New-York tribune., 1908-06-11

to the long line Of valuable services which the
Republican party has rendered to the country.
When pressed to say something of political
conditions In general and especially OF the
Democracy, Mr. Spooner said;
II am no longer I'm politics, and when 1 talk
politics 1 am prone to revert to the past DO
you remember Reach Chandler? NO, OF course
not: YOU are too young. Well. Reach Chandler
came up into Wisconsin and made speech
L won't say Just how long ago-and among other
things he said: L used to resent the assertion
that the Republican party was party OF one
idea. The declaration filled me with bitterness.
But my friends, have outgrown all that. The
Republican party is a party of one idea-an
idea that is as broad the universe and as
high as heaven itself. The one idea OF the Re
publican party is the conception of human I'D
erty. AS for this talk Of the Republican party's
dying. there is nothing TO IT. 1t can no more
die than can the concept of human liberty which
is implanted In the hearts Of mankind for time
and eternity. But. my friends. the Republican
party is not afraid to die. 1t has no fear Of the
account which it will be called upon to render
in the hereafter. and that is not true of the
Democratic party. In fact it is only the fear
to die that keeps the Democratic party alive,
and 1 assure you that the fear is the most cred
liable thing about the Democratic party
Now. have given you little ancient history
but the truth, be it ancient Or new, never
changes. Further the deponent sayeth not
Senator Spooner was surrounded by numerous
old friends as soon he entered the loopy OF
the Auditorium Annex. many Of whom urged
him to prolong his stay in Chicago. but he de-
clared that his law practice would not permit
him to remain away from New York any longer
He said he had been in Wisconsin at little
family reunion. and must now hasten back to
his labors in New York. Those who know Sen
ator Spooner we'll and who. therefore, appre-
ciate how intense is his admiration for Secre-
tary Taft regard it as not unlikely that, despite
his declaration that he is no longer IN pohtlcs'
he will make some speeches for Secretary Taft
in the coming campaign
MYRON T. HERRICK ON CONTESTS.
THE opposition press is saying a good deal
about the impossibility of all the merits OF
all the contests before the national committee
being side and, reasoning from the gem
erality that there usually two sides 10
ouestion, some editors are seeking to impugn
the sincerity Of the committee and to asperse
the equity of it's decisions said Ex-Governor
Herrick national committeeman from ONO, 10
The Tribune's correspondent to-day But pat
itudes and generalities often work serious in
Justice and L think the fact ought to be en-
phasized that thus far the decisions of the ma
tional committee have been practically unani-
NOUS one division having been called for by
an intense Taft man. Colonel Lyons, of Texas
when there were twenty votes in favor OF seat
ing the Taft delegation from Louisiana as
against thirty in favor of a compromise In no
other instance has there been more than tWo'
or at most three votes against the decision Of
the committee The other division was IN the
Missouri cases and showed vote of 81 to IL.
1t is not creditable thing TO some members
Of the Republican party, but 1t is a fact Whlch
the public should realize, that it is by TO means
difficult proposition to institute fake contests
and that is precisely what has been done this
year Given q man with reasonable knowledge
of political chicanery money enough to pay the
expenses of contesting delegation to Chicago,
and send him into almost any Southern state,
and into some Northern ones, and he will expert
ence no difficulty in organizing contest. Such
a contest will have no merit, but 1t will afford
an opportunity for certain men to come to the
national convention, to display their oratory and
to stay at good hotel at the expense of the
persons organizing the contest. Then. too. there
is in some states the constant struggle between
the outs and the ins. You remember in the
Alabama case there exhibited letter from
Mr. Aldrich. attorney for the contestants, in
which he fatty said: If the outs are ever to
get In we must stand together to throw the ms
out words to that effect.
''I am glad to say to the Republican voters
through the columns OF The Tribune" continued
Mr.. Herrck, that there has come before the
national committee only enc contest where there
was the slightest doubt to the merits Of the
case. only contest where the vote not
practically unanimous, except the Louisiana
case, and not single contest which was not set
tied absolutely on it's merits except the Louisi-
ana case, and there, the merits of the being
entirely with the Taft delegates, We forced them
to accept a compromise which gave to each side
hlaf vote delegate. Moreover. in that case
the fact that the struggle for the control Of
the state organization and not for and against
Taft is demonstrated by the fact that the men,
bers Of the Cohen, anti-Taft. delegation
promptly pledged their word to Hitchcock that
they would vote for Taft. In the doubtful
case, the 9th Ohio, we seated all four delegates
with half vote each.
There is absolutely no justification for the