Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-27
G. 0. P. CornhuSkerS Put County
Option Plank in Platform;
Indorse Insurgents
CANNoNISM is DENOUNCED
Non-Partisan Board of Control
of Penal Institutions
Is Demanded


convention of the Republican party Of
Nebraska today adopted a platform
strongly indorsing the administration
of President Taft, expressing unalter-
able opposition to the system known
as "Cannonism" and hearty sympathy
with the insurgents movement in anc
out of congress. The platform in
cluded a declaration for county op-
ton as the method of regulating the
liquor traffic and for an amendment
to the state constitution providing fol
direct legislation.
The resolutions were not adopted
without strong opposition both in the
resolutions committee and on the fiool
of the convention, but while there
were no votes to spare in the com
mittee for county option and the othel
matters that came before the man
body of delegates as minority reports
the vote in their favor in the con
vention was overwhelming.
COUNTY OPTION
AS a general proposition it had beer
understood the Endorsement of county
option and of insurgency" were sup
ported by the same people. In con
sequence, when at the opening OF th'
convention at noon United States Sen
ator Norris Brown, a stand patter,
was chosen permanent chairman ovel
CONGRESSMAN Norris, a leader in in
surgency," by an overwhelming vote
the rank and file of the county op
tionists began to fear for the fate O.
their pet resolution. 1t develops, how
ever, that while no compromise Il
agA e-f1 a
ference last night at which Senate
Brown assured the ''optionists" of tn
character of the resolutions committe
he would appoint if he was permanen
chairman.
The committee of seven appointe
by him included three in favor @
county option, three in favor of tn
present law and one in favor of tn
submission of a statewide prohibition
amendpent. The last named membe
finally voted for the county optiol
plank. The majority report for sucl
a resolution was defeated in the con
vention, $50 ayes to $50 noes. Their
was no division in voting on the ma
jority report.
Senator Brown spoke in part as fol
lows
In assuming the temporary chair
manship of the Nebraska Republican
state convention, Senator Brown
spoke only along general political
lines, making no allusions to the ques'
tions uppermost in the minds of the
delegates-th Endorsement of the lin
surgency'' of some of Nebraska's con-
gressmen, and the county option plar
of regulating the liquor traffic.
Mentioning the Democratic state
convention being held today at Grand
Island, Neb., Senator Brown declared
that it is useless for Democrats to fight
over a platform, as a Democratic
platform is neither useful nor orna-
mental"
PRAISES TARIFF
Contrasting this record with that of
the Republican party, Senator Brown
said:
Fourteen years ago when Mckinley
was chosen president on the pledge
that he would pass tariff law with
protection to American industries In
it, he kept his pledge and the country
prospered. Five years later Roosevelt
succeeded to the presidency, and in
1904 when reelected by the people he
promised to carry out the Mckinley
policies and retain the protective
features of McKinley's tariff act; he
kept the pledge and the country con-
tinued to prosper. When four years
later, in 1908, William H. Taft was
chosen president on the pledge to re-
wise the tariff law but to retain its
protective principles, he likewise kept
the faith and the country still is pros
pering."
Turning to state matters, the speaker
named a number of beneficent laws en-
acted under the leadership and in
spiration of George Sheldon, the last
OP a "a
OF the new tariff law he said:
"No one has ever pretended that that
act was perfect. Its warmest friends
always have admitted its imperfec-
tions. But Notwithstanding its imper-
fections, with the information congress-
had at the time, it was a better law
than the law it superseded and is en-
titled to the common sanction and sup
port of the American people as step
toward the relief of the public from the
duties of the Dingley law, which the
country had outgrown."
The senator told of the amendment
of the law passed under the Roose-
velt regime and perfected under the
direction and urging of President Taft,
increasing the powers Of the interstate
commerce commission relative to rates.
The resolutions adopted strongly in
dorsed the national administration and
the new tariff law. In state matters
the calls for the erection of nom
partisan board of control for charit-
able and penal institutions and re-
of the senators and
of the state. AS an
a resolution calling for a
amendment providing
for direct legislation was also present.
ed. Congressman Norris offered the
following resolution:
every protest against wrong is In
surging' for the right. We are unalter-
ably opposed to the system known as
and are in hearty SYM
pathy with the insurgent move, in
and out of congress. We urge our
senators and representatives to con-
tinue to use their votes and influence
along progressive lines In the future. -
There was a storm of protest when
the resolution was first presented, but
when put to vote 1t was declared
adopted. The convention then select
ed the state central committee and
adjourned.