AMERICAN POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 832, 30 July 1910, Page 5

AMERICAN POLITICS.

OHIO REPUBLICANS. TAFT ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTED. By TelegTaph—Press Association-Copyright. New York, July 2a. Tho Republican Convention af Ohio has adopted a platform which is expected to serve as a model for others, lo warmly endorses the achievement's of President Taft in the sixty-first Congress, and declares that the Tariff Bill has justified expectations. The Bill, it is said, transferred a national ueticit into a.surplus, and simultaneously reduced tho average rate of duties. NEW YORK GOVERNORSHIP. New York, July 28. Mr. Warren G. Harding has been nominator by the regular Republicans tor the Governorship of New I'ork, in ■succession to Mr. Hughes, who has accepted a seat on tho Supremo Court Bench.-

PARTY DIVISIONS HEALING.. Describing the American political situation as it existed on Mr. Roosevelt's return, the Loudon "Times," on Juno 20, said: "Tho situation which awaits Mr. Roosevelt is a situation of exceptional interest. The first part of his successor's term of office was not fortunate for the Republican party. Mr. Taft did not find it easy to build up the reforms for which it was understood that Mr. Roosevelt had'cleared the grounuv Only omslaw of first-rate importance was carried, and the carriage of that low bred a mutiny in tho party, which overthrew its organisation in Congress and weakened it immensely oat of doors. A fortnight ago the prospects of the.Republicans for the autumn elections looked very black, though, perhaps, at no time were they so black as they seemed. The "insurgents" were unmanageable in-Congress, and they have obtained a formidable proportion of votes in the "primary'' elections in tho Pittsburg district of Pennsylvania, in lowa, and in South Dakota. The Democrats, it. was thought, might bo able, through the divisions of their opponents, -to carry some States in the autumn which usually vote Republican. There has been, howover," a remarkable turn of the tide."

Mr. Taft had succeeded in getting tho railway' companies to postpone their threatened advance in rates, and all hia iniDortant measures immediately • began to advance' in Congress in a most promising way..' 'The divisions in the Republican ranks remained unhealed, but. the prestige of the Republican Administration was largely restored - - '