Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-16
MINNESOTA
REPUBLICANS
Plans for a Strictly Harmonious
Convention Were Doomed
To Disappointment.
PARTY FOR TARIFF REVISION
So Says Temporary Chairman Snyder
Permanent Chairman Brewer
Declares Same Thing.

Minneapolis. April 16--The Minnesota
Republican convention met today to
select four delegates at large to the ma
tional convention and to name II pres-
Dental electors.
Before the convention met it became
evident that the plans for a strictly
harmonious gathering We're doomed to
disappointment. The prediction of the
supporters of State Senator Putnam
that he would have no opposition for
delegate at-large We're not fulfilled, for
W. b. Parsons of Winona decided TO
stay III the race and make fight for
the honor on the floor of the conven-
ton
Delegates from the Fifth and Ninth
districts raised objections to the cleo
ton of II. b. Hawkins for delegate-at-
large. but Mr. Hawkins, it was thought,
would be chosen without contest
Il. Il. Kellogg of st. Paul and w. a.
Haffelhnger of Minneapolis, had no OPP
position as to delegates at-large. There
was no doubt that Minnesota's % votes
in the national convention would be
registered for Taft. 1t was planned TO
indorse President Roosevelts admins
istration.
DR.. A. b. Cole, chairman OF the state
central committee called the conVen-
ton to order and introduced Samuel Z.
Snyder as temporary chairman.
sNYDER'S ADDRESS.
Temporary Chairman Samuel p. Sny-
der said.
I'm the campaign in which we are
about to enter this tariff principle is to
be assailed upon the one hand and de-
Tended and maintained upon the other
In a recent speech by the present DEM
ocratic governor of this state. now an
active Democratic candidate for the
presidency, he openly declared that our
tariff system is as iniquitous as was
the farming out of taxes in France,
prior to the French revolution. That is
but mild statement of the Democratic
doctrine. That party has always COM
batted the fundamental principle upon
which the tariff is based.
while maintaining the tariff princi-
pie in its integrity. the Republican par
ty of Minnesota is firmly committed to
the proposition that revision of the
present schedules shall now be made.
Another issue, the Importance OF
which is recognized by both political
parties, is the regulation and control
of great corporations, now engaged in
interstate traffic. That such control
shall be had. all are agreed.
In the campaign now before us in
this, our home state of Minnesota, are
we going TO maintain party allegiance
upon national issues and disregard ii
in state issues? Our beloved president
now voluntarily declining a renewal
of his high offices, has inspired Repub-
lican sentiment through the breadth of
the land, and commanded the conf
dence and respect of all parties. 1t is
no longer a matter OF prophecy to de-
clare that his successor viii be his
grand coadjutor, our present secretary
of war, William H. Taft"
The delegates voted to dispense with
the committees on credentials and rules
as there were no contests. State Sena-
tor Ripley Brewer of st. Cloud was
then unanimously chosen permanent
chairman and addressing the delegates,
said:
FOR w. ii. TAFT.
I'm all my political life | have never
before seen the acclaim of conven-
ton where with one voice they rise to
one man and that man is the matchless
secretary of war, William II. Taft.
There is one concrete proposition
that the people of this state stand for.
Minnesota asks at the hands of
Republican Congress reasonable re-
vision Of the tariff. IL we cannot get
It at the hands of the friends OF the
tariff, l fear for what we can expect
from its enemies.
I'VE also stand for the progressive
tendencies of the administration OF
Theodore Roosevelt Minnesota wants
only stand for these policies but will
also carry them on to the ultimate des-
tiny that the people expect"
w, b. Parsons of Winona surprised
the convention today by movoing that
kellogg, HeffelAnger, Hawkins and
Putnam be elected delegates-at-large.
The motion was adopted.