Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-21
PLATFORMS ARE
VIRTUALLY ALIKE
Neither of the Rival Documents
Contains Anything Alto
gether Radical.
BOTH FACTIONS FAVOR
WOMAN SUFFRAGE PLANK
Taftites Repudiate Recall. Roose-
veltians Ignore 1t. but Prom
Use Industrial Reform.

CHICAGO, June 21.-The work of
the committee or resolutions yester-
day made it more apparent than ever
that the fight between Roosevelt and
Taft factions Is entirely personal.
The differences betweeen the plat
forms of the two groups In the COM
mittee are practically nil, and each
hours work of revision of the tenta-
tive planks prepared In great pro-
fusion reduces this Difference in style
further. There is not a really radi-
cal plank in either document, and
since the Roosevelt editors have put
the blue pencil to the work of their
volunteer authors both are compare
lively short.
Realizing that nothing like q re-
port to the convention can be made
before the committee on credentials
has lone its work, the committee on
resolutions is proceeding slowly.
After sessions both In the morning
and afternoon the subcommittee ac-
tually at work adjourned until late
at night, and the expectation was
that the platform would be reached
by the full committee this morning.
All would then be in readiness for
reporting whenever the convention is
ready.
The .RoosIe eli men on the commit
tee a~rG%~>irely demoralized. Late
Wednesday night the radicals on the
subcommittee, three in number, left
the room to see what the colonel
wanted them to do, and Governor
Hadley, of Missouri, their leader.
made that purpose perfectly plain.
yesterday, however, his proxy, State
Senator M~cfndoe, of Missouri, sat with
the committee. Mr.. Lewis, of Penn
sylvania, one of Flinn's adherents,
went to the committee room and told
all the Roosevelt men to stay away,
but in strong language some of them
told him to mind his own business.
Several Stick TO Guns.
A few of them, like Rowell, of
California; Hail, of oregon, and Gov
ernor Hadley's proxy, together with
owen, of Wisconsin, who represents
in the Assembly the radical La Fol-
lette faction, stayed for the meet
ing. Mr.. owen is fighting for a real
~ progressive platform, but others
are merely marking time until they
see what happens.
Both the Roosevelt and Taft fac
lions favor a woman suffrage plank.
The Roosevelt platform has a
straight-out declaration on the sub
ject, and the representatives ofYMr.
Taft's committee will certainly have
a plank recommending woman suf-
frage to the States. 1t Is still un-
certain whether they will go so far
as to propose an amendment to the
Federal constitution in favor of the
rights of women. but the question is
now under advisement.
The Taft platform repudiates the
recall of judges. and by implication
oppos the other radical doctrines.
But the Roosevelt platform does not
even mention them. The name Of
Roosevelt and his glorious record"
do not appear in the Roosevelt plat
form, but Mr.. Taft's friends to
emphasize the change in the colonel
are considering a paragraph praising
the Roosevelt administration Of four
years age.
Mr.. Roosevelt makes a little
stronger bid for the laboring vote
than does Mr.. Taft by promises Of
Industrial reform, but those promises
deal mostly with Investigations Of
abuse and not much with specific re-
lief, as asked for by Samuel Gompers
and his associates.
ColoneI Roosevelt bide ~atronglv
for Southern delegates before the con
vention by an unofficial statement in
favor of retaining Southern swamp
lands. But in his tentative platform
he sought electoral votes by changing
to a pronouncement for the sweeping
improvement of the Mississippi river
by means of the Panama canal force.
In the revised Roosevelt platform the
Panama canal machinery is not men
toned, and It never did appear In the
document Of the Taft men. They will
favor IN their majority report Fed