New-York tribune., 1908-06-19

Of Massachusetts; Kellogg. of Minnesota: Tel-
Iowley of Mississippi: Warner. OF Missouri;
Field of Nebraska: Payne. Of New York
Adams. of North Carolina: LeMoure, Of North
Dakota: Ellis of Ohio; Harris of Oklahoma
Dalzell. of Pennsylvania; Dixon OF Rnode
Island: Crawford. of South Dakota; Evans. OF
Tennessee: Ogden, Of Texas; efroner. OF N1r.
ginia: Ballinger. of Washington; Cooper. or
Wisconsin: Clark. of Wyoming; Sloan OF
Alaska; Father of Arizona: Burson- Of New
Mexico and the Philippine and Porto Rico COM
mitteemen.
Against the plank-Melvin. of California;:
Drake. of Colorado; O'NeiL of Idaho; Lacey. OF
Iowa: Dunn of Maine FOrdney. of Michigan;
Bennett. of Montana Nixon. of Nevada; Moses.
of New Hampshire; McCarter of New Jersey:
Selbrldse OF oregon SutheItand- mo oI -.a C.eia'
Fletcher, of Vermont: Mann of West Virginia
and the committeeman from the District OF CO.
Iumbia and Hawaii
The agreement in the subcommittee. where
the fight was really won came about through
the operation of the same forces which had
made Mr. Taft's nomna tion certain Mr.. Taft's
friends. who were also Mr.. RooseveIt's friends.
and Mr.. Roosevelt's enemies we're brought to-
gether in support of the resolutions The tre-
mendous demonstration for the President in the
convention Yesterday set the "aIIies" 10 think
ing and when they saw clearly that if they
did not agree upon suitable platform the
Secretary of War would leave the party with
out it's prospective candidate they quickly
rushed to cover
In fact the point squarely put TO the
conservatives who were threatening that they
would consent 10 no anti-injunction plank what
ever that if they refused to make platform
on which Mr.. Taft could stand the convention
would nominate a candidate who would need
no platform" The forty-six minutes demon
stration for Mr. Roosevelt gave great force to
that warning for it showed how easy il would
be to renominate the President if once the
delegates who were under instructions for TAFT
were set adrift by any action which caused him
to remove himself from the field In spite OF
their intention vote for other candidates they
realized that if Taft did not run Roosevelts
nomination was inevitable and they surren-
dered and in the full committee as strongly
supported the anti-injunctiOn plank as did its
original prOposers-
"BORAH PLATFORM ONLY DRAFT
The platform as adopted completely justihes
Wade El1is's declaration that the alleged plat
form so widely published earlier in the week
and advertised as the and accurate declara-
ton 10 be adopted was only one OF several pre-
Iiminarv drafts which had been submitted to the
Taft managers.
The real platform differs in many and I'M
nortant particulars from the document which Is
understood to have been in the possession OF
Senator Borah Many new pIanks are inserted
are omitted. while in almost every paragraph
verbal changes. often almost amounting TO
entire rewriting. have been made
The heraIded declaration against construction
Of the Sherman law 70 interfere with the
oneratfo1 OF farmers associations and labor
unions does not appear in the platform The
antf-in junction plank appears in entirely diff
ferent place and in entirely different language.
The declarations concerning road Improvement
and the preservation of natural resources ara
largely rewritten.
Entirely panks are introduced. commend
ing the action of the administration tending TO
protect citizens in foreign lands and calling at
tention To the extension of foreign commerce.
and the work of Secretary Root in promoting
the Pan-Amerfcan committee
Other new pIanks favor the establishment OF
a bureau of mines and mining and the imme-
diate admission of Arizona and New Mexico as
sanarate states. A new feature of the Porto
picar nlank demands the admission Of the POr-
70 E3tcans To citizenship. The tariff and railroad
ota nIanks are considerably altered. In fact.
tho nIatforul as adopted differs widely from
,ba nublished tentative draft to show that
:. ms as declared merely a skeleton which the
,,forr, makers clothed with the really vital
s,,,res Of the doctrine which the Republic
.., marty appeals for the support OF the Ameri-
can people