Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-12
CHEER NAME OF ROOSEVELT
Utah Republican Convention Goes
wild 1T MentiOn of the Presi-
dent in = Speech.

OGDEN. Utah. Sept. 1.-THE republican
| convention called to nominate candidates
| for congress and Justice OF the supreme
\ court was called to order In the opera
/ house this morning by Chairman Farley
| Christensen Of the republican state COM
| mittee
The chief interest. outside Of the question
whether or not to endorse the Cuban recip-
| rocity plan OF President Roosevelt. which
was expected to result in lively fight, CEN
! tered in the nomination for congress. The
! friends Of both Fire Chief James Devine Of
| Salt Lake and Joseph Howell of Cache
/ county claimed their nomination on the
! first ballot. The fight between these two
was considered so close that much talk was
| heard OF a possible deadlock and a dark
/ horse winning. The fight for the supreme
| court justiceship lay between Judge Jacob
| johnson Of San Pedro county and Judge
| William McCarty of Sewer.
! Chairman Christensen introduced John
! d. Murphy Of Ogden as temporary chairman.
! who delivered q somewhat extended address.
His reference to President Roosevelt
brought the convention to its feet cheering
wildly.
The man on horseback who now occup es
the presidential chair at Washington said
/ Chairman Murphy, has in truth captured
I
Beveridge was to speak at the close OF
the morning session today. When the beet
sugar sympathizers heard Of this they
openly threatened to give him hostile re-
! ception, believing It plan to influence the
convention in favor OF Cuban reciprocity
plank the result being that the program
| was changed, Senator Beveridge speaking
! this evening. Then. with the platform
! adopted the delegates more than made up
for their refusal to hear him in the morn
! ing by greeting him with wild cheering.
An amendment to the platform. offered
| by Congressman Sutherland, declaring 1t
| to be the sense Of the convention that
! president Roosevelt be nominated tor
/ president in 1904 as his own successor
was carried with a 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 success
! sor and expresses unqualified approval of
his administration. 1t endorses the repub-
| lican national platform OF 1900. favors the
protective tariff as It now exists. recog-
! nizes the right Of labor to organize for Its
| own protection and fayors a national board
| Of arbitration to decide controversies be-
| tween capital and labor.
| 1t favors the passage OF laws providing
| for governmental supervision and control
of trusts. II condemns unjust and op-
! pressive aggregations OF capital" but also
! condemns the democratic policy of de-
struction" as regards corporations; demo-
cratic assaults on the army and navy are
! condemned as being purely partisan and
| productive of rebellion and bloodshed. The
government is congratulated on the final
steps toward building an interoceanic
canal Stringent immigration laws are
| demanded.
Senator Kearns' efforts to open the Uin-
| tab Indian reservation and in behalf OF
! Irrigation laws were heartily cummsnded.
United States Senator Beveridge of In
diana opened the republican campaign in
Utah tonight, speaking at the opera house
before the delegates to the republican state
convention. The senator was given close
! attention and was frequently applauded.
| United States senators Clark and War
rem Of Wyoming were also present and
| spoke briefly