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On this issue of the political bearings of the tariff there are enough independents (50,000 voted in the recent Massachusetts state election, in spite of the fact that their leading economic demand had been granted, and that the repub lican party set out to dodge the tariff issue al together), especially in all the great states of the middle "west, to turn the scales in favor of whatever party shall most promptly and effective ly take measures to remove the power of as sessing taxes and bestowing bounties from the hands of interested parties and their virtual ap pointees, and restore it, at least in its initial and advisory stnges, to the people, acting through their president and his expert advisors. PRIMARY ELECTIONS Tlie republicans of Tennessee nominated Cap tain Benjamin W. Hooper for governor and approved tho existing prohibitory laws. Former United States Senator Joseph M. ' Carey announced that he would be an inde ' pendent candidate for governor of Wyoming for . tho purpose of fighting the republican machine - of that state. gressional district by a substantial majority, ac cording to the latest returns from the southern part of the state. The same returns gave Syl vester C. Smith, regular, a lead over his oppo nent in tho Eighth district. It was thought during the day that Smith had beon defeated. "E. A. Hayes, insurgent, of the Fifth con gressional district, has been renominated. "Julius Kahl, regular, -will be opposed by Walter McArthur, a labor leader of tho Pacific coast, and it is expected Kahl will have a hard light on his hands. "While tho advisory votes on United States senator to succeed Senator Flint is by no means complete, John D. Works, insurgent, has 5,000 votes more than Edwin Meserve. A. G. Spald ing, tho San Diego sporting goods man, is run ning third. "Two stalwart congressmen Duncan Mc Kinley in tho Second district, and James Mc Lachlcn in the Seventh apparently have been defeated. "William E. Kent, for whom Gifford Pinchot 'stumped' the Second district, leads McKinley by a narrow, but safe margin, while W. D. Stephens has a similar lead over McLachlen. E. A. Hayes, insurgent incumbent from the Fifth district, has been renominated. Engbright and Smith, regulars, appear to have been re nominated in the First and Eighth districts, respectively. In the other California districts, three in number, the present stalwart repre sentatives were not opposed." The Tennessee republicans have endorsed the candidacy of B. A. Enloe, independent democrat for railroad commissioner. The Associated Press report says: "Tho independent statewide prohibition demo crats who havo fought Governor Patterson every step of his official career are expected to support the ticket nominated as against the regular democratic nomination which is for M. It. Patterson's re-election, and the coming cam paign promises to be one of vigor and bitter ness. : In California tho insurgent republicans won a great victory over tho regulars. Hiram W. . Johnson, insurgent candidate for the republi- can nomination for governor, receivod a plur- ality of more than 30,000. Theodore Bell will 1 be his democratic opponent. John D. Works, ln- - surgent, was nominated to be United States - senator. Concerning the results on congress- men the Associated Press says: "It is now certain that William Kent, reformer and insurgent of the deepest type, has outdis- . tanced Duncan E. McKinley in the race for " congress in the Second district. The latest flg- ures give Kent a1 lead of 1,122 votes. 1 W. D. Stephens, insurgent, has won over James McLachlan, regular, In the Seventh con- An Associated Press report from .Nashville, Tenn., says: "Seth McCallen (Colonel Dick Maple) ,' editor of the Rip Saw, will make the race for governor on the socialist ticket. -He is the most distinguished socialist in the state and one of the leaders in the nation and was recently nominated by referendum, but declined on the ground of ill health." In Nebraska tho progressive republicans nom inated for governor, Chester H. Aldrich, a pro nounced temperance man, over A. E. Cady. In tho first district William Hayward, a standpat ter, was nominated for congress; in the Second district Judge A. L. Sutton, a progressive; in the Third district, J. F. Boyd, a progressive; in the Fourth, Charles H. Sloan, a standpatter; in the Fifth, George W. Norris, progressive; in the Sixth, Moses P. Kinkaid, standpatter. El mer J. Burkett, standpatter, was renominated for senator over C. O. Whedon and Captain Adams, both progressives. Other nominees on the republican state ticket follow: Lieutenant governor, M. E. Hopewell, incumbent; secretary of state, J. J. Ryder; state auditor, S. R, Bar ton, Incumbent; state treasurer, Walter A. Georgo; state superintendent of education, J. W. Crabtree; attorney general, Grant W. Mar tiU; commissioner of public lands and buildings, E. D. Cowles, incumbent; railroad commissioner, H. T. Clarke, Jr., incumbent. In the democratic primaries, Gilbert M. Hitch cock, editor of the Omaha World-Herald, present congressman from the Second district, was nom inated for United States senator over Richard L. Metcalfe. James C. Dahlman, mayor of Omaha, was nominated for governor over A. C. Shallenberger, incumbont, by a plurality of 72, and a recount has " been demanded by Governor