Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-18
New York Republicans
Select at Large.
ARE NAMED
Senator Plat at the Head Of List
McKinley'S Policy in Cuba, IsP0rtO
Rico and the Philippines Approved
EavOrS Tariff Bill.

-- G. d
New York, April 1.-THE republican
state convention was called to order by
Chairman Odell OF the s.ate committee.
Senator Elsberg was made Temporary
chairman and addressed the Convention,
dwelling at length ON the ability with
which III state and national govern
ments a ben administered.
Speaking or Governor Roosevelt, Mr..
Elsberg said:
New York will make no sacrifice Of
him as yet, at any rate, n not until
the state has had ano,her term OF koose-
Welt as its governor will she relinQuish
him to what we hope are higher honors
still in store" ~.
This declaration was greeted with en-
thusiastic applause by the delegates.
Lemuel Il. Quigg was made chairman
of the committee on resolutions. After
appointment of the committees, a recess
was taken until 4 o'clock.
The committee appointed to name dele
gates-at-large to the national repub-
lican convention reported the following
names:
Delegates-at-Large - Senators II. C..
Platt n Chauncey M. Depew, Governor
Theodore Roosevelt, and Chairman OF the
State Committee B. b. Odell, Jr.
The platform. as reported to the con-
vention. congratulates the country that
the pledges of faith on which William
Mckinley and Carrot A.. Hobart were
elected four years 6 have been re-
deemed 1t indorses both the admins
tratiOn of President Mckinley and Gov
ernor Roosevelt. 1t asserts that the re-
publican party found the country after
four years of democratic government
ma ira 1vva6 oc to irH,,S%r, v-oo1, -, %,,,5n
and and impoverished in it's
public treasury. The platform extolls
republican party government as equally
effective and intelligent in war as in
peace
The policy Of this government with re-
gard to the status of SPANS conquered
colonial possessions is approved as
Enthusiastically American. the plat
form continuing: ~
The independence of Cuba, pledged to
Cuba n proclaimed to the world in the
declaration of war. a been secured and
advanced by every public act. The
American military force in Cuba has
been reduced. Local government has
been established and steps are now being
taken for popular elections in Cuba. to
erect there a free government of the
cuban people,. preparatory to the COM
plete withdrawal of American authority,
I'm Porto Rico, which has become for
all time American territory, civil gov
eminent and liberal laws have been pro-
vided. ,5l
1.-The insurrection in the Philippine
islands has been overcome, organized re-
bellion no longer exists and the estab-
llshment of American authority in all the
Islands is proceeding to the contentment
of their inhabitants"
The afternoon session of the V
ton was much more enthusiastic. The
POn1niffon IN n mont Oro riun%ior1
recommended the name of Hon. James
Sherman of Oneida for permanent chair
man.
Mr.. Sherman. in assuming the perma-
nent craftsmanship, began with a sur
of what had been accomplished for the
industrial prosperity of the country
under the administration of Presidents
Harrison and Mckinley. He said fur
Their in part:
Find me in history a more glorious
record for the American people and hui
mainly than that made by the Mckinley
administration through the war with
Spain n the discharged duties arising
therefrom. Cuba's experience with Am
erican good faith and American genius
for good government is little over a year
old. yet absolute order is already restOr-
ed. The novelty Of a treasury surplus is
seen; soldiers of fortune are transformed
into h~usbandman; industry supplants
idleness; waste places are fruitful; the
pulse of industry thrObes anew
Mr.. Sherman commented on the growth
of the army and navy. saying that it vas
a healthful deve opment commensurate
only with our increased needs and re-
! sp~onsibilities. and that the bugbear OF
militarism in the European sense need
not be dreaded in this country. He spoke
in high terms of the Porto Rican tariff
bill as an equitable and p~hilanthropic
method Of relieving the distress now pre-
valent in the sland.
Touching the gold standard, Mr.. SHEER
man said it had already brought US q
credit greater h a that attained hereto
fore by any other nation. enabling us tc
float our public obligations at a lower
rate than even Great Britain herself. II
Mr.. Sherman praised the administrator
of Governor Roosevelt and commended
the selection of Messrs, Plat. Depew
! Roosevelt and Odell for delegates-a4.