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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
6
Record of more than a century supports protective tariff stance. Fallacious arguments by Wilson and free trade exposed. Taft veto of Democratic tariff bill placed cereals on the free list, illustrating the farmer safeguard of tariff policy against Canadian and other grain imports.
A Taft era address argues protection benefits farmers, citing price gains for corn, wheat, cotton, oats, and livestock since 1896 under restored tariffs. It claims Democratic free trade hurts farmers, urging six million votes for Taft and Sherman to continue Republican protectionist policy.
The Republican tariff platform reaffirms belief in a protective tariff as essential to American industry and wages. It argues duties should protect farm and mine products, call for expert study and tariff board use, and criticize Democratic methods and bills while noting rising living costs.
The Indianapolis World urges Black voters to remain with the Republican Party, opposing the Progressive party’s appeal to desert the GOP. It labels the Progressive leadership as grievance seekers and warns that their plans offer false hope and will fail, citing history and liberty as grounds to stay loyal to Republican principles.
Democratic speakers push to amend a platform seen as favoring corporations. Ralston led a doomed effort to change it while Gov. Marshall, in South Bend, urged a workman's compensation act and broader state railroad commission powers to regulate all public utilities, recommendations largely ignored by the convention's platform writers.
A returned banker at church reflected on Noah's harrowing ark voyage. He told his wife there was a consolation in landing without customs inspectors to hold up Noah's trunks, highlighting a humorous contrast between old myth and modern inconveniences.
In a brief, witty exchange cited as concurrent testimony a woman named Miss Passy states she would not marry the best man alive. A sharp observer retorts that she could not wed even a deceased one, delivering a light veiled jab at social expectations surrounding marriage.
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