Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-06-17

Special bU United Press Wire:
I Chicago, June 17:-The second
days session of the republican ma.
tional convention began at noon to-
day. The order of business was sus-
pended to allow the marching clubs
to, parade through the hall. They
were greeted with show of enthu-
siasm more like that of the old days
of political campaigns then anything
yet seen here.
The report of the committee on
credentials is the first thing in the
order of the days business. When the
committee on credentials of the re-
publican national convention took a
recess at o'clock this morning 1t
had completed the work of hearing
the contests and the Taft mems con-
troll had not been shaken. The orig
inal roll as prepared by the national
committee, in every instance, was
approved 1t was admitted by the
leaders of the "allies" that even
though they should carry the fight
into the convention they have no
chance. "The federal people are in
control" they declare. I'VE cannot
even whisper"
1t will be determined today wheth-
er the fight shall be taken to the
convention floor. If 1t Is decided to
do this minority report, prepared
by Mayor Bookwalter, of Indianapo-
lis. will be presented for adoption.
Taft Men Were Regular.
The Taft people had the advant-
age of regularity and the committee
held that 1t could not ask how they
got control of the convention as long
as 1t was plainly shown they had
control and no illegality was shown.
Foraker retains one vote given
him In Ohio by the national commit
tee by splitting vote In the sixth
Ohio districts.
Early this morning, after the
Mississippi contests were heard,
Major Bryan and Ormsby McDerg,
the legal representatives of the two
factiops, got into an alteration and
they would have had a fight had not
a big policeman intervented. Bryan
objected to McDerg acting both as a
witness and as counsel and styled
his conduct unprofessional.
Real Fight Begins.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, to-
day presented to the subcommittee
of the resolutions committee the
plank agreed on by the executive
council Of that organization and
which, up to the minute of presenta-
tion, was kept q secret. The plank
covers everything that labor de-
mands at the hands of the republi-
can party Whether adopted or not
1t will also be presented to the dem
ocrats at Denver.
The plank says: "The republican
party is In accord with Lincoln when
he said labor is prior to, and inde-
pendent of capital Capital is the
fruit of labor and could never have
existed except for labor. Labor de-
serves more consideration.
'"The republican party has been a
staunch defender or property rights
yet holds that personal liberty and
human rights are entitled to the
highest consideration.
Recognizing now that the con-
ditions must be met by new laws we
pledge the republican party to the
the wage earners, agriculturalists
and horticulturalists the right of or
ganization to the end that such or
ganizations not to be considered IL
legal.
I'VE pledge ourselves to a law to
prohibit the issuance of injunction
in cases arising from labor disputes
when such injunctions do not apply
when no labor disputes existed that
In no case an injunction shall be is-l