The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-06
Republican Nominee for
Governor in Massachusetts,
Quarrels with Convention
HIS PLANKS
ARE REJECTED
Other Candidates Drop Re
striction of immigration
and Minimum Wage

Boston, Oct Augustus p Gardner
whom the Republicans of Massachusetts
selected as their candidate for governor
in the recent primaries, was unable To
induce the resolution committee or the
delegates to the state convention Satur-
day to adopt four planks which he de-
sired in the platform. Consequently he
will make his campaign on the platforms
as adopted by the convention, plus these
four planks:
A minimum wage for women and
more power to the minimum wage COM
mission; restriction of immigration, but
not on racial lines; the use of state
credit to assist suburban homeseekers,
and compulsory publicity of facts when
demanded by either party to labor dis
pute.
Failing to have these resolutions voted
into the platform by the committee,
Representative Gardner made his prom
ised fight for them on the convention
floor, as fast as he presented them the
delegates voted them down, almost 10 to
l, and the recognized friends of Col. Ev-
erett G. Benton, the defeated candidate
of the primaries, We're emphatic with
their "noes," In his speech fayoring
the planks, Mr. Gardner said:
81 am not unmindful of the duty
which | owe to the other candidates, OF
the duty which / owe to this eonven-
tion but there are omitted from that
platform four of the principal issues on
which ! have been waging my cam
paign. Now, ] know my duty to the
other candidates conflicts with my duty
to the $4,000, or whatever the number
was, who nominated me-
Il went throughout the length and
breadth of the commonwealth, and | adj
vocated the real restriction of immigra-
ton. / advocated the use of state
credit to assist suburban home seekers
and relieve the congestion in our cities.
| advocated the compulsory publicity of
the fact in important labor disputes,
and to all those things I am committed,
gentlemen, and ] cannot consent to go
before the people of this commonwealth
and take one position before | am nomi-
mated.
"These 10000 people who voted FOR
me knew what | stood for when they
voted for me, and great as my obl@n-
ton is to my fellow candidates on TIE
ticket, and to this convention, / am
going to stand for the same things now
that | stood for before"
Several speeches We're heard in opposi-
ton to the proposed measures. and when
the delegates had signifed by over
votes their refusal to give Mr.
Gardner a platform as complete as he
desired, he SAID:
Il regret very much that ! must
make campaign before the people of
his commonwealth asking them to sup
port me in putting through certain
but, gentlemen. for thirteen
7ears | have been in public. For th;r
cen years | have been honored by the
Republican party. If the Republican par
~ becomes vigorous the Progressive |
,arty will go down in ruin; butt ii the
Republican party becomes stagnant, its |
'lace will be taken by the Progressive
'arty; but In either case my course |
5 clear.
IF the Republican party cannot be
evitalized, | can get out of public life,
mt come what may ! shall not Join |
he pack who formerly fed on our boun.
Y and now howl at the heels of wound
d greatness. Let the Republican party
all, as Republican l entered public
ife and Republican | shall remain"
Except for the fight over the platform
he convention proceedings went along
moothly. The platform as adopted by
he convention insists that the New
.ngland railroads shall be managed in
he interests of the people; that they
hall dispose of properties illegally held,