Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-06-17
NOMINATION Of TAFT !
IS NOW A Certainty
SETTLEMENT OF SOUTH CARO-.
LIMA CONTEST ASSURES
oHloAN OF VICTORY.

oHIoAN OF VICTORY.
MANAGERS SAY TOTAL
VOTE MAY REACH 700
"AIIies" Insist They Will Stay In the
Race to the End-War Secretary
Has Nearly Solid Delegation from
Home State.
Chicago, June 12.-William Howard
Taft is in undisputed possession Of the
nomination for the presidency before
the Republican national convention az
q result of the contests showed into
the Taft column Thursday by the ma
tional committee. The decision in the
Fifth South Carolina district put the
allies to sleep completely. These
two votes gave Taft the necessary ma
jority of 491 on the figures vouched
for by the anti.Taft managers.
The bulletin announcing the seating
of the Taft delegates in the Fifth South
Carolina was issued at 1915 q. m.
From this decision on it began to be
merely question of just how large
a vote the secretary will have on the
first ballot.
Expect Taft Vote to BE 700.
Frank H. Hitchcock and other Taft
managers declared with added conf
dence that their man will have at least
700 votes. There are those who be-
lieve that some of the aspirants for
the nomination in the camp of cal
lies will withdraw before the actual
voting commences. The managers of
the "antis,' however, deny this, insist
ing that the field will stay in the race
until the end.
Taft and Foraker Each Get Halt. :
Only one vote has been given the
anti-Taft people in the contests. This
came Wednesday, when the Sixth Ohio
district contest was decided, involving
the Taft and Foraker factions. The
national committeeman reached the
finding that as this was a delicate
and complicated situation it would be
the part of wisdom to seat both dele
gates, splitting the two votes evenly
between the Taft and Foraker
men. This means that the Sec
rotary of war will lack one
delegate of having a solid vote
in his home state. In this re-
spect Speaker Cannon gets some con-
ISOLATION out of the decision. Cannon
lacks two of solid delegation from
his home state. The two Illinois dele
gates from the First congressional dis
trict are instructed for Taft.
Members of the national committee
do not look upon the decision in the
Ohio case as compromise. They say
the points in dispute have been decid-
ed twice in opposite ways by supreme
court opinions and that the situation
is so complicated it was agreed to. rec
ognize both sides.
The colored contestants from the
south who have been unseated are
keeping up their agitation and are
still threatening trouble.
Brings RooseveIt.Taft Plank.
Attorney General Wade Ellis Of Ohio
brought to Chicago Thursday a COM
plete Roosevelt-Taft platform which
will be submitted to the committee on
resolutions of the Republican national
convention. Mr.. Ellis, for man with
so much information in his pistol
pocket" was about as communicative
as the proverbial clam, though he was
courtesy itself. 1t can be said with
positiveness that he has on his peo-
son, in the aforesaid pistol pocket"
planks for the Republican platform
covering all the issues of the Roose-
welt policies and the proposed issues
of the Taft administration, II Secre-
of the platform will have to be taken
care of by the resolution committee.
Gist Of the PIanks.
Among the items covered in Mr..
Ellis draft of the platform is
strong tariff revision plank, which fol-
lows closely on the Ohio plank; an
anti-injunction plank, which resembles
in substance the recommendations of
President Roosevelt to the last con-
gress and Secretary Taft's own speech
on the subject; tentative plank COW
ering the further regulation of rail-
roads and trusts and combinations,
and suggesting amendments to exist
ing law which will bring them up to
date in conformity with Roosevelt poll
cies; plank covering the complete
conservation of national resources,
and number of other items of minor
but general Importance.
"The platform is not yet made" said
Mr.. Ellis. The Ohioan meant by this
that the platform had not yet been
formally adopted, but the planks he
has in his possession will be demand
ed by the administration and Taft men,
and, If their principle is accepted, the
exact wording of them will then be in
sisted upon. They are written down
just as the president and Secretary
Taft want them to read in the plat
form. Mr.. Ellis said he had received
many suggestions as to other planks.
and intimated that there may be sew
eral delegations on hand to urge new
planks which are not now al
ready covered.
Further Gains for Hearst.