Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-06 | Page 4 | Preparing for the Convention

PREPARING FOR THE CONVENTION. The deliberations of the Republican leaders preparatory to the National convention In Chicago on June 21st, are in the right direction. As to the platform, of course protection will be the leading element In It, for the protective pro-tective policy, adopted under the Inspiring In-spiring leadership of President McKln-ley, McKln-ley, relieved the country from the depths of despair into which all its interests in-terests had been plunge.d and, kept In soak during the Cleveland administration, ad-ministration, with Its free-trade tariff and its crushing of the manufacturing manufac-turing and business interests of the country. It Is certain also that some adjustments ad-justments of the tariff schedules will be carried out on prolectivo lines, to accord with the protective and not with the free trade Idea. As an ndden-duni ndden-duni to this, there- will be a specific declaration for the revival of the American Amer-ican merchant marine, but perhaps no plan may be Indorsed to this end. The gold standard will be Indorsed, of course; and the policies In general of the Republican party and of the administration ad-ministration will be indorsed. The trusts and combines, will be censured, In line with the Supreme Court decision In the merger case, and the Interstate transportation will be decided as within with-in the regulating power of Congress. The effort will be to put all In as brle.f cumpass as possible, so that there may be a concise, clear and emphatic understanding under-standing of the Republican creed. The selection of Secretary Root for temporary chairman, and of Senator Lodge for chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, is entirely commendable. Evidently all Is going smoothly in the preparatory work for- tho convention,, and Just as evidently, there is a determination deter-mination among the leaders of the party to hold the grandest and most enthusiastic convention ever held In the United States. If what the Socialists of Germany charge Is true, then Germany Isj as flagrantly violating Its duty as a neutral neu-tral In building was vessels for Russia as Great Britain did In behalf of the Southern Confederacy during our Civil war. And the fact that Great Britain was mulcted In damages to' the extent of fifteen million dollars by the arbitration arbi-tration court at Geneva, might well make Germany pause, for It Is practically prac-tically sure that there will be a reckoning reckon-ing called for when the war la over. For If the charges are true, Germany will be precisely In the position that Great Britain was, and tho Geneva precedent fflU fit l&o a glove,