New Britain herald., 1914-08-18
POINTS OUT FACTORS
 FOR (. 0. P. SUCCESS
Sen. E'jhu Root Addresses New York Republican State Convention.

saratoga, N. A., Aug. lS.-AddreSS l ing the New York republican state ] convention which met here today un- der the novel condition 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 September 2S, United States Sena- tor Elhu Root, the temporary chairman of the convention, pointed
 out the most essential factors which | might lead to republican success this fall.
 It is as he noted, the first time in
 eighteen years that the republican party of the state comes to the elec-
 tion of it's state government and it's national representatives as the party
 of opposition both in the state and
 nation. The party was about to ap- 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.
 Says Democrats Failed.
 He charged that since the demo- cratic party took possession of tho national government a year and half ago, with program by which
 they proposed to set free every Amer ican 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. it had failed.
 He took up particularly the experi- 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 it's merits and to call for legisla ton inspired by spirit of
 friendlness 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 revenue only.
 Raps Financial System.
 He likewise attacked the demo- cratic program in relation to the fi-
 nancial system and the control or trusts and corporations. He remarked that eight months had passed since
 the banking and currency act became law, and that the delay in putting
 this into operation. together with the
 proposed legislation against trusts and corporations had had an ill ef-
 feet on the country. The spirit or
 the dominant party" he said in deal- ing with these business problems. im- pressed the enterprise of the country
 with sense that the government is hostile" "Enterprise halts." he continued, "because it distrusts and fears the democratic party. In the meantime. while private enterprise is repressed, government control grows. It has been discovered that by grading the income tax and fixing a high exemp- tion, practically the entire tax may
 be drawn from the great industrial communities of New England. the Middle States, and the Central West, while the disposition of the money
 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 is to pay the money and another set of Americans is to spend it. He l pointed to the $S5.O00,000 voted to build railroads in Alaska, and the l S25.OOO,OOO voted by the House for good roadt, as the prelude or schemes running up into the billions" for SpenOlnS lne HlOHey ldhSH 1lOlIl 1 rich states by taxation. a. Estimates Progressive Movement. His estimate of the Progressive l movement he reflected as follows: Tn 1 this controversy with the Democratic l party the Republican party stands alone. The threat of a third party, which alarmed so many Republicans l two years ago and still vexed us one year ago has practically disappeared. l It Is now plain that 1t never had any | real substance apart from the pow
 erful personality of MT. Roosevelt | At the coming state primaries the Republican voters are to select can didates for twenty 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, Comptroller. Attorney General.
 State Treasurer. State Engineer and
 Surveyor, and fifty delegates at large
 to the constitutional convention.
 Under the conditions of the new 1 primaries, Senator Root saw many | pitfalls He saw defects in the pri-
 mary law, but urged upon the Re- l publicans that it was their obvious
 duty to accept it for the present in | good faith The duties of the con- l vention, he said, were to adopt a
 platform upon which the Republican | candidates chosen at the primaries 1 might stand: to approve the proposa!
 of the National Committee Of the
 party to make representation in the ] national conventions conform more
 closely to the Republican vote Tn the
 several states; and to represent the | Republican voters to the state Tn con-
 sulting about the policy to be followed
 bv the party in selecting candidates
 so that the voters might act effectively
 at the primary election with com