The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-06-26
REP. FORDNEY'S
AMAZING WIN
MICHIGAN PUTS"STAND PATTER''
ON PLATFORM COMMITTEE
Action by Taft Delegation Causes
Sensation i'm Chicago.

| Ho"tAOh ih tihNaSOs
The staff correspondent of the De-
troit Journal had the following to
| say concerning the election of Cong.
Fordney as member of the COM
mittee on resolutions at the Repub-
| lican national convention
| Congressman Joseph w. Fordney,
| the only avowed Cannon man on the
Michigan delegation, and a powerful
opponent of the Taft tariff policies.
was selected as Michigan member of
the committee on resolutions. By
this extraordinary result the vote of
Michigan will be cast against Taft
policies and in favor of ultra-con-
servative policies, if there is a divi-
sion on the resolutions committee.
AS all of Monday was occupied in
conferences, arguments collisions and
debates between different sections of
the party on the question of injunc-
ton legislation and tariff revision,
the success of Fordney in winning the
biggest of convention prizes from a
Taft delegation is more significant
The tariff question, moreover, on
which Fordney will vote for Michi-
gan, is the main ground of Mr.. Ford
ney's opposition to Taft
The election of Fordney created a
profound sensation in the whole con-
vention as assembled. 1t was as If
Campau had been reelected national
committeeman by the anti-Campau
Democratic delegation. The visitors
in attendance from Michigan were
generally astounded. But the pre-
vailing feeling at last was of adj
miration for the boldness and the
success of Congressman Joe.
The friends Of Dallas Boudeman of
Kalamazoo, have been too certain of
his success and too much impressed
with the idea that Fordney's alliance
with Cannon made him Impossible.
Boudeman has had friends here since
last week, but Fordney came into
town only this morning. But when
he came he saw and conquered.
He made a personal canvass of the
dele gation-a left handed hand shake
with it, for his right arm was twisted
and went lame the other day when he
was cranking his automobile. But
neither his lame arm nor the handi-
cap of late entry affected him. He
worked up to the convention time.
Arthur Hnl and John Baird and Wal
ter J. Hunsaker and other Saginaw
men were here; and Saginaw East |
and West usually hold together.
There was one thing to injure |
chances. He was al
Democrat before 1896. Now one ar
gument used against him was: Per
haps he brought his tariff views from |
the Democratic party" Mr.. Boude-
man is a very conservative man. and |
the argument was of little force But |
Mr.. FOrdney completed the fulness
of his victory by winning on the same
issue of the tariff which first separat-
ed him from Taft.
The canvass went on. But every
Dne picked Boudeman. One delegate |
seasoned in many conventions. an old |
friend OF Fordney and his supporter,
-ried to find Fordney before the
caucus.
81 wanted to pull him away" said |
mis- delegate afterwards. 81 wanted
10 tell him not to go in, as ne was
sure, sure of defeat"
But when the vote came it was !,
Fordney. On the first ballot three
i 4. 4
Fordney Il; one ballot was blank
Ind one illegibly scrawled. On the
second ballot the vote was IA to IA;
The third Is to IS in favor of Ford
hey.