The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-27
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

would carry out the policies of Roosevelt were no.
themselves in favor of the policies of Mr. Roosevelt
So far the action of the convention reflected the
sentiment of the party, republicanism has not pro-
crossed any great distance in the direction of re-
form, although it has been led during the past four
years by the most distinguished so-called reformer
of the age
1t is understood that the minority report was an
exact reflection of the ideas of Senator LaFo1ette
and the convention treated it as the United States
senate treats his propositions for important 1egis-
laton. Yet Senator LaFo1lette has 1egions of adj
mlrers among the rank and file of the republican
party.
The conclusion that the convention was not repre-
sentative of the party pretended to represent is in
eV1table. 1t was in the hands of the senatorial
chine A brief newspaper special from Chicago
makes this reference to the work of the convention
The republican national convention today has
left many sores. Many leading republicans predict
the defeat Of the ticket The action of the conven-
ton III REJECTING the minority report offered by
Cooper OF Wisconsin, embodying LaFo1lette's poll
cieS has weakened the ticket in Wisconsin and in
many western states.
Now that the work is finished MANY republicans
from the trans-M Missouri country are declaring that
a tactical mistake made in voting down the
plank requiring the publication of campaign ex-
the practical unanmity with which so many CRU
penses There was much grumbling also over
the practical unanimity with which the plank
in favor OF the popular elections of senators
was rejected On the questions for which SO many
trans Missouri states have pettoned congress Sena
tor LaFolettes platform makers received no encour-
agement But the convention gave LaFollette's name
an ovation second only to Taft.
The foregoing is in error in crediting the LaFol-
lette ovation to the convention It was part of the
proceedings of the galleries. 1t came from the aud
ince-from the people who can place themselves in
the presence of republican convention without be-
ing vouched for by the machine
In Bryans Commoner of the current week is an
article dealing with the minority report of the reso-
lutons committee of the Chicago convention in which
the position taken that the republican party has re-
treated from the ground gained by President Roose-
welt in his battle for the correction of menacng
evils
Mr. Bryan assumes that the convention has I'm
done all that the president accomplished in the face
of the opposition of congress and has recommitted
the party to the policies that prevailed before the
vigorous Mr.. Roosevelt undertook to abate the
abuses engendered through the influence of the in
eress in the department of national legislation and
in executive places.
The Commoner says:
The republicans who attended the national con-
venton spectators and joined in the demonstra-
ion in favor of President Roosevelt and Senator La
Toilette must have felt indignant as they watched the
oanlc stricken delegates running each other
n their effort to get away from the LaFollette re-
orms, some of which had been ndorsed by the pres
dent himself Congressman Cooper of Wisconsin,
representing the LaFolette PLATFORM brought in a
minority report signed by himself alone Fifty-two
members of the committee signed the majority re-
'ort and one signed the minority report. The re-
publican party will find the ratio of SO to a very
embarrassing one to deal with in the coming cam