Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-22

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Mir. Roosevelt told the delegates that
otter the action in the California case
there was no use of making any fur
Their contest for carrying on the fight
or paying any further attention to the
action of the convention. After talk
ing TO the delegates the colonel was
rushed through crowded hall to his
counsel room, where he met some of
his advisers.
While Roosevelt was in conference
with his advisers. a crowd of several
thousand persons gathered in Michi-
gan avenue and cheered until he rails
ed window and addressed them.
MY friends" he said, my hat is
i'm the ring and will be in stronger
than ever"
That was all. The crowd shouted
for a longer address, but the colonel
lowered the window and retired.
Chicago. June 21.-After a brief ses-
sion, tonight, devoted to the threshing
out of differences on the construction
of a plank in favor of Mississippi
river improvements the committee on
resolutions adjourned until tomorrow,
leaving the sub committee to continue
it's labors.
The ENHANCEMENT over the Missis-
sippi proposition was unexpected. A
provision committing the national
government Internationally to the
Improvement of that enterprise had
been agreed upon, but when its terms
were brought to the attention of SEN
ator Burton, who is a delegate from
Ohio, he expressed strong disapproval,
and going before the committee sue
ceeded in prevailing upon the MEM
bers to reopen the subject in order to
consider it from a different angle. He
does not believe that the national
treasury should bear the entire bur
den of river Improvement and urges
the Incorporation of that principle in
the platform.
The subcommittee also found itself
under the necessity of giving further
attention to the tariff plank. While
there is little difference of view on
this subject, much trouble has been
experienced in finding language agree
able 10 all. 1t has been decided to
leave out all reference to the Ameri-
can standard OF living as proposed
by Senator LaPitt and now it is prob
able that the phraseology of four
years ago fixing the difference in cost
of production here and abroad as the
measure of protection will be dis
carded.
The draft of the document taken in
hand by the subcommittee was con-
fined to a general pronouncement in
favor of the protective principle and
to Duties which should be adequate
but not excessive. The committee
would have the determination of the
question of adequacy depend upon the
findings of the Tariff Board and to
this end urges the continuation of the
board. The provision denouncing the
Democratic methods of tariff revision
is retained.
The friends of President Taft have en-
countered Unexpectedly bitter opposition
to the unqualified endorsement of his ad-
ministration. That endorsement is
coupled with an enconium upon the SER
vices of Presidents Mckinley and Roose-
Welt, and proceeds:
I'VE invite the intelligent judgment of
the American people upon the admins
tration of William II. Taft The country
has prospered and been at peace under
his Presidency. He has preserved and
carried forward all that was valuable
in the policies that he took over from his
predecessors, setting the good example of
scrupulous obedience to law in his own
words and acts, he has enforced the law
as he found it, faithfully, impartialiy and
patiently. During the years in which he
had the cooperation of a Republican
Congress. an unexampled amount of
constructive legislation was framed and
passed in the interest of the people AM.
in obedience to their wish that legislation
is record on which any administration
might appeal with confidence of the ia
vorable Judgment of history. If any
promise made by the Republican party
is still unredeemed. the fault is not with
President Taft. He has striven consci-
entiousIy and zealously to fulfill them all.
The credentials committee resumed
it's session at $50 O'Clock. The COM
mittee's action on the Arizona ana
Arkansas contest was ordered trans
niitted to the convention without OPP
position. The committee placed upon
the permanent roll of the convention
the six delegates from Mich
igan, headed by John ID. Mckay The
roll call showed % ayes to 10 noes.
When the Washington contests were
called up Senator Poindexter declared
the Taft-controlled state committee
has "Stolcn the Washington state del
egation from the Roosevelt forces.
1t was nothing but pure larceny
nc said.
The Roosevelt men claimed to have
carried the Seattle primaries and
to have been deprived of control OF
the state convention by the state COM
nittee. The six Taft delegates from
the LIST, md and 3rd Washington Dis
tricts were seated by the credentials
committee without debate, after the
decision in the case of the delegates
at-large No roll call was asked for.
The Mississippi contests involving
Is delegates We're consolidated into q
single case and the Is Taft delegates
were seated after short debate. The
3rd Oklahoma district contest was ar
gued briefly and the committee seated