The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-07-04
Eastern Political Sentiment.


pie of the middle west observing with Compacent
hope for the future of the republican party that the
nomination of Mr.. Taft at Chicago renders certain
the end of Roosevetsm
They are probably sincere in their belief that the
end of Rooseveltism is something to be desired, for
their environment is responsible for many conclu-
sions that are deemed fallacies in the remote and
more democratic west.
To the voters of the west those reforms to which
the term Roosevetsm is applied in the east have
brought the hope that the whole country might IN
the future be governed the broad principle that
recognizes the welfare of all the elements contains
Roosevetsm is not, therefore, condition that the
west asks to be relieved from and the promise that it
is to be relieved will not cause its votes to rally
about the standard of the new republican candidate
It is the belief of the New York Times, of the
papers that tremb1es for the safety of the republic
whenever it contemp1ates the administrative policies
of the president that the hour of relief is in sight
1t says:
There will be much speculation as to the degree
with which he (Mr. Taft) will identity himself with
the disturbing policies of Mr. Roosevelt, whether he
will continue the work and traditions OF the present
administration, whether he will be under the 1nHl-
ence of his present chief, or whether ne Will ad-
minister the office in accordance with his own org1-
nal and Independent views as the president OF the
whole people and his own Our reading OF the
character of Mr. Taft allays apprehension IN that
regard
There are in the west followers of the eastern en-
emes of the administration and its inentions enough
perhaps to encourage the feeling that the republican
party at large really occupies the position in which
it was placed by the Chicago convention, ably handled
bv skilled veterans of the old machine
But some of the observers delv1ng beneath the
calm surface of opinion find in the sub-stratum OF
sentiment radicalism that does not conform to the
1;of Mr. Taft will he elected because
he has been nominated by the republican party The
New York Herald strong in its antagonism to
Roosevelt and also to Bryan-the beloved newspaper
of the reactonaries-has been observing the signs
that are hung in the political sky and it is moved
to remark:
Whatever may be said of the situation in the east,
many of the editors of the republican newspapers III
the middle west beginning to have doubts as TO
what's ahead They think that the fight tor the pres
idencv will largely center in the state OF Illinois,
Indiana, Michigan Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska,
Minnesota and Iowa They leave New York for the
present out of all calculations and Inquire that these
states must be taken the index of how the election
will go.
Indiana Is; illinois, 81 Michigan, IA Minnesota,
II: Nebraska 8; Kansas, 10; Wisconsin, 10; Iowa.
10.
The Herald remembers that, four years ago, Judge
Parker received scant attention from the voters OF
the country yet he was the choice of 40 members
of the electoral college When it adds the 40 votes
of four years ago to the III votes OF the middle
west it secures total of 251 votes, or nine more
electoral votes than it takes to elect
Should the states of the middle west named by the
New York paper turn from republican1sm to DEM
ocracy it would amount to political revolution and
there must be plain evidence of disaffectlon upon
which to build the suggestion that revolution might
occur else the New York Herald with its hopes all
=. H. o+1,ar eide would NOT MT If forth