Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-13
General Sentiment Seems to be
That Convention win Adopt
Conservative One.
TARIFF WILL BE PROMINENT.
Prohlbitionists, Local Optionists ana
Labor Representatives All Want
Their Ideas Incorporated.

Chicago, June l2.--The product of the
days developments as to the platform
was negative rather than positive. SEN
ator Hopkins, who is conceded the
craftsmanship of the resolutions COM
mittee, arrived during the day from
New York. but in view of the posi-
tion he is to hold he declined TO talk
for quotations. Soon after his arrival
he met Wade Ellis, attorney general of
Ohio, who had Just brought from Wash
ington the RooseveltTaft platform
ideas. Several other prominent .politi-
clans, who are likely to be members
of the resolutions committee, conferred
also with these gentlemen.
The general sentiment expressed by
those who talked on the subject of the
platform seemed to tend toward conser-
Vatism. The idea was expressed that
the platform should be broad enough
for every Republican 20 stand on, and
resolutions which might be called
"Bryanesque' would lead substantial
business men TO vote for bryan II nom
mated at Denver, basing their convlc-
tion on the belief that If elected Bryan 5
hands would be tied by the Republl-
can senate and nothing of radicalism
could become effective. They sug-
gested that with Taft elected on a
by that platform possibly would be full
filed by a Republican Congress.
Senator Hopkins indicated that the
maximum and minimum tariff idea
undoubtedly would be placed in the
tariff plank to indicate Just what the
party expected 10 do with the tariff
question.
Senator Culom gave It as his opin-
Son that the tariff plank should be plain
and devoid of bubbles, so that no one
could misunderstood that the party
promised revision Immediately after in
auguraton.
There is q growing army of reform
ers who are anxious to have the Re
publican party adopt their pet ideas,
The local option people are here: like
wise the prohibitionists, as well as those
who want the manufacture of alcoholic
liquors to be used as a beverage to be
stopped altogether, and those who in
sist on stringent original package law.
Labor representatives are here looking
after an antl-injuncton plank and 9TH
en- matters considered of vital import
ance to their organizations. Even the
Federation of Women's clubs has sent
delegation with a suffrage plank
which it hopes to have adopted.
All of these elements are making
their campaigns with prospective MEM
bers of the resolutions committee and
their work may have some future in
fluence. Nevertheless, the real work of
framing up the platform will not be-
gin until the convention appoints this
committee and the committee has had
opportunity to count noses and ascer-
tain whether the majority be radical
or conservative.
Robert II. Todd and Francisco p.
Qunones, delegates from Porto Rico,
arrived during the day. They have GER
tain demands which they expect TO
make of the committee on resolutions
They say:
we will ask two things of the COM
mittee on resolutions. The first of these
Is that the party pledge itself TO give
citizenship to Porto Ricans on reason
able terms. The second is a definition
Of the status of Porto Rico. At present
we are are citizens of Porto Rico, but
we do not rule. We are not citizens of
the United states, although we belong
10 the United States and have the
flag OF this country. We are governed
by Americans or rather by a council
of H. of whom six are Americans. APP
pointed by the president. and five are
Porto Ricans, whose opinions are ig-
nored by the six"