The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-14

are giving some consideration to the /
vice presidential claims of Governor
Guild, OF Massachusetts,, and eS-Gover-
nor Franklin j. Murphy, OF New Jersey. !,
The latter's headquarters We're opened
to-day. and began to take on the d.
mansions of one of the presidential
establishments.
May Be Dolllycr.
Senator Delivers vice presidential
interests have undergone several ups
land downs during the day. y letter
from the senator Drought the Informs
ton that he did not iook with favor
on the use of his name tor second place
on the ticket. This cast something OF
a gloom over the more enthusiastic Doi- |
! liver supporters. Later they were
cheered by the arrival OF Senator Long, !
, direct from Mr.. Delivers home.
Though the Senator had no specific
assurances to give, neither had he any
encouragement, and the Dolliver move
ment was revived, with the feeling that
lii the lightning struck in the North
west 1t would find the Senator from
Iowa willing TO yield to tho behests OF
! his party.
The platform came in for renewed
consideration during the day, as Sena-
tor Hopkins, of Illinois, who is TO be
chairman of the resolutions committee.
Ellis. OF OHIO, who is the custodian
of the draft platform embodying the
jRoosevelt-Taf ideas. When ques-
toned as to the platform. Mr.. Hopkins
remarked: You can depend upon 1t,
there will be no platform until the
resolutions committee appointed by
| the convention considers it fully and
passes upon 1t finally
| Though this was accepted IS techni-
I 4, =
llieved that most of the essential fea-
lures of the coming document had
! been sketched WITH .cxactness and
awaited only the formal approval OF
1.-THE platform committee.
Allies to Make Fight.
/ Details OF the pla.. of the "allies" to
/ make a fight on the floor of the con-
| vention to reduce the representation Of
Southern States were made public to-
lday by Representative James Francis
| Burke, of Pennsylvania, manager for
I Senator Knox. The resolution, which
has been agreed upon by the allies
| and which will be offered on the floor
/ by Mr.. Burke. is as follows:
| Resolved. That the basis of repre-
sentaton in the Republican National
Convention hereafter shall be as fol-
lows:
Each State shall be entitled to four
/
! delegate for each 10000 votes, or ma
jority traction thereof, cast at the last
preceding presidential election for Re-
/, publican electors. and two delegates
/ from each Territory. the District of
Columbia. Alaska. Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippines"
Cut Out 100 Southcrners.
!, The introduction OF this resolution
lis the direct outcome of the dissatis-
faction felt by representatives or the
/, allies" with the manner in which the
recent contests before the national COM
mittee were decided. The charge was
made freely by the allies" that the
rights of Northern states necessary to
! Republican victory were being ignored
in the interest of gaining the delega-
/ lions from Southern States. which never
| give the party any votes In the cleo
1 toral college TO the candidate who So
/, cures control over Federal patronage.
If the resolution should be adopted It
4 would result in a reduction of about
1 l60 delegates from Southern States
I which invariably so Democratic.
! An increase of nearly 150 would be
made In the delegations from Northern
/ States and thus would be destroyed
1.-the possibility of a few Northern
Estates. aligned with the solid delega-
| tions from Southern States, controlling
4 Republlcan conventions III the future.
| Mr.. Burke said
! Old Quny Plnn.
',rhe necessity for this change has
! become apparent in the light of recent
/ developments. In the present conven-
|tion $50 delegates will be seated from
i States which. in twenty years, have not
1 even pretended to engage in a contest
for the election OF a Republican can
A ddate for the presidency. More than
that. the Republican vote in these
Staets Is rapidly disappearing. while
4 their representation remains as large
4 as ever. South Carolina IL now entitled
to a national delegate for every 136
+ Republican votes 1t cast. while Penn
sylvania receives but one delegate for
every l2.3G7 Republican votes; Illi-
nois one for every ll.716; Indiana one
for every 1925. Ohio one for every
4 l3046, and Colorado one for every
I136aS Republican votes
The plan proposed by Representative
Burke is in al essentials the same as
that introduced In the Republican con-
( vcntion at Philadelphia in 1900 by the
late Senator Quay, OF Pennsylvania.
No action was taken upon 1t at that
thine, the resolution being Withdrawn
lily Senator Quay before 1t reached
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