Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-26

Industrial and vocational education il
common schools.
Conservation policies in the state by
legislation regarding canals, roads, water
supplies. agricultural extension and for
estry. and in the nation by continuing anG
enlarging the work already started.
A tariff plank emphasizing the need OF
vigorous, effective commission and
prompt action
Only Point of Conflict.
The only plank in this outline objection
able TO the Taft leaders was the provision
for the recall of public officers and that
will be fought in the committee on res
olutions.
Its going to be real convention" was
the judgment of every one when the day
began. meaning that there is likely to DC
and more of free hand for the delegate
body than has been witnessed In recent
conventions in Ohio.
The city began to fill up with rec
breaking crowd, attracted by the
novel spectacle of a non-boss-ridden
convention. The day opened blazing
hot, the murky atmosphere intensified
by the dense clouds of smoke from
the busy Columbus industrial plants.
To add to every ones discomfort a
street car strike paralyZed traffic and
hardy individuals who boarded an oc-
casional car ran the risk of shower
of bricks or a casual bomb, as the
striking carmen are ugly and full of
riot.
So the incoming delegates toiled up
High street. coats on arm and collars
dangling. The bands of the boomers
started in early and filled the hotel lob
bies with cheerful. if discordant. din.
while the delegates and visitors pushed
and toiled and perspired up and down
the stairs, thronging the various head
quarters.
Taft's Friends Satisfied.
1t was very evident early in the day
that the Garfield statement was having
its effect upon the delegate body at large.
The fact became known that the friends
of Taft among the minor leaders con-
sidered the statement as fair and friendly.
"A very shrewd and possibly effective
move on the part of Garfield was the
statement from higher Taft sources, land
one which can hardly be attacked by sim
cere well-wishers for the party's inter-
est.
The early morning hours found the big
leaders snatching bit of sleep after
their late session last night, leaving the
boys to talk over the situation among
themselves.
The little politicians were as busy as
boys with a new red wagon trying to
make up their states for offices below the
sovernorship. but made little Roadway In
the early part of the day, owing to the
uncertainty as to the head of the ticket.
The county leaders are more interested
in their sheriffs and county ticket than
in the broader national questions and
policies and the political fortunes of the
would-be bosses. and in their talk there
was indicated a good deal Of indie
pendence. 1t was predicted that the
bosses may have a difficult task in hold
ing the counties, and a stampede for this
or that candidate made a possibility, once
Loo xnf tI.nir ind n
up on what is best for their own inter
ests.
1t is a fight for their own hands with
the small leaders who know the condi-
lions in their respective bailiwicks, and 1t
seems to be their day.
Cheer From Oyster Bay.
The Garfield forces were very much
elated over the publication in the morn
ing papers of a dispatch from Oyster
Bay that Col. Roosevelt will take part
in the Ohio campaign only in event of
the adoption of a progressive platform.
They counted that announcement as a
distinct asset for their candidate.
AS a matter of fact there seems little
doubt that the platform will be dis
tinctly progressive. That was evidenced
by the announcement made yesterday
by Wade Ellis, and telegraphed to The
acceptable to the regulars. That plat
form differed in essence from the Gar
field platform only upon the single
proposition of recall by popular vote of
wants them recalled by a vote, Ellis
suggests their trial on the charges and
dismissal if found guilty. That is pos
sible now, of course. and is not in the
line of progressive policy.
The difference on this proposition will
be ironed out in the resolutions commit
tee.
The other essential difference between
the progressives and the administra-
ton was on the Endorsement of the Presi-
dent and the national administration. The
Garfield men claim this morning that
their leaders statement last night meets
this question fairly, and 1t is fact that
the candid and frank administration men
do not controvert that assertion.
Senator BurtOns friends are bitter,
claiming that Garfield crawled and be-
trayed the radical progressives. But the
fact is that progressiveness in Ohio has
not Yet gone to the point of intent to
disrupt the republican party, and the ad-
ministration men are trying to conform
to the known sentiment for reasonable
progresiveness.
that the Garfield men and the admins
tration's friends in the rank and file,
outside of the two senator's, with their
personal stake in the game, are not SO
very
Only a moments reflection will show
the position of Burton and Dick. If Gar
field is nominated, he becomes the re.
publican hero of the moment. His
friends will insist upon getting as much
of the organization and party machinery
as they can wrest from the present
leaders, so that in the end Messrs. Bur-
ton and Dick may have to treat with the
Garfield wing in few political deals
The Situation at Noon.
At noon the situation in Columbus can
be summarized as follows:
The old guard leaders, unwilling to
lend assent to Garfeld's possible domi-
nation, are anxiously seeking candidate
upon whom the Burton-Cox-D factions
can agree. Brown seems to be out of it.
Harding Is still strong, with Thompson
next. Longworth, as dark horse, has
not yet arrived
Cox and Burton are out with each othe,
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