The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-20
Programme of Proceeding Of the
National Convention.
Lodge OF Massachusetts to Be
Chairman Of Resolutions.
CANNON TO PRESIDE.
VIII Take the GaVeI From Root
on Wednesday.
Nomination Of Roosevelt viii
Take Place Thursday.

/ Chicago. June 2O.-When the national
Republican convention assemblies Tues
day Elfhu Root. former secretary OF
war, will be introduced as temporary
chairman. He will deliver a speech OF
a half hour in length in which he will
outline the questions on which the Re-
publican party will make its campaign
of the year.
The speech has been prepared and has
been submitted to President Roosevelt
and his most trusted advisers. Tt meets
with their full approval and win be the
key note" speech of the campaign It
will favor q. careful modification of the
tariff schedules.
Having accomplished this mucn. the
convention will adjourn and wait for
the various reports from the commit
tees. This viii end the first days ses-
sion of the convention
/ 1t Is generally understood that SEN
ator Henry Cabot Lodge. Of Massa-
chusetts. will be named as chairman Of
/ the resolutions or platform COMMITTEES.
Of the platform, ana II mas been care
| fully inspected by President Roosevelt
and other party leaders The utterance
! on the subject Of tariff reform viii be
/ the one which will be given most ser
i ious consideration by party leaders, in
volving the question whether the party
shall stand pat''-that is. stand for the
tariff laws without mooihcation-or
whether the resolutions shall be in
favor of some amendments to the pres
ent tariff schedules
The resolutions will discuss trusts
labor. immigration, statehood and 9TH
er subjects.
1 The credentials committee win ind
its chief business in the consideration
of the contest over the four delegates
at-large from Wisconsin. The recon-
mendatfons of the national committee
which has been considering the eonIests
this week viii govern IN most OF lnese
cases brought before the credentials
committee.
+ The committee on order OF bust
Il prescribes the rules and order OF
business which viii govern the con-
vention, and names the permanent
officers who viii have charge OF the
conventions deliberations
The committee will select Joseph c.
Cannon as permanent chairman, w z,
stone as sergeaut-at-arms, and
Charles W. Johnson as permanent
secretary.
Wednesdays Programme.
Wednesday the convention viii be
called TO order by Temporary Chair
man Root, who viii receive the re-
ports from the committee on creden-
tials and permanent organization and
order of business and these reports
having been adopted, COMMITTEES
! will be named to escort to the chair
Joseph G. Cannon
Permanent Chairman Cannon. viii
then deliver a speech similar in char
acter to that of Temporary Chairman
Root, dealing with the issues Of the
campaign. This speech has been
carefully prepared. and will also form
a part OF the campaign literature and
be embodied in the text.
Then viii come the report OF the
committee which has framed up the
platform. Senator Lodge Will report
the resolutions which may have been
agreed upon in committee and IL is
safe to predict that these resolutions
viii be in favor of no notifications
of the present tariff schedules. The
platform will be adopted with cheers
This Will end the second days ses-
sion It is the plan to work in a few
good-natured partisan speeches,
either on the first or second day Of the
session, merely by way Of diversion,
and the proceedings may be length
ened somewhat for this purpose. j.
Adam Beded, the humorist from Min
nesota, has been mentioned as one o.
the spellbinders.
Thursdays Session.
Thursdays session viii be devoted
to the nomination Of Theodore RoOse-
velt and the selection of some candi-
date for vice president In the nom
ination of Roosevelt there will be a
liberal display of oratory. The priu-
cipal nomination speech viii be made
by former Governor Frank Black or
New York, and no less than five sec
OnGins speeches will follow. Senator
BeVeridge Of Indiana will come after
y Black and after him will come 4 col
ored man from Baltimore, Nd, and
], other orators, one from Minnesota
ore from Georgia and one from san
/ Francisco.
The roll Of states viii be called al
phabetically preliminary to the nomfna-
ton of Roosevelt and each state will
4 be asked If it has a candidate to pre-
| sent. There will be none until New
York is reached, when Black viii re-
sDond-
After the secondfng speeches have
been delivered someone viii move that
/; the nomination OF Roosevelt be made
by acclamation, and it win be carried
: with a ThoOp.
. Then the convention will proceed to
! the choice of a candidate for vice pres
ident. and again each state viii be call
, ( ed upon in Alphabetical order to present
/ the name of it's candidate. After the
: favOrite sons have been presented the
I real deIiberatiOn and caucussinE viii
, I Ia ke place and finally a candidate Sc
lected for this position At the present
, time It looks as if 1t might be Senator
Charles w. Fairbanks Of Indiana, al
though there is a strong sentiment in
| favor Of Robert r. Hit, whose name
viii be presented by Illinois, and who
viii have seconds from a number Of
other states.
other candidates in the running ara
Stephen r. Elkins, Of West Virginia,
] John l. Webster. OF Nebraska, and
Wall, of Wisconsin. There is a posi-
bility that the convention might be
stampeded to Joseph G. Cannon-who is
, ready in that event to deliver a speech
s declining the honor.
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