The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-18
TAFT MEN WORRIED
INJUNCTION PLANK IN rLATFoRM IS CAUSE.
If the Conveptfon Refuses to Adopt tt, Repubs wiII Have to Nomfnate Man Who Needs No Flat
 form to Win.

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 Chicago, H.. June i7.--Tf the Repuo- fican Convention deliberately reIusos to adopt that platform on which sec retary Taft feels he can make 2 'wip- ning race, the Republican convcnuon will have to nominate a man who neeos no platform to win.
 While this statement is not being put forward as an actual uittmatum. if Is the principal weapon wnicn tns advocafes of an injunction plank in the platform are using to compei sno conn1ittee on resolutions and the com yentfon to make such q declaration. It is their last resort, and the momen- 4ous import of the alternative implied presents strikingly more than could Anything else the desperate straits to which the supporters of an injunction declaration have been driven by the persistent fight that has been made against it.
 The statement quoted was made to- night by . member of the sub-comnnit- lee which is preparing the platform. who fs friendly to both President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft. It was the result of a careful analysis of the situation made after 24 hours of al- most continuous service in the commit tee room and undoubtedly represented kis view of the situation. Proceeding he said:
 .Tt is preposterous to ask Secretary Taft. to make tn e race for the Presi- dency on platform which is not to his liking and especially in view of the fact that 1t is generally known that he has been paying much attention to the framing of the party's declara- ton of principles and policies. To do 10 would be to place him in the atti- tude in which Mir. Cleveland was placed when he was compelled in 1892 to re- pudfate his party's tarfR plank and, 1t iR doubtful whether he would want to. make the race under such conditions It should also be borne in mind that the question of injunction touches the labor class. an element which he has been accused of antagonizing and 1t is the very opposite of fair dealing to undertake to compel him to go before the country on a platform which af- lords no assurance to this class of his friendly feeling towards them.
 Beginning at 10 o'clock today. the sub h-comrnittee resumed its work in the hope of completing 1t by four o'clock. full committee, but when that time came the sub -committee was compelled to report that 1t was unprepared to present its report and the full commit tee took an adjournment until ii o'clock. At that time the subcommit- tee seemed to be undecided. and an- other adjournment was taken. While tn sub committee was in session the greater part of the day. there were two or three rather prolonged interfnissiona and before the day closed 1t became evident that the injunction clause &dvo-' catas were ssparfing for time There was no time during the day when a vote could not have been taken in the sub b-commitee and the injunction plank k...A ~4,& &4e,.n. 43a Co Al. a favorable result was not certain, in the full committee. the supporters of the provisions sought for and easily obtained the delay which they seem ed to consider neceBsary before bring ing the matter, to the attention of the complete organization.
 The time during the recesses as well as the time in which the committee was engaged, was devoted to strenuous ef-' forts by both sides to increase their strength on the full committee. For the first time since the fight began the friends of thes administrations ap- psrently became fully awakened to the seriousness of the situation. but being aroused, they were just as zeaIous as their opponents. in presenting the situation to their fellow committeemen. During the day they received telegrarns from Washington expressing the views of both the President and Secretary of War as to the necessity for the injune- tfon plank and these telegrams were sent to all doubtful members of the committed Tn one of these messages the President Is represented to have. urged the wisdom of the injunction, resolution and to have said that the convention should not yield any mora turers than to the extremists among the Ia horfnar man rs
 eThe opponents of the plank who arc members of the committee called Co their assistance a number of outsiders. and neither element lost any opportuni- ty to advance the interests of the anti injunction clause side. The Presidents friends cite an occurrence in the sub committee as indicative that their op- ponents are willing to subordinate everything else to the injunction, ques- ton. At it's session yesterday the sub committee had under consideration q resolution declaring in favor of single state hood for the territories of Arizona and New Mexico. and laid 1t on the table by an affirmative vote which inc cluded most. if not all, of their antagc- nists Today when the sub committee met, one of them moved to feconsider the test vote comes in the full committee lost, and all of them cast their votes in
 
 been interpreted to indicate that when the vote comes in the full committee on the injunction plank. the members of the committee from those two terri tories will be with their friends. the opponents of the provision.
 The formal proceedings of the sub committee during today consisted of the consideration of the various blanks of the platform as presented to the committee. All these. were carefully gone over. many changes in phrase ology were made. There were also some of the more important declara- tions, so that if the sub committees draft is accepted. the platform will be found 10 be in some particulars, though in no essentials. different from the draft of the document which was pre- pared In Washington.
 All the proceedings except a few hearings were conducted behind closed doors. and none of the details were given to the public.