The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-06-19

delegates were seated. Only in Loui-
siana was provision made for splitting
the delegation equally between the
black contestants and the regulars, or
Lilly Whites" This decision carried
with it the recognition Of neither of
the state committees and the promise
of a reorganization of the party In that
state.
One of the Sensational incidents of
the early contests was the dismissal Of
Frank II. Hitchcock, the Taft manager
and Roosevelt representative, from the
committee by Chairman New after
Hitchcock was disposed to insist on
remaining in the committee room.
A statement issued at Washington
asserted that the administration had
decided to throw it's influence to Cor
telyou for the second place. but this
was denied at the White House, where
1t was said the president was keeping
his hands off the vice presidency and
was neither for nor against Cortelyou.
First Draft of Platform.
Attorney General Wade Ellis of Ohio
is credited with the distinction Of hav-
ing written the first draft of the plat
form to be adopted by the Republican
convention. He was on hand with the
document, which he had first taken to
Washington for the president and Sec
rotary Taft to edit. AS it stands it
pledges the party unreservedly to the
Roosevelt policies, including the limita-
ton of the courts power of injunction
and modification of the Sherman law
so as to permit reasonable combina-
TONS" 1t refers to the Aldr1ch-Vree-
land currency law as temporary ex-
pedient pending the formation Of per-
manent reorganization of the money
system.
"Hands of the Courts"
Eighteen Republicans Of large cor
porate influence and national rcputa-
ton in their party have signed petit
ton to the resolutions committee of
the national convention to include in
the platform the following declaration:
eve affirm our confidence in the JUS
tice and integrity of the courts, state
and national, and we insist that the
preservation of their independence and
full constitutional prerogatives is es-
sential to the maintenance of the
American system Of government" This
they proposed in view of the attack
upon the courts in the Democratic
platform of 1896 and believing that
similar attack is to be made this year.
Prominent among the signers are
President Butler of Columbia uni
versity, Joseph II. Choate Cornelius N.
Bliss, Benjamin r. Tracy. John w.
Griggs. d. o. Mills and A. Barton Hep
burn.
Demand In Name Of Labor.
Taking the petition of the conserva-
tives as his cue, President Gombers of
the American Federation of Labor
rushed from Washington to Chicago
with his entire labor cabinet to work
for the anti-injunction plank. In a
published statement he said he wanted
to find out If these eighteen corpora
ton lawyers have greater weight In
the councils Of the Republican party
than the 100000 men and women In
the federation.
Garrison AsssiIc MiIitsrism.
In a stirring address before the
Friends society at Philadelphia VIII
liam Lloyd Garrison, son Of the IA
nous abolitionist, said that President
Roosevelts dream of national pomp
and power had "called into expression
the latent brutality of the masses" and
that the nation was forsaking all Chris
tan ethics in lust for power and
wealth. He went on to say that the
human wrecks about the streets, the