The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
Something to Consider.

SOn1GII1II1X 70 SOHSlucT.
Impe1ed perhaps by anxiety the impending
fate of Indianas avorite son. the Indianapolis News
independent republican, published few days be-
fore the Chicago convention the following reasons
why Secretary Taft should not be nominated for
the presidency by the convention:
l. On reflection the people of the country will not
elect a whose nomination was dictated from the
White House.
g. He will lose the votes of large number of
progressive republicans everywhere result of the
support he is getting from Wall street and from
the trusts and the Interests" generally.
g. The negro vote of the country IS against him
and will never become reconClled to his nomination.
f. Organized labor is unfriendly to him and is
quietly planning to wage war against him II he
should be nominated.
s. His statement about Gen. Grant on Decora-
ton day has offended the Grand Army men of the
land, and they may be expected to be lukewarm IN
the campaign, if they do not refuse to support him.
These objections are supposed to be crystalliza-
ton of opposition sentiment and belief arrived at
by the field otherwise, especially Messrs Fairbanks,
Cannon and Knox If they were good before the
convention, they ought to be good after the conven
ton although the habit of falling into line has be-
come fixed and carries with it the complaining wit
nesses i'll this important
If the first reason why" holds good, the others
become unimportant, though it is worth while to
remember that Wall street and the interests became
pacied along about the eleventh hour of the pre-
convention campaign of the Roosevelt policy can
didate.
Another and important of the inherent weak
ness of the republican is given by the Phlla-
delphia North American, republican newspaper,
which reflects seriously the failure of the repub
1ican congress, backed by republican administra-
ton, to legisate integenty upon the currency
problem The North American says of the new cur
rency law:
This law will mean the turning of the treas
ury of the United States to the gamblers of the
1t will the making of good times" and
"bad times" of Dull" markets and bear markets
according to the pleasure of Rogers and Rockefeller
in the National City bank and J. P Morgan in the
National Bank of Commerce.
It will mean not the slow and certain movements
of contraction and initiation by the natural laws of
commerce, but sharp changes forced at will by the
master gamblers.
1t will mean the gift to the chief enemies of the
nation of the power to issue retire half billion
of dollars exciting speculation compelling disas
er according to whichever best suits their betting
book.
What the effect will be upon the coming elections
we do not know We do not know what measure of
punishment long suffering people will nfilct upon
their betrayerS.
Some punishment should be visited upon polit
ica1 organization that will trie with the material
welfare of the country at time when it is trying to
rise above its troubles Perhaps republican con-
gress has yielded once often to the Vaccinations
of its representatives of predatory wealth Per-
aps Mr. Aldrich exploiting the interests of Rogers,
Rockefeller and Morgan, has played his last stunt
1t remains to be SEEN