Delegates are Free

The Republican Convention in New Jersey votes against Secretary Taft and supports the renomination of President Roosevelt, posing delegations that are “uninstructed” by The Planet.

Trenton, N.J., May 6.-- The Republican state convention to select delegates to attend the national convention at Chicago named a delegation that in uninstructed. The convention also voted down resolutions endorsing the candidacy of Secretary Taft for president and favoring the renomination of President Roosevelt. A resolution favoring former Governor Franklin Murphy for vice president was adopted without opposition. The delegates-at-large are as follows: Governor Fort, Frank O. Briggs, John Kean, and David Baird. The platform strongly endorses the administration and policies of President Roosevelt and endorses Governor Fort. On the tariff it says: “The Republicans of New Jersey stand for principles rather than details, and if changing conditions require an adjustment of tariff schedules, we most emphatically insist upon the full maintenance of the protective policy, that the revenues of the government may be preserved. American wages maintained at the highest standards, and American markets preserved for American industries. National prosperity has gone hand to hand with a protective tariff. The welfare of the people demands the continuance of this American policy.”

“Delegates are Free,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed February 14, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/554.