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Show SO TARIFF WAS AN ISSUE During tho recent campnlgn Tho Gazette Times laid especial stress on tho tariff ns being a paramount Issuo. For doing so it was vnrlously Bcoffod nt and criticised. Tho real question. It was told, wns social Justice, or trust regulation, or tho high cost of living; but not tho tariff. For ono thing, It was reminded tho tariff cut no Ice, nnd for nnother overybody wns weary of, It anyway. So bo it! nut now Washington dispatches convey the Information that ft decided mnjorlty of tho Democrats Demo-crats In tho Houso of Representatives favor an extra ex-tra session. They declare that Presidentelect Wilson, who hns adopted tho "policy of listening," ennnot well ignore n sentiment so pronounced. Thoy want, first of nil, "revision downward of tho Paytao Aldrlch tariff bill, which wns ono of tho groat Issues of tho pre-election campaign." Of courso It was. That Is what Tho Gazotto Times said, but voters appeared to think thnt Taft, Wilson Wil-son and noosovelt only wero tho issues. Doubtless Govornor Wilson, wishes thoy, and not tho tnrlff, wero tho lssuo now. Hut they aren't Pittsburg Gazette Times. |