The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-04-25
REPUBLICAN SHIP AT SEA.

present political uncertainty better illus
ated than by the entire course the Republican
this city last week Inconsistencies ncongruie and aburdtes are
manifested all Of political gatherings There will always be
who the nation facing either of the terrible sort depict
eddy Colonel Thomas Hame other brand that just
good There will always be contradictory statements made by %
showing divergence existed between the
assertion of Frank Randall that the Underwood tariff law had elm
ao hooS ITnder the nras~nt tariff ,e robts
producers dsregarded and they compelled sell
free trade market and buy protected market ut while these
differences sgned little in themselves yet
taken connection with the atmosphere of the whole convention they
showed that neither the delegates the leaders knew where they
were at Much was made OF the reunion OF chstend Repuon
party phrase frequently used than other by the
But in what the Christening consisted beyond the loss of
offices there was not the slightest Indication Whatever he cause
the division three years the OF the Repu
II TEen t i 1, fd ' IN poJ fab INV tbe mil
ballots for the standard bearers of the
manded in that famous historic documntq Have they been
into surely the Democratic party entitled the credit
Has the party failed hem' If those great and
changes have not yet been made and the Republican party
which proposes swallow whole another ganzaon larger than
bone of its bone Has done this If the reforms demanded by the
Progressive party still left menaced surely the alleged depor
the failure of Democracy out the Progress
Contract With the People and the first plank of platform
of Indictment of the Democratic party for failing make
Progressive platform its and demand for The speedy s
incorporation of the long of constructive leg
demanded by that organization into specific statutes
Did anyone advocate this
The only positive reference specific panks the ad
consisted the declaration of Colonel aner that President
Wilson had changed his mind on two issues and was now standing
penenty of the Republican platform the
mand for preparedness and the demand for tariff commission
Which raises the questions What has become of the rest of the Re
publican platform of 1922
The lack captain rudde manifest from the first This
Hart other leaders did not
they this itself
detail consisted the getting through OF
platform that denunciation and geneaes and
delegates bound to neither
principle that they could trim every passing breeze the sails
Republican ship which Rockwell eoqueny dcrb
ed just putting to The convention Indicated that she was al
ready
foreign policy instance This denounced in the
Colonel Hamer and the resolutions with this diff
policy Germany
strenuousy he did Mexican policy wh the platform said
Germany and confined itself sweeping dennca
of the administration toward Mexico Though
the platform ewn by the
Idaho delegation Washington and that it originally contained
sathng arragmen policy Of which the publication
Wilson's that the day before The
platform the bearing evidence of mutaton
Perhaps well For on the day that Colonel HameI
was upbradng administration for failure far
Germany Lodge telling the senate that
pursuing right policy toward that
Galngr denouncne
going Perhaps chilling to the ultra warlikC
the dispatches of the
Republican Nebraska probably
Joined Michigan their delegation for Henry
Ford for presidential nomination antw and antmlar
platform
hopes office seekers always people may
the Progressive and joining the Republican
this time the that organization
hope gain anything by affang with party without
enactng single declared by their platform
essential and whose principal orator declared that
less political despot who viii boss the whole party
land Colonel Roove its hopeless and
behind the breaStwors and the milk white
deeton of every essential principle of and
a
Progressve fought for principle and VINO denounced all bosses