Reports say the latest home rule bill is not acceptable to everybody in Ireland. Well, who ever heard of a home rule bill that was? Progressives for Wilson AMAZEMENT felt and shown by Republican leaders, over the refusal of Progressives of all degrees of prominence to deliver themselves up in accordance with the Chicago contract, is almost ludicrous. As our Washington correspondent said yesterday, "no leader in the Republican convention seems to have dreamed for a moment that the Colonel would or could lose his grip upon the Hull Moose following." While the Old Guard's discomfiture is funny enough, it really ought not to startle the country, familiar through recent experience with the mental deficiencies of these eminent statesmen and sages. The truth is, as was shown at Chicago in 1912 and again this year, they have no understanding whatever of modern political thought. They still think in terms of Mark Hanna and '96. They are all perfectly sure that if Roosevelt had kept hands off four years ago Taft would have been elected, although as a matter of fact, Wilson would have defeated Taft alone quite as easily as he did Taft and Roosevelt together. Reasoning along old lines, the Old Guard considered that all that was necessary this year was to corral the Colonel, whereupon all the Hull Moose herds would come trotting peacefully back to the reservation. Time has brought a rude awakening. 