Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — IOWA REPUBLICANS ARE OUT FOR TAFT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IOWA REPUBLICANS ARE OUT FOR TAFT

CONVENTION AT DES MOINES IN. STRUCTS FOR SECRETARY OF WAR. ALIISON EULOGIZED; \ PICK FOUR DELEGATES .. I I Platform for Revision of the Tariff Is Adopted—Demand for a Special Session of Congress Is Also Made Vy Hawkeyes. * • j Des Moines, la., Mar. 19.-—The Republican state convention named four delegates-at-large to the national con-! vention instructed for Taft, eulogized Senator William B. Allison and ( adopted a platform calling for revision of the tariff. The session was called to order Wednesday by Frank P. Woods, chairman of the state central committee. He surrendered the gavel to Attorney General H. W. Byers of Harlan, the temporary chairman, who made an eloquent address which aroused the delegates to much enthusiasm. At the conclusion of Attorney General Byers’ speech the result of the various district caucuses was reported. Throughout the session the wording of the tariff-revision plank of the platform was tjie subject of discussion among the Allison men. Numerous suggestions were debated, and when the convention adjourned it was generally understood that the meeting *Of the resolutions committee would be productive 'of considerable argument. The plank most in favor prior to the meeting of the committee was that j

outlined, which calls for revision mediately after the Inauguration of the next president.’’ The demand also is made that a special session of con- | gress be called. Cummins Men in Fight. | The Cummins men were determined to force a vote on the adoption of the ! Ohio revision plan verbatim, and two reports from the resolutions committee were considered probable. In all other things the convention was expected to be harmonious. The slate for delegates-at-large was altered In one particular by John T, Adams of Dubuque, who withdrew in favor of Frank W. Simmons of Otwithdrawal. Adams is campaign manager for Senator Allison, and believed that hiß selection might give the impression that he had placed himself on the slate. He was strongly urged to accept the place, but persisted In his withdawal.

Prospects Bright, Says Byers. Attorney General Byers commenced his address by the declaration tfiat never in the past had the Republican party brighter prospects than at pres ent. He congratulated the Republicans of the state upon the part they had borne in the creation of the party record, and detailed the features ol

Republican achievement at considerable length. He further said: "The American people have much reason to be grateful to the Divine Master of the world, but there is no one thing for which they should be more thankful than that at this moment there came into leadership the greatest man of modern times, the most potent forcq in all the world—Theodore Roosevelt. There may he many such men, for the Republican party is rich in leaders, but the man I have in mind Is, I believe, the choice of a great majority of the Republicans of lowa, the friend and adviser of the president, the secretary of war, 'William H. Taft.”

Senator Allison.