Show PlATFORM All READY HEADY FOR THE REPUBLICANS Precious Document Which Will Be Handed Down From White House NOTHING LEFT FOR THE CHICAGO CONVENTION HORN OF ADMINISTRATION IS TOOTED AND SAME OLD PROMISES MADE Washington June Tune 7 That the plat platform platform platform form which will be adopted at the Chi cago eago convention and on which the Re Republican ReI Republican I publican party will stand during the next campaign has been completed with the exception of at a few tw details which will vill be left for the committee on resolutions to insert is i l the opinion opinion ion Jon of ot many man who are in the confidence of the Republican loaders The work has been done by Wade Flue attorney general of Ohio the draftsman of the recent Ohio state Senator Hopkins who will be bethe bethe bethe the chairman of the committee on res resolutions Senator Long of Kansas and anda a few others othe Including the president and Secretary Taft who have been consulted Endorsement of Roosevelt The policies of ot President Roosevelt will uhl be endorsed unequivocally unequivocal and this endorsement will be the cen central central idea of the document These 5 policies will wUl ba b set forth as the em embodiment embodiment k of the principles of ot the Re Republican publican party whose achievements will ill III be lauded as at all aU times wise and as ever in the interest of th people p ople These principles It will be beC pared declared C are quite in contrast with the policies of the Democratic party which as embodied in the public ut utterances Utterances of ot its leaders It will be said promise nothing good that can be as assured assured assured of accomplishment The luan record as the party of protection and sound money mone as the th party of progress and good principles as the party that gave freedom to Cuba end nd lifted the yoke from the necks of ot th people of ot the Philippines and from Porto Rico will be bo upheld for admira admiration admiration tion and made the subject of much praise and the voting power will be to continue to patronize the po political craft cratt that has carried it across so 80 many streams Much About the Tariff Specifically ally speaking sp king more attention has hns been given gen by the tha platform makers t i the tariff than to any other subject Ther will be an unequivocal declara tl n for revision but the th disposition is isto Isto Isto to leave the working out of details to the Ingenuity of congress The action d 1 M of the two houses of congress In In tn J the committees which will 4 deal with ith the tariff the senate com corn committee on finance and the house com corn committee on ways and moons moans to make a special investigation of the situation will i afford sufficient excuse for this as the results re of these Inquiries will III be b unavailable to the convention v hUe bile they supposedly will furnish con eon congress gress STess with a basis basl for action This preparatory step will be endorsed and there will be a general pronouncement In lit favor of ot such changes In the sched us as the advice of ot time and the prep prepress ress TESS of the country countr may ha made mader jj r cesary 6 sary since the enactment of the DigIe law Pledge to Equalize Duties The declaration d lar will take the shape of cf It a pledge to so equalise the duties a to give the consumer the benefit of oft oftie tie tac t w most favorable prices consistent with the protection of ot domestic Indus Industries industries tries and home labor It will be em stated that there must be no that will permit American AmericanA 4 A J labor to come into competition with for fore forC e C labor and accordingly it will be specified that In all cases cae ca es the duty must be equal to the difference between the American and the European cost c st of production j The principle of protection protection tion tin will be endorsed in general terms and there may be a declaration favor favorable favorable favorable able to a maximum and minimum tar tariff iff as the one best host calculated to insure the promotion of American Interests under varying conditions A clause clau e de do declaring elating claring against utilization of ot the tariff for tor the promotion of monopoly is also alS l among the probabilities Sound Finance Next to the tariff th the financial plank ha hal received most careful attention but the enactment of the emergency cur currency rency law just juat before the close of the reent recent session ses lon of ot congress has ren ron dred the preparation of this plank mu much h simpler than It would have haye been It If there had been no such legislation t Congress will be congratulated on the nd bill as in the Interest of sound finance and as calculated to protect the business 8 world against pos possible possIble sible sibie panics In the near noor future and at atthe atthe atthe the same time provide for the perma porma permanent perman nent n ot Improvement of ot our currency eye system tem tm t m through the recommendations which It is anticipated will be made by Continued on Page Pane 3 PLATFORM ALL READY FOR THE REPUBLICANS t k Continued From Page 1 tilt i on appointed under the i v law Reference will be made to the time financial disturbance of last fall fail failI I mind while the seriousness IiI of that crisis will ill be recognized the will be that the Republican party was wasI I found able to meet the situation and the country will be informed that by it prompt action actton the business s world I was saved from long drawn out finan financial cial olal depression and Industrial Inactivity inactivIty ity The country wll WI be accordingly congratulated upon the fact that when this emergency arose the tho Republican party was In power and in position to come to the rescue Some The Republican administration will also be complimented on the passage during the congress of the railroad rate law and this legislation will wUl be pointed to as an example pf of what what the