Show pOWDER TRUST AND REFORM Mr Ir Bryan Br an very cry properly called at attention attention attention to the fact tact that th selection of ofIr Mr Ir Dupont as one of the Republican campaign a rather queer look owing to the fact tact that the Dela Delaware Delaware Delaware ware man Is the head and front of ot the powder trust against which h the tile gov government government government has hns a n suit pending But that all aU Besides Beside the protection afforded the Dupont powder trust in the danger of ot transporting explosives by b sea ea there is an average protective duty of ot 35 per percent percent percent cent on gunpowder On blasting caps the duty is upward of per cent ent The Philadelphia Record very er natural naturally ly I comes to the conclusion that it Is not strange that the Duponts and their trust should take a great interest in inthe Inthe inthe the election of Taft TaCt or that Chairman Hitchcock should have havo secured their active aid by b making one of ot them chief of ot the tho Republican can oratorical bureau It will ivill require a special dispensation of ot Providence as well as an extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary nary session of ot congress to put through the tho reform measures in case of ot the election of ot Taft Tact Tho The cards are nr not being stacked that way |