The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-16

| q ton and Secretary Taft will have a 1 good working majority on the Resolu- tfons Committee was assured today by ] the action of many of the State dele | gations in choosing their members.
 The final touches to the resolutions l will be made by subcommittee which 1 will be composed of nine members, in- cluding Senator Hopkins. Chairman l Senator Long of Kansas. Hon. Wade ElllsT Senator Murray Crane of Massa- | chusetts, Representative Payne of New | York and DaIzell of Pennsylvania. | It, is intended that the suo-commit- | tee shall be composed of represents | tives of various interests. but it will | be so composed as to make sure of the l protection of the central idea that the | Presidents policies shall be endorsed | and endorsed In no ,half-hearted way. state Caaquses.
 | Chicago. June 15--Absolute harmony. so far as surface indications went, characterized the caucus of the New | York delegation. For the first time in modern politics in that state, United | States Senator Thomas c. Platt Of TfogA County, was not in attendance
 his place being taken by State Senator
 J. P. Aids. of Norwich.
 | United States Senator Chauncey M.
 Depew. was chosen as the states representative in the list of honorary
 vice-presidents. The conflict which existed yesterday over the membership on the committee on resolution between Serene Payne, of Auburn, and Repre- sentative Herbert Parsons of New
 York. had been settled over night, and MT. Parsons himself presented MT
 Payne's name for the place
 State Chairman Timothy L. Woodruff
 of Brooklyn was made chairman of
 the delegation. and William L. Ward of West Chester. was reelected mem I Der of the National Committee. A | resolution was adopted, on motion of
 Representative Parsons, requiring Gen l eral Stewart L. Woodford as head of
 the Delegation at Large. to present | the name of Governor Hughes as the
 choice of the State for President I There was no mention of the vice. lpresidency.
 The feature of the Pennsylvania eau cus was the adoption of resolution
 which win be presented to the plat | form committee favoring a change in
 representation to the National Conven-
 ton on the basis of one delegate for every ten thousand votes for the candi- I date for Prsident in the last election. ] Senator Penrose was reelected to the i National Committee without opposition
 Great enthusiasm was, manifested in the candidacy of Senator Knox and every mention of his name caused ap- piahse. The caucus of the Michigan delega- tion late today was marked by quite i a lively little struggle over the ques- ton as to who should represent the State in the convention 'committee on resolutions. With the exception of two delegates from one district. the delega- tIon is strongly for Secretary Taft. and it was deisred by the friends of the war secretary that an out and out Taft man should be on the credentials com mittee which is entrusted with the irn- portant work of preparing the party platform As the Taft representative. Dr.. Dallas Boudeman of Kalamazoo was placed iu nomination. Opposed to him was Representative Joseph w. Fordney, of Saginaw. the original Can- non man in Michigan, and one of the first members of the lower House of Congress to suggest the Speakers name for the presidency.
 MT Fordney is also for Cannon. There was a sharp discussion for half an hour or more and then a vote was taken, Mir. Fordney winning out by 13. to Il. One blank ballot and one marred were thrown out. The Taft delegates did not take the defeat of their man too seriously and after the caucus declared that the election of Mir. Fordney was in no sense the result of any feeling. but was due in large de- gree to Mir. Fordney's popularity among the delegation. The fact, however, that Mir. Fordney is so close to Speaker Cannon and that the latter is on the ground fighting against the adoption of an anti-injunction plank in the plat form makes his selection for the com mfttee on credentials a strengthening a.i..a d.. &A. c.. struggle that Is looming so large. on the conventionson the horizon.
 The New. Jersey delegation at It's caucus today placed the State square
 ly on record as opposed to any men tion. of the courts in the party plat
 form, or any tinkering with the tariff
 The caucuses was not without its en- liYening features, but after a brief de-
 bate the voting on the two platform
 propositions that are occupying so large a place in the minds of all the convention delegates was unanimous
 The first resolution adopted by the caucus protested vigorously against an nti-injunction plank and declared
 there should be no mention of the courts in the party's pronouncement to the peopIa The second resolution de- clared 1t to be the unanimous sense of the New Jersey delegation that tradi- tionai policy of the Republican party on the resolution of the tariff should
 be strictly adhered to.
 The delegation was instructed to vote solidly for former Governor Franklin Murphy for the Vice-Presi- dency.
 The Colorado delegation at its eau GUS today adopted a resolution calling
 upon the convention to insert a plank
 in the platform designed more securely to protect the growing beet sugar in-
 dustry of Colorado and other sections
 of the West
 The candidacy of Senator LaFol- Iette for President and the principles
 which he has strongly advocated will be maintained by the Wisconsin dele-
 gation in the convention until the final adjournment, no matter whether they
 are indorsed or rejected, and if the blanks fail of acceptance by the Com | mittee on Resolutions, our represen ta- | tive will offer them as a minority re4 ! port" said a leading member of the
 Wisconsin delegation after the caucus today.
 There was considerable enthusiasm manifested at the caucus and the dif4 | ferent convention officials of the State | were selected without opposition. The |, question of the e-presidency was not
 taken up.
 The headquarters of the delegation | were formally opened today: William | c. Burmder presided ana several ! speeches were made in support of Sen | ator IIaFoHette and his avowed poll | eies Nearly every member of the del egation at the conclusion seemed em-