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LAYING DOWN THE PLANKS AND TAFT PLATFORM FIGHT
Chicago June 15 delegates to the Republican convention shift focus from the presidential nomination to the vice presidency and platform. Taft forces push a unified plank list while Speaker Cannon and New York leaders press anti injunctive labor restraint. Hughes for New York’s presidency and a New Yorker for vice president emerge among shifting alliances as caucuses plan to consolidate New York and Iowa support amid broader battles.
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Chicago
Republican Nationa
Taft
Resolutions Committee of the Convention
Wade H. Ellis
Ohio
Auditorium Annex
van Cleave
National Manufacturers’ Association
Ellis
Senator Long
Kansas
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Congress
Serena E. Payne
New York
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Representative Overstreet
Indiana
James 8. Sherman
Richard Kerens
Missouri
Ilinois
Cannon
House
Fairbanks
George Ade
Knox
Stewart L. Woodford
New York State
Hughes
Woodford
Dolliver
Hepburn
Crazy Horse
Cummins
Laws
Hephurn
Allison
Senate
Senat S
Tor
Fine
Micros
Artim
Sherman
Woodruff
Cortelsyon
Low
Sher
Seth Low
Tuskegee Negro Institute
Civic Federation
Sreting
the Treasury
Conthdigr
Corteiyeu
New Jersey
Kean
Franklin Murphy
Roose
Vell
Thomas W. Phillips
Twentyfourth
C. T. Teter
George W. Curtin
West Virginia
Georgia
South
Roosevelt
Teter and Curtin
Senator Lodge
Stoosevelt
Mnst