The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-08-28
REPUBLICANS GIVE
ENDORSEMENT TO
PRESENT OFFICIALS
Harmony and Economy
Keynotes in Coming
State Campaign

The Republican state convention
at Idaho Falls opened Tuesday with
the boys band from the reform
school entertaining. Charlie DIM
woody gave a fine welcome to the
delegates. Senator Lloyd Adams of
Rexburg was elected temporary
chairman and made fine address
on state and national politics, COM
mending the work of President Cool
idge, Senator ,Borah, Senator Good
ing, Representatives French and
Smith and Governor Moore, to
which the house responded with
cheers and the playing of national
airs at intervals during the speech.
The senator stirred the house to the
echo by referring to the long-drawn
sessions of the Democratic national
convention with its lack of leader
ship, its lack of ability and its lack
of purpose that prevented its &C
complishing its objective until after
two weeks Of fruitless wrangling
while the summer ebbed away. II
that Is a sample of what their ma
tional administration would be, they
would be aimless in their activities
and would wrangle while the life
duQ OpQOI VI LILO AdtlOA
ebbed away and flattened out into
chaos.
Sherman Coffin of Boise was made
temporary secretary with Senator C.
A. BottOlfsen of Arco and Mrs. w.
w. Won Cannon of Standpoint, as
sistants.
Bingham county's members on the
committees were, on credentials, P.
B. Dance; order of business, l.. Ivan
Jensen; platform and resolutions,
r. M. Jeppson.
Local committeeman, c. J. Reed,
of the Idaho Falls Post, provided
very fine accommodations in the
convention for the press representa-
tives in box locations at the side of
the theatre near the speakers plat
form. The following writers were
present at the opening session: Milo
Thompson for the Boise Statesman;
H. A. Lawson, the Capital News;
Mabel Curnow for the Idaho Falls
Post and Salt Lake Tribune; Miss
Louise Yeaman, for the Times-Regis-
ter of Idaho Falls; Byrd Trego, the
Idaho Republican; Frank w. Brown,
the Idaho State Journal of Pocatel-
10; Bert Savage, the Lewiston Tri
bune and ]. H. Peterson of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
The platform adopted was an en-
dorsement of the national and state |
administrations and our congress /
sional delegation; commencing its
heavy reduction of taxes and the
continual effort to that effect.
The nominations as indicated
elsewhere were made with very little
opposition or division, practically
none in the convention. There was
dissatisfaction over Senator BOrah
on account of his independence of
the Republican party; there was
some dissatisfaction over his spend
ing so much of his time in the study
of national and international ques-
tions to the possible neglect of small
Ter questions and of detail work af-
fecting his home state.
The first Observation-Disclosures
of party, was not without It's ad
generally conceded to be to his Gre
dit.
The second objection-promi-
nence in national and international
questions and watched by the ma
ton and the world, was conceded to
be a credit to him and to his state
and a redeeming feature in the his
tory of our occasional radical ac-
tions as state. To sidetrack him
for his greatness would be commit
ing a step more radical than any
other we have committed; while re-
turning him would not be to our
credit because it would be folly to
do otherwise. 1t would be merely
an act of justice to ourselves and to
the nation and more especially to
the Coolidge administration. To have
1t announced that Idaho had reject
ed her greatest son, the greatest
pillar of President Coolidge in the
crises as they arise, would be sac
rifice to Idaho and the nation and
from the world the SER
vice and counsels Of one of its ac-
knowledged greatest minds. The {
delegates thrashed these matters
over in more or less heated groups
Tor thirty-six hours prior to the nom
nations, and then made it unani-
nous for Senator Borah. But when I
The house stood up to emphasize its
of its unanimous vote, there
we're exceptions at the position oc-
,upied by Bingham county and some
others where there was division OF
opinion, Bingham county making
he largest pothole in the vast audi ]
,nce standing: Some members OF