Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-04-10
|DELEGATES-AT-LARGE CHOSEN
MEN ACTIVE IN MOVE FOR RE-
NOMINATION SENT TO CHI.
cAeo CONVENTION
new LEGISLATION PROPOSED
CHANGES NEEDED IN SHERMAN
ANTI TRusT LAWS ARE
SUGGESTED

RVSucotcis N. IT, April W IN
republican state convention today
adopted platform urging New
York's delegation to the Chicago ma
tional convention to favor the reno
mination of President Taft, elected
four delegates-at-large and alternates
to that convention and adjourned sine
die: The delegates chosen are Uni.
ted States Senator Elihu Root. State
Chairman William Barnes, Jr., VIII
liam Berri of Brooklyn and edwin
A. Merritt, Jr., speaker of the as
sembly.
With delegates-at-large to the Chi
cago convention selected and the plat
form drafted by the committee on
resolutions, the delegates at the Sec
ond days session Of the republican
state convention today looked forward
to an early completion of their delib-
erations. Four or five speeches by
prominent state leaders. Including
United States Senator Root, State
Chairman William Barnes, Jr., former
Speaker James w. Wadsworth, Jr.,
William M. WINS and Job Herges of
New York outlining the party poll
cies were expected to precede the fin
al ratification Of the platform, after
which the delegates-at-large would be
formally elected by vote of the del
egates and the convention adjourned.
Early today the committee on reso-
lutions completed its draft of the
platform in which the New York del
egation to the national convention
was urged to vote for the renomina-
tion of President Taft. This action on
the part of the committee, which was
almost unanimous, was taken 70 pre-
vent a fight on the floor over the
question of whether the four dele.
gates-at-large should be specifically
instructed.
The resolutions committee nominat-
ed as delegates-at-large Senator Root,
Chairman Barnes, William Berri OF
Brooklyn, and Edwin A. Merritt, Jr.,
speaker Of the assembly. Undaunted
by the fact that the resolutions COM
mittee did not incorporate a woman's
suffrage plank in the platform, rep
resentatives of the movement today
distributed circulars advocating wom-
ans rights at the polls IN the conven-
tion hall before the hour for re-as-
sembling.
Temporary Chairman Butler was
made permanent chairman when the
convention was called to order. State
Chairman Barnes read the platform,
which was made public last night.
One plank on the Sherman antitrust
law, was not made public until today. |
It reads:
we believe IN adequate laws to-
prevent monopoly in trade. We favor
the retention Of the Sherman anti
trust act; but that should be supple
mented by further legislation to give
the same certainty to the law con-
trolling combinations and monopolies
that characterize other provisions of
our commercial law. to the end that
the field of business opportunity shall
not be restricted by monopoly or COM
bination; that business successes,
honestly achieved. may not be con-
verted into crimes and that the right |
Of all men to acquire any commodity |
and particularly the necessities of
life in an open market, until influenc-
ed by the manipulation or trusts or
combinations, may be preserved.
There should be provision for an
administrative board for the better
enforcement of the law against mo-
nopoly- There should be further leg
islation to define as criminal offenses
specific acts which make attempts to
restrain and monopolize trade, 50 |