Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-03-03 | Page 6 | Everything for Taft in Ohio

ron fOR TAfT IN OHIO G. G 0 o. P. P Convention Will Will Squabble Over OverState OverState OverState State Offices BIG SECRETARY WILL VILL Ii INDORSE DORSE PLATFORM PlanK Put in to Give Colored Colored Col Col- Col- Col ored People Their Legal Rights COLUMBUS O. O March larch 3 h This afternoon afternoon af- af at 4 0 o'clock the Republican state cOD convention will be called to order in inI Memorial I morial hall haJJ for the nomina nomination tion o oa of ofa a B. state ticket to elect delegates at nt I large lare to tho the national convention in Chicago Chi Chi- I cJ cago o and for tho the purpose of oC adopting resolutions indor indorsing in the candidacy of oC William H. H Taft for president of or the United States The Tho platform which has hns already been outlined will it is understood understood understood under under- stood be su such suh h that the secretary of war will bo be willin to stand upon it He lIe has seen the original or draft of or the tho document and it has arso also been discussed between him and President Roosevelt and aud has in all aU particulars which concern concern concern con con- cern the nation at lar large c. c received the commendation ion of both In addition to the planks mentioned yesterday r there will bo be a recommendation tion in favor Or of tho reenactment enactment of tho the employers employers' liability law and an lU indorsement in in- of the rate rato bill pending before before be be- fore foro congress and which was oo o ed b bv by former Senator Foraker on tho floor I o of 01 tho the United States senate The Tho pl plank k relating to the colored people will wiH Ue- Ue ue- ue e- e clara claro in in n favor or of giving ivin them all of their legal rights It It is is not expected that the convention will to today ay do more than titan formally organize or or- r- r and aud prepare preparo for the active work of tomorrow As 5 soon as temporary Chairman Garfield has delivered his a al ad address dress an adjournment will ill be tak taken n until until un nn- un- un til tomorrow m morning to allow th the com corn committees on credentials and resolutions to prepare their rep reports There will bo be littie lit lit- tie work for the credentials committee I and no contest is expected before the committee on resolutions The delegates delegates dele dele- gates are in in fact practically a unit Linit on all questions of national import and it itis itis itis is is only over the nominations of tho the various va various va- va rious state officers that a fight is on ou In this last respect tho the convention bids fair to develop ono one of the freest and most unrestricted scrambles that has taken place in tho the state in many years yeaTs There is is absolutely no prearranged prearranged ran ranged cd list of nominations The Taft political managers are arc keeping studiously studiously out of the tho state question and are arc taking sides nowhere