Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-04-11
President Of Columbia I'm
versity Assails Roosevelt
Doctrines as Dangerous at
New York Convention.
SPLIT ON QUESTION
OF INSTRUCTIONS
Senator Root is Leading
Forces for Instructed Del
egation and State Chair
man Barnes Opposes it.


man Barnes Opposes it.
Rochester, N. Y, April 9.-Whetner
or not New York states four oeie
gates at large to the republican ma
t:onal convention at Chicago shall De
instructed to vote for the renomina'
ton of President Taft was question
on which the 1,O15 delegates to the re-
nublican state convention were dlVfo-
cd when the first days session began
NJ noon today. United States Senator
Elfhu Root is leading the forces In a.
vor Of instructions, while State Chair
man William Barnes, Jr., believes tnat
m uninstructed delegation would be
the wiser course, inasmuch as II ID
conceded that the delegation Will be
favorable to the nomination OF the
president.
President Taft in a long distance
telephone conversation with Mr..
Barnes is understood to have said that
either an instructed or an unlnstruct-
ed delegation would be agreeable TO
him, inasmuch as practically all the
delegates were for him.
Chairman Barnes told some of his
conferees today that 1t looked like a
fight on the convention floor tomorrow
If an agreement could not be reached
in committee tonight. ..,..-.
There were reports that form OF
compromise on the instruction ques-
ton would be reached whereby the ad-
ministration would be Endorsed IN the
warmest terms and the delegates at
large commended to President Tart
without instructing for him. -,
The committee on resolutions Will
not only draft the platform but VIII
determine the personnel Of the big
four and is expected to- settle the
question of instructions. Senator
Root. Chairman Barnes, William Ber-
nv of Brooklyn and Speaker Edwin A.
Merritt, Jr., of the state assembly
we're prominently snoken Of as the
likely delegates to Chicago.
The selection of DR.. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler as temporary chairman,
was ratified by the convention and Dr..
Butler was escorted to the speakers
platform amid round Of applause and
addressed the convention as follows:
Chairman Buffers Address.
Denunciation Of the critics Of the re-
publican party, within and without It's
ranks, of political patent medicine
men,, Of "the men who would destroy
the independent judiciary" and OF
"those who tell us that We must buy
their political patent medicine or fail
to carry the next presidential cleo
ton" formed the keynote Of the ad-
dress before the republican state con-
vention here today of Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia Univers-
ity, the conventions temporary chair
man.
'"The supreme issue of 1912" was the
subject of Dr. Buffers address.
This he defined as "the maintenance
of our republican form of govern
ment." In conclusion, he declared
that the chief measures of progress
confronting the nation were the enact
ment Of a workingman's compensation
law. enactment of proper monetary
legislation; revision Of the tariff, sup
Elementary legislation to the antitrust
law; Judicial settlement of information
al disputes; economy in government,
and legislation to shorten the laws
delays. He said, in part:
what criticism is made of the re-
publication administration of the ma
ton during the past sixteen years?
There is, first, the honest and fair
criticism of our opponents from whom
we differ in many matters of funda-
mental political policy. This criticism
Is q natural and necessary incident in
the conduct Of republican form of
government Second, there is critic
ism from an element which, however,
numerous, is certainly in full posses.
sion of It's powers of speech. and
which is found in part within the
ranks Of our own party and in part
within the ranks Of the democratic
party. It includes the whole of the
socialist party as we'll as some OF
those whose mental condition Is one
of such blissful elevation that they can
not find any political association quite
satisfactory to them.
These critics tell us that We are be-
hind the times; that We are, in the
significant language of the gaming
table, standpatters; that We have lost
touch with the march of progress;
that we are out of sympathy with the
satisfaction OF the deepest human
needs and with the alienation of hui.
man suffering; that We put property
rights above human rights; and that
some means-violent If possible,
peaceable if necessary-must be
found to free the government from
our paralyzing control
Calls II Incoherent Raving.
"To one who knows the political his
tory of the United States, these
charges seem strange indeed. One
wonders whether he is really listening
to the speech Of sane men or to the
incoherent rawlings of Bedlam.
"The answer comes back that our
whole form Of government is askew;
that the republicans and the demo
Gratis are equally at fault; that all
departments of the government are
controlled by special and material in
terests; and that the people, whose