Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-07-04
OPPOSE LIQUOR in
STATE and NATION
Republican Convention Adopts
Platform Declaration Against
The Saloon.
(Idaho Daily Statesman)

lican platform convention complete,
its work, adopted it's platform with
out a dissenting voice and passed int
the realm of things that used to be
The closing session was marked By
many sharp passages of arms, an(
there were numerous changes made
in the platform beore it was adopt
cd.
When the hour for the meeting oi
the convention arrived in the morn
ing the platform committee pleaded
for additional time and a recess was
taken until 1 o'clock in the afternoon
When that hour arrived the report
was still missing. 1t was reported
that 1T was in the hands of steno-
graphers. An hour later it was rush
ed into the hall and read to the con-
vention by p g. Johnston, the chair.
man of the committee.
At the conclusion of the reading
Mr.. Johnston moved the adoption of
the report. There were protests
against this and demands from many
parts of the hall for the reading of
and adoption of the platform section
by section. This was agreed to.
Ira e. Barber won first blood by
having an amendment to the tax
plank adopted providing for the linn
iting of the levies that may be made
by cities towns and counties. Mr..
Barber said that the platform dealt
in glittering generalities. What the
people want he said is definite pla
for reducing taxes and cutting out
extravaganza. G. G. Pickett Of Mos
COW opposed He said that under
the present limitation of 20 mills it
was impossible to raise enough rev.
enue to run the city. Theodore Tur-
ner, Of Pocatello took the other side
of the question. The amendment
went through
L. l. Purcell offered an amendment
to the plank providing for the sale
OF state lands to limit the sale to any
one person of 100 acres. This was
adopted. Colonel Heigho tried to
have the sale confined to actual set
tiers" This was opposed by D. w.
Davis, John w. Hart and others. 1t
was lost p G Johnston and s. l..
Sherman argued that good sAttlers
were worth more to the state than a
fat treasury.
One of the interesting battles of the|
day was over the plank relating to
workmen's compensation. A. H. Con-
ner offered a substitute for the plank
as submitted. This was bitterly op-
posed, but Conner finally won and
had his plank substituted. He de-
the original plank as plat
itude, identical with the plank adopt
ed by the Republicans two years ago.
His plank, he said presented the on
ly excuse the Republicans could give
for not enacting compensation law
at the last legislative session.
Conner also undertook to amend
the plank against the creation of ad
ditional commissions, but in this he
failed. He explained that this was
as the bill he proposed
would not call for additional expendi-
lures on the part of the state. John
w. Hart, P. G.. Johnston and Herman
J. Rossi made it plain that they
would stand for nothing that called
for additional offices and commits
sions.
An effort was made to cut out the
plank relating to the initiative, refer
endum and recall and S. l.. Hodgin
undertook to substitute plank faith
cred by the Grange and the Trades
Council. These efforts failed and the
original plank went through.
An effort was made to amend the
plank relating to the reduction of the
size of the legislature by favorinng
amendment in favor of
one body for the legislature. This
was defeated
M. J. Sweeley of Twin Falls led
l spirited fight against the plank ia
Toring the return of rs per cent of
in which it originated He
insisted that this revenue returned to
he counties should be applied to pay.
ng the interest on road bonds; that
Twin Falls was bonded to the extent
IT 100000 with this in view. The