about the policy to
be followed by the party in selecting
candidates so that the voters might act
effectively at the primary election with
a common purpose to secure party sue
cess at the regular election"
He foresaw an unfortunate result If
in each place the Republicans were TO
vote az the primary, cas- they naturally
might. for residents of their own vicin-
itv, OF If the voters of one large place
we're to vote in that way, while the Re-
publicans of all the rest of the state di-
vided among a great number Of eandi-
dates.
"Our opponents viii have no such
trouble" he continued. "More than one
half of the normal Democratic vote of
the state is cast in the city of New York,
and the great mass Of those voters, fol-
lowing the directions Of their local party
organization viii distribute the nomina
tions ~ that organization directs. The
voters in the Republican primary. scat
tered through CO counties. Embossed will