The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-12
Two More States Declare for
Roosevelt in 1904.
AGAINST RECIPROCITY.
Beet Sugar Men Of Deseret Were
in Control.
Hetty Green's Son Campaign
Manager in Lone Star State.

Ogden, Utah, Sept 12.-The Republi-
can state convention nominated James
Howell of Wellsville. Cache county. for
congress. Judge william McCarty. of
Sewer county. for supreme court JUS
tice. and adopted platform in which
mention of Cuban reciprocity was
omitted On this point the beet sugar
interests Of the state won out after q
somewhat bitter and protracted debate.
in the committee on resolutions. Friends
of Congressman Sutherland, who was
one of the Republican "insurgents'' on
the reciprocity question in the last ses-
sion OF congress were determined that
specific endorsement of the presidents
policy should have no place in the plat
form and this policy prevailed. In this
they were aided by the church people,
who insisted that a compromise plat
form cordially endorsing President
Roosevelts administratio ton be adopted
but leaving out direct reference to the
proposed 20 per cent reduction So
strong was the feeling over the feature
that had the original programme as re-
CARDS the order of business been ear
ried out. it is probable that an un-
pleasant incident would have occurred.
United States Senator Beveridge of In
diana, was scheduled to deliver speech
In the evening, marking the formal OPP
ening of the Republican campaign in
Utah.
This programme was changed to have
Senator Beveridge speak at the close
of the morning session. When the beet
sugar sympathfzers heard OF this they
openly threatened to give him hostile
reception, believing it a plan to infu-
ence the convention in favor of a Gu
ban reciprocity plank, the results being
that the programme was changed, Sem
ator Beveridge speaking In the evening.
Then with the platform adoDted the
delegates more than made up for their
refusal to hear him in the morning by
greeting him with wild cheering. An
amendment to the platform. offered by
Congressman Sutherland. declaring It
to. be the sense of the convention that
President Roosevelt be nominated for
president in 1904 as his own successor" "
was carried with whoop, the delegates
standing in their seats and cheering for
some time.
The platform as adopted deplores the
death OF President Mckinley. recognizes
in Theodore Roosevelt his worthy sue
cessor and expresses unqualified ap-
proyal of his administration 1t en-
dorses the Republican national plat
form of 1900 favors the protective tariff
as it now exists, recognizes the right Of
labor to organize for its own protection
and favors a national board of arbitra-
ton to decide controversies between
capital and labor. 1t favors the passage
of laws providing for governmental
supervision and control of trusts. II
condemns unjust and oppressive aggre-
cations of capital. but also condemns
/ the Democratic policy of destruction
az regards corporations; Democratic as
saults on the armv and navy are con-
| demned as being purely partisan and
productive of rebellion and bloodshed.
The government Is congratulated on the
| final steps towards building an inter
oceanic canal Stringent immigration
laws are demanded. Senator Kerns' ef-
| forts to open the Uintah Indian reserva-
| tfon and in behalf of irrigation laws are
heartily commended.