The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-10

The convention adopted witt
commended by the Republican. ct
and only a few scattering noes.
New York's big four to the Chicago
national convention.
q. S. Senator Elihu Root.
Speaker OF the Assembly Edwin A
Merritt, Jr.
Chairman of the State Committee
william Barnes, Jr.
Editor william Berri.
The Alternates.
State Senator Edgar T. Bracket.
b W. b. Browne.
Charles W. Whitehead.
Charles w. Anderson.
Anderson Is q negro and was chOs-
En- rs representative Of the negro vote
Rochester, N. Y. April 10.-The
shadow of Supreme Court Justice
Charles Evans Hughes hung over con-
vention hall when the Republican
state convention reconvened. today,
for. the final session. His name was
on the lips Of leaders. and delegates
alike and report that he would be
the nominee of the Republican Ma
tional convention in Chicago was be-
ing spread. This, too, in the face of
positive assurances by q few men inti-
mate with the former governor that
no honor or inducement- could lead
him from the duties he is now per
forming and which are admittedly
'Bnt the delegates and leaders who
had urged not alone the states big
four b1ut the district delegates as we'll
10 work for the denomination of
n :. - Ii u
that AZ q result Of the development
yesterday in Illinois and the generally
mixed mp condition of party politics
everywhere, there might be a change
in the situation which might result
In the presidents name not going be-
fore the Chicago conclave. They In
sisted that IL the president should be
would be the unanimous choice of the
party.
The result in Illinois came as a dis
tinct shock and surprise to the lead
erD here. As a result they accepted
. compromise proposal made ny Sem
cans Of the upper house whereby the
delegates from this state were urged
but not Instructed to work for the
president
There was some very plain talk be-
hind the closed doors of the commit
that they were absolutely and un-
alterably opposed to the doctrines
promulgated by Col. Roosevelt
But after learning the result in
Illinois, the advocates of the renomi-
nation Of the president and those who
are opposed to it on the ground that
he ID not the strongest available can
get together.
Everybody fell. into gne with the
exception of the tN<a members of the
COMMITTEES who are controlled by Ma
ttonal Committeeman William l..
Ward. They insisted that they were
for Colonel Roosevelt and his pro-
greesive policies. But the other men-
bers got together and rushed the plat
form which was adopted by the con-
ventfon today and which will be the
model on which the New York dele
gates to the Chicago convention will
demand that the national platform be
framed.
The advisory plank dealing with
the candidate was admittedly a gem
In word play. Framed by Senator
Bracket, it pleased both sides, say
ing:
dom and undramatic courage of Pres
ident William III. Taft. The over
whelming majority of delegates in this
convention Assem- bled favor his re-
nomination and we urge that the dele
gates at large here elected in their
action at Chicago carry out this choice
of the Republicans of the state and
that the district delegates unite to the
same end"
Barnes and his lieutenants and the
Taft men got great comfort out of
the platform declaration against the
initiative referendum and recall. The
two former planks were placed in the
aYff tto of he
Roosevelt victory in Illinois. 1t was
openly asserted that these planks re-
moved Roosevelt from consideration
in any dealings the state delegates
may have in Chicago
The planks in question said:
We oppose as subversive of our
form of government the initiative, the
compulsory legislation referendum and
the recall, either of public servants or
judicial decisions. or any device which
impairs consistency and continuity m
the expression of the public will. We
system which will introduce coward
ice as an element in the administra :
ZION of justice. The authority of the
judiciary should not be impaired. Re-
spect for the courts once broken
down the constitutional protection or
the liberties of the individual would
be destroyed"
The tariff plank was the work of
Senator Root and was a flat endorse
ment of vhe tariff board plan of
changes rich is expected to prove
the big issAIe in the coming national
campaign and a condemnation of the
Democratic house for having revised
the tariff downward without regard
to the facts reported and without in
quiring into or caring for the needs
of American labor"
When the convention met today,
the first order of business was the
acceptance of the report of the COM
mitfee on permanent organization
which recommended that the temper
ary organization be made permanent,
thus continuing DIR. Nicholas Murray
Butler as presiding officer.