Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-04-02
INDIANA IS FOR REVISION
Republicans Call for Special Session
After Fall Elections.
PLANK WRITTEN BY FAIRBANKS
Letter from the Vice President 4,
Read to the COnventiOu-state
Ticket VIII He NOmi-
mated Today.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 1-Indiana repub-
lcans in state convention today cleared
the way for the adoption of a platform
and the nomination of a state ticket to-
morrow. Organization was completed with
the selection of Representative Jesse over
street of Indianapolis as temporary chair
man and Representative John c. CLANCY
| OF Sullivan as permanent chairman Julian
Hogate of Danville was chosen secretary.
Addresses were made by these two gentle
men and by United States Senators Bever-
| idge and Hemenway and Governor Hanly
The resolutions committee tonight com
peted the platform, which. after a Wig
| orous endorsement of Vice President Fair
banks as Indianas choice for the presiden-
tial nomination and instruction to the ma
tional delegates to vote and work for his
nomination at Chicago, includes a plank
written by Mr.. Fairbanks which insists
upon a revision of the tariff by a special
session of congress to be called for that
purpose Immediately after the fall elections.
Mr.. Fairbanks also wrote a letter to Chair
man Overstreet to be read to the con-
vention, which outlined his tariff views as
reflected in the plank which was adopted.
other planks include demand for new
| law against child labor, written by Senator
| Beveridge, recommendations for national
bureau of mines. allowing the defendant a
notice and hearing before an injunction
is granted, city reform without naming any
particular BILL a law suppementing the
present liquor laws to provide for local
| option with the county as a unit, a more
general primary election law and inher-
itance tax law, an endorsement of Presi-
| dent Roosevelt waterways improvement,
an economic administration of national af-
fairs, especially of the army and navy. and
prohibiting corporations from contributing
to campaign funds.
The mention of the names of President
Roosevelt and Vice President Fairbanks
brought forth demonstrations from the
delegates.
Congressman Overstreet PresIdes.
At the opening of the convention this
afternoon, following the adoption of COM
mittee reports. Mr. Overstreet delivered the
keynote address, followed by speeches by
United States Senators Albert ]. Beveridge
and James A. Hemenway and by Governor
]. Frank Hanly, who confined his talk to
state issues
| Congressman Jesse Overstreet, temporary
chairman OF the convention spoke of the
republican party and of Indianas candidate
for president in his address.
Overstreet on the Issues.
Congressman Overstreet said in part:
The republican party will make no change
| in its general policies or its general princi-
! pies. II will continue to stand unswerv-
| ingy in its position relative to the gold
! standard of value, and whatever additional
/ financial legislation may iHe enacted will
be i'm the protection of American Industries
and American labor; and whatever changes
| it may effect i'm tariff schedules will not be
out of harmony with the principle of pro-
lection. Changed conditions justify changes
| schedules. revised.
Certainly that work cannot be left to the
| opposition. And yet these changes cannot
be made in accordance with the demand of
single state or a single section. Our coun-
! try is so vast in extent, and the output of
! and varied. that the revision of the tariff
must be along national and not sectional
lines. The spirit OF compromise which has
| always controlled i'm such legislation must
! again control. No tariff bill has ever been
enacted, nor will one ever be enacted that
| will meet universal favor nor be free from
! criticism. In a country, whose climate eN-
tends from the tropics to the cool breezes
| of the great lakes and whose territory is
washed by two oceans, there is such di-
versty of articles of manufacture, that a
tariff law cannot be framed except along
the lines of a national policy I'm the spirit
of fair play and of the greatest good to the
greatest number A people which has seen
the benefits of the protective principle will
not easily sacrifice that principle simply
because the revision of the tariff will prove
| perpleXing.
Special Session for Tariff.
In order that business should be dis
turbed the least the legislation should be
! accomplished in, short a time as possi-
BILE, consistent with its Importance and with
out prolonging the period of anxiety, which
always accompanies the actual considera-
ton of this question. 1t would be polit-
ically unwise to undertake revision at the
present session of congress. The crowded
condition of legislation usual at short
session would make II difficult to complete
action upon the revision next winter, unless
preparation were begun before the meeting
OF congress in December Already the ways
and means committee of the house of rep
resentatives has been authorized TO sit dur
Ling the recess of congress, and additional
and further authority will be given to en-
able the compilation of essential statistics
and the completion of all preliminary work
incident to the preparation of tariff bill,
before the next session Of congress.
The initial movement as well as the later
management of important affairs which
eliminated in the enactment of the gold
| standard legislati ton, was by a citizen of
Indiana patriotic, unselfish, as noble as he
is honorable. Mr. Hugh Hanna. In the
coming campaign another illustrious son
of Indiana we hope may be chosen to carry
the banner of republican principles and
lead to victory the hosts of the repub-
hcan party in the person of Charles w.
Fairbanks Cultured, trained, experienced
in public affairs, honorable in purpose up
right in character, ambitious for the sue
cess and happiness OF all of our people, a
follower of all of the leaders of the re-
publican party and a personal friend of
| Mckinley, the security OF the government
and the welfare OF the people can be Sateiy
trusted to Charles w. Fairbanks as pres-
dent of the United States.
senator Hemenway'H Speech.
Senator Hemenway said
Republican conventions always can be
trusted to select good men, Lincoln, Har-
rison, Mckinley and Roosevelt were Sc
lected by republican conventions, and be-
lieVe the next national republican conVen-
tion will turn to Indiana and select as its
candidate the Hon. Charles Warren FAIR
banks. He has the qualities combined TO
make a great president. and Indiana Will
. present his name to the national conven-
tiOn with a proud and patriotic nope that
he will be nominated. lie stands for the
wise policies of Theodore Roosevelt; as
president, he will maintain them,
The panic of 1898 caused by the ap-
plicatiOn OF unwise policies that were funda.
mental in their nature. The agitation for
free trade and for free silver caused gen
eral stagnation OF business. The prospect
of a democratic tariff paralyzed our in
dustries. The panic did not start with Wall
street. II started In the factories and on
the farm, and with every line of Industrial
activity because there were fundamental
reasons for a panic at that time.
It's makes no difference what great re-
sources a nation may have, nor how great
may be It's people, there also must Be wise
policies. The present panic primarily was
a bankers panic II started among the