The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-14
HIT TO BE ! TICKETS TAIL. Load Lifted From PreSi-
 dents Mind. PLATFORM IS PREPARED New Plans to Make Chicago
 Convention Lively.
PLATFORM IS PREPARED
Platt and Odell, spocner and LaFol- iette, Dick and Feraker, win Do the Heavenly Twins Acts for
 Ceuntry's Appreciation.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Ca1orada RuiJ1tur

AdVeftiSer Bureau,
 Colorado Building,
 Washington. May 1s.
 Roosevelt and Hit it will be after the Chicago convention.
 The agonizing at the White House over choice for the second place on the ticket has been greatly relieved within the last twenty-four hours by the frank admission of Congressman Robert R. Hit that he would regard the nomination for Vice. President as a great honor.
 The Republicans profess to he great ly satisfied with the prospect of Mfr. Hit on the ticket. There is now little doubt in any quarter that he will re- ceive the nomination.
 Representative Hit is 70 years old His first public service was as Secre- tary and charge de affairs interim at Paris from December. 1874. until March. 1881. He was Assistant Secretary of State in 1881. He entered Congress in December of that year and has served continuously since. most of the time when the Republicans controlled the House, being Chairman of the Commit tee on Foreign Affairs Mir. Hit ranks among the ablest men of the party and as Chairman of the Committee with which he has been identified almost a
 
 no little skill and acumen. He is a wealthy man and maintains one of the handsomest of the many elegant man. sions in Washington.
 Hitt Not So Forcible.
 Tn the event of his election he would at least enhance the secret prestige of the administration. He is not so for cible a political factor, in the judgment of the Democrats. as to affect the Roosevelt candidacy one way or an- other.
 The Republican national platform, according to the most reliable informa- ton ohtainabIe, iA even ready for adop- tion by the Natt convention at chi. cago.
 MT Roosevelt. having decided upon his running mate, has also made up his mind what the platform shall be. All the convention will have to do will be to meet and ratify his determination and do his will with the requisite amount of vociferous exclamation.
 The Washington Star, the only or gan which the administration seems to have this evening saysi
 ''The Star is in position to state with authority that the platform has been drafted. It is not brief and color less document, as predicted by some. but an adequate. strong ana compre- hensive statement of Republican prin- ciples. There is no back-tracking on any proposition, not even the tariff. There are no sops thrown to any in- terests factions or classes.
 Platform Not Meaningless.
 "It is a platform to fight on and to fight for; it is a brave and frank dec- laration. by which the Republican party will be ready to stand or fall. There will be no squabbling in the convention over the plat form The draft, which now is in hand, will be scanned by prominent Re- publican leaders within the next five weeks. and when the document finally is presented to the Committee on Plat form at Chicago, it will be adopted without amendment.
 Tt will be reported to the conven- tion and no amendment will be made there. No policy forms bone of con tention among the Republicans at pres ent. It is stated that the questions of dealing with the trusts and with tariff revision have been settled satisfacto- rily and in a way to attract the criti- cism of no Republican faction"
 With the candidates practically se- lected in advance, and with the plat form satisfactory, the Chicago conven- tion may be rather tame. Having this in view, the Republican managers are now setting themselves to work to get up some enthusiasm. They realize that it would never do to let the word get around that the con vention was a frost"
 A Harmony Demonstration.
 That might discourage the boys. So it proposed to turn the convention into a kind of love feast a demonstration of harmony and enthusiasm. The ob- ject, of course, would be to present contrast to the divided Democracy which will hold its show few days later, and which is expected to be gorgeous spectacle of discord and par ty acrimony.
 At the Chicago show, there will be harmony, speeches and much shouting. Platt and Odell will do a grand dance and song around the hatchet, and Dick and others will do the twin brother act before the eyes of the country.
 It will be a big Roosevelt demonstra- tion, and, If the plans of the politicians are successful, will start the fall cam paign with a whoop and huErah.
 Action of Indiana.
 The decisive vote by which the h. diana Democrats declared for Judge Parker is regarded and generally -ac- cepted here as going long way to- ward assuring the jurists nomination at St. Louis. The Hearst people had made a desperate fight with the help of a German sentiment for non-instruc- ton. The defeat of everything but a straight Barker ticket was a severe blow to the hopeful Gormanites here, to say nothing of q sickening jolt to the Hearstites There has been even to-day signs of retrenchment with view to less strain upon the check book, Four men of Hearsts large news bureau were dis charged to-day. the word being "A cut of expenses"
 Rsshnr6EOn's Visitationss. Hon. James D. Richardson of Tennes- see, who as Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the Southern juris- ! diction and the highest ranking Mason hanrfTnfnrs n-