The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-04-20
REPUBLICANS MEET
IN CONVENTION
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standing of the wishes of the people
as a whole than could be obtained by
the direct primary alone. He said
that the party was again face to face
with it's ancient enemy, and because
of its blunder of two years ago was,
for the third time since 1860, outside
the breastworks. Admitting his in
debtedness to Elihu Root for his in
spiration, he proceeded to arraign the
Democratic party on the ground of in
competency at home and weakness and
vacillation at home He said that,
owing to a state of mind fOstered
largely by the Democratic party, which
held that to be prosperous was to be
criminal, the Democratic party, when
placed in power, had approached the
solution of the tariff question in a
way which indicated that they were
mad at the prosperity which the coun-
try was enjoying, enatced a tariff from
which protection had been eliminated.
Business halted to see what would hap
pen and then, when it had happened,
halted to determine the effect of the |
legislation of the Democratic party |
At this point Mr.. Randall turned sud
denly pale, halted, dropped his voice.
but still attempted to proceed. Several |
rushed to him and caught him as he |
was swaying and about to fall He
speedily recovered, but, being unable
to continue his speech, Col. Thomas
Hamer of st. Anthony, whose speech
was scheduled for later time, was
placed in the chair. Colonel Hamer at
once plunged into a bitter and elo-
quent arraignment Of the Democratic
party, which he described as weak
cowardly and inefficient He declared
that if we should fail to reverse the
cowardly policy of peace at any price,
our land would be invaded with a
savage horde, our homes destroyed,
our women ravished our Libraries
burned and our Christian civilization
replaced by paganism. We cannot
stand this and will not" The colonel
is a brilliant speaker and aroused
plenty of enthusiasm with the oin~or
which he threw into things. He de-
clared, however, that there was some
hope, a rift had appeared in the
clouds, as Woodrow Wilson had now
declared himself a convert to prepar-
edness and a believer in tariff COM
mission. Standing penitently on these
two great planks of the last Republl-
can convention, there was hope for
further reform on the part of the pres
ident. He said that he favored the
reaffirming of the principles of Repub-
licanism and the election Of a ticket
= that would stand on every plank until
il was enacted into law. The Re-
publican party was chastened by the
r infliction brought upon it by its OWL
l. stupidity two years ago, and was ready
S to go ahead once more to victory.
r TIo mould rof1oar- 70 q nrOpTpSgiVQ IL
the Taft camp or standpatter II
the Roosevelt camp than to wear thu
v brightest Democratic carbuncle in tn
s iewelry store of the late Mrs. Gall
,s who. however, he declared had show
p by her conversion of the president t
d the principles of a tariff commission
and preparedness that she was a bet
ter statesman than any member OF Tn
cabinet, and that Rome had not SUI
=, fered while Mark Anthony was enjoy
g ing his honeymoon"
y, Colonel Hamer said that on May
. last the people of the United State
30 aroused by the murder of so man
Americans by the German submarin
attack on the Lusitania, stood ready
NJ back the utlimatum which they fe
IS must come. But no ultimatum came
OF instead, came a demand for repar'
se. ton. To this Germany replied tn
al she would arbitrate, and at once saI
as another vessel, the Arabic. When u
Ist German foreign office learned that Il
We American people would force relu
ce tant administration into war If q
submarine policy were continued III
Their. the Kaiser yielded and turn
Ter the work of destruction over to Au
he tria, which continued it. In Mexl'
on when Is Americans were murder
he near the American line, there was
H. move. When Villa crossed the bord
the and murdered people at New Mex
ity town. a colonel from an old Repu
the lican Pennsylvania family disobey
ay- orders and crossed after them
the now hear that President Wilson
Dry drafting a note to William, Franz
will Joseph and Carranza asking them I
the to do it again. He described Preside
VS.. Wilson as a successful pedagogue a
a fairly successful writer, who W
m no doubt, personally patriotic and
on good man in that private life to viii
,ss- he should soon be retired.
the Turning to the Republicans, Colol
the Hamer said that he would tell tn
to something which they all believed,
den which some of them who had lightn'
Ugh rods I'D did not dare to say WI
by the party needed was boss. He S
the that he heard some people say t
an the cause of the trouble two ye
lied ago was that the events leading
the to the convention made it inevital
fter others said that it was Theodore
sale the Progressives. The real trouble '
lch. that there was no Thurlow we
oc- Mark Hanna or Roscoe Conklin
F. tell the party what it must do. |
there been, reasonable concessi
would have been made and harm'
and victory would have follow
iLY what we need is some good,
d to hard-headed political despot for
as leader and, unless we find him,
the may as well get behind the bre'
lded works and run up the milk-white I
lore for we will not have a ghost 9
ship show in November. According TO N
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