Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1910 — RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

The following are the resolutions passed at convention: We reaflftrm our faith in the primciples and policies embodied in the last republican national platform. We heartily,endorse the administration of President Taft as wise, judicious and patriotic, and we especially commend his earnest endeavors along safe and sane lines, to secure the faithful fulfillment of the pledges contained in the platform upon which he was elected.

In levying duties upon imports care should be had to so adjust them as fijf afford adequate protection to American laborers on the one hand, and to prevent injustice and oppression to American consumers on the other hand. Protection to both producer and consumer is the spirit and essence of the declaration of the republican national platform of 1908 upon the subject of tariff revision, and it is a cardinal doctrine of the Republican party. We commend the Payne tariff law, enacted by the present congress, as a substantial step in fulfillment of the pledge of the party to revise the tariff, and while there may be inequalities in some of the schedules in that law, they are largely due to a want of trustworthy Information respecting the cost of production in this country as compared with the cost of production in foreign countries. We approve the course of President Taft in authorizing the commission of tariff experts selected by him under the maximum and minimum provisions of the Payne law, to thoroughly .inquire into general industrial conditions and cost of production in foreign countries, and whenever it is made to appear that material inequalities exist in that law or any, schedule thereof, they should be remedied by proper legislation.

The republicans of the Tenth congressional district of Indiana recognize that since his election to the United States senate in 1899 the career of Senator Albert J. Beve/idge, senior senator from Indiana, has been one of the greatest usefulness, industry and satisfaction to the people of this state and that at the present time he occupies in the United States senate a position of the highest influence as one of its most gifted and earnest members. Believing, as we do, that no man excels to greater extent by worth or service than does our senior senator, we hereby most cordially indorse him for re-election as his own successor to the seat he has so ably filled, and we pledge our most earnest efforts to the end that he shall be re-elected accordingly. We favor the ratification by the legislature of the several states, of the proposed amendment to the federal constitution now pending, conferring upon congress powef to levy an equitable tax upon incomes, without regard to the distribution of population among the states. We are in favor of continued liberal pension legistlation by congress in behalf of the union soldiers. As they grow older their wants grow greater, and we believe that this government, which they saved, should make adequate provision for their needs.

This district, which must now be regarded as the banner republican district of the state, has as candidates for judges of the appellate court of Indiana, the Hon. Joseph M. Rabb, of Williamsport, and the Hon. Harry B. Tuthill, of Michigan City. These distinguished gentlemen have long been members of the judiciary of tfte state and have a record for impartiality, ripe learning and strict integrity, for which we commend them to the voters of the state, and we most heartily endorse their candidacy and recommend them to the state convention and ask it to approve our act. We believe the splendid record of our distinguished congressman, the Hon. Edgar D. Crumpacker, deserves the approval of the people of this congressional district, and from the state as well. He has been tireless in his efforts since the time he entered congress to advance the best interests of the common country. We commend him most heartily for-the work he did as a member of the committee of ways and means, for the revision of the tariff along lines indicated in the republican national platform of 1908. ; He proved to our entlte satisfaction that he stood for and now stands for a greater reduction in the schedules along republican lines. And his past conduct Is a sufficient guarantee of ,liis future usefulness as a representative of the people. Resolved, That we, the republicans of the Tenth congressional district in

convention assembled, favor a waterway connecting Lake Michigan with the Wabash river, and the river improvement of the Wabash to the Ohio river, providing a waterway through the state of Indiana connecting the great lakes with the Gulf of Mexico. Such a waterway would be the shortest route and the Gheapest constructed of any proposed, and would be of great benefit to the state and nation. We respectfully recommend our congressman, Hon. E. D. Crumpacker, and Senator Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, use every means to secure a reasonable appropriation for a survey by the national government of such proposed waterway.