CHAPTER XXXIV. THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF 1900-THE RENOMINATION OF MCKINLEY-MEMO RIAL ADDRESSES. UICKLY following the selection of Judge Taft for service in the Philippines, and the enactment of the Porto Rican legislation, came the National Republican Convention of 1900 at Philadelphia. Again McKinley requested me to place him in nomination before the convention, and I promised to do so. A few days before we went to Philadelphia Senator Hanna invited me with a number of others to take breakfast with him and to come prepared to discuss what should be put into the platform to be adopted at Philadelphia. When we had breakfasted and had fully discussed all the different questions that were raised, and were about to separate, he said he was pleased with what I had suggested the trust plank should be and requested me to put my conception in writing and give him a copy. In compliance with this request I wrote and handed him the following: While recognizing the necessity and legitimacy of aggregations of capital to maintain and extend our rapidly increasing foreign trade we condemn all conspiracies and combinations intended to restrict trade, limit production and affect prices, and favor such legislation as will effectively restrain and prevent all such abuses and protect and promote competition and secure the rights of producers, laborers, and all who are engaged in industry and commerce. I served at that convention as the Ohio member of the Committee on Resolutions and assisted in framing the platform, of which the trust plank reads as follows: We recognize the necessity and propriety of the honest co-operation of capital to meet new business conditions and especially to extend our While rreognizing the necessity and legitimacy of aggregations of Capital to maintain and send our merasing forsign trade we Condemnall Conspiralère a Combinations intended to restrict trade, limit production and offret prices, and fover favor such leg islation as will effretierly Prestrain and prevent all such abvors and protect and pro |