party will WUl do for the country at large largo in n case it is given gen such a lease of power as to afford it sufficient time for the changes wl are believed to tobe tobe tobe be desirable The Tl e president will also be given much credit for recent legis legislation legislation legislation lation locking to preservation of ot the forests conservation of ot the natural re resources resources resources sources in the interest of the entire country and reclamation of timber timberlands timberlands timberlands lands of the west The presidents at attitude attitude attitude In the matter of the general genera pro protection protection protection of the resources of the country will be favorably commented on as in indicating Indicating indicating the best course for future leg His position in favor of deep deepening deepening deepening ening the channel of the Mississippi river and general generd improvement of the inland waterways ys will wUl come in for en endorsement endorsement endorsement as will his vigorous work rork In iii prosecuting construction of ot the Pan Panama Panama Panama ama canal Antitrust Legislation The convention will place itself I elt on record as favoring such an amendment of the Sherman antitrust law as will enable the railroads to enter into rea reasonable reasonable reasonable traffic agreements without tak taking taking taking ing the time risk of prosecution in the crim criminal criminal criminal inal courts Probably also there will willbe willbe willbe be a declaration in favor of registration registration tion of certain corporations having the means to become monopolies engaged in interstate commerce so as to give the national government such supervision over them thorn as is now exercised over transportation agencies In this con connection connection connection there thele will wUl be a pronouncement In n favor of national control as against national ownership Cognizance will be beaken betaken betaken taken aken of the demands of labor to the extent of recommending such suh legisla legislation ion tion as will Insure labor organizations against a snap Judgment by the courts lu In the issuance of injunctions without due notice or necessary hearing A rec recommendation recommendation recommendation for removal of the triple penalty in conspiracy prosecutions when such euch prosecutions are directed against labor organizations is Ia probable There will be a trust resolution along the lines of that embraced in the plat pat platform platform form of 1900 when the necessity and propriety of honest cooperation and combination was recognized to meet new flew conditions and extend American trade in foreign countries but when conspiracies which create monopolies limit production and control prices were pointedly condemned The Colonies Much care will be given to the planks dealing with the Philippines and Cuba The pacific attitude of this country to toward toward toward ward Cuba will be held to have been demonstrated by the present relation relationship relationship relationship ship of or the two countries and by the generally known fact that having re restored restored restored stored peace and nd order to that Island the United tes is now preparing to bring its protectorate pro to an end and remove the evidences of its control Our management of affairs in the Phil Philippines Il will wUl be extolled it will be bea agreed a eed that the Philippines are pros prospering prospering prospering and improving under the present administration of affairs and it will probably be set forth that to abandon those islands until our work there is finished hed and the Philippine people made madere re ready dy for would be In Inhuman Inhuman inhuman human unwise and in every way un unjustifiable Unjustifiable justifiable Strong on the Negro Question As usual the platform will declare for protection of the civil civill of the ne no negro nero gro gre ro race A special effort will be made to have this plank comprehensive and emphatic There will be a strong declara declaration declaration declaration tion In favor faOr of continued improvement of the navy naY including constant increases of our battleships battle with the end in view of protecting our interests abroad main maintaining maintaining taming our standing among the nations and amid supporting the Monroe doctrine which doctrine will again receive unqualified fied tied Indorsement There will be a word wordIn In favor of the maintenance of or the army armyon arm armon on its present basis but no recommendation tion for Its enlargement enlar ement The action of congress in increasing the pensions of the widows of soldiers will be commend commended ed etl and a liberal pension policy poll C for the future will be advocated Raft RaH of Recommendations Among Amon other recommendations that will willbe willbe be 00 made will be the following For admission lon at the next session of congress congre s of Arizona and New Mexico as separate states of the union for Jor or potee tion of American citizens abroad for fostering festering of our commerce In tho the Orient for the open door doo in China for exclusion of coolie labor whether Chinese or o Jap Japanese Japanese Japanese anese strong commendation of the pres pros ant civil service policy Indorsement of the plan to grant a subsidy in the inter interest Interest est eat of the ocean mails malls to South Amer America Amerl lea ica l and and for the encouragement encouragement encouragement of American shipping generally generall There will be a demand for the tho con continuation continuation continuation of the policies of the present administration toward corporations At Attention Attention will be called to the wisdom of carrying into effect all the recommendations of the president and the necessity for a square deal all round for the enforcement of the law without regard to persons or places and for the equal pro protection protection protection of all under the law will be emphasized |