The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-09-03
ErP.BLIcAN REsOLUrIOSs

I years 10 eAbDl Tue phsL blsLoty VI tIe
party and eulogize their public men
that It is not expected TO find any
legislation promised for the future or
even suggested. This Is true of the
resolutions passed by the county con-
yeutlon held In this city some days
ago.
The resolutions adopted by the re-
lpuhiicans a week ago last Saturday
are masterpiece, when 1t comes TO
diction and fulsome praise. In those
| resolutions there is not promise as
U the future, and so far from even
suggesting any reforms they are dis
.ressingly silent. Ii is an easy mat
ter to either commend or condemn
the record Of public man, but when
| IL comes TO outline what should be
che future policy Of party the past
record should be clean or else deep
water Is very liable TO be encountered
In recommendation for the future.
In the first paragraph Of the reso.
Iutions President Roosevelt is hon
ored 'for the splendid work he has
done. This is good so far as it
goes II the praise rad stopped there.
A little farther In the same section
1t Is said, "We regard that the re-
forms Of government so courageously
begun by President Roosevelt must
he carried forward TO a successful cul-
mination, TO which end there is no
wOrtbier, able or better candidate
than william II. Taft. "
We're it not for the fact that it Is
found that the Steel trust, the
Standard Oil trust, the Beef trust,
Wall street, and all the interests
which President Roosevelt has been
pleased To designate as predatory
Itch, and the undesirable citizens"
are lined up behind Taft to man,
there would not I've such an incongru.
ity In saying that There Is no
worthier, ADLER or better candidate |
than William II. Taft. How can
Taft carry out the policies OF Presi-
dent Roosevelt when he Is backed by |
the very elements which our presi.
dent so unhesitatingly condemned? |
This very element would not be so
for Taft were it not
they believed they had Taft In their
power, in case Of his election, and he
would be their subservient tool
So far as the public record Of Hey.
burn Is concerned The Recorder has
no criticism to make; and his private
life is not punlic property TO be
handled by a newspaper. la many
ways the praise of Hepburn In those
esolutions only do him justice; and
1 the truth Is known 1t will be
ound that the present fight within
his own party Is not against the pub
lc career of Hepburn, but his private
lte and his private integrity.
Burton l.. French Is In truth,
The product OF Idaho's soil.r
When 1t comes TO his standing In
Congress- he Is by all odds at the tail
i the delegation In the Western
tates. lie has been the subservient
DOL OF the Mormon hierarchy. He
onvlcts himself when no gave his
videnec In the Smoot case and ad-
litted In substance that no man
ould be elected Ia Idaho who did
ot have tie backing Of the Salt
AXE twenty-six. So far as legisla-
Ion Is concerned, which have been
enetlcial TO the West CT any other
'ction Of the country Idaho might
well have been represented by a
OGDEN man.
The most incongruous OF these res
Iutions Is endorsing the administra.
on OF Governor Gooding and the
of BRADY for governor.
turing the four past years OF repub-
can control the state taxes have been
Dubbed. Two years ago Gooding lost
lmost every GENTLE county In the
Late, and owed his election entirely
, the overwhelming Mormon vote.
Gooding's administration has stood
Or everything but economy. In adj
ition To increasing the taxes double
what they were under Morrison's
every imaginable pre-.
ext has been sought with which To
Increase the revenues of the state.
n addition to the general taxes be.
M doubled u corporation tax has
cen collected with which To pay the
xpenses OF bis standardization.
Brady, who came In for such n rich
endorsement Is the personirication OF
u that is disreputable la machine
'oiitics, When the revolt came In
he legislature two years ago Ia an
Mort TO carry out the pledges OF the
epaohcau party Brady was the first
nan on the ground aud tried TO whip
De insurgents into line. The Nor.
aou bishops bad deereed that tho
'artF pledges should not be enacted
h1o Jaw, and seventeen republican
members revolteo from the machine
onttoi IL Is safe to Judge what
fFady viii SO II he Is elected govern.
e by what he has done IN the mas,
Two years ago the party pledges nun,
ightiy upon his shoulders. In nl.ra
y tying TO whip the Mormon nlsh.
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