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Show iREPUBUCAN IS HOPEFUL Sen. Smith of Michigan ' Sees a Bright Light Just Ahead Detroit, Mich.. Oct. ti. Cnitcd States Senator William Alden Smith, temporary chairman of the Republican s-iatu convention, lu his speech be lore, the gathering discusseding the present pres-ent tariff, declared that the dlsseu-slon dlsseu-slon In the Republican ranks would not" prevent tlctory at the polls in the coming1 election nod coupled President Pres-ident Taft and Theodore Roosevelt as the party leaders. j "The now tariff Inw," said he. "has been the object of much unjust criticism, crit-icism, and misrepresentation. The high cost of living cannot be charged to it; where the rate of duty was increased, in-creased, the price of the product has remain? the same, or It has decreased In cost, and in scores of Instances the tariff reduction In the Payne bill has been followed by Increased price to the consumer. ' We have created a tariff commission commis-sion with unusual and far reaching authority, hae given it ample means to prosecute its researches and when. In the future, changes ure desired, the representatives of the people can consider con-sider them in the light of wider and more accurate information whkh the commission can supply. "I feel that the powers of the commission com-mission should be extended and, If possible, the personnel improved. Such a commlJalon should be non partisan par-tisan in character and composed of I well known men, whose standing and character will instantly command the confidence ot the ccuntry J "Some recent elections have given , politicians alarm. I do not thing we ' have lost a battlo which we should have won. In Massachusetts the Republicans Re-publicans nominated a Democrat for congress and the Democrats nominated nominat-ed a wayward Republican who was elected. Iu New York the Republicans named a candidate who had dominated dominat-ed his city with a fist of Iron and publicly Invited defeat which was deserved. de-served. "In Maine the people sought in vain from our party for a primary low and turned to our opponents In the hopo that they might get it.. The ace of bossism is passed. Intelligent and progressive lenderMfrmuy still Jight the way." |