New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-26

would not hold direct nominations sup
porters within Republican ranks IL the
Democrats followed the lines of the dis
cussion at their recent injecting IN Al
bany in their platform.
One phrasing which has been suggest
ed for the direct nominations plank has
seemed to meet the approval of most o.
the direct nominations men. 1t is this:
I'VE declare for the direct nomination or
psrty' candidates and the direct election
of nartv committeeman al the party pri-
maries.''
The argument in favor of that is that
il would leave the form of the bill TO De
a matter of legislative discussion, but
always with the fact in view that the
Cobb bill had been made Republican
caucus measure in each house.
The Progressives' platform as drafted
contains full. complete and ungrudg-
ing Endorsement of President Taft
and his administration. This, it Is I'M
derstood, is in shape satisfactory TO the
! President himself. No reference to his
denomination in 1912 is made, and II the
| .'old guard" tries to inject one there VIII
be considerable trouble from the known
and unquestioned friends of the Presl-
dent. This plank. as now phrased, COM
mends the legislative achievements of
his administration. Especial praise is
accorded to the broadening of the inter
state commerce laws and the creation of
the Tariff Commission.
There is in this draft a high COM
mendation of the administration of Gov
ernor Hughes, with reference to Presl-
dent Taft's appointment of the state ex-
ec,Itive to the United States Supreme
Court. The Public Service commissions
| law and its recent extension, the GOV
ernor's pairing down of appropriations
and the recent law providing for state
| midget. the conservation laws. the en-
Movers liability laws and the labor laws
enacted under Governor Hughes VIII De
commended There will be strong
rlank in the platform for the extension
of the system of employers liability pay
ments adopted in the laws put 1or"aro
nv the Wainwright commission, the So
called workingmen's compensation
scheme. as we'll as a very strong ldpol
1rlank. In both these Mr.. Roosevelt Is
much Interested.
The platform as drafted by the Pro-
gressives is intended as the basis Tor
| work in the committee on resolutions
# will be submitted by the ProgresslVes
| in the committee as representing the
views of the Taft Roosevelt Hughes
wing of the party. There will be no de-
sire to insist on its adoption II some
thing better is forthcoming. 1t Will be
presented. though, as a sort of standard
| below which the Progressives VIII
| not go.
Representative William S. Bennett gave
out to-day his idea of what the direct
nominations plank in the platform
! should be He favors the so-called
Whiting system of voting for delegates
understood to be committed to certain
candidates, or of voting directly for
nominees for office. He stands for the
retention of the state convention in any
case He says any law enacted should
contain provisions for a statewide en-
rolment, a uniform primary day. the
abolition of Intermediate conventions, an
official ballot and state conducted pri-
maries These features he admits We're
covered both in the "old guards" Meade
| riUs-the Human Green and the Cobb
bills.
The odd guards platform sugges-
tions have been put into writing. The
| Barnes Wadsworth Woodruffians, of
| course, stand pat on the Meade-Phil-
lips bills provisions. They declare
| against direct nominations in any form,
and say they stand for the preserva ton
| of representative government.
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