The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-05-27
CONVENTION DECIDES
TO TAKE A n[C:SS
illinois Republicans Will Go
Home Until May 81, Then
Try 1t Again.
CANDIDATES HAD AGREED
Before the Fifty-Eighth This Morning
They Arranged for thc Adjourn
ment-contest One of the Most
Remarkable Known.
CANDIDATES HAD
FIRST AND LAST BALLOTS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Necessary to nominate, 752.
Springfield. ILL.,. May 23.-The repub-
lican state convention was called to or
der at 1910. a. m. last Friday and the
fifty-eighth ballot Immediately pro-
ceeded with the result as follows:
Yates, 4S3: Lowden. 3921A; Deneen.
3S5A; Hamlin. 113; Warner, SO; Sher-
man. &c: Pierce. 20.
Senator Gardner, then moved the con-
v%ention adjourn until . p. M, May 81.
Adopted. The convention then ad-
journed at 1850 a. m.
All the candidates for governor this
morning agreed to adjourn until one
week from mex Tuesday, Immediately
after the completion Of the ffty-eighth
ballot.
The vote on the motion to adjourn
a Yeas, 1,414; nays, IS. The dele
gates rushed from the hal cheering and
the bands playing Home, Sweet
Home"
A Remarkable Struggle.
The Illinois convention is one of the
most remarkable ever known. 1t.
oPSiiSd OI AiuISCdS, May IL, ana mas
therefore been in session eight days,
not counting Sunday, without accom-
plish!ng anything toward nominating a
head for the ticket.
The pre-convention fight had been
bitter. Cook county had divided be-
tween Lowden and Deneen. being SOL
Idly against Gov. Yates. The governor
led in the rural parts of the state:
Deneen had the majority of Cook
county; Lowden had the minority of
Cook and some country support, to-
gether with the corporation influences,
the railroads. etc; Deneen was sup
ported by the advocates of honest adj
ministration and emancipation from
corporation influences. standing on his
splendid record as prosecutor of Cook
county. Attorney General Hamlin and
former Speaker Sherman of the Illi-
nois house represented much the same
general sentiment as Deneen.
Like Missouri's Fight.
Illinois fight was very similar to that
element in the republican party TO es-
cape from corruption which is based on
patronage and the brides of corpora
lions. The franchises of the city of
Chicago are The great prize in Illinois
politics. Deneen stands for the pro-
lection OF the public from the franchise
filchers. Cook county hates Yates be-
49, III i41o ltV WIN lilS ollipt
machine that has sought to use the
legislature to despoil the city. Deneen
has one a great work towards purging
Illinois republicanism, just as Folk did
a wonderful work toward regenerat-
ing the democracy of Missouri. Each
vas brought into the ~gubernatorial race
on the strength Of his record as prose-
cutor. Folk has won; Deneen has thus
far failed because the Illinois machine
is more powerful than the Missouri
boodlers' organization.
How little progress has been made
toward q nomination in Illinois may
be seer from the figures given above.
the adjournment will give the politi-
clans a chance to do business. Deneen's
chances Would seem much decreased as
q result of 1t.
The Platform.
The platform reaffirms the princi-
pies expressed in the national plat
form of 1900. 1t views with satisfaction
the fultilment Of republican pledges
and the proofs of republican fidelity
by the achievements Of the party. Con-
tinuing. the platform lays
we again pledge the party to the
maintenance of the gold standard and
to financial legislation that will secure
equal justice to all.
WV Jul ioSilly " lIle pro-
tective tariff policy which has adj
vanced us to the position of the fore
most industrial nation. The prospect
Of general revision Of the tariff by the
democratic party, whose leaders in
congress are free traders, as their rec
and workshops. throw labor out of en-
%ployment, reduce the price of products
Of the farm, bring on general distress
and p%aralyze the industries Of the ma
ton.
we favor such appropriations by
congress as shall place our navy in
point of strength and efficiency in it's
proper position among the navies Of
the world"
A high tribute is paid to Secretary
Hay for his course in maintaining the
open door policy In the orient, and the
policy Of the democratic party is de-
nounced in its desire to abandon the
Philippines. The attitude of congress
and of Roosevelt for courageous and
vigorous prosecution of violators of
the Sherman antitrust law is COM
mended and such further legislation as
may be required for the regulation of
trusts is faovred.
Roosevelt Instructions.
The resolutions proceed: I'VE COM
mend the wise. able and vigorous adj
ministration of President Roosevelt,
and we hereby instruct the delegates
from this convention to the national
republican convention to contribute by
their influence and votes to his nomi-
nation"
The administration Of Gov. Yates and
the state officers is Endorsed and Sen
ators Cullom and Hopkins and Speaker
Cannon n the congressional delega-
ton are commended for patriotic and
untiring devotion TO public duty.
The delegates are instructed to use
all. honorable meal to secure the nom
ination Of Robert R. Hit for vice pres
ident.
The death of the late Marcus A.
Hanna is feelingly referred to. The
state legislature is commended for the
enactment Of the convict labor law;
and the enactment of q primary cleo
ton law and an efficient and compre
hensive civil service law, applicable to
all state employees. is recommended.
and voters without regard to party are
urged to assist in the adoption of the
ameudmeut to the constitution emnoW.