Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1910 — PETERSON DROPS PARTY PLATFORM [ARTICLE]

PETERSON DROPS PARTY PLATFORM

Democrat Making Race For Congress on a Protective Tariff Platform. OUT TO “CATCH VOTES” ■ 11 » I a “Joe Bailey” Attitude Taken by State Convention Denounced by Marshall. “Anything for votes,” seems to be the Democratic cry in. Indiana this year. First came Governor Marshall, in his state convention keynote, demanding of Senator Shively that the tariff plant—then in Shively’s hands —be a tariff-for-revenue-only plank. Then came the plank itself, which ignored tariff for revenue only, and said: “Tariff taxation should be for public purposes only and should be so levied as not to discriminate against any section, class, Industry or occupation, and limited to the actual necessities of the government economically administered.”

. This was a bald bid for votes, impliedly offering assurance that Democrats would not demand tariff revision downward. In short, the Governor Marshall view was passed by and the Joe Bailey evasion was adopted, with the aid of Senator Shively, on the principle of “anything to catch votes.” “ Governor Marshall, personally, is demanding an immediate revision of the tariff to a revenue only basis. But there is no echo to his wailing cry. On the other hand comes John B. Peterson, Democratic nominee so congress in the Tenth district, making the race for office on a protective tariff platform, which is a bold paraphrase of the Indiana Republican platform. Peterson is a protectionist Democrat, He refuses to stand with Governor Marshall. He refuses even to conceal his position, as Senator Shively tries to do. He makes a bid for votes as a protectionist, from the same platform < his opponent stands upon. “Anything to catch votes” seems to apply in his case in a most notable degree.