Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1910 — WHAT NEW YORK THINKS [ARTICLE]

WHAT NEW YORK THINKS

In a statement made yesterday to The News Senator Beveridge said: 1 It is immaterial to the people of Indiana and the people of the United States what New York tays on the tariff. We stand for a protective tariff for the good of all the people and not a counterfeit tariff at the expense of all the people. We think that Senator Beveridge is mistaken, for the question is not "what New York says on the tariff." but wliat the Republican party of Xew York says. And that surely, is n6t immaterial to the people of Indiana. For with the New York Republicans indorsing “a counterfeit tariff* and the Indiana Republicans rightfully denouncing it, there is likely to he a confusion that may become embarassing and even painful. And when it is remembered that the utterance of the Republican party of New York is also the utterance of Theodore Roosevelt, who is 'to make speeches in this state’ for Senator Beveridge, one is still further puzzled to know just w here “to get off”. A party ought to speak everywhere with the*

same voice on really fundamental issues. If it does not, if, on the contrary.' there are as many views as there are states, how can the people be expected to know what is the true Republican doctrine? We stirely are mot to think of the Republican party as a conglomeration of independent commands, each flying its own dag, each, fighting for its own special and peculiar cause. Vet if the New York tariff plank is sound Republican doctrine, the Indiana tariff plank i.- rank heresy, and contrariwise.

This is the Way in which the problem must present itself to thoughtful men. The Republican party: of Indiana is not the national Republican party nor i~ the Republican party in New 1 York. As the national Republican party i- involved in the election of senators and representatives it is , most important ..to know what it is. and alsowhat it believer-. And when we read the Indiana, the Ohio, the Wisconsin and ■ the New York platforms. we find it most difficult to determine what is the true Republican doctrine. For these reasons we are forced to the conclusion that the New York declaration is very far from being “immaterial to the people of Indiana." One would be justified in saying that it, and not the Indiana declaration, is the true Republican doctrine, or vice versa. One is backed by as high authority as the other. We note that Senator Cummins says that he does not "believe in any platform that unqualifidely indorses the Payne tariff law or the Taft administration.” Xo insurgent can accept the Roosevelt tariff plank, and in the west the Republican party is overwhelmingly insurgent. If this is so—and no one who is familiar with the condition.- can doubt it—we have at least two brands of Republicanism which, for convenience, we may call the Xew York arid Indiana, or the Roosevelt and Beveridge brands. That fact Is surely not "immaterial to the people of Indiana" or to any one else. Rather it is one that may prove to be of the utmost practical importance. Senator Beveridge recognized the changed conditions when he appealed to the people as citizens .rather than as party members, and asked them to vote for him as the representative of certain principles, which he very frankly .enunciated. If he were a candidate in Xew York he could not fairly ask for one Republican vote on the platform adopted by the Roosevelt convention. so far are the two state organizations and their respective leaders apart. Yet the two organizations are both Republican, and the Xew York leader i> supposed to be the greatest Republican of his time — if not ot any time. It is certainly a remarkable mixup. .Out of tile dust and noise of the Xew York fight, which was supposed to. have been made for progressive policies, has come nothing but a reactionary program, one which will, we think, have to be repudiated by any insurgent who expects the people to believe in good faith.' So the Xew Yuri: declaration is most inipressivelv riiaterial. and in many ways. It may; indeed, affect the whole course of the- campaign. Men have never got any considerable inspiration from that king of France who —with twenty thousand men. Marched up the hill and then march" ed down again.

As for Senator Beveridge s attitude there can be nothing but praise. He at least did not weaken. He stands precisely where lie did when he fought the Payne bill on the floor of the Senate. And we think it entirely fair to inter from v his words that whoever may fall by the wayside, he himself will press steadily forward. Although Mr. Roosevelt’s convention praised and indorsed it. Senator Beveridge still thinks that the Payne bill is a “counterteit tariff." And he is brave enough to say so.—lntlianapolis Xews. ■ - V'7