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, 35 TO is
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.
ADOPTED BY VOTE, 35 TO is
ORIGINAL DRAFT Is MODIFIED
Special From a STAFF Correspondent.

Special From a STAFF Correspondent.
CONVENTION HALL.
CHICAGO. June Is, 1908.
"fou will nominate Taft On a platform
which will win. nominate n man who
can win without a PLATFORM"
This was the threat, delivered with
dreadful menaces by the Presidents
friends. which swung the committee on
resolutions into line for the modified
anti-injunction plank. It 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 hour the
| great throng stood on chairs and
shouted one mans praise Everybody
knew this was Roosevelt's convention
even before that. but the spectacle was
! impressive.
The returning crowds from the con-
vention. which packed and jammed the
hotel Hobbies in the evening. discussed
nothing else but Roosevelt. They talked
of renomnating him. Wisconsin. it was
ination. 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 1T reported
progress to the full committee and
asked extension of time. Then the full
ma
of the most dramatic sessions OF a COM
mittee which ever framed platform
for a national convention. The two rae
tions went at each others throats ike
bulldogs.
There sat the administration men, dog
ged and determined. With compressed
Inns they sat and said but little. only to
lreiterate over and over again, "All that
you say may be true, but we must nave
this plank. "a
The opposition ragged and stormed. 1t
was as the winds whistling around the
dome of the Capitol, for all the effect It
had Bitter things were said-things
which will rankle in the future.
| The fears of the conservatives, OF wnlcn
you were apprised in my early dis
patches yesterday, proved well founded
The majority which they Claimed put
which they feared would not stay hitch-
ed dwindled one after another. Pressure
was brought to bear from every direc-
tion on members OF the committee who
were standing out against the plank.
Then came the final pressure the fear
of delegates running away from thelr
instructions and naming Roosevelt. win
this there came suggestions of read
justment of the platform
1t will be recalled that the orlginai
draft the substance of which / wired
YOU Sunday morning, gave the sop TO
labor first and then lauded the courts.
The new draft led off with a declaration
ffsaal "
of confidence in the judiciary practMany
i'm the sense demanded by the petition
sent from New York lawyers headed oy
Nr- Choate. So -
There was some fine juggling with the
The late Mr. Machiaveli himself would
have been proud to see the diligence
with which they sought words IN me
lexicon which would sound one way ana
read another. when the word twlsters
had finally framed up the job to the suit
ing of majority OF the committee. the
steam roller got ready for work.
Ultimatum Is Provoked.
Then un 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 hypo-
critics. He said labor would not be fooled
by the wording of the plank and the re-
publican party was stulifying itself with
| out prospect of reward.
| The administration men sat unmoved
I through his scathing denunciation. Their
minds were made up TO do thing and
| they intended to do it. Other speeches
| followed.
! AS the night wore on the sounds OF
convention tumult died out until only the
! pat;er of the hoofs of an occasional can
| horse fioated through windows OF the
committee room looking out on the lake.
/ A little group of weary newspaper men
| tp-r
on the committee came out from time TO
time to bring the news of what was
transpiring within.
| Then just a little before the dawn be-
gan TO tighten in the east across the
lake the fight ended. The President had
won and whipped into submission the
most powerful men in the republican
party and men representing states with
vast influence in politics and business.
The plank was adopted by a vote OF IS
| to 16.
Stood Out to the Last
The little band of men who stood firm
| to the last represented the constituent
cies-California. 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? / cannot tell
you yet. The answer must come from
the labor people Ii VIII be satisfactory
to the republicans if it brings the labor
vote. Here is the declaration OF the re-
publican party in favor OF a policy
which is yet to be enacted into law by
a Congress whose leaders and masters
are unslterably opposed 10 such thing.
| Labor must deliver its goods at the
polls before the Congress is called on to
act &c 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 l wrote yester-
| day the Steel trust and the Morgan in
terests were more concerned in a decla-
| ration favoring amendment of the Sher-
man act than in anything else. That
| consideration helped to swing into line