THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF 1900 As a delegate to the National Republican Convention of 1900, I was honored by my delegation with being selected to represent Mississippi on the Committee on Platform and Resolutions; and by the chairman of that committee, Senator Fairbanks, I was made a member of the sub-committee that drafted the platform.

At the first meeting of the sub-committee, the Ohio member, Senator J.B.Foraker, submitted the draft of a platform that had been prepared at Washington which was made the basis of quite a lengthy and interesting discussion.

This discussion developed the fact that the Washington draft was not at all satisfactory to a majority of the sub-committee.

The New York member, Hon.

L.E.Quigg, was especially pronounced in his objections, not so much to what was declared, but to the manner and form in which the declarations were made.