Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-18
ROOSEVELT STAMPEDE
IS FINALLY CHECKED
But 1t Ragged For As Minutes, After Reference to
President Was Made by Chairman Lodge
1.-The Taft Delegates Are Seated.

and proceed to the selection of candi.
dates Tomorrow's session will open
at 10 o'clock in the morning. instead of
at noon as heretofore, SO that a full
day may be had for the discussion of
principles and men. The platform is
expected to go before the convention
early in the day and it's adoption will
be followed by the speeches placing in
nomination the candidates for Presi-
dent.
| Chicago June 17-Down to BUSH
ness at last. the 14th Republican ma
tional convention entered upon its
second day with several important
factors unsettled and with trouble
enough in sight to make it practically
certain that at least two days more
must be consumed before nominations
can be made and the work of the con-
| vention completed.
| There was a striking contrast last
| night between the gaiety of the crowds
in the hotel corridors and cafes idly
and noisily willing away their time,
and the grim struggle in which the two
| most important standing committees
We're engagedthat on credentials con-
tells We're scenes of what might be
called harmless riot; singing, cheering
crowds in ceaseless. endless lines
passing back and forth; campaign
songs Of old times and new We're sung,
and the far corners of the great build
ings rang with cheers for everybody.
from Roosevelt and the favorite sons,
down t. the most inhnitesimal leader
l,f e.,
where also We're the little groups of
wiseacres, laying down political law
and gospel with that Incompatible So
lemnity which is the unfailng mark
Of the rear rank delegate at a political
convention.
Meanwhile the real questions imme-
liately at issue were being threshed out
in the committees on resolutions and
credentials. The proposed plank in the
platform relating to the limitation Of
the use of court injunctions in labor
controversies was of course the prin-
cipal bone of contention. The commit
tee referred the question to q sub-com-
mittee late in the evening and adjourn
ed until this morning. At that time sur
face indications pointed to long and
bitter struggle. Late in the night, how
ever, it became known that a COM
promise was likely: that efforts were
making to get together on an injunc-
ton plank fairly acceptable to all the
various elements. Such compromise
would remove factor which not only
would have greatly prolonged the de-
alterations Of the committee, but If at
last carried to the floor of the conven-
ton would have precipitated a strug-
gle, the final outcome of which it
would be difficult to forecast; for
while it early became evident that the
majority of the Subcommittee was in
sympathy with the views of the ma
tional administration on this subject,
there was some doubt whether this
was true of the whole resolutions
committee. The bitterness which has
been displayed on both sides of the
question gave ominous threat of q
storm Of no small proportions should
the controversy be flung into the con-
vcntion in it's crude form.
All night the committee on creden-
tials ploughed through the long line
of contests and few were much sur
prised to find that all the decisions
confirmed those Of the national COM
mittee. There was much interest in the
announcement that dissenting report
from the defeated minority of this
committee would be presented to the
convention, but the Taft people appar-
emily had already in hand votes more
than enough to dispose of the matter
without serious delay
The committee on rules and order of
business also had troubles Of it's own
and adjourned until this morning with
an unsettled controversy of Importance
on its hands. 1t was over the PROPOSE
ton To reduce the ratio of representa-
ton in future national conventions.
The question was before the commit
tee in the form Of two resolutions. one
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