New-York tribune., 1908-06-15

.ea6v ,o,6 in these dispatches speaks IN COM
y,endation of the financial bill adopted at the
last session and Of the National Monetary Com
,,1ission OF course. Mr.. La Toilette expects TO
accomplish nothing by such minority report
.xcert TO advertise himself. and such report if
brought in would be promptly tabled by the
convention.
scroaTE PLANK" NOT IN PLATFORM.
IN view Of numerous conflicting reports re
~.rdins the so-called Choate plank declaring
fhe confidence of the American people in the
Judiciary il nay be well to repeat that il is not
sn the platform and will not be unless the Taft
forces in the convention are completely routed
The Choate plank. doubtless formulated in all
sincerity and in itself harmless, was Immediately
seized upon by the allies" who believed they
saw in il 2 proposition which must prove ex-
.renely distasteful TO the President ano was
converted by them into a club with which 10
heat the anti-iniunction plank into insensbty
No course more certain to arouse the opposition
of the administration could have been adopted
and as has been said nothing viii cause the
adoption of the plank but the complete over
,b-o,r o4 The administration influence, an event
which the most rash are hardly willing TO pre-
dict
anronos of the administration influence in
This gathering of the party, numerous Jokes
have been sprung about '1ong distance tele-
-bone convention" etc but Senator Fulton. of
Oregon who as Is known. is not too friendly
70 the administration, resents the inputation
that the President has been directing the party
leaders by long distance telephone or otherwise
He said:
THAT kind Of talk sounds very well and 1t is
a good subject joke about, but the fact is
that this meeting has been nothing but Taft
from the start: that the contests so-caIled
which were brought before the national COM
<,l-e ov,S hat he
could not have decided them otherwise than 1t
s5id 7 never saw the slightest evidence OF White
Mouse influence In the entire meeting Of the
committee. and have seen no evidence OF 1t
since OF course, there is some expectation that
Secretary Taft VIII indicate whom he desires for
his running mate. but that would be no innova-
zion and could hardly be described as White
House dictation'
Speaker Cannon is so determined in his oppo-
sition to what he regards as radical planks in
the platform especially the anti-injunction pro-
so,ncenent- that, contrary to his former inten-
sion be has returned TO Chicago. taken up his
quarters al the Union League Club. and pur-
poses to institute organized opposition 10 the
alanks he regards as objectionable.
.It IS also asserted that the President insists
that the platform shall represent his policies.
We'll what Of It? The success Of the party de-
pends on the Endorsement Of those policies. and.
snoreover. il is not usual for the Republican
party to repudiate the policies of its President,
even If he has not had overwhelmingly sue
cessful an administration as Theodore Roose-
welt"
Manager Hitchcock announced this evening
that Senator Warner, OF Missouri, would be
chairman Of the committee to notify the sue
cessful Presidential candidate of his nonlina-
1ion: that General Fulton, Of Oregon, would
head the committee to notify the Vice-Presi-
dent: that Ex-Governor Hill, Of Maine would
be chairman Of the committee on organization,
and that as has been told before, Senator Hop
kins of Illinois would be chairman Of the COM
1ritfee on resolutions