The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-06-16


VINO offered the CUSTOMARY raso,,t,ons
Zation. OisAnl'
Ihat was quickly over with tha
meeting places of the commi,taas
were announced and at l:25 O'clock
the convention was declared "A.
ourhed until IL o'clock Tbursdav
morning The delegates piled out into
me driving rain, where they found
i.VoO automobiles, furnished them by
mayor ThompsOn's reception commit.
'ee' waiting for them. The commit.
teemen assembled in hotels and the
resolutions committee returned later
70 the Coliseum to give a public hear.
ing TO anyone who wanted to suggest
planks IN the platform. The first DAYS
work was over quickly and compara.
lively quietly, with everyone talking
ABOUT the placid, matter-of.fact way
things had started of.
The committee on credentials or.
gained with the election of Senator
Reed Smoot of Utah as chairman over
w. Y. Morgan of Kansas. by a vote of
zS to l6. Charles Innes of Massaehu-
setts was elected secretary.
Immediately after the adjournment
Oh the convention, the committee on
resolutions met and elected Henry
CABOT Lodge of Massachusetts, chair
man and Delegate Charles +. Scott Of
Kansas secretary.
Platform building and speech.mak.
ing by party leaders was the principal
business of the national Republican
convention on THURSDAY, aside from.
the appointment of committee 10
confer with a committee from the Pro.
gressiVe convention in an endeayor to
effect settlement of differences.
Chauncey M. Depew, Uncle Joe"
Cannon and Senator Borah of Idaho
We're among the speakers of the day,
all being given an ovation by the con-
vention delegates.
At the afternoon session Senator
Lodge read the platform presented by
the committee.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the report Mr.. Lodge moved its adop.
ton. The chair then recognized e. j.
Gross Of Milwaukee, Wis, who pre-.
sented a minority report, but the mi
nority report was voted down.
The platform calls for adequate ma
tional defense, reserve army and pow
erful navy; reasonable protective tar
iff and tariff commission; strict regu-
lation of big business without persecu-
ton; rural credits; mail subsidy to
build merchant marine; exclusive fed.
eral control of transportation; conser-
walton of natural resources; federal
child labor law; suffrage for women.
The minority report presented by
Delegate Goss of Wisconsin advocated
tariff to protect labor and consumer
against ship subsidies of any kind;
various measures to benefit laborers;
for government manufacture of war
munitions; against expectation Of war
munitions to belligerents; for gradu-
ated federal inheritance tax; for
strictest neutrality even at expense of
munition manufacturers; international
army and navy to enforce its DEGREES;
against big army and navy to protect
interests of private il.Vestor in other
lands; favors woman suffrage without
qualification.
Senator Lodge mentioned Colonel
Rooseyelt's name in reading the Phil
ippine plank, which declares for the
policy inaugurated by Mckinley and
continued by Roosevelt The demon
stration that followed was principally
in the galleries, although 1t was Joined
by some delegates on the floor. Sen
ator Lodge, well identified as a per
sonal friend of the colonel, smiled
and waited, and it subsidized in less
than a minute.
The outstanding incident OF the
days session came with Senator
Lodges announcement OF the woman
suffrage plank.
At the Thursday session the TEN.
porary organization was made perma-
nent, Chairman Harding being heart
lily applauded
Senator Smoot of Utah presented
the report Of the committee on Gre
dentials, with supplemental report
seating two delegates each from Porto
Rico, Philippines and Hawaii.
Charles Warren of Michigan. for the
committee. reported rules and order
of business.
Keeping faith with the promise i'm
piled in the agreement reached by
the Republican and Progressive har-
mony conference. both conventions
on June 9 did just what they were
expected to do.
Notwithstanding predictions and
prophesies that one or the other
would get out of hand or do some
thing surprising. nothing unexpected
happened. The Republicans met, list.
ened to nominating speeches. took tho
two promised ballots without a nom
iantion and adjourned until II o'clock
Saturday morning.
The nominees placed before the
convention were Hughes, Root, Bur.
ton. Weeks, Du Point. Sherman. Fair
hanks. Cummins, Roosevelt. La Fol
lette, Braumbaugh. Ford and Knox.
Votes were cast for Borah, Mccall,