Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-01
Has BUSY SESSION
Indians Fspublican Convention
Meets Wltid = Heavy Task
$ Before It.
WILL ENDORSE FAIRBANKS
Full! State Ticket to 6e Named-Rev.
eridse in Address Advocates
Tariff Reform.

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g Indianapolis, Ind. April Indiana
republicans went into state conven.
ton today to adopt platform, to for
mally present to the country Charles
Warren Fairbanks as their choice for
the presidency, to instruct the 80 In
diana delegates to the national con-
vention to vote and persistently work
for his nomination, and to name
state ticket. Representative Over
street was temporary chairman and
Representative ]. C. Clancy perma-
nent. The delegates at large to the
national convention will be Senators
Beveridge and Hemenway, Governor
Hanly and James p Goodrich, chair
man of the state committee.
Wants County Local Option.
1t was agreed by large majority
of party leaders that the most promi-
nent planks in the platform, in addi.
tion to strong resolution instructing'
for Fairbanks, should be one favoring
local option, with the county as a
unit. and another urging a revision
of the tariff by special session of CON:
gress, to be called Immediately after
the fall election.
The resolutions committee, when it
went into session. did not expect to be
able to reach the platform before very
late this evening or tomorrow. At
the opening of the convention this af-
ternoon, Overstreet delivered the key
note address. followed by speeches by
Senators Beveridge and Hemenway
and Governor Hanly, who confined his
talk to a discussion of state issues.
wonid Chnnge sherman Law.
Beveridge said in part:
I'VE must revise the Sherman law.
1t is nearly 20 years old in fact and
a century old in spirit. It penaiizes
dishonest combination, and that is
right but also 1t manacies honest
business, and that is wrong. Busi-
ness is the name for the trade activi.
ties of the people. Free its hands
unshackle its feet. Only upon the
ldishonest let the ball and chain be
locked. Strike only that business
which pliers from the people; but
help all business that serves the peo.
pie. Our watchword is justice. For
the pirates of business the yardarm
or the plank; but for honest business
the open seas and welcoming ports.
Tariff Must be Revised
"The tariff must be revised imme.
diately after the presidential election.
To revise it now would lock up bust
ness for months of disaster and doubt.
He who would refuse to revise the
tariff Immediately after the presiden.
tial election is too ancient to be
trusted; he who would revise the tar.
Tiff on the eve of the presidential cleo
tion is too hypocritical to be tolerated
But the earliest possible revision oi
the tariff is the will of the people be
cause it is the demand of conditions
and to the peoples will and changing
conditions Bourbon, obstruction must
yield. - NssSEss sseSsss1 -
| Fight ON Two Years Ago.
1.-TWO years ago some of us began
this fight. We were met with AFRO
i gance from those who think that the
world does not move; from interest:
whom the tariff properly protected
when it was made, but whom changed
conditions now enable to act like
Ihighwaymen to other honest interests
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