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Show u PRESIDENTIAL BOOMS. Two notable political booms wcro launched in quick succession soon after af-ter tho middlo of August. On tho lGth Speaker Joseph G. Cannon was nominated for congress for tho olgh-tennth olgh-tennth consecutlvo tlmo, and his district dis-trict convention throw In a nomination nomina-tion for tho Presidency for good measure meas-ure In responding to tho resolution Mr. Cannon suggested that In politics poli-tics it was well to cross ono stream at a time, but intimated that ho would not bo averse to crossing tho Presidential Presi-dential stream when ho enmo to it, if tho bridges at that time appeared to bo reasonably safe. Tho Speaker took tho opportunity to commit hlmelf unreservedly to the "stand-pat" policy on the tariff. Ho asserted that under tho policy of protection pro-tection tho United States had comb to produco one-third of tho manufactured manufac-tured and agricultural products of tho civilized world, that ninety-three per cent of this product was consumed. at home, nnd tho comparatively small surplus sold abroad mado us tho greatest great-est exporting nation on earth. Ho said that our labor received double tho pay received in Great Britain nnd threo times that on tho Continent of Europe. And whllo ho admitted that It was Impossible to secure perfection in each schedulo of a tariff bill, h'o mado tho unqualified declaration: "I havo no hesitation in saying that tho present rovenuo law, known as tho DIngloy law, all things considered, Is tho most perfect and just customs rovenuo rov-enuo law over enacted." Mr. Cannon accepted tho challenge of organized labor, represented by Mr. Gompers. Ho admitted tho valuo of unions, which ho said represented ten per cent of tho working population of tho country, but refused to accept all their demands In tho matter of legislation. legis-lation. Ho defended tho use of Injunctions Injunc-tions In labor disputes, but charitably acquitted Mr- Gompers of understanding understand-ing tho consequences that would follow fol-low tho enactment of his proposed law against them. Ho declared his willingness will-ingness to take his chances at tho polls with union workmen, "and this too without regard to Mr. Gompers when ho seeks to control their notion at tho ballot-box." Mr. Cannon Is tho most rosllont representative of tariff Bourbonlsm now extant, although ho will bo sovonty-two yenrs old when tho next Presidential campaign begins and nearly soventy-soven whon tho now President's term of ofllco ends. President Roosovolt gavo aid and comfort to Speaker Cannon by an open letter tp Mr. vson, of tho Ro. publican Congressional Committee, in which ho praised tho work of congress: under Cannon's leadership and urged tho importance of keeping the samo organization In power. Ho dismissed tho Idea of tariff revision with tho vnguo suggestion that when a given schedulo became "evidently disadvantageous disadvan-tageous to tho nation" it would be changed if the change could bo made ''without too much dislocation of the system,' and that a general revision would bo undertaken- whenever it should "appear tq "tho sober business senso of our people" that tho benefits of such a revision would "out-weigh tho disadvantages." Of course this is a creed to which Senator Aldrlch and tho Homo Market Club could subscribe without a qualm. Tho President protested pro-tested against any change in tho leadership of tho Houso which would "bring confusion uopn thoso who havo been successfully engaged In Its steady working out of a groat and comprehensive scheme for tho betterment better-ment of our social, industrial, and civic conditions," and expressed the hopo and belief that at tho next session ses-sion of congress tho bill to prohibit political contributions by corporations tho Phillpplno Tariff bill, and a bill limiting tho number of hours of labor of railway employes would become laws. In tho stato of Now York, tho nursery nur-sery of Presidential condidates, the campaign for the governorship has pushed three men into national prom-J inenco. William R. Hearst has been conducting a raU upon the Democratic Democrat-ic nomination which has disrupted tho party and which brought William T. Jerome into tho field on August 19 as a savior of political society. Mr. Jerome announced his candidacy in tho briof statement: "In tho present pres-ent shameful condition of our political life In this stato I am willing to run for tho offlco of governor of tho state If tho Democratic convention shall nominate mo without any understanding, understand-ing, expressed or Implied, other than that, If elected, I shall obey my oath of office, as I understand It, In letter let-ter and spirit." Tho hopelessness of a machine Republican nomination in tho face of tho candidacies of Hearst and Jeromo led to insistent demands, In which tho newly reconciled bosses, Piatt and Odell, were astute enough to Join, for Charles E. Hughes Collier's Weekly. n |