The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-12
BEET SUGAR MEN
 WIN THEIR POINT
They at First Refused to Hear
 Senator Beveridge
CHANGE OF MIND LAYER ON
After the Platform Desired Was Adopt cd the Sugar Men Gave the h. diana Senator Housing Well
 come-Endorse Roosevelt.

Ogden, Utah. September 1.-The re- publican state convention today nomi- mated Joseph Howell of wellsville. Cache county. for congress and Judge William McCarty of Sevler county for supreme court justice, and adopted a platform in which mention of Cuban reciprocity was omitted. On this point the beet sugar interests in this state won out after 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 session of congress, demanded that specific en- dorsement of the Presidents Cuban pol icy should have no place in the platform and they prevailed. Tn this they were aided by the church people, who insisted that a compromise platform cordially endorsing President Roosevelt's admin istration be adopted. but leaving direct reference to the proposed 20 per cent re- duotion out of the platform.
 Senator Beveridge of Indiana was scheduled to deliver a speech tonight. marking the formal opening of the re- publican campaign in Utah. This pro- sramme was changed last night to have Senator Beveridge speak at the close of the morning session today. When the beet sugar sympathizers heard of this they openly threatened to give him a hostile reception, believing 1t a plan to influence the convention in favor of a Cuban reciprocity plank. the result be- ing that the programme was changed, Senator Beveridge speaking tonight.
 Then with the platform adopted the del- egates more than made up for their re- fusal to hear Beveridge in the morning 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 Pres .dent Roosevelt be nominated for Presi- dent in 1904 as his own successor" was carried with a whoop, the delegates standing in thelr 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 approval of his administration. It endorses the re- publican national platform of 1900, favors l the protective tariff as 1t now exists, recognizes the right of labor to organize for its own protection and favors na- tional boerd of arbitration to decide con troversies between capital and labor. It favors the passage of laws providing for governmental supervision and control of trusts. It condemns unjust and oppres- sive aggregations of capital" but also condemns the democratic policy of de struction" as regards corporations. Dem oeratic assaults on the army and navy are condemned as being purely partisan and productive of rebellion and blood- shed. The government Is congratulated on the final steps toward building an inter-oceanic canal. Stringent immigra- tion laws are demanded.
 Senator Kearns' efforts to open the Un- itah Indian reservation and in behalf of | irrigation laws are heartily commended