The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-08-26
IDAHO men
Who WILL RUN
REPUBLICAN STATE coNvEN.
TON MAKES NOMINATIONS.
ROOSEVELT IS ENDORSED
Platform Deals With the Tariff and
Trusts-Amendment of Federal
Constitution Favored.

Boise, Idaho, Aug. 22.-The repub-
lican convention today nominated the
following ticket:
For congressman, Burton L. French
of Latah; for supreme justice, j. F.
Ailshie of Idaho; for governor, John
T. Morrison of Canyon; for lieutenant
governor, James M. Stevens of Bing-
ham; for secretary Of state, William
H. Gibson of Fremont; for state audi
tor, Theodore Turner Of Bannock; for
state treasurer, H. N. Coffin of Ada;
for attorney general, John A. Bagley
of Bear Lake; for superintendent of
public instruction, Miss May l.. Scott
of Bingham; for Inspector of mines,
Robert Bell of Custer. 4
Ralph T. Morgan of Kootenai, was
nominated for judge of the first dis
trict; Judge E. c. Steele for the Sec
ond Qenominated), Judge George H.
Stewart for the third (renominated).
Alfred Bulge for the fifth.
No nomination was made for the
fourth, it being left to the committee.
Though there had been a very sharp
contest over the principal places, all
the nominations were made by accla-
nation. 4
The platform, after a feeling refer
ence to the death of Mckinley, says:
The Platform.
We believed that in President
Roosevelt our party has found a
worthy leader whose ~fearlessness in
the discharge Of his duty, and whose
devotion to the best interests of the
whole country prove him to be a
worthy successor of his lamented pre-
%decessor, and the republican party of
Idaho extends to President Roosevelt
it's hearty support"
The protective tariff is indorsed-
with the following supplemental dec
laration: #
THAT many of the Industries CT
this country have out-grown their in
fancy and the American manufacture
er has entered the markets Of the
world and is successfully competing
with the manufacturers of all other
countries. We therefore favor a re-
vision Of the tariff without unreason-
able delay which will place upon the
free list every article and product
controlled by any monopoly and such
other articles and products as are
beyond the need of protection"
On the trust question it says:
Resolved that the formation of
enormous over-capitalized corpora
tons, commonly called trusts, for the
purpose of concentrating all of the
industries and products Of the coun-
try in the hands of a few men stiff
ing competition and enabling them to
dictate the wages of labor and the
prices of commodities to both the
producers and the consumers in the
interest of their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
is a great and growing evil, the plain
remedy for which should be laws
regulating the capitalization of cor-
porations within reasonable and mod
crate limits. We recognize the fact
that under the constitution of the
United States las it now stands, no
adequate restrictions can be put upon
the organization of such corporations;
therefore to effectually regulate and
suppress all trusts and injurious COM
binations of aggregated capital. We
believe the fundamental law should
be amended" "--
The platform favors the opening of
lands in forest reservations in the
states that are more valuable fer agri-
cultural than other purposes.
The democratic legislature is con.
demned for it's administration of the
states land grants, for it's legislative
apportionment, for the veto of the
beet sugar bounty bill, for wasteful
extravaganza, etc.
The railway merger is opposed.
A MEM EREMrh