Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1916 — NO RADICAL CHANGES IN THE PLATFORM [ARTICLE]

NO RADICAL CHANGES IN THE PLATFORM

Marshall and Norton Chosen Delegates at Republican Convention —C. W. Hanley is Alternate. All the important work of the republican convention which opened Wednesday will be done today. Wednesday’s session was devoted to the keynote address by Quincy A. Myers, temporary chairman, and Henry D. Estabrook, of New York. Twenty-six delegates to the national convention were selected at the meetnig of the delegates of the district in the evening, and the personnel of the committees of the state convention were also chosen. The resolution committee was in session most of the night. The platform which will be presented to the convention today will contain no radical j>iants, it is sadd. The committee used as a basis for its work a report of the sub-commit-tee. The report was brief and contained references to both national and state issues. ‘Among the planks of the platform it is understood to contain are the following: A demand for the~restaration of the republican protective tariff and the creation of the tariff commissiovu Immediate enactment of the legislation by which the country can prepare itself for war or to repel foreign invasion. Opposition to President Wilson's Mexican and Eoropean policies. Opposition to the present democratic state administration and pledge to reduce the cost of state government by lowering the taxes and cutting down the offices. Reforms in the taxation law®. Favoring home rule for cities. Favoring short ballot. Giving the governor authority to vote, any item in a general appropriation bill. When State Chairman Hays called the convention to order Wednesday afternoon he was greeted by more than a thousand delegates and spectators. The entrance to the speakers stand of James E. Watson; James P. Goodrich, Harry S. New and James Hemenway and Judge Myers was the signal for a great outburst of cheering. President Hoe, of Butler University, delivered the invocation. James E. Watson seems sure to be nominated for the short term of the senate and Hairy New for the long term. There are contests for every state office except secretary of state, and Ed Jackson, of Newcastle, has a clear field. Henry Marshall, of Lafayette, and N. S. Norton, of Gary, were chosen delegates to the Chicago convention in the tenth district. C. W. Hanley, of Rensselaer, and Charles Mauzy, of Fowler, were chosen alternates.