The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-06-25

mate Taft. Just the same. lacking q
miracle. They are going "a noniin-
ate him because Roosevelt tells then
To, because they are Instructed for
him. and because some very clever
and accomplished gentlemen are on
the ground to see that they carry out
the bargain.
The vice presidential situation Is
almost as depressing as that over the
bead Of the ticket. Report has it.
and the report Is generally accepted
as true, whether wisely or not--that
Roosevelt and Taft have decided that
the vice presidential nominee must
be Jonathan p. Dolliver, senator
from Iowa. Their reason, rs given
from inside sources, II that TAFT
needs help to carry the vest. He
can look after the seat himself"
What makes It depressing and
peculiar as WELLS that the Iowa
delegation Is strenuously insisting
that Delivers nomintion won't help
In the west, but hurt. at viii even
make Iowa doubtful. they say"
The reason Is plain. Almost all
the Iowa Delegates are standpatters
and hate Governor Cummins With
hatred that sizzles. and II Doliiver
should be elected vice president, 1t
would create = vacancy In tho senate.
And that vacancy would be filled,
as LATE Young. editor Of the Des
Moines Capital explains. by Cum
Minis, II Iowa went republican. Here
Is how be explained 1t TO me today:
"There would ne no chance for a
primary on this senatorial vacancy.
1t would be filed by the legislature
on its own responsibility, and on ac-
count OF the FOLLOWERS and Cum,uins'
shrewdness 10 looking after the nom
nations most Of the republican leg
islative candidates are Cumnins'
men. This means either democrat
lie legislature or Senator Cummins II
Dolliver is nominated for vice presi-
dent
Equally, Of course. though Mr..
Young didn't say 1t, 1t means that
when the standpatters 60 to knitting
the legislative ticket the prog ressives
will retaliate by knitting the electoral
ticket, since Deliver trains with the
standpat crowd.
This Is why Editor Young and Ed
itor Perkins OF the Sioux City Jour
nal, with nearly every other Iowa
delegate helping them, are fighting
the Dolliver boom with might and
main.
keep injecting cocaine Into 1t
every half hour said Mr.. Young,
"but soLIebody seems to have more
strychnine than l have cocaine In to
keep the boom quiet be shoots In the
strychnine and 1t starts to jumping
around again."
So the question is, shall the vice
presidency be forced on Iowa over
the dead bodies OF the perturbed and
disguised Iowa delegates; or shall
Dolliver be finally set aside because
his nomination might bring to the
senate, In Governor Cummins, an
other real progressive republican
to bold mp the hands Of La Follettei
i said to Late Young, while dis
cussing the matter: ''lf they think
they must come west for candidate
why don't you direct them to Gov
ernor Sheldon, of Nebraska?" lie
snorted.
"They say, who the blazes In Shell.
don," he answered.
And that, In a nutshell, seems t.
be the status of the Sheldon vice
presidential boom. White House
strychnine might revive 1t, for the
convention will sneeze whenever
Teddy takes SNUFF, but otherwise the
Sheldon boom Is hopeless. however
much Senator Burkett might prefer
Vice President Sheldon to Senator
Sheldon.
| l had a little talk with John
Mitchell this afternoon. While he
talked freely, he would say little foi
publication. He admitted that q
move Is under way to make him the
democratic nominee for governor ol
Illinois.
IF l were TO consult only my owl
wishes" he said, II would keep ouI
Of the political field. But the pres
sure on me Is SO strong and the ques
tion Is Of such Importance. that u
may be will have to listen to tb,
wishes OF others. l viii reach de
cision this week.
Personally, should prefer. II tb'
choice were left entirely to me, tn
candidate for governor rather thai
for vice president The main reaso
Is I would rather be governor thai
vice president. ;"
Mr.. Mitchell would not permit MIN
self to be quoted as to the present a,
titude OF the republican leaders to
ward the platform declarations tina
labor leaders are asking with refeI
ence 70 the Injunctions and exemg
! lions Of the labor unions from th
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