The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-22
COMMITTEE WHISTLES
WITH THE PLATFORM

the green room of the Auditorium An
mex hotel Immediately after the con-
Vention adjourned and organized by
electing- Senator Lodge, of Massachu-
sets. as chairman; Senator Clark, of
Wyoming, as secretary, and r. G..
Proctor, of Massachusetts. as clerk.
The chair was then authorized to APP
point a subcommittee of thirteen to
prepare the platform. The committee
then adjourned to meet again at
o'clock
Upon reassembhng Senator Lodge
announced the following subcommittee
to formulate the platform:
Senator Lodge, Massachusetts; SEN
ator Gallinger, New Hampshire; Ed
ward l.. Auterbach, New York; Repre-
sentative DalZeI, Pennsylvania; Sena-
tor Foraker, Ohio; Senator Hopkins,
Illinois; Senator Clark, Wyoming;
Senator Nelson, Minnesota; Senator
HansbrOugh, North Dakota; Senator
Hepburn, Idaho; John W. Blythe,
Iowa; Senator Beveridge, Indiana, and
Frank H. Short, California.
The committee listened to a delega-
ton of woman suffragists, and also to
Representative Bartholdt, of Missouri.
who presented an international arbi-
tration plank.
Speaks for the Women
Mrs Catherine Waugh McCulloch,
of Chicago, spoke for the women's del
egation. She said all that was wanted
was plank in the platform favoring
constitutional amendment preventing
the diSfranchiSement of citizens of the
United States because of sex. She
then introduced Mrs. Harriet Taylor
Upton, of Ohio. AS Mrs. Upton swept
the room with gaze, she spied Sena-
tor Foraker in far corner. Il think
l will address my remarks to Senator
Foraker" she began, and the commit
tee laughed. Il am not afraid of the
senator, and besides 1 have had to
listen to him speak" The laugh at the
senator's expense grew.
Mrs Upton admitted that she was in
politics and liked it. She is an elected
member of an Ohio school board and
chairman of a committee. I'VE are not
asking anything very hard" she went
on, land if this committee was COM
posed of real citizens you would jump
right out of that window to do our bid
ding
Mrs. Clara Parker Woolley and Rev.
Olympia Brown, Of Wisconsin, made a
plea for the plank. Both speakers
quoted President Roosevelt in favor of
the movement.
Representative Bartholdt's plank read
as follows:
We favor the peaceful settlement of in
ternational differences by arbitration and
advocate the negotiation of arbitration
treaties between the government of the
United States and the governments of
other nations.
Ralph Loveland, a member Of the
committee, presented q plank pledg-
ing the party to further Improvement
of waterways, but that such improve
ments be confined to channels within
the United States. He said great deal
of T-iX nd h9P hear
done in Canadian waters
An application was made for hear
ing by the Afro American league and
Negro Suffrage association. A peon-
age plank was presented by Delegate
H. L. Johnson, of Georgia.
The full committee then adjourned
until 10 o'clock tomorrow.
Lodge Presents Platform
When the subcommittee met, Sem
ator Lodge for the first time presented
| his draft of a platform, saying that it
| was intended largely as a basis for
| action by the committee His draft
| included a plank strongly commencing
| the established Republican policy on
| the tariff and presenting in terse Ian
| guage the necessity for maintaining
| the protective policy in the interest of
| American labor and American indus
| tries. Added to this was a declaration
| committing the party to a readjust-
| ment of the schedules if found to be
| desirable in the future.
There was also mild declaration on
! the subject of reciprocity and a pro-
| nouncement against trusts, but with a
| reservation in the interest of "estab-
| hshed, legitimate industries" In this
| connection 1T congratulated the party
| upon the legislation on the trust ques-
| ton which has been secured since Mr..
Roosevelt became president.
There were also planks dealing with
! the isthmian canal and the policy of
! the United States towards Cuba, upon
| which the Republican party is felici-
tated. 1t also contained a declaration
| In favor of encouraging American
| shipping
Mr.. Lodges draft did not contain
| any declaration on the success of the
| arbitration of the Canadian boundary
| question, but other MEMBERS Of the
| committee suggested a plan covering
that point, the remark being made
| that the fact that Senator Lodge had
| been member of that commission
should not stand in the way of a prop
er presentation of it in view of its inn
/ portance. Suggestions made by out
slders We're considered, but none of the
propositions, including those presented
/ by Senator Lodge, was more than
/
and members of the committee ex-
pressed the belief that many changes
would be made before the final dc-
ceptance of the platform.
| The fight between the contestine
delegates at large for Louisiana was
three hours long and terminated by the
| decision of the committee to seat all
four delegates at large from the Lily
| White faction and an equal number
from the BLACK and Tans,'' each dele
| gate to have one-haIf of a vote. The
| four Lily White delegates seated by
| the convention are Pearl Wight, III. g
! Warmoth. w. J. Behan and L. r
| Suthon. The four Black and Tans who
| hold over are Walter c. Cohen. Emil
| Kuntz, Grant Farrar and H. B. n
| Brown.
The original draft Of the platform
| contained no reference to the question
| OF poiygamy, and at a late hour the
| question had not been taken up. SEN
| ator Smoot says that there will be nc
utteranee whatever concerning polyg-
| amy
The early morning developed a ten
| dency towards the adoption of the tar
if policy outlined by the Massachu-
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