Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-10
Thought Indiana Gases Will
Show First Real Test Of
Committee
CumminS Crowd From Iowa
Have Same Quarters as
Roosevelt and Taft
Parts Of La follette'S WiDdy
Platform VIII Soon Be
Submitted

CHICAGO, June 1O-The republican
national committee was again consid-
ering contests cases today. The Cali
fornia cases were the first acted on,
they being postponed till Wednesday
on the motion of Senator Crane, by q
vote of 38 to 13. Taft people, headed
by Ex-senator Dick, urged the post
ponement on the grounds of import
ant documents having not yet arrived,
and intimating that the case involved
the legality of Others OF the California
'elegates.
The vote in the California cases
drew beyond a doubt the lines be-
tween the factions. The negative
votes were: knight California;
Borah, Idaho; Burnham, Kentucky;
Wight, Louisiana; Kellog, Minnesota;
Littauer, Nevada; Ward, New York;
Capers, South Carolina; Thorson, so.
Dakota; Loose, Utah; Lyons, Texas;
Rogers, Wisconsin,; Mccoy, Philli-
pines.
Ihe Indiana delegation at largey
fou: delegates, is credited TO Taft
The vote was unanimous with New,
not voting. !!
was postponed until Wednesday. !
! Indiana Cases Interesting
The Indiana cases have been looked
upon as the first real test of the
| strength in the committee. With for
mer Vice President Fairbanks heading
the Taft delegates, and Ex-senator
Beveridge, leader of the Roosevelt
delegates, the fight took on more
test, aside frtm the issues it involved.
Iowans Coming
Senator w. S. Kenyon, heading the
Cummin's boosters OF Iowa, arrived
today and established headquarters in
the hotel where Taft and Roosevelt
managers are located. The HaWkeye
club of Chicago assumed charge Of
the 1owan,S campaign.
Before the end of the week, the
1owans expect more than thousand
enthusiastic boosters from beyond the
Mississippi to be in Chicago to demon
strate their fealty to Cummins.
LaFoIIette's Platform
MADISON, June 10:The LaFollette
leaders are now getting down to real
work on the platform they will submit
TO the Chicago convention. When the
steering committee meets here the
latter part of the week, there will be
number of planks issued for discus
sion, and the number of planks draft
ed inicates the platform is so long
that many of the clauses will have to
be riscarded. It is now believed La
Follette's platform will demand an un-
yielding enforcement of law and the
the requirement of public and private
honesty, which shall recognize that
boodling is treason, that enlbezzle-
ment is theft, that speculation is gam
bling, that tax lodging is larceny, that
factory labor of children is slavery,
and that deleterious adulteration is
murder"
Another plank being discussed
would provide for the amendmen to
the constitution fixing the term OF
president a six years, and making the
incumbent forever Ineligible for an
other term This plank would require
an amendment to the federal concti-
tuition.
Still another plank provided for
abolition of power. of federal patron
age and especially requires the selec'
ton and promotion of officers and
employees of the postal service by
merit and fairness.
A strong corrupt practice act will
be another plank. .,
A plank sure of incorporation will
demand the abolition of the Com
merce Court.
The close friends of the senator al
so favor an amendment to the con-
stitution to provide for the amending
clause of the constitution so as to
make it possible to change the funda-
mental law of the land more easily.
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