The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-09-05
REPUBLICAN STATE
PLATFORM ADOPTED
Local Option is One Of the P|anks and Was
Adopted by Vote of II to 5
THE STATE ADMINISTER TIONFAVOR The JUDICIAL
DISTRICTS OF The STATE

The STATE
licans of the nation in support of our
candidates for president and vice
president, William H. Taft and James
S. Sherman. We congratulate our par
ty and the country on the nomination
of William H. Taft for president. He
is man of the highest character and
the ripest experience in all those quail
ifications SO essential to the high Of
flee for which he has been nominated.
He has that ideal mental equipose
which comes from his long judicial
experience. He possesses the very
highest order of executive ability, as
evidenced by his career as a cabinet
officer, and in the service of his coun-
try in other capacities. He has al
ready been tried in almost every sit
uation that can confront him as presi-
dent, and has in each instance risen to
the full stature of the position. He
has been thoroughly trained in the
great school of the present admins
tration, and represents in every way
it's policies. We know from the rec
ord of the man himself, made in the
official stations which he has occupied,
that he stands for all that our great
President Roosevelt represents, and
hot aln ha will
policies and principles. The Ameri-
can people are not willing that any
backward step shall be taken, or that
any experiment shall be tried at this
time. They. believe, as we believe, that
Roosevelt stands for the very best
there is in popular government, and
that our candidate for president =.
United States will continue in the
same course to the end that the peo-
pie of this country may govern them
selves in letter and spirit, and that we
may have, as was intended from the
beginning, government of the peo-
pie and by the people.
Section T. We point with shame to
the insult rendered the people of this
state by the factional contest now be-
ing carried on in the democratic par
ty, and the complete surrender of
principle and party policy, to factional
strife. The incompetency of the per-
ty and it's unfitness to control the af-
fairs of state, clearly appear by the
acts and assertions of those claiming
to be its leaders.
Section 5. We refer with great sat
isfaction to the records of our SEN
ators w. B. Hepburn and William E.
Borah, and our representative, Burton
l.. French. They have represented this
state with credit and honor, and their
course meets with the approval of our
party,here and throughout the country
Our senators and representative have
especially distinguished themselves in
the councils of the nation. No state
In theUnion can boast of higher char
acter or greater ability than is pos
sessed by the delegation from this
young commonwealth. senator Hey
burn has completed his first term
with a record which is the pride of
every citizen of this state, regardless
of party. He has stood in the fore
front of every great contest which has
come before that great body in the last
six years. Though his efforts the
Pure Food Bill, statute frought with
more beneficience than almost any
single piece of legislation in this gen.
Grafton finds place among our laws.
The powerful influence allied in the
interest of food adulteration have pre-
vented the enactment of this legis-
lation for more than 20 years, and it
remained for a senator from Idaho to
force the passage of this great reform
measure. His colleague, Senator
Borah' not unmindful of the traditions
of the senate, has, with becoming mod
esty, waited his opportunity. Never
theless, in the short time he has re-
presented us in that august body, he
has forged to the front, and taken a
place in the very foremost rank of
leadership in the highest representa-
tive body on earth, His ability as a
statesman and orator. has been re-
cogniIed by the president of the Unit
! Continued az, Ps,v., .