The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-08
Mr.. LONG IS HERE
Senior Kansas Senator Returns
From Washington.
Likely to Have Place ON Resolu.
tfons Committee.
REPLY TO w. A. WHITE
Answer One to BriSt0W's Mana.
ger Not to Newspaper.
Said That the Address will Be
Strong One.


innate put upon it by those who are
watching events closely these days.
that the great fight of the Chicago
convention next week will be over the
platform. and indications now point
to the fact that Senator Long, who ar
rived here last night from Washing
ton, will be member Of the commit
tee on resolutions and make the ad
ministration-Taft fight. Senator Long
will not do this unless it is perfectly
agreeable to Senator Curtis, however,
who was designated at the recent
meeting here Of the Kansas delega-
ton as the member from this state
OF that committee.
There seems to be a prevailing i'm
preston that Secretary Taft, repre-
senting the views and policies of
President Roosevelt as he does, and
being what might be termed rather
radical in these respects. is bound, by
force of circumstances and conditions
in the east to be what might be called
a conservative candidate. Close OBJ
servers have noted the fact that New
York and New England, not naturally
Taft territory. under any circum-
stances, have come strongly to the aid
of the secretary of war recently. If
this is the case, the platform will have
to be an unusually strong, virile, radi-
cal, western document. This is un-
doubleday the wish of both the presi-
dent and the secretary of war, and
the fact that Senator Long was de-
tanned at Washington all of last week
when his friends and managers here
wanted him home in the senatorial
campaign. lends color to the belief
that. having assisted in the prepara-
ton with the president and secretary
of war Of the rough draft Of the plat
form, the senior Kansas senator will
become effocttVe
member of the committee on resolu-
lions. This will render his service
very great indeed. First, he would
have assisted in preparing the draft of
the platform at washington. Second
he would be a member of the subcom-
mittee of the committee on resolu-
lions at Chicago that will put the plat
form into still better shape. Third, he
would, as a member of the full COM
mittee definitely pass upon it when
the subcommittee gets through, and
represent the Administrations Taft
forces in committee. Fourth. he
would. II necessary. be floor man in
the convention in defending and ex-
planning the platform to the conven-
ton.
tive, it has every appearance OF fit
ting the present trend Of things, and
is, to say the least. a plausible precon-
ception Of what might happen.
A friend of Senator Longs with
whom the State Journal talked to-
day and who was asked concerning
this prediction, said that while this
might be, it should be understood that
Senator Long under no circum-
stances would stand in the way Of the
rights of Senator Curtis, who has been
selected by the delegation as member
Of the committee on resolution.
Long Worried About Trunks.
Senator Long arrived in Topeka last
night on the Union Pacific about 8
o'clock. For a while he was more
exercised over getting his trunks
from the Union Pacific station to the
Copeland hotel than he was over
either j. L. Bristow or William Allen
White. He had to subsidize trans
ferman, finally, to accomplish this,
and was breathing more easily after
the trunks showed up at the hotel
about two hours later. He was fear
full of the food, and that the fact that
every vehicle seemed to be in COM
mission on the North Side at that
time threatened him for a while with
the prospect of having his trunks
sewed up at the station Indefinitely.
His Reply to White.
Senator Long was accompanied
from Kansas City by Morton Albaugh
and his secretary, r. H. Faxon, who
had met him in Kansas City His
family had gone on to Wichita and
Medicine Lodge.
The senator paid a brief call this
morning to his headquarters in the
GODDARD building. and then spent the
entire day at the Copeland in putting