Shallenberger. Dahlman made his campaign in favor of a wide open policy on the liquor question and promising to veto a county option bill should the legislature pass such q, measure. Other democratic nomi nees for state offices are as follows: Lieutenant ' governor, Ralph Clarke; secretary of state, Charles W. Pool; state auditor, P. J. Howitt; state treasurer, George E. Hall; state superin tendent, W. R. Jackson; attorney general, C. H. Whitney; commissioner of public lands and buildings, W. B. Eastham; railroad commis sioner, B. H. Haydeii. Democratic congres sional nominees are as follows: First district, John A. Maguire, incumbent; Second district, C. O. Loebeck; Third district, J. P. Latta, in cumbont; Fourth district, B. F. Good; Fifth dis trict, R. D. Sutherland; SJxth. district, W. J. Taylor, probably. ' Practical Tariff Talfe President Taft, Leader Payne and other re publican spokesmen havo been attempting to prover by citing from tho customs records that the new tariff law is an actual revision down wards. They are quoting the first six months to show a decrease of a little less than one per cent in the rate paid under the Dingley tariff for the corresponding period of the previous year. The explanation is simple. The decrease is always greater just after a new tariff law has been passed because of tho fact that im ports of goods on which decreases are expected are held back until the lower duty takes effect If anyone is interested in discovering for himself whether there has been any actual decrease, the way is open. Take the articles imported during any given year under the Dingley law and figure out what it would cost to import those articles under the present law. It is a simple arith metical calculation. Suppose you are a heavy shipper of a lot of merchandise. Freight rates are always changing on some article or another. If you desired to find out whether there had been any increase in freight rates, you would not simply compare your freight bills for tho first six months with the corresponding period of the previous year, but you would compare item with item, and cast up the total. Perhaps you havo not the data at hand to make this calculation. Well, here it is. During the year 1907 the goods imported into tho United States, under the Dingley law, yielded duties aggregating $329,109,342. If these iden tical articles had been dutiable under the Payne Aldrich tariff law schedules 05 rates, the duty paid would be $334,758,344.- In other words, to import under the new law the goods im ported in 1907 under tho old law would cost $5,649,002 more. To state it in another form, by applying the new law, schedule for schedule, item for item and paragraph for paragraph, to the articles imported in 1907, more revenue by 1.7.1 per cent would have been collected by tho government. Isn't "this the best proof possible that the revision has, not been downward? There aro fourteen schedules in the tariff law. Under the calculation outlined above, applying to the articles actually imported in 1907 the tariff rates of tho new law, in six of these sched ules tho duties were raised, in seven they were lowered and in one they are unchanged. The increases are in chemicals, agricultural pro ducts, cotton goods, spirits, silk and paper. The decreases are in earthenware, metals, lumber and wood, sugar, flax, wool and sundries, while there was no change in tobacco. The Dingley law had 2024 paragraphs and items. In the revision made at the special session 1150 of these were left unchanged. There were increases in 220 items and decreases in 654. Upon those statements rests the only substantial claim of the republicans to revision downward. They reduced more schedules than they raised, but they left untouched more than 50 per cent of the total number of schedules. These unchanged items affect every consumer, and the ad valorem rates are among the highest in the law, running from 62 to 143 per cent. In the wool schedule only one item, yarn, was changed. The rate was reduced from 143 per cent to 135 per cent. Under this paragraph $7.80 worth of yarn was imported in 1907. The actual reduction in duties Is 28 cents. Substantial reduction, isn't it? In four of the schedules noted as being re duced the total is about ono per cent. Thus, in sugar, the duty was reduced from $1.95 to $1.90 per 100 pounds. The Dingley duty on sugar in 1907 amounted to $60,338,000. If the samo amount is imported the first year of the Payne Aldrlch law, the duties will amount to $60,335, 000, or $3,000 less. The old rate prohibited the importation of refined sugar and the new rate does the same. The sugar imported In 1907i amounted to 2,837,352 tons, but this was nearly, all raw sugar, which the people do not eat but which the sugar trust refines. But aa foreign: refined sugars are practically barred, the trust, under tho tariff, within the confines of the United States, can charge what it pleases. England and America consume most of the sugar sold. In January of this year the wholesale price of sugar in New York was from $5.05 to $5.20 per hundredweight. The English market price at tho same time was from $3.23 to $3.75. Ther difference is the tariff profit of tho trust. To got live cents benefit under the new tariff one must eat 100 pounds. C. Q. D. K&MvMj$tfim frvrfuirfw .& IMf frih. ., -S'lr ,(.-iJ vtWfe&fj) ,:Hiiit.rt ",1Mt-1 "VWVf "-- - 'w