The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-18
For the First Time in 10 Years,
Says Root.
he ATTACKS THE DEMOCRATS
Declares the Bull Moose Has
No Real Substance
Apart From the Personality of
Theodore Roosevelt.

Saratoga. n. T., Aug. 1S.-Address-
ing the New York Republican state
convention which met here today UNI
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 Sep
TENDER %, United States Senator Elihu
Root. the temporary chairman Of the
convention, pointed out the most es-
sentia1 factors which might lead to
Republican success this fall.
1t Is, as he noted, the first time in
eighteen years that the Republican
party of the state comes to the cleo
ttonal represe natives as the party Of
opposition both in the state and ma
ton. The party was about to appeal.
he said. to the voters of the state not
only for a judgment upon the conduct
of the government by the Democratic
party at Albany, but also in washing
ton.
He charged that since the Demo-
cratic party took possession Of the ma
tional government a year and a half
ago. with b 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. %
it 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
are ready again to try the protective
system upon its merits and to call for
legislation inspired by spirit of
friendliness toward American indus
try" He believed no one could claim
any reduction in the general cost OF
LIVING nc n NJ Ho n riff frSs
nue. only.
He likewise attacked the Democratic
program in relation to the financial
system and the control of 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 effect on the country. 1.-The
spirit of the dominant party" he said
in dealing with these business prob
lens, impressed the enterprise Of the
country with a sense that the govern
ment is hostile
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 graduating the In
come tax and fixing high exemption.
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 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 $685.
100000 voted to build railroads in
A1oSka md the S25 600 900 voted by
the house for good roads, as 'the pre-
Jude Of schemes running up into the
billions for spending the money taken
from rich states by taxation.
His estimate of the Progressive
movement he reflected as follows: I'm
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