The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-03-07
The Work of the Committee.

OF Idaho has performed the perfunCtory duty of call
ing the Democratic conventions for this important
political year.
The first convention, the one located at Twin Falls
to be held the 3rd of june will elect six delegates
and six aternates, or their equivalent to the national
convention at Denver and the second convention the
one of August 4th at Wallace, will nominate candi-
dates for state and congressional Offices
During its meeting for the performance of its
official duties, which was held at Boise, the COM
mittee manifested UNANIMOUSLY purpose to adhere
to the reforms to which the Democratic party has
committed ITSELF through precept and example,
nouncing that principle shall survive, though
fronted by opposition largely of commercial
pediency.
The attitude of the committee reflects the intention
of the Democratic party of the state which has
profted by the teachings of the great commoner and
is now ready to declare that it would rather be right
and lose than be wrong and win
Mr.. Bryan has lifted his followers out of the
degradation of mere expediency and his party now
stands for the principles that ennoble mankind and in
vite the reign of pure Democracy in land in which
the boast of self-government has become delusion
and mockery
1t affords high encouragement for the future that
the Democracy of the state has kept pace with the
purity of purpose that has rescued the democracy of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, of putocratc arrogance of the in
sduous conspiracy of creed.
Such is the proud position to which a strong
working majority of the party has attained and it
is thrice armed in its consciousness of right, in its
determination to advance the cause of the honest ele
ment, among the people of the nation and the state
1t is a lesson of experience in the slow develop
ment of civilization that every reform movement en-
counters the opposition of portion of the human
family whom the reform is designed to benefit So
it happens that Improvement has to fight its way
step by step, under the retardng blows of folly that
answers to the call of ambition of self-interes OF
the low instincts of c1ouded minds and is unable
to comprehend the great scheme of the advancement
of mankind.
Persons so unfortunately constituted beyond
the reach of argument that appeals to the reasoning
man with fair regard for the claims OF morality
and the inherent rights of society. They cannot
understand and therefore not to be blamed
Nature has neglected them in some important phrer-
illogical particular and it may take generation or
two for them to overtake the development by which
they surrounded
Nevertheless the world progresses-hasa always pro-
gressed though with the stumbling blocks of incon-
siderate opposition encumbering its pathway
The Democratic party of Idaho enters the most
Important political campaign since the one that
placed Lincoln in the White House with lofty aims
and harmonious intention to accomplish all that 1t has
declared for in the recent past Having emerged
the open highway of the best endeavor to which
partv can aspire it will move forward with con-
fidence in its strength of purpose and if laggards
choose to fall by the wayside it will be concluded
that there can be no small loss without large gain
The committee of the party, at its meeting IN
Roise committed itself wisely and unanimously to
the previous declaration of National and state plat