Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-18
THIRD TERM THREAT
SAVES LABOR PLANK
Resolution Committee Whipped
Into Line for Anti-Injunction.
ADOPTED BY VOTE. IS TO16
Taft on This Platform. or Man Who
Can Win Anyway"
ORIGINAL DRAFT is MODIFIED
Policy as Enunciated in Ambiguous
English May or May Not Prove
Satisfactory.
rom a STAFF Correspondent


Snecial From STAFF Correspondent
CONVENTION HALL.
CHIC AGO. June IL. 1905.
''Sou will nominate Taft CD platform
which will win. or nominate man who
can win without n platform"
This was the threat. delivered with
dreadful menacCs by the Presidents
friends. which swung the committee on
resolutions into line for The modified
I anti-iniunction plank. 4 WAS uttered
/ in the wee sma' hours Of this morning.
! following turbulent night. and when
Roosevelt feeling was running high
among the delegates.
There had been that marvellous DEM
onstration when for nearly an iour the
great throng stood on chairs and
shouted one mans praise. Everybody
knew this was Rooseyelt's convention
even before that, but the spectacle was
impressive.
The returning crowds from the con-
vention. which packed and damned the
hotel Hobbies in the evening. discussed
of renominating him. Wisconsin. ii was
claimed, was ready to place him in nom
nation. There were whispers that New
| York and Indiana were to flock to his
support
Factions in Fierce Contest.
The subcommittee on resolutions had
fought over the platform all afternoon
When supper time arrived it reported
| progress to the full commit ee ana
INSTRUMENTATION OF time. Then the fuiA
committee got into action. 1t was one
of the most dramatic sessions COM
mittee which ever framed a platform
| for a national convention. The .wosfac-
tions went at each others throats Ahe
| bulldogs.
| There sat the administration men. dog
ged and determined. With compressed
lips they sat and said but little. only Ia
reiterate over and over again. "All that
YOU say may be true, but We must have
this plank .
The opposition ragged and stormed II
was as the winds whisting around the
dome of the Capitol, for all the effect It
had Bitter things We're said-thlngs
which will rankle in the future.
The fears of the conservatives. of which
you were appraised in my early dis
patches yesterday. proved well rounded
The majority which they claimed puI
which they feared would not stay hitch
ed. dwindled one after another Pressure
was brought to bear from every direc-
ton on members of the committee who
were standing out against the plank.
! Then came the final pressure, the fear
/ of delegates running away from their
instructions and naming Roosevelt. with
this there came suggestions OF a read
| justment Of the platform
! 1t will be recalled that the original
I Jt-a no i
YOU Sunday morning. gave the sop to
| labor first and then Landed the courts.
The new draft led off with a declaration
| Of confidence in the judiciary practlca "
I i'm the sense demanded by the petition
sent from New York lawyers headed by
Mr. Choate.
| There was some fine Juggling WIN me
| kings English along about this time:
The late Mr. Machiavelli himself would
have been proud to see the diligence
with which they sought words IN ne
lexicon which would SOUND one way ana
read another When the word twisiers
had finally framed up the job TO the SUIT
ing of a majority of the committee. the
steam roller got ready for work
Ultimatum Is Provoked.
Then up rose red-headed Tom Nc
Carter Of New Jersey and moved to leave
ont the whole thing. He made a fiery
sneech and denounced the men who were
| favoring the plank as towards and hypof
critics He said labor would not he fooled
by the wording of the plank. and the rel
publican party was stulifying itself with
ont prospect Of r. ward.
: The administration men sat unmove1
through his scathing denunciation Their
minds we've made up to do a thing and
| they intended to do it Other speeches
| followed.
| As the night wore the sounds 90
! convention tumult died out until only the
! 4 pIn II
! horse foated through windows of the
committee room looking out on the lake.
4 little group of weary newspaper men
waited in the ante-room. Their friends
| on the committee came out from time IN
| time to bring the news OF what was
transpiring within.
Then, just little before the dawn be
gan 20 tighten in the east across the
lake. the light ended. The President had
won and whipped into submission tie
most powerful men in the republican
party and men representing states with
vast influence in politics and business
! The plank was adopted by vote or ID
/ to Ii.
Stood Out to the Last
! The little band of men who stood firm
to the last represented the constituent
cies-Calfornia, Colorado. Delaware, Ida
no. Iowa. Maine Michigan Montana. Ne
vada. New Hampshire. North Dakota,
New Jersey. Oregon. Utah, West Virginia
and District of Columbia
| Is the plank satisfactory? l cannot tell
Won yet The answer must come from
The labor people. 1t will be satisfactory
to the republicans ii ii brings the labor
vote Here is the declaration of the re-
publican party in favor of policy
which is yet to be eOacted into law by
a Congress whose leaders and masters
are unalteraby opposed to such a thing.
Labor must deliver its goods at the
polls before the Congress is called on u
act If labor, from what il has seen
here can still have faith in the ability
of the administration TO force through
the legislation. then last nights work
cannot be called a good job by the poll
ticians.
The big corporations get what they
wanted in the deal AS / wrote yester-
day. the Steel trust and the Morgan in
terests were more concerned i'm a decla-
ration faVoring amendment of the SHEER
MAJ act than i'm anything else. That
considerat ion helped TO swing into line
the necessary votes for the plank.