Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-18

1T is preposterous to ask Sec. Taft
to make the race for the Presidency
on d platform which it not his liking,
and especially in view of the fact that
it is generally known that he has been
giving much attention to the framing
of the party's declaration of principles
and politics. To do SO would be to
place him in the attitude in which Mr..
Cleveland was placed when he was
compelled in 1892 to reDudiate his
party's tariff plank and it is doubtful
whether he would want to make the
race under such conditions. 1t should
also bear in mind that the question
of injunction touches the labor class,
| an element which he has been accused
of antagonizing and it is the very OPP
posite OF fair dealing to undertake to
compel him to go before the country
on a platform which affords no as
surance to this class of his friendly
feeling towards them"
| During the day they received tele-
grams from Washington expressing
the views of both the President and
secretary of war as to the necessity
for the injunction plank and these
kilograms We're read to all doubtful
members of the committee. In one OF
these messages the President is repre-
sented to have urged the wisdom Of
the injunction resolution and to have
| said that the convention should not
| yield any more to the extremes among
| them than to the extreme among the
| laborlng men.
The opponents of the plank who are
| members OF the committee called to
| their assistance a number of outsid
| err. and neither element lost any OPP
| portunity to advance the interests of
| the anti-injunCtion clause side. The
| Presidents friends cite an occurrence
| H. the committee as indicative that
| their opponents are willing to subor
| dinate everything else to the injunc-
| ton question. AS it's session yesterday
the sub committee had under consid-
| GRAFTON a resolution declaring in IA
| vor Of single statehood for the terri
tories of Arizona and New Mexico and
laid it on the table by an affirmative
vote which included most if not all
their antagonists. Today when the
sub committee met one of them moved
to reconsider the vote by which the
resolution was lost, and all Of them
Grafton This has been interpreted to
indicate that when the test vote comes
in the full committee on the injunction
plank, the members of the committee
from those two territories will be with
their friends, the opponents of the pro-
vision.
The formal proceedings of the sub
committee during the day consisted or
the consideration of the various plankS
of the platform as presented to the
committee. All these We're carefully
gone over, and many changes in
phraseolOgy We're made. There were al
SO some alterations in some of them
more important declarations, so that
if the subcommittee draft is accept
ed, the platform Will be found to be
in some particulars, though in no es-
sential different from the draft of the
document which was prepared in
Washington. All the proceedings, eX-
cept a few hearings, were conducted
behind closed doors, and none of the
details We're given to the public.
Beginning at 10 o'clock today the sub
committee resumed its work in the hope
of completing it by 4 o'clock the time set
for the meeting of the full committee, but
when that time came the subcommittee
was compelled to report that it was UNI
prepared to present its report and the
full committee took an adjournment UNI
til O'Clock. At that time the sub-com-
mittee took an adjournment until 8
o'clock At that time the subcommittee
was found to be still undecided and an
other adjournment was taken While the
subcommittee was in session the greater
part of the day, there were two or three
rather prolonged intermissions and before
the day closed it became evident that the
for time. There was no period of the
day when vote could not have been |
taken in the subcommittee and the in
junction plank inserted, but approaching |
the fact that a favorable result was not |
SO certain in the full committee the sup
porters of the provision sought and easily |
obtained the delay which they seemed to |
consider necessary before bringing the
matter before the complete organizations |
Tie time during the recesses as we'll |
as the time in which the committee was |
engaged was devoted to strenuous efforts |
by both sides to increase their strength |
on the full committee.
For the first time since the fight began |
the friends of the administration appar- |
emily became fully awakened to the seri-
BUSINESS of the situation. but being arous-
ed they We're quite as Jealous as their op- |
ponents in presenting the situation to |
their fellow committeeman.
ALL-NIGHT SESSION.