The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-08
PIanks on Everything Under
the Sun Presented by
Enthusiasts.
REPORT WILL BE MADE
AT 10 O'CLOCK THURSDAY
SENATOR DUBOIS INSISTS THAT
AN ANTI-MoRMoN DEcLARA-
TON Is CERTAIN.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Rv n MKAY


. Especial to The Herald.
I: Denver, July 7.-Senator Dubois =
= tonight asserts that he has not =
= yet prepared the Mormon plank y
= which he intends to have present
:. ed to the resolutions committee. 1t .
:. is not likely he said. that the =
s. resolution will go to the platform ::
4. committee before some time to- =
g morrow.
= DO you think the committee =
1. will accept your plank" Senator :
{. Dubois was asked. y
4. Its cinch." he answered =
4. know those fellows and they have =
:. assured me they are for such -
9 plank"
!: Senator Dubois said that while -
= he has not yet outlined the plank. -
= IL will be stronger than the reso- =
8 luton adopted FOUR years ago at =
:. the st. Louis convention.
Denver July Immediately after
being called to order at $50 O'Clock the
platform COMMITTEES of the Democratic
national convention proceeded to carry
out the wishes of Mr.. Bryan by electins
Governor Charles n. Haskell of Okla
homa as permanent chairman. The
committee then decided to entrust the
details of the preparation of the plat
form to a subcommittee of nineteen
members. to be appointed by the chair;
but before these appointments were an
nounced the full committee listened TO
arguments in support of various planks
which will be offered for adoption.
l.I.ud Wafarw.vs
The first of the hearings was on the
subject of the improvement of the IN
land waterways. Governor Broward oil
Florida argued that liberal pro-
nouncement in favor of the improve
ment of the water courses of the in
terror would prove the means of OBJ
tanning support for the ticket in sucl
states as New York, Illinois and Ohio
and therefore urged the proposition a:
a matter of practical politics.
Richmond Pearson Hobson. congress
man from Alabama, presented ples
for the increase of the navy, and il
doing so declared that this country |:
| in imminent danger of war with ia
pan.
Hobson Predicts War;
He predicted that this war would taxi
| place during the next presidential ad
| ministration, and believing that TIT
! Democratic party will then be in pow
er. he said that il it did not maxi
proper preparations by additions to thu
navy the party will be ground TO pow
der. He declared that Japan is GOV
etous. not of the Philippines alone. bu
of Hawaii and our own Pacific coas
country. Regarding japan as a grea
fighting machine. he said that it wa
absolutely necessary that proper pro
vision should be made to guard our in
| terests against that power.
| Mr. Hobson said that he based hi
| statements upon inside information.
At the conclusion of Hobson's ad
dress at 7:20 p. M, the committee tool
a recess until $50 O'Clock.
Labor Leaders Present.
After a recess OF two hours for din
ner the committee resumed its hearings
taking I'D the labor question.
Samuel Gompers. president OF tn
American Federation of Labor: Johl
Mitchell and other labor leaders wer
present They presented for the con
sideration Of the committee the sugges
tons which were rendered to the reso
buttons committee of the Chicago con
vention and asked that they be incor
porated in the platform.
Addressing the committee In supper
of the resolutions. Mr.. Gompers spok
of their failure to secure recognition
from the Republican national conven
ton at Chicago.
I'VE asked them for bread and W
received a stone," he said. The Repub
Iican injunction declaration he declare
to be an endorsement of 1.-The existin
abuse of the law" He asked the Dem
ocrats to "either leave the subject en-
tirely out Of the platform or adopt
real remedy for the wrongs complaine
Of" He reviewed the decision of tn
supreme court in the hatters' cast
which held labor unions TO be trusts G
illegal combinations in restraint c
trade under the antitrust law. Nj
Gompers made an earnest plea for
amendment of that law
Object Of Sherman Law.
He declared that it had never bee
contemplated that the Sehrman La