PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15133, 25 October 1912, Page 9

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

i {rHE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. trHE i-a ll -* II ■ ' . -.«-. EXPECTED TO be THIRD. ■ jjR. TAt* ** • .:;..■■■...-.: l • .ft&X OPS OWN- coiuiesposdent.] I 'SAK , Francisco, September, 30. I' „ .h<, unique contest for the Presidency I'•-'—;" -/.< ifc becomes more and more a ' WJI fight with. the Taft V :'r#tr2Sv helpless and supine. -The 'Spssness of the Tafb managers is sur-. i -;■;:, tsw it would seem to indicate that ' P ? ♦' is retarded as foregone. Mr! ' >Sn ii Saltation of Mr. "• Roosevelt ; ' Ssbeei making nightly speeches., although ■ ■ " fining himself to the-eastern States, and ~ *f two have been carrying on a spirited ■' ■ - - tJI versy on the chief issues of the camI , ,*°v " The studious way in which "both ' ' - '■ ; leader and the Democratic '"' Lididate have ignored President Taft, '" %pt incidentally, demonstrates that they !rajd him as certain to run third. Mr. • - Roosevelt knows Mr. Wilson is the man ' 4 has to beat : Mr. Wilson, knows Mr. j,.' -jgosevelt is the- man ho has-to beat, ./Democrats and the Tariff. "|§S^jje.: tariff policy of the United States, j that never-ended subject oi controversy, '- is being debated in speech after speech by Mr. Wilson and Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. • : '" Wilson denies that he is a freetrader, but ■ 5,0; sails so close to that. doctrine as ho dare. In a cablegram to a London paper, ~r id answer to » question, ho stated : "No '■.-tgtjaittian. for statement that I advocate freetrade for the United States. Under ;. v~^ o pnsent system of the division of the Ifield of taxation between tho Federal and State governments f rectrado would be im- : possible.' Nevertheless, the Democratic Y■ staiidard-bearer stands firmly upon tho ' plaak of his party platform which says : » ''We declare it to be a fundamental prin- -' ciple of tho Democratic party that the •.■'-- federal Government, under the consti- ?, ;. : .iat-iohj has no right to impose or ; ';;;.';, collect duties except for the pur- "' pose -o!f revenue." This, of course, ':. "pjaans tho removal of, protection in / slmost every instance. The regular Repub- ' lican party is tho natural supporter of the - principle of protection, but it is Mr. RooseTelt, the insurgent, who has replied to the ■ Democratic leader and criticised his Btand ':;. ' '06 the tariff, urging that if his policies ~:Wise enacted industries . would be aband- ,,';. caed and many workers thrown out of ■:'.; employment. , : ' ! :'.', • Control of the Trusts;. k The chief ' bono ' of: contention between " 3Jjc. Roosevelt and Mr. Wilson is,* how- ,'• : ever, that other hoary staple of American ; |K)liticiij control,! of tho trusts. There is '■:' issre a.distinct cleavage of opinion.' Mr. .Wilson > would continue the apparently v ; hopeless attempt -to break up the ■■ trusts '.''.by; means of lawsuits and force the con-'-6. ".siituenfc parts into competition. In view ;,r"of the utter failure to accomplish this in ; the case of the Standard Oil and other : trusts, vfhich are. still monopolies \jiot- ' ;..-wthstanding CJouitdecnjes dissolving them, i 3tlr. Roosevelt"proposes!a new plan. He .;;:irbuld establish, , a Commission,._ giving it '.--.-the .same incisure of control over inter- - • state trade that the - -State Commerce ;-Commission exercises over the lailways. ■.<■ Bid by tikis iiieans "attack unfair competition, fab capitalisation and special privi- ■ ■ leges, and. by continued trained watchful- ;.: ness guard and keep open continually all Iff the highways of American commerce." Mr. ]:': Roosevelt would" not destroy a trust be- ;, cause it is big,' but only because it is bad. ' *We propose a real land not a : fake con- : trol.of big business,'* • die says. '> "Wo .'■''. have riot hesitated to say that we favour .-.any business, no matter how big if it is "honest. I am against the corrupt busi- ; nessman, not because he is -big, Y Bat because he is corrupt. A big business 1-ffMcft treats it« rivals fairly, its custom- - ers fairly, -its wage-workers fairly, its '/stockholders fairly—such a business is a .help and not a hurt to.■', a community.''' -Mr. Wilson criticises th& ulan of his rival ■■:■: as a proposal to say to.the trusts <lhat they '■'■ are beneficent and big, but nob <irueL l He . ..accuses Mr. Roosevelt of practically throw-' W. ing up his hands' and saying ,it is : not .possible to check tie combines, and asserts : 'that during the administration of Mr. Roosevelt trusts grew faster j. than previ- '.:■'■ easly. The proposal of the Democrats, \. according to their leader is to "regulate -, cumpetition," while that of the Progressives is to "legalise monopoly." : ?: THE TIGHT IN THE STATES. 1 , :: J SOME POPULAR CANDIDATES. ; ' IrSJOil OXTR' OWK COEB£SPOKI>ENT.3 >U rv "" San Feancisco, September 30. The movement led by Mr. Roosevelt for "'the overthrow of both the old parties is as active in the State arena* as in the :T Federal In New Hampshire Mr-Winston ,:; Churchill,' the novelist, lias been nominated ..'. for Governor. Six years ago Mr. Churchill fought for the same position on an anti- ; railroad platform, md when he was. de- ■?■:. feated wrote a novel to expose the way'in ■'.}:■ which New Hampshire'!? public affairs are V controlled by the railroad corporation ; ; . that is most powerful in the New England . States. Mr. Winston Churchill is an ex- :. cellent public speaker. The Progressives of .I/: Connecticut, have nominateel for Governor ;:. Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, a noted au- ■:'.[ thority on the corporation question. In y V; Indiana the . Progressives have named for "Governor ex-Senator Albertßeveridge, who •. was chairman of the convention that nominated Mr. Roosevelt for president. But the nomination that has created most :.\. comment, and that is most calculated - to pot the opposing parties on their mettle, x is that of Mr. Oscar S. Straus for Governor of. New York. Mr. Straus was a member - of the Cabinets of President Cleveland and \ President Roosevelt, Ambassador to Tur- . key, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and president of the New York Board of Trade.