The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
Taft for President.

The national republican convention neld at Cn1CaSO
this week resulted in the not unexpected nomination
of William H. Taft of Ohio the presidential can
didate of the party with James S. Sherman, of New
York, for the second place Mr.. Taft was nominated
the first ballot the vote standing: Taft, 7O2; La
Toilette, 25 Foraker, Is; Cannon, So; Fairbanks,
40; Knox, 6S; Hughes, 67; Roosevelt, 8.
There has not been any doubt of the nomination
of Mr. Taft since it became evident that the in
fuence and patronage of President Roosevelt were
being expended exclusively in his interest although
most of the oldtime leaders of the party were op-
posed to him and in favor of a man of the reaction
airy type
1t is understood that Mr.. Taft finally overcame
the preudices of the capalistc class and that the
trusts Wall street and the interests became
ciled to his nomination and will fill the campaign
barrel, usual, congress having refused to inter
pose law against the practice.
The expected enthusiasm for Roosevelt and
through him for Taft, did manifest itself and at
time there possibility for the long adver-
tsed stampede to Roosevelt
The settlement of the numerous contested
from the southern states perfunctory trans
action, the course of the Taft majority of the
tonal committee being endorsed by the Taft
jory of the credentials committee and acquesced
in by the Taft majority of the convention.
The only subject of acrimonious contention in
the convention the demand of organized labor
in relation to the of the injunction privilege by
the courts, specifically set forth by Samuel Gompers
president of the American Federation of Labor The
federation asked for plank in the platform read
follows:
We pledge the republican party to the enactment
of laws by congress guaranteeing to wage earners
agrcuturaists and horticulturalsts of our country
the right of organized effort to the end that such
associations and their members shall not be
garded illegal combinations in restraint of trade.
We pledge ourselves to the enactment of law to
prohibit the issuance of injunctions in cases arising
out of labor disputes, when such njunctions do not
apply, when no labor disputes exist and that in
case shall an injunction be issued when there exists
remedy by ordinary process of law and which shall
provide that in procedure for the punishment for
contempt OF court the party cited for contempt SHALL
when such contempt is not committed in the actual
presence of the court, be entitled to jury trial
After long controversy, modified plank
adopted, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft insisting on
something being done to pacify the antagonstic la
Dor element The following mild dution was agreed
to:
The republican party will uphold at all times the
authority and integrity of the courts and federal
and will insist that their powers to enforce
their processes and protect life, liberty and property
shall be preserved inviolate We believe however
that the rule of procedure in federal courts in re-
spect to the issuance of writ of in junction should
be more accurately defined by the statute and that
no injunction or temporary restraining order should
be issued with out notice except when irreparable
injury would result from delay, in which case a
speedy hearing thereafter should be granted
One of the unaccountable features of the conven-
ton was the disrepect shown Mr.. Fairbanks Dele
gates and spectators refused to accord conventional
attention while his being presented and
jeers and catcalls greeted the orator who nominated
him.
There planned demonstration when the name
of Taft placed before the convention but it was
not a hearty, spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm
the delegates having been certain weeks ago that he