The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-04
WILD SCENES IN
BIG CONVENTION
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pat. He declared it would be easier
TO make the Republican party all pro
gressive than secure proper legislation
from Democratic administration. He
avered that Payne, Aldrich. Dalzell and
other so called regulars were no more
in favor of the principle of protection
than were the progressives. The Re
publican party, he said was not formed
to make men rich, but to make them
free.
The various committees went into
session at the conclusion of the ad
dress.
With the exception Of the second dis.
trict meeting the caucuses were soon
over, five choosing stand pat members
OF the resolutions committee and Of the
state central committee, while an equal
number were elected by the progress
sives.
The entrance of Senator Cummins, the
temporary chairman, was the signal for
n wild burst of applause, in which many
conservatives, carried away by en-
thuslasm, joined.
Senator Cummins' mention of Roose-
welt S name brought the audience to
its feet. Then from the stand patters
came friends of "Taft, Taft, Taft. ~
They wanted the party referred to as
the party of Taft also, The senator
smiled during the outburst, but ignored
the request
% - - and of Roosevelt he
attempted to resume, whereupon the
cries of fTaft, Taft were resumed
by the stalwarts.
Conflict Fierce One.
With stand patters and progressives
apparently hopelessly at variance in the
essential matter of the tariff plank, the
Republican stare convention was called
to order In the coliseum today for the
purpose of writing a platform, selecting
state central committee and making
nominations for state superintendent OF
public instruction and for two supreme
court Judgeships.
The discord is expected to be more
IN evidence in the campaign than etfec-
tive at the convention, which has
safe progressive majority. The stand
pat faction adopted their planks with
the full knowledge that they could not
be forced through the convention. The
platform which is to be adopted Will
be Enthusiastically insurgent-condemna-
tion of the tariff law and ecomloums for
the state IS insurgent congressional dele
cation.
Yesterday and the greater portion of
the night saw the two factions steadily
growing further apart. At first the
conservatives gave some evidence that
a semblance of harmony was possible.
Talk was for an endorsement of PreSl-
dent Taft and the protective policy. By
night, however, the platform makers of
this faction were in a stampede off the
harmony reservation They prepared
planks endorsing the president and Gov
ernor Carroll, calling them respectively
the leaders of the party in nation and
state, They indorsed Taft for signing
the Payne -Aldrich tariff bill and to the
law gave their unqualified approval,
Nothing could be better calculated to
arouse the ire of the insurgent dele
gates, who are in the majority by 200.
Fight to Bitter End.
The standpatrers went to bed leav-
ing their challenge well understood by
known that they would 90 down with
their colors nailed to the mast.
| Former Congressman Lacey sounded
the keynote in speech in which he de-
clared that 1T was important that Iowa
should 90 Republican next election, but
asserted amid applause that it was more
important that the Republican party
should go Republican.
At the conference last night the sixth
and ninth districts were unable to Sc
lect definitely their members of the
resolutions committee. They went into
caucus this morning with John F. Lacey
and II. w. Waterman, under considera-
tion in the sixth, and State Senator G.
| G.. Saunders and State Senator A G.
Savage, the candidates in the ninth.
All are standpatters,
Congressional Contests,
The second district conference devel.
oped considerable feeling and the end
was not in sight and the delegates from
this district began their caucus this
morning. The progressives Of Clinton,
cured the pledges of fifty-seven out of
l04 votes to put George NJ. Curtis on
the resolution committee. Joseph r.
Lane, one Of the most influential Re.
publicans, and the district are generally
known as great harmonlzer, refused
to accept Curtis. The stand pat delega
ton refused to stand for either Lane or
Curtis.
Z. H. Adler's position as state cen
trail committeeman from the second was
ieopardized by the fight, for the pro
gressives planned to support G.. K. Hill.
Singer for the place. The Scott county
delegation refused to sanction the plac'
ing of Curtis on the resolution commit
tee. When the conference broke up at
an early hour seven Scott county dele
gates had pledged themselves to Curtis
giving him bare majority.
"Will they stickP' was the question
most generally asked as the caucuses
began.
Whether the state central committee
shall be stand pat or progressive de
pends on the selection made by the sec
ond district, it is said. Should the
stand pat element secure the pivotal po
sition on the committee there was muct
talk that the progressives would take
advantage Of the primary law which
declares that the convention shall Sc
lect the state central committee. Tc
do so would be radical departure from
the unwritten law by which the conyen
ton accepts the selection Of the 'variou:
districts With the big progressive ma
ioritv of delegates the convention could
at its discretion make the committee
wholly progressive. Such an act. how
ever, would sweep away the last vestige
of harmony.
Fight on Resolutions.
Their resolutions incorporated in th'
minority report of the platform commit
tee and voted down by the convention
approved the action.
The 1908 resolution thus revived de