Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-04-01
URGE SPECIAL SESSION
AFTER The ELECTION
Local Option With the County as
the Unit Favored Indianapolis
Crowded With Delegates. Lead
ers. Officers and Rank and
File of the State.

Indiana polls, April Indiana Re
publicans went into state convention
today to adopt a platform and for
mally present to the country Charles
Warren Fairbanks. vice president of
the United States, as their candidate
for the presidency.
For two days hotel accommoda-
tions of the city have been strained
to the utmost. The fourteen hun
dred and seventy delegates in them
selves make a goodly crowd, which
has been doubled by as many alter
mates and multiplied twenty times by
federal, state, county and municipal
office holders, friends and support
ers of the contesting candidates and
the rank and file of the party from
every corner of the state
Representative Overstreet of Indi-
ana polls has been selected as tempo
rary chairman and Representative j.
c. Cnaney of sullivan for permanent
chairman.
Fairbanks and Revision.
For delegates at large to the ma
tional convention Senators Albert j.
Beveridge and James E. Hemenway
Governor j. Frank Hanly and Chair
man of the State Committee James
p Goodrich have been agreed upon.
1t was agreed by large majority
of the party leaders that the most
prominent planks in the platform in
addition t. a strong resolution in
structng for Fairbanks, should be
one fayorlng local option with the
county as the unit, and another would
follow the advice of Fairbanks and
urge revision of the tariff by a spe-
cial session of Congress Immediately
after election.
At the opening of the convention
this afternoon Overstreet delivered
the keynote address and was fol-
lowed by United States Senators Bev-
erldge and Hemenway and by GOV.
J. Frank Hanly.
Tribute to Roosevelt.
Senator Beveridge one of the dele
gates to the national convention, in
speech before the convention this
afternoon paid high tribute to Pres
ident Roosevelt, and the things that
have been accomplished during the
administration, and urged the revis-
ion of the tariff. He said i'm part:
"The first Republican candidate
Pathfinder. Its second candidate for
president was called the Great Lib
orator. Its last candidate for presi-
dent and the nations chief magis-
trate today is called the Great Re
former These men did things for
the people-that is what made them
Republican leaders.
"And it has been this undying pur-
written every reform of the last eight
historic years and placed beside the
name of Washington, Jackson and
Lincoln as leader of the people to-
ward liberty and light the name Of
Theodore Roosevelt.
I'VE must go to the people, not
merely bOasting of what we did for
the people yesterday but telling them
what we are doing for the people to-
day and what We will do for the peo-
pie tomorrow Every law We have
written was bitterly fought ana cum
ningly resisted; yet SO wise are those
laws that all parties now endorse
them, and even men in our own
party who secretly opposed them are
now publicly their loudest cham
pions.
I'VE must revise the sherman law.
1t is nearly twenty years old I'm fact
and a century old in spirit, II penal
ICES dishonest combination and that
is right; but also 1t manacles honest
business. and that IS wrong. Business
IS the name for the trade activities
Of the people Free its hands. uD-
shaCkle its feet. only upon the dis
honest let the ball and chain be lock-
ed Strike only that business which
pliers from the people; but help all
business that serves the people our
watchword is justice For the pirates
Of business the yardarm or the plank
but for honest business the open seas
and welcoming ports.
America Leading All
"The tariff must be revised mme-
diltely after the presidential elec-
tiou. To revise it now would lock up
business for months Of disaster and
doubt. He who would refuse to re
wise the tariff Immediately after the
presidential election Is too ancient 10
be trusted. he who would revise the
tariff on the eve Of the presidential
election is too hypocritcal t. be toll
Grated But the earliest possible re-
vision Of the tariff is the will Of the
people because il is the demand of
conditions and to the Ueople's will