Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-03-23
TAFT IS CERTAIN
Of NOMINATION
viii Have Majority of Delegates
From All Sections.
MAY BREAK 1903 RECORD
Progressive Policies Accepted as
Surcst Avenue of Return of Busi-
ness Prosperity-Where His
Strength Lies In Campaign.

President William H. Taft is on a
fair road to denomination as the Re-
publican standard bearer In the cam
pagn of 1912 With approximately
100 delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton already instructed for him the
president is more than likely to break
his record of 1908 when he was nomi-
mated with 702 votes on the first bal
lot in the Chicago convention of that
year. There Is no longer any ques-
ton that he will be renominated and
the only question now puzzling the
managers of the Taft campaign Is the
completeness of his victory
Coupled with the assurance of his
denomination is the growing senti-
ment in the big Republican states,
both east and west, that President
Taft is the only Republican candidate
who can possibly be elected this fall.
It will be recalled readily enough that
when Mr. Taft took Office three years
ago March 4th last, the great issues
of tariff revision and reform on pro-
tective basis, and of monetary reform
and the great legal problem involved
In the exact meaning of the Sherman
antitrust statute, were squarely before
the country. In the latter Issue the
Supreme court had not made its fa-
Tobacco cases which were to outline
for the first time since the law was
passed by congress, its exact mean
Ing. On each of these three great is
sues it has been necessary for Presi-
dent Taft to consider and frame a
definite policy, and 1t is his decision
as to these great questions that has
convinced the business men, the labor
Ing men and the farmers of the coun-
try that another term In the White
House for William H. Taft Is all that
Is necessary to restore the country to
that basis Of unparalleled prosperity
which characterized the administra-
tion of William Mckinley. 1t Is this
sentiment which not only assures the
denomination of Mr.. Taft at Chicago
but also his reelection In November.
SO many bewildering side issues
have become involved in the present
campaign for delegates to the Chicago
convention that the facts above stated
have been overlooked In certain COM
munities. Even the progressive
achievements of the Taft administra-
ton have been forgotten in the ex-
ctement occasioned by the introduc-
tion of new political doctrines, prac-
tically none of which, except the pro-
posal to recall federal judges, can be
dealt with by the national government,
but must be decided by each state for
itself. The demand for a presidential
preference primary in each state,
wholly state matter In which even
the president himself has no right to
interfere, has been magnifed into a
national issue, Notwithstanding the
fact that there is and can be no ma
tional law on the subject, and only a
few states are prepared to throw the
protection of the law around any such
primary, and in face of the fact that
one-tenth of the delegates to the Chi
cago convention are already chosen
and hundreds of delegates elected to
state and district conventions. 1t has
been estimated that to clothe such
primary with legal authority, as pro-
vided by the rules Of the party, 1t