Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-19
TAFT ADHERENTS
WIN PLATFORM
ANTI-INjUNCTI0N PLANK Is
INSERTED
OPPONENTS OF ISSUE COLLAPSE
SUDDENLY
Telegram from Roosevelt at Critical
Time Has Good Effect on Action
of Refractory Dele
gates
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 1s-victory for the
Taft forces on the resolutions COM
mittee came with the dawn. A plat
form which contains an injunction
plank satisfactory to the prospective
candidate is embodied in the substan-
tial structure of verbiage upon which
is to be made the secretary's appeal
for popular approval. This result was
attained with suddenness upon the col
lapse of the opposition early in the
evening. Two hours before this the
opponents of the injunction provision
were rejecting offers of compromise
and asserting with positiveness their
ability to eliminate any injunction
plank.
A telegram from President Roosevelt
arrived, as we'll as a letter and tele-
gram from Secretary Taft, each urging
action. An ultimatum in substance, II
not in words, had been delivered short
ly before to the "allies," which was in
terpreted as spelling the denomination
of Roosevelt should the convention re-
fuse platform upon which the secre-
tary of war could make the race with
confidence. Then followed protracted
discussion and the final adoption of
the contested plank by a vote of 30
to 16.
Beginning with the adjournment of
the convention on Tuesday, the work
of the resolutions committee was prac-
tically continuous until 4:20 o'clock this
morning, when the first platform was
produced.
Text of Platform
It was not until 10 o'clock last night
that the scales began to tip in favor
of the administration forces, but after
n1ttfi Of ha bn N
it was rapid and soon completed, leav-
ing nothing to mark its existence but
a few of the unrecorded speeches and
a slim minority of votes.
The text Of the platform adopted by
the committee on resolutions is as fol-
lows:
National Republican Platform
Once more the Republican party, in
national convention assembled, SUBJ
mits it's cause to the people. This great
historic organization that destroyed
slavery, preserved the Union, restored
credit, expanded the national domain,
established a sound financial system,
developed the industries and resources
of the country and gave to the nation
her seat of honor in the councils of the
world, now meets the new problems of
government with the same courage and
capacity with which it solved the old.
RepubIicanlsm Under Roosevelt
In this, the greatest era of American
advancement, the Republican party has
reached it's highest service under the
leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. His
administration is an epoch in American
history. In no other period since ma
tional sovereignty was won under
Washington or preserved under Lin
coin has there been such mighty
progress in those ideals of government
which ma for inStipQ annalifU and
fair dealing among men. The highest
aspirations of the American people
have found a voice. The most exalted
servant represents the best aims and
worthiest purposes of all his country
men. American manhood has been lift
ed to a nobler sense of obligation.
Conscience and courage in public sta
ton and higher standards of right and
wrong in private life have been cardinal
principles of political faith; capital and
labor have been brought into closer re-
1ations of confidence and interdepend
ence; and the abuse of wealth, the
tyranny of power and all the evils of
privilege and favoritism have been put
to scorn by the simple, manly virtues of
Justice and fair play.
The great accomplishments of Presi-
dent Roosevelt have been first and fore
most a brave and impartial enforce
ment of the laws; the prosecution of
illegal trusts and monopolies; the ex-
posure and punishment of evildoers in
the public service; the more effective
regulation of the rates and the service
of the great transportation lines; the
complete overthrow of preferences, re-
bates and determinations; the arbitra-
tions of labor disputes; the ameliora-
ton of the woodworkers everywhere;
the conservation of the national re-
sources of the country; the forward
step in the Improvement of the inland
QlVVaUE tina earnest
support and defense of every whole
some safeguard which has made more
secure the guarantees of life, liberty
and prosperity.
These are the achievements that will
make for Theodore Roosevelt his place
In history, but more than all else, the
great things he has done will be an
inspiration to those who have yet great
er things to do We declare our unfal-
tering adherence TO the policies thus
snaugurated, and pledge their continu-
ance under a Republican administration
of the government.
Equality of Opportunity
Under the guidance of Republican
principles the American people have
become the RICHEST nation in the world.
Our wealth today exceeds that of Eng
land and all her colonies and that of
France and Germany combined.
When the Republican party was born
the total wealth of the country was
$4,000 900, 600. 1t has leaped to $110000,
100000 in a generation, while Great
Britain has gathered but 100000. 000 900
in 800 years. The United States now
owns one-fourth of the worlds wealth,
and makes one-third of all modern
manufactured products.
In the greatness of civilization such
as coal, the motive power of all activi-
ty; iron, the chief basis of all industry:
cotton, the staple foundation of all
fabrics; wheat, corn and all the agri-
cultural products that feed mankind
Americas supremacy is undisputed
And yet her great natural wealth has
scarcely been touched. We have vast
domain of 100000 square miles literally
bursting with latent treasure, still wait
ing the magic of capital and industry
to be converted TO the practical uses of
mankind; a country rich in soil and
climate, In the Embarrassed energy of
its rivers, and in all the varied products
of the field, the forest and the factory.
With gratitude for Gods bounty, with
pride in the splendid productiveness of
the past and with confidence in the
plenty and prosperity OF the future, the