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Show tjSt on the subject of reciprocity. The prtetfent has beard eoough from wit conreasmM to know that reciprocity as o popular In soma statee wast of the AttaSHslppi. , TARIFF MAIN ISSUE OF 1912 CAMPAIGN BEVERLY, Maae,, Auf. J. So far as President Tsft btmsalf Is concerned, the tariff will be the main issue of the Mis campaign. While the president will apeak on many subjects on his western tnp,Jt is certain now that tariff revision re-vision will "r-elve most of his "attention. Following his speech to the Ksaex County Republican club at Hamilton on Saturday. the president begun to prepare other speeches on the tariff. He obtained copies of hla veto inrieagp on the wool, farmers freellst and cotton bills and at nnce set to work upon addresses ad-dresses that he expects to deliver later, backing; up those vetoes. Mr. Taft i said to realise that he must not merely defend himself for having hav-ing rejected these bills, but that he must attack the democrats and. progressive Republicans who put them through congress. con-gress. The attack upon the Democrats the firesldent can make almost anywhere. It 1 understood that the fight upon the progressives will be confined largely to their own territory. The president will carry the war west Into the enemy's country. The nature of attack ts pretty clearly defined already It will be in snhmance that the progressives who voted for a tariff board should have been willing to wait for it report; that the revision bills the Democrats snd Insurgents drew at these special sessions were "Ill-considered" snd "badly drawn." and that great Industries of the country should not be put In jeopardy by such legislation legisla-tion when revi-ion. if recommended by the tariff board, might be expected anyway any-way a few months later, it Is probable that the preiHent will promise tariff reform so far as he can bring It about at the next session of congress. It Is quite probable that the progres-etreir progres-etreir Witt te- -TTTHer fire- of the- rreMnt |