The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-14
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Washington, u. c.. June IL.
The platform which the Republicans
will adopt at Chicago next week Will
BIO substantially the one adopted by
the Democrats in that city twelve
years ago. when they nominated Will
liam j. Bryan to the presidency. The
Republican platform has been practi-
cally completed.
There have been no serious efforts
to keep Its principal features from the
public. II is known that with the ex-
ception of declaring for the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver, the plat
form on Which Secretary Taft Will
stand will be so nearly the one upon
which Mr.. Bryan stood twelve years
ago that only the most careful study
can reveal the difference.
After the free coinage plank the
chief features iof the Democratic plat
sorm adopted at Chicago in 1906 were
the declaration for legislation limiting
the power of the Federal courts in the
matter OF granting injunctions; for an
income tax; for revision of the tariff.
for glslation regulating trusts and
other corporations.
The Republican platform will contain
a declaration for legislation limiting
the power of the Federal courts in the
matter of granting injunctions; for an
income or inheritance tax; for revt-
sion of the tariff: for Legislation regu-
lating trusts and other corporations.
1t is altogether one of the most stril1-
ing situations which has ever devel-
oped In national politics. Within
twelve years of the adoption by one
party of platform on which 1t went
to defeat the dominant party in the
country takes almost precisely the
same platform and goes before the peo-
pie in the confident expectation of
victory.
There is good reason TO believe that
the original promulgators of the prin-
ciples which their opponents derided
and belittled a dozen years ago and
have now adopted, Will have to be
even more radical in their pronounce
ments at Denver In order to satisfy
| the sentiment in their own party and
the sentiment of the country.
VIII Tic Bryan Convention.
Tho Democratic convention at Den
yer will be as distinctly Bryan in 1905
as the Chicago convention in 1896 was
distinctly anti-Cleveland. No Demo
cratic conventionAup to 1896. perhaps
| ever had in 1t MS delegates SO many
men new to politics. More than one
| half of the delegates had never beer
| to national convention before
Throughout tho country the Democrats
were lined up as Cleveland and anti
Cleveland men. Upon this Issue dele
| gates to the national convention We're
elected, and it was q dominant issue o.
the convention?
| Tho Timetable League, of which
| Senator Isham G. Harris, OF Tennessee
and the late SenatortJones We're prom
| inent members, had taken an active
part In the election5of delegates to the
Chicago convention, and upon assem-
bling In Chicago the Bimetallie
League headquarters became tho centre
OF the nnti-Cleveland Following.
For ten days or more before the
convention met two meetings day
were held In the headquarters Of til.
Rimctallc League, with Senator Har
/ his, with his gold-headed cano, pre-
siding. This can was inseparable from
| the old Senator, and he used 1t In call
| ing the meetings to order and In main
| tnining order during the meeting,
AS delegates arrived in Chicago the!
We're met ut tho various trains by run
ners OF the Rlmetallic League nnt
brought to Headquarters, which lwer'
! at the Sherman House.
How Daniel Iseat lYili.
Several days before the convention
A met the National Democratic Commit
tee, which had been dominated by TIL
Cleyelatfd forces, selected Senate
David n. Hill. OF New York, as tn
temporary chairman OF the conyentiol
This WAS y challenge to tho anti