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.caNdidaoies are TO serve another purpose. II
siH none other than an effort to compel il
poasible the Roosevelt-Taft committee on
RESOLUTIONS OF the convention to adopt a
platform in consonance with principles Of
government .as advanced by Republicans
and to thwart the Roosevelt-Taft attempt
officially to recognize In a national con-
Sention. the Sanhedrim Of the party. the
Roosevelt -Bryanesque theories Of Govern
ment.
--s,Whether Fairbanks, Knox and Cannon
md their allies are to be successful remains
40 be seen. There isn't a man OF discern
saneut in this town to-day, whether Of the
S,ilies or opposed to them. who does not
believe and declare that Taft will be nom-
mated on the first ballot. The action of
ihr national committee in seating the
Alabama and Arkansas Taft contestants
yesterday and the Florida and Georgia
faft men to-day leaves no ground for any
other statement But the platform to be
adopted by the committee on resolutions
isauite another matter. .-l
~ The first steps TO bring the Roosevelt
Taft people to realization OF the attitude
of the allies were taken to-day. but with
no success. Three national committee
men. Ernest Z. Hart Of Iowa. Harry s.
New OF Indiana and David W. Mulvane
Of Kansas, had conference with Frank
II. Hitchcock. John q. Capers and Senator
lodge. the three dominant Roosevelt
Taft cheftains Senator Crane and others
were familiar with the purposes Of tho
Conference Messrs. Hart New and Muvane
urged upon Messrs. Hitchcock, Capers
and Lodge the unwisdom Of unseating
entire delegations from the Southern States.
sFurthermore they advised that the dele
cations be seated by the national COM
nnittee on the half and half basis
,.--- FORAKER MEN FOR TAFT III SEATED.
The delegates from the Southern Stat es
are Roosevelt-Taft men. although several
were instructed for Senator Foraker. Yet
these Foraker delegates. notably from
Mississippi. from the moment Of their ar
rival here have besought Hitchcock and
Capers to seat them and in return they
would vote for Taft Then too Bishop
Walters. the negro Methodist Bishop Of
New Jersey, strongly anti-Taft and friendly
40 Senator Foraker, has telegraphed here
FOR twelve rooms, announcing that he and
his negro friends will use all honorable
means to bring about ex-Gov, Franklin
alurphy's nomination as Vice-President
Coincidently Murphy handed out state
rent to-day wherein he declared that Taft
e oulJ he nominated on the first ballot
Rishop Walters's interest is interpreted
10 mean only back stairs effort to climb
aboard the Taft band wagon.
The argument advanced by Messrs Hart,
New and NIukane was to the. effect th at
there is to be an election after this conven-
ton adjourns. that harmony is desired.
that every vote will be needed and that the
moral effect of throwing out entire dele
cations will be disastrous in Republican
electoral vote giving States. The protests
Of New York. Indiana and Pennsylvania
against the seating as proxies in the national
committee of Hitchcock. Phelps and Slater
was also gone over but the principal feature
advanced was that the Southern disputants
should be given equal honors in the con-
sention; that is. that each faction should
be recognized on half and half basis.
The proposition of Messrs. Hart. New
and NIulvane was rejected, Messrs Hit oh
cock, Capers and Lodge asserting that it
was not made in good faith, that it repre-
sented only an insdious effort Of the allies
iutions and to work the purposes OF the
Roosevelt Taft people in framing the plat
form for the convention. Hitchcock and
Capers also maintained after the conference
that the proposition Of Messrs. Hart. New
and Mulvane represented an effort to de-
stroy the Southern Republican machine
which the Roosevelt Administration has
built and which has been used with such
abundant results in the prelminaries of
this convention.
\ As the case stands. the allies at the mo-
ment have little or no chance Of controlling
the committee on resolutions. They may
he able before the battle is over to make
a few dents in the machine, as it were, but
for all that the sessions Of the committee
on resolutions promise to be the liveliest
and the fercest Of any for dacade and
more.
PLEADING WITH FsIRBANKs ro ACCEPT
SECOND PLACE. y
The sessions Of the committee on cre-
dentials from resent indications will be
as a Sunday school picnic to Austerlitz
when compared with the sessions Of the
platform committee The explanation Of
the difference Is that the futlity of engag
ing in. any struggle to undo the work Of
Hitchcock and Capers is recognized, and
the duplicity, faithlessness and treachery
of Southern negro delegates to Senator
Foraker Is an unhappy feature Of the situ-
alton. But the Republicans have a way
u, getting together, at least for convention
purposes. and it was quite generally stated
tonight that the representatives Of Fair
banks, Cannon or Knox or the representa-
,tives Of all three will in the convention
second the nomination Of Taft.
Every influence is being brought to bear
upon Vice-Presi ent Fairbanks to accept
a denomination. The chief allies expect
him to accede to their wishes. Should he
decline he must retire to private life, and
yet be might succeed either Senator Hem
enway. whose term expires on March 3.
1909, or Senator Beveridge. whose term
expires March 8, 1911
Concerning the famous Fairbanks cock
tail incident and the reported remark Of
Bishop Mcdowell Of the Illinois Methodists
that -our church cruoified Fairbanks it.
may not be out Of place to repeat a story
which is going the rounds here as to the
resent utteranoes Of Secretary Taft on Gen.
Grants drink habit In his earlier years. 1t
has been very generally stated In Washing
k,..S <;v,,,laa Within tho In at yaor ond y,ora