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touches would be placed on the docu-
ment.
RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE HAS
DISPUTE OVER THE PLATFORM.
Chicago.-The committee on reso-
lutions which will submit the plat
form to the convention was named
yesterday and includes James A..
Smith, of Iowa, and e. l.. Sem, OF
Dcadwood, S. ID.
The new national committee whicn
takes The place of the provisional
committee in charge up to this time
was named by the various state dele
cations today. The membership of
the new committee includes John IL.
Stevens, of Iowa, and r. $. Wesley Of
South Dakota.
+. The committee on rules includes
f, w. h. Clements of Iowa, and r.. H..
Ellerman, OF South Dakota.
The committee on credentials IN
cludes Sam C. Westcott, of Iowa, and
G. G. Mcclellan of South Dakota
Platform Causing Trouble.
The committee on platform OF the
national progressive convention got
into a lively row SOC after organi-
cation was perfected last night and
some pretty plain words were spoken
in discussing the proposed declara-
tion of principles of the new party.
1T vas apparent from the first that
the platform probably would not be
completed before late Tuesday night
or Wednesday morning. 1t is due
a.. nn 10 {Lz ,nuvon}inn \NoAnCS1ay
afternoon.
After a full discussion in the gem
eral committee the plan of the lead
crs was to appoint a Subcommittee
of seven to confer with Col. Roose-
welt and to work out the platform
with him.
The idea will be to condense into
crisp, short planks the various adj
vanced ideas outlined to the con
v@ention by the colonel in his con
~fession of faith speech. 1t was
said that practically all OF the pro-
gressivcness in Col. R~oosevelt's
t speech will be adopted in the plat
form. There are two or three OF
5 the more radical ideas, however
which may not be included.
Col. Roosevelt, it was. said, would
not object to the elimination OF 9
, few proposals. but is insistent thai
all the rest shall be contained in the
| platform upon which he is to run.
First Draft.
4 Soon after the committee convened
last night, a draft of the tentative
platform was presented by a groul
1 of leaders in the new movement who
: had met several times to discuss the
e matter. The draft was said to eX
y press the combined ideas Of Deal
Lewis. of the law school of the Uni
~versity of Pennsylvania; Dean Kirch
way, of the law school of Columbi;
university; Clifford Pinchot; Cheste.
Rowell, of California; Charles Nc
: Carthy, of the Legislative referenc'
t bureau of the University of Wiscon
sin; Medill Mccormick, of Chicago
James II. Garfield, of Ohio, am
other close personal friends, of Col
Roosevelt.
1t has beer announced that thes
d men had drafted a scholarly plat
C from which was a program of genuln
social and Industrial justice AM
d which would mark a new era in thi
e regard in the United States.
Basis of Objection.
1t required an hour and a half t.
D read this tentative platform, and i'm
mediately a dozen members of tn
committee attacked it with vigol
William Dudley Foulke, of Indiana
headed the assault. He declared tina
the platform should be shortened t
s one-quarter its length.
d Hugh T. Halbert, of Minnesota
took the floor as soon as Foulke ha
finished his criticism. He called tn
platform verbose, pedagogic and lack
e ing in vitality. This platform a
presented here said Mr.. Halber
does not even note the birth of thi
new party. 1t seems to me that thi
IS fact should be set forth in ters'
e. energetic fashion.
Furthermore, this documer
makes a violent attack on the Alt
= rich currency plan without offerin
i the slightest remedy.
10 A reasonable currency plan, tn
question of the high cost of living an
some adequate method of handlin
the trusts are vital points and shoul
"a be set forth above all else"
Several other members of the con
a. bilLS tCOh a StdIlu oiIlildl w An
h Halbert and various planks We're tor
apart and derided. 1t was then al
O nounced that the committee woul
E. be engaged in revising the platforl
until Wednesday morning before
r would be in shape for submission
m the convention.
johnson for Vice President.
For vice president on the progre
sive ticket, Gov. Hiram w. johnson
ia of California; for permanent chat
re man of the convention, former Sci
ator Albert J. Beveridge. This sla,
~ was virtually agreed to by the pr
gressive leaders last night and m,
will, the approval of Col. Roosevelt
- Negroes Barred.
Contrasting negro delegations fro
Florida and Mississippi were barre
from the convention by the nations
10 committee.
Ii The contests were decided at
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