The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-17

TRENTON, N. J., April 16-The Re-
| publicans of New Jersey met here in con-
vention today and unanimously elected
the slated candidates, Senator Sewell
Garrett Hobart John Kean, jr, and
State Chairman Franklin Murphy, as
delegates at large to the ST. Louis con-
vention, with Congressman H. c. Lou
denslager, c. E. Breckenridge, Barket
| Gunmere and Charles A. Reed as alter
mates.
The delegates were not instructed re
garding the presidential nomination, but
the platform contained a strong recon-
mendation of Carrot A. Hobart as an
available man for the vice-presidency.
| Some friends of Mr.. Hobart, led by Con-
gresham McEwen, endeavored to secure
| the adoption of a specific endorsement
| of Mckinley, but the leaders regarded
such hampering of the delegates as i'm
polite and the proposition was ruled out
of order.
What promised to be a hot fight be-
tween the friends of Franklin Murphy
and Elias S. Ward, the wealthy railroad
man, as to which of them should be dele
gate to st. Louis, was averted at the
last moment by the withdrawal of Mr..
Wards name. The principal interest in
the platform centered in the money plank
and as expected. the convention adopted
a resolution declaring for the gold
standard and against the free coinage of
silver.
The friends of Mr.. Hobart declare his
candidacy for vice-president will be Wig
orously pushed. They recognize, however,
that II an eastern man holds the ticket,
his chances are weakened, and it was
for this reason that some of his friends
endeavored to secure the endorsement
of Mckinley.
THE PLATFORM
in it's first section declares for tariff
that will afford adequate income for the
expenses of the government, avoid in
crease of the national debt, revive Ameri-
can industries, restore American wages
and re-establish the national prosperity
on a sound and stable basis.
The second section demands the restora-
tion of the reciprocity policy adopted by
Republican administration and de-
stroyed by the Democrats, should be re-
stored
The Monroe doctrine is endorsed in the
third section, and in the fourth there is
a demand for more virile foreign policy
and for an
ENLARGEMENT OF THE NAVY
and the construction of coast defenses.
Section five says that the practical
sympathy of this nation should be ex-
tended to all people who nave been
driven by oppression and wrong, to take
up arms in behalf of the rights OF self
government"
The exclusion of criminal pauper and
anarchistic immigrants is demanded. Dis
eliminating duties in favor of American
bottoms is favored.
Section seven is as follows:
The standard of values of this country
and other principal commercial nations
of the world is gold. Wages and prices
have been made and fixed in accordance
with this standard, and the welfare of
the people demands that it shall be main
tanned. We regard the agitation for free
coinage of silver q serious obstacle to our
country's prosperity. Congressman Nc
Mckinley Delegate Edgar offered
substitute requesting the delegates to
support Mckinley. Senator Sewell spoke
vigorously against instructing the dele
gates, saying that sooner than go to st.
Louis with tag. he would resign. The
resolutions of McEwan and Edgar were
laid on the table and the convention ad-
journed
JUST A HINT.
The eighth section says: Relying up
on the discretion of our delegates to
voice the preferences of the Republicans
of New Jersey in the national conven-
ton. we refrain from hampering their
action by specific Instructions; and we
pledge and devote ourselves to the hearty
support of the ticket there to be selected;
indulging at the same time in hope that
redeemed New Jersey may be presented
on the national ticket in the person of
her able and distinguished citizen, the
Hon. Carrot A. Hobart"
In a concluding section, the convention
endorses the course of the state legisla-
ture and Governor Griggs, the first Re
publican executive the state has had in
thirty years.