Boone County Recorder . orms and he receivedmore cordial support from the Democratsthan from the Republicans. Tho Republi-cans In the senate deliberately defeatedseveral amendments offered by SenatorDaFollette and supported by the Demo-crats—amendments embodying legislationasked by the Interstate Commerce Com-mission. One of theso amendments r>u-thorlzed the tiscertalnment or the Val-ue of railroads. This amendment was notonly defeated by tho senate, but It wasoverwhelmingly rejected by the recentRepublican national convention and theRepublican candidate has sought to res-cue his party frot
Boone County Recorder . orms and he receivedmore cordial support from the Democratsthan from the Republicans. Tho Republi-cans In the senate deliberately defeatedseveral amendments offered by SenatorDaFollette and supported by the Demo-crats—amendments embodying legislationasked by the Interstate Commerce Com-mission. One of theso amendments r>u-thorlzed the tiscertalnment or the Val-ue of railroads. This amendment was notonly defeated by tho senate, but It wasoverwhelmingly rejected by the recentRepublican national convention and theRepublican candidate has sought to res-cue his party the disastrous resultsof this act by expressing himself, in aqualified way, in favor of ascertainingtho value of tho railroads. Over Issue of Stocks and Bonds. Mr. Taft complains of tho over-Issueof stocks and bonds of railroads, forthe unlawful entlohing of directors andfor fie purpose of concentrating thecontrol f the rftlroads under one man-agement and the coinnhilnt is wellrtftfliGwS. But, with a pres. can national convention in 1900; It was ig-nored in 1M4 and the proposition wasexplicitly repudiated in 1908, for the re-cent Republicaa national convention, bya vote of 866 to 114. rejected the pTankindorsing the popular election of sen-ators—and this was done In the conven-tion which nominated Mr. Taft, few dele-gates from his own state voting for Inclination Not Sufficient. In his notification speech, the Repub-lican candidate, speaking of the elec-tion of senators by the people, says:Personally, I am inclined to favor it,but It is hardly a party question. WhatIs necessary to make this a party ques-tion? When tho Democratic conventionvote, and the Republican convention re-jects the proposition by a vote of sevenindorses a proposition by a unanimousto one, does it not become sn Issue be-tween the parties? Mr. Taft can not re-move the question from the arena of pol-itics by expressing a personal inclinationtoward the Democratic position. Forseveral y
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