The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-25
The State Committee.

few of the newspapers and few of the people
of Idaho are disposed to find fault with the exist
ing rule under which Democratic State Central
Committee is selected. Some of the compainants
are quite fair and all certainly entitled to such
views as may correspond with their sense of JUS
tce.
They should bear in mind that the State Central
Committee as it is at present organized is not the
creation of any new departure in methods of selec-
ton The scheme if representation in ORR
ginated almost entirely in the second Democratic
convention of the State, the by which Governor
Stenuenberg was nominated and the Governor and
his friends had entire control of the machinery of
that convention They adopted, as The Scimitar
remembers it. the district membership and the press
membership in addition to the membership from
each county
The last state convention added five mem
bers to the committee, under provision that they
should be appointed by the chairman and should
operate as an executive committee. This executive
committee was authorized by resolution offered in
the convention by Governor j. Fl. Hutchinson, of
Ada county, the state convention being in session
at Couer dA1ene the convention unanimously
dorsng the resolution.
The state committee, as at present constituted IS
more representative body than it would be if
composed merely of member from each county and
subject to machine methods 1t is entirely free
from the faint of bossism.
It's membership was taken from the ranks of
what are called "old line Democrats" men born and
reared within the party 1t was less than two years
ago that they proved their loyalty by standing
solidy by ticket and platform, while many of those
now disposed to question their Democracy were sus-
tanning the Republican cause voting the Republ-
ticket and urging other members of the party to
do likewise.
Being representative men in their several COM
munites, it is probably that a considerable proper
ton of the membership of the committee will be
accredited to the state conventions They have
heretofore been chosen as representatives of the
people in many honorable capacities and have never
forfeited the confidence that has been bestowed
upon them.
They have remained democratic always, yielding
no favor to the schemes of mercenary minds that
place expediency before principle and party honor
1t is highly probably that of this genuinely
democratic body will participate at Twin Falls in
the election Of Bryan delegates to the Denver con-
vention and that others will assist in the selection
of Bryan electors at the Wallace convention. They
will lend their judgment to the choice of state
ticket and will not swerve from the line of true
Democratic policy while in the performance of their
public duties.
These men are Democrats and because they are
true to party and to principle they being as
sailed by mugwump band of political adventures
with something to sell and filled with wrath be-
cause the clean of the Democratic establish
nent prohibit them from delivering the goods
The Democratic committee of the State is prac-
lcally unanimous in its support of the Constitution
If the State and its members will not fail to reiter
lite the popular demand for the enforcement of the
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