The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-12-29
Wednesday afternoon, superstition
needs to be readjusted.

The meeting of the Republican ma
tional committee which fixed the time
of holding the next national conven-
ton for June 18th at Chicago, proved
at least, that members of that organ
ization were practically all in favor
of renominating President Taft. AS
the discordant tones always sound
loudest, so it is that the voice of the
opposition seized it's opportunity to
reach the public ear, and the pro-
gressive league issued a statement
criticizing the procedure of the com
mittee. About the same time one OF
the old Indiana feuds broke loose,
with the result that some of the pol
iticians of that state attacked the
president and his followers. A pro-
test also came from Mr.. Barnes,
chairman o fthe Republican state
committee in New York, and the lack
of harmony in Ohio was also brought
to the foreground. On the whole,
nothing very serious turned up, o
was there much to indicate what the
politica lconditions of the country are
at the present time. These represen-
tative men from their different
states seem to agree that President
Taft will be re-nominated, and most
of them expressed the belief that he
would be reelected, although there
were of course, a small minority who
thought otherwise.
The popular impression that the
post office department is advocating
a system of parcels post is not borne
out by the position of Postmaster
General itchcock. Recommendations
of the post office department do not
contemplate that the system be
placed in operation in any way upon
the railroads of the country, but the
report is in the nature of a renewal
of the recommendations made last
year for legislative authority to start
a parcels post on rural routes, and
a similar organization for the intro
duction of such a service in cities
and towns having delivery by car
riers. The postmaster general says
he believes that after the %organiza-
ton of the system is completed in
this matter, that it's extension over
the railroads will be taken up. 1t
begins to look as though this sub
ject would form one of the big ques-
tions of legislation to be fought out
in the present session of Congress.
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Considerable interest has been felt
in the national capital in the visit of
the twenty-three southern boys who
have won prizes for premium yields
of corr throughout different portions
of the South. When President Taft
received these champion corn growers
he was told that six of them had
raised over two hundred bushels of
corn each per acre, and one of the
boys succeeded in securing two hun
Jrol onl thirfy huchnIc Eonh hod
received a prize from the department
of agriculture, the average value of
which is about $500, although the
first prize was more than twice that
amount. 1t is confidently predicted
that more than sixty thousand south
ern boys will go into corn raising
next year. Only one northern con-
testant was in the delegation, .ss~be-
ing from Illinois.
1t beats the band the number Of
sure-shot political prophecies that are
being handed out in the capitol these
days, by prominent and semi-promin-
ent citizens from the different states
whose affairs are bringing them to
Washington. Their views vary all
the way from the administration cap
turing all the delegates from all the
states, including Wisconsin, to other
views which just as optimistically
describe the way Colonel Roosevelt
and Senator La Toilette r likely to
stampede the country. The same is
true in the Democratic camp, where
Harmon, Wilson, Clark and Bryan
in turn constitute the whole works.
1t all depends upon who's doing the
talking. But possibly Washington in
that respect does not differ much
from those places farthest from the
seat of the national government,
where people view conditions through
different kinds of lenses.
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Governor Harmon, of Ohio, and