The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05
PLATFORM DOES NOT
PLEASE CANDIDATE
Republicans of Massachusetts,
Refuse to Adopt Views OF
Congressman Gardner.
REJECT FOUR PLANKS
Head of the Ticket Expresses
Disappointment Over Ac-
ton of Convention.
REJECT FOUR PLANKS

BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 4.-Congress'
man Augustus P Gardner, who had be-
fore repudiated the state committee, de-
clared at the end of sharp fight in
the Republican state convention today
that he would run on n platform of his
own.
He would fulfill, he said, his promise
To the forty thousand people who chose
him at the primaries, despite his obliga-
tion to the party as represented by the
majority of delegates present.
This new turn in the political situa-
tion followed the defeat Of the candi-
date In four successive attempts to
amend the resolutions 80 rs to make the
platform square with his assertions on
the stump.
When the fight was ended, Mr.. Gard
ner fguratively tore up his prepared
speech of acceptance and substituted a
three-minute talk on Progressive Re-
publicanism. He explained that as
the four cardinal points in his address
had been rejected, his set speech was
useless,
Issues Omitted.
In his speech he said:
az am not unmindful of the duty
which 7 owe to the other candidates,
or the duty I owe to this convention,
but there are omitted from this plat
form four of the principal issues upon
which / have been waging my cam
paign. Now / know thnt my duty to
the other candidates conflicts with my
duty to the $4,000 or whatever the num-
ber was, who nominated me. l. went
throughout the length and breadth or
this commonwealth and l advocated the
real restriction Of immigration. l advo
Gated a minimum wage for women. |
advocated the use Of the state credit to
assist suburban home seekers, and re-
leve the congestion in the cities. l
advocated the compulsory publicity Of
the facts in important labor disputes
and to all these things I am committed,
gentlemen, and / cannot consent to 90
before the people Of this commonwealth
and take one position before l am NOM
mated, and another position after 1 am
nominated
Declines to Change.
"I was asked what I would do If
this committee, On resolutions did not
put those planks in the platform. /
and ! would run on that-because l
can t do anything else. These 10000
people voted for me on the supposition
that I meant what / said, and l am
not going to make any change.
81 regret very much that must make
a campaign before the people Of the
commonwealth, asking them to support
me in putting through certain meas
ures.
ere 4Lo Doo,bI;o,. .a-4u loz.a,
stagnant, the Progressives are bound to
succeed. If the party cannot lberalize
itself, / shall leave public life, but |
shall leave it as a Republican, for
have no sympathy with those who have
fed at our board and are now bowling
at the heels of wounded greatness
If the Republican party stands for
liberalism and progressiveness, it will
win and the Progressives will go into
oblivion
The recording instruments indicated
that the shock this afternoon was
about half the intensity of that on
Wednesday night and covered practi-
cally the same area, with the central
point of the disturbance about 100
miles from Panama City.
The instruments further showed that
a tremor also occurred at 5 o'clock in
the morning and that in all there were
doout elgnLeen olSt1ncI movements
Bay State Democrats.
BOSTON, Oct. 4.-Without a dis
cordant note on any topic, the Demo.
cratic state convention in Faneuil hall
today, unanimously adopted the plat
form prepared by the resolutions COM
mittee and indorsed the state ticket
headed by Lieutenant Governor David
J. Walsh, which was nominated in the
recent primaries,
The resolutions contain the planks
designed TO hold party candidates close
to the platform One urges that pro-
vision be made for having the plat
primaries and tho other favors having
candidates for nomination file with the
secretary of state an affirmation of
their substantial agreement with the
party platform. A resolution protest