Show j N t i A TAFT AND SHERMAN the republican national convention 1 held in chicago 9 last week wasa lively and it in thusia resulting I 1 E i in the nomination of william H tit tatt I 1 t lot of ohio for 1 president preside ift t ands and 1 james S aberman She of N new ow york yok lor jor vice arp president side tit upon the nomi nomination nation tl 1 of the ibe secretary of war william H i taft ii probable contest 4 between him ii and n d W william i I 1 11 am J I 1 bryan the deseret news has the following comment secretary baft if e elected president as he i in n all alf probability will be begill make nii an excellent chief executive ie ite he ll 11 has a s e traveled a great dealand r d f is s ka familiar I 1 t 7 wito wite the conditions prevailing Vail ilig I 1 i in ri al almost most every part of the world lie he is personally j known at some of the co courts aits of europe he As i s in n ba harmony rhony with the policy of ins party and he be enters upon hi his 1 s duties well equipped ua e expect ances obtained A ana many ny i 4 years of pu public lilic ser vico vide mr f from r om the bench and epic ijo to the philip pines his task was to econ ci cile 1 e tho iho hostile filipinos filipino and he came back baa from that delicate mission having achieve I 1 ed all that was hoped for then he was called to washington 1 and a new vi vista sta opened he ws sent to lo unravel the cu ban an snarl and he did he had y 1 10 lo ao bring order out ont of chaos in in in panama and he be lid did every step biad had been marked with sue suc ass pronounced undisputable undisputable mr taft haa been eminently successful in whatever he has 11 V undertaken he has bas made few roi m slakes pie ile has haa declared his adherence to the program of president roosevelt andyes and yet no one who knows him will call y him binia a plagiarist thu tho victory in thia the convention is his own and the victory at the polls will I 1 e his own but will lie win some close students of the i situation feel certain of that even with due allowance for the T effect of I hard times they bes lieve taft will be elected they say that wall street is for baft that the labor elements have come to understand him that tile he socialists are not strong enough to oppose effectually an honest man the negroes a all vote the me republican ticket and apay be depended upon and the great mass of citizens believe that they hey settle the contest these were for roosevelt and they are for taft now we aret aie told uld first because they be lieve taft stands for the same abin ti lings 9 s and seco second iid because he fie Is is M in and ona of himself A a big 1 kanand man and in the expressive vernacular of the street on the job there is a quiet but certain feeling among tile the W masses that Taft is the best nian man for the next four years rather than an any other man even roosevelt himself himsel Ol the contest this year will be between taft bryan the latter 1 according to announcements made has enough d delegates ele to secure his nomination on ta the first ballut it was given out a few days ago that bryan had delegates instructed for foe him aud 67 more committed by personal pledges making his total the nut number aber hect necessary s to bomin nominate ate is so that lie he had at that date 27 votes to jo scafe not taking into account any 0 of f the numerous un pledge d and uninstructed delegates who a are re supposed to bo be prepared to give him their votes so 80 iv it will in all probability be taffe and bryan THE piatr PLATFORM inn the lab Republican platform oe declares fora for a fe vision revision of the tariff by a special session of congress it endorses tb the e emergency currency measure adopted e d by the last session favors the establishment of p postal savings 1 banks approves the enactment ent of the railroad rate law and promises 0 persue tle police of protecting Amo american rican labor the movement for the conservation of the nation resources As is endorsed and many other measures are promised for the further material addan cement of tho the country there ia ita no doubt that very careful attention paid to the formulation of this platform a it was prepared before the convention inet and waif was therefore duly considered b by Y those who have a right to speak for the porty party its every promise should sli consequently be kept faithfully it should be a platform not mp ely to get in on bu but t one to stand upon when it declares for tariff revision for instance nothing should be allowed to interfere with the keeping of the pledges made to the people the plat platform forni should mean just what it says and nothing else and we believe it does the people have a right to expect that the promises and pledges made before an election are kept sacred by those who are elected to curry carry out those pledges when the platform endorse endorsed endor seb the policy of protecting electing pr american labor it Is is in it har harmony Molly with a doctori doctrine no eniti enunciated c f I 1 atad I 1 ty y no less authority than abrahall Ab rahaiL bin lincoln coln he said in the earl early V days of our race the A almighty said lo io th ast of our ancestors in ti the lie sweat of thy face shall t hou eat bread and since then with the exception of the light ai and jd air of heaven Leave ii no good thing lifts has been or can be enjo enjoyed by U UR R wi without phout having first cost labor and inasmuch as all good things have been produced by labor it follows that all such things of right belong to those abole labor has produced them but it has so happened dinall in all the ages of the world that some have labo labored redi and others without labor jaa have i ve enjoyed a large p portion of tl the i e fruits this is wrong and should not continue to secure to each labor laborer er the whole product duct of hia biti labor or as nearly aa possible is a worthy object of any government the pledges and aromi promises ses should be kept |