The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-23
SPEAKER CANNON STIRS CONVENTION;
ADOPTPLATFORMB BY lJNANlMOUSV VOlE
Instrument Is Accepted With
out Dissenting Vote--Tarif
Plank Incorporated.
NO ANTI-PoL.lG I. CLAUSE o.:
Move to Cut Down Representa-
tives From States Which Have
Disfranchisement Laws.
fs,naniaI to Tha Dispatch.l

Especial to The Times -Dispatch.)
CHICAGO. ILL, June 22.-The Republi-
can national platform. with It's only two
important declarations, practically unin-8
teligible, was adopted to-day enthusi-E
astically and unanim ously having been
read from the rostrum by Senator Hen
ry Cabot Lodge, Of Massachusetts, full
Justice being done In the delivery to all 4
the points which 1t was proposed by the
committee to Impress upon The conven-. n
.ion-the two planks Of the platform
which make the Issues, on which the Re-
publicans will carry on the national cam
paign--tha tariff and the trusts, or
combinations OF capital" as the trusts
are euphoniously termed in the platfo orm.
The greatest interest attached to the
trust plank. It was known to be co11-
densed materially from Its original length
and meaning as brought over from Bos-S
| ton by Senator Lodge. sB}
The trust plank. as It was finally re- re-.
ported happenes to be in exact line with
the views OF Attorneys General Knox and
Senator j. B. Foraker, of Ohio. III
IT is known, for Instance, that Knox's
IDEAS are that there are good trusts and
bad trusts, and It Is equally known that
Senator Foraker stands for the prtncl-
PIE that the Sherman antitrust law
should be modified and q law passed
which would exclude from prosecution.
mbinatfons8 Of capital or ss trusts
which are & not in restraint Of trade.
@ The substance OF the plat form declara-
nfaC
and bad trusts will II lie prosecute A
Inlere platitude s} s I'M 81 \,
1T is said there was early this morn
Hing a disposition In the committee to
\ omit the trusts as q special plank. ind
refer to the subject only In q. general
way in the preamble or pref atory re-
mark s. II % sse
Senator Foraker. however, It Is re- re-
ported, aided by Delegate Edward Lau-
terbach, Insisted on al expression pr :'s ana an
the trust plank was Whipped into It's
present shape.
Attorney General Knox and Senator.
Foraker will probably be always identi-
fled with this plank.
The Tariff Plank.
"The genesis and final form OF the tariff
plank are even more interesting than the
history OF the so-caled trust plank.
The architects of the tariff are common
~ reported to be President Roosevelt, Sec
retary Shaw. Postmast General Payne,
Ed Lauterbach and Senators Allison and
Dolliver. Ed. Lauterbach represented
variety of interests before the committee
and nll- OF these were antagontstic to
tariff reduction, now or at any deflnitive
time In the future. ss5 VII
Senator Lodge. 1t, Is true, leaned to-
wards the Massachusetts plain, which
"looked more like" tariff revision than
any other State plank.
The stalwarts ruled the roost Dolliver
and Spooner especially rode rough shoa
over hte Immediate or early readjustment
idea, and were suppnrte ed by Allison, For
aker and Dalzell. #
The ablest lawyer on the committee
said this morning at o clock: Anyone
who had the name of Mr.. Lodges subcom- :
mlttee could easily tell what the tariff
plank would be, i 4.
The readju or revtslonists or what
ever the opposition to the Foraker-l4odge-
Galliner idea might be called, were ~ a
hopeless minority readjustment being
represented largely by Senator Nelson, OF
| washington: Senator HansbGrough, Of
| North Dakota, and Alex, Mckenzie, com
mitteenan from North Dakota
Readjustrnent Killed.
Reimbursement OF tho tariff was killed.
] Had the readjustment idea gone through
! for carly action one OF the biz combines
I to be attacked would be the lumber cons
! bination. another would pc the compltl, !, ,
tions that sell agricultural machinery and
there would be the men who control bag
ging un divine. The readjnstment WAS
asked for by tho farmers Of the north
vest, but nevertheless It was beaten dis
i astrIously All tho adjusters or reyisers
4 got out OF the platform is that When the
4 President and Congress got good ana
ready. they will consider the subject.
Most of the other statements OF prin-
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