The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-08-30
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.


The Tribune is first, last and al
the time, a Republican. 1t firml.
believes that Republican principle
are sound and when put into practice
will operate to promote the welfare
o the American people. The Tribune
believes that this government canno
be carried on successfully excep
through the fundamentally of polit
ical parties. When there is more thar
one political party contending fol
principles, one must be right, in tn,
main, and the others wrong, in thu
main. After nearly fifty years o
demonstration it must be conceded
that the Democratic party has beer
proven wrong on nearly every I'M
portant public question.
Homer r. Mann, the origina
Roosevelt man of Kansas City, and o
standing in the Roosevelt part,
sufficient to make him chairman o
the caucas of all the Roosevelt dele
gates in the United States, tells of the
real reason for the defect of Mr.
Borah in the following manner:
When it became evident that
Roosevelt could not be nominal
ted, Senator Borah of Idaho made
the Colonel the following pro-
position as coming from Taft
leaders, whom, he stated, we're
able to deliver the goods: "The
roll will be purged of the 70 dele
gates we claim were tainted, a
progressive platform acceptable
to us will be adopted, Taft and
Roosevelt both to withdraw and
we will name Hadley by acclama-
I. ton" Colonel Roosevelt was
4 seated at table under glass
chandelier when he received the
4 proposal from Borah He sprang
Is to his feet and raised hi s6st,
d smashing the chandelier, then
bringing his fist down on the
table with whack, he said: "By
God, Twill never do it! Let them
{ purge the roll and then come to
me and will tell them what l
Z will do" There was silence and
drawing away for few seconds
and then Borah, white faced, said:
@ well, Colonel, in the future you
and your friends can do as you
% please, but you can't make a
4 jackass out of me any longer"
y Borah Immediately left the room
and never returned.
Contrast the words and actions OF
this man of selfish ambition with those
of Senator La Toilette, that sterling
son of Wisconsin, who represents the
true progressive spirit. No warmer
adherent did Mr.. Roosevelt have
than Robert La Toilette. But the
same clear, far-reaching vision that
stirred within La Follettes breast a
desire for reform, disclosed to him
the moving spirit of Mr.. Roosevelt
an egotistic and all-impelling am
bition. In the senate Mr.. La Toilette
discovered an evident absence of de-
sire on the part of many Republican
colleagues to listen to his oratory
which moved him to this declaration
of purpose:
am never going to stop until
the Republicans in the House and
in the Senate and in each of the
Legislatures are truly progress
sive. l am going to keep up the
fight in the Republican party. I
think that is the best instrument
through which to progress.
Mr.. La Toilette added a somewhat
equivocal remark about IAN attempt
made at Chicago to divert" the Re-
publican party from the purposes
for which it was born" Senator Stone
was moved to ask whether the nomin-
alton of Mr.. Taft or that of Mr..
Roosevelt was referred to.
Mr.. La Toilette responded by re-
citing statistics of the growth of trusts
and combinations during the seven
years Of Roosevelt. from a capitaliza-