The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-18
WILSON'S PARTY
FAILS TO MAKE
GOOD SAYS ROOT
Points to Promises Which, He De-
cIares, Have Not Been Fulfilled


convention which met here today un-
der the novel conoition OF being with
out power To nominate candidates for
office. since the new primary law calls
for their selection by the voters of the
party at the primary election on Sep
TENDER 2Sth. United States Senator
Elihu Root, the temporary chairman
OF the convention, pointed out the
most essential factors which might
lead TO Republican success this fall.
IL is, as he noted, the first time in
| eighteen years that the Republican
tion OF its state government and its
| national representatives as the party
of opposition both in the state and
| nation. The party was about to APP
peal, 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 Demo-
cratic party took possession OF the
national government a year and a half
ago. with a program by which they
| proposed TO Get free every American
from the incubus OF too great success
by others, to reduce the cost of living.
and to give new life and prosperity to
American production and commerce,
| II had failed.
He took up particularly the expert
| ments with the tariff, which he as
serted had been carried out in a spirit
OF hostility to American industry, and
suggested 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
legislation inspired by a spirit OF
friendliness toward American indus
try" He believed no one could claim
any reduction In the general cost OF
living as a result OF the tariff for rev.
enue only.
Attacks First Legislation.
Tie likewise attacked the Democrat
ic program in relation TO the financial
system and the control of trusts and
corporations. He remarked that eight
and currency act became law, and that
the delay in putting this into opera
ton, together with the proposed legis-
lation against trusts and corporations
had had an i'll effect on the country.
THE spirit of the dominant party"
he said in dealing with these business
problems, impressed the enterprise OF
. h.
government Is hostile"
Enterprise halts." he continued,
because ii distrusts and fears the
Democratic party. In the meantime,
while private enterprise is repressed,
government control grows. 1t has
been discovered that by graduating the
income tax and fixing a high exemp-
ton, practically the entire tax may be
drawn from the great industrial COM
munities OF New England, the middle
states, and the central west, while
the disposition OF the money raised by
taxation may be determined by repre-
sentatives of other parts of the coun-
try which have paid none of the tax;
so that one set OF Americans Is to pay
the money and another set Of Amer.
leans is to spend it," He pointed to
the s35,000,000 voted to build railroads
in Alaska, and the $25,O00,000 voted
by the House for good roads, as the
prelude of schemes running up into
the billions" for spending the money
taken from rich states by taxation.
Says Moose Movement Has Gone.
His estimate of the Progressive
movement he reflected as follows: IN
this controversy with the Democratic
party the Republican party stands
alone. The threat of a third party,
which alarmed so many Republicans
TO years ago and still vexed us one
year ago has practically disappeared.
II is now plain that IL never had any
real substance apart from the power
full personality OF Mr. Roosevelt"
AT the coming state primaries the
Republican voters are to select candi-
dates for twenty-four offices to be
filled by the voters Of the entire state:
United States senator. Judge of the
court OF appeals, governor, lieutenant
governor secretary Of state, comptfol-
ler attorney general, state treasurer,
state engineer and surveyor, and fif- |
teen delegates at large 20 the consti-
tutional convention.
Under the conditions OF the new |
primaries, Senator Root saw many
pitfalls. He saw defects in the pri- |
mary law. but urged upon the Repub-
leans that II was their obvious duty |
to accept it for the present good faith. /
The duties OF the convention he said, n
were to adopt a platform upon which
the Republican candidates chosen at II
the primaries might stand; to approve
the proposal OF the national commit
tee OF the party to make representa- n
ton In the national conventions con-
form more closely to the Republican
vote in the several states; and to rep
resent the Republican voters OF the
state in consulting about the policy
10 be followed by the party in selecting
candidates so that the voters might
act effectively at the primary election
with common purpose to secure
party success at the regular election"
Pleads for Party's Strength.
He foresaw an unfortunate result IN
N each place the Republicans were to
vote at the primary. "as they natural
v might for residents of their own