Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-23
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ORGANIZATIONS Of
ANT|-BORAh men
Avowed Enemy Of Senator
Is President Of the Idaho
Republican League That
Eagle Meeting.

Central George H. Roberts. an
avowed political enemy Of Senator
William +. Borah, IL the president.
head and director of the affairs OF the
Idaho Republican league, the anti
Borah organization in this city and in
Ada county. This Is the ADMISSION
made by the morning mouthpiece of
the anti-Borah element In reporting
the initial rally OF that league held
last night at Eagle. General Roberts
was also president of the Taft club
organized in Boise prior to the pri-
maries last spring. having been placed
in that position through the direction
of E. e. Gillespie, q Taft and anti
Borah man. who through clever man
dpulation disrupted the pre-arranged
program which was to have made
James E. Clinton, Jr.. the clubs presi-
dent and seated Roberts in the sad
ole.
Ever since the organization OF the
idaho Republican league over a month
ago, an attempt has been made to as
. certain who its officers are. The petit.
lions were freely circulated by L.
Cobb, son OF c. Cobb. local publish
er, the personal representative in
Boise of the Barber Lumber COM
pany, subsidiary OF the Weyerhauser
syndicate, the largest corporation OF
its kind in the United States. He ad-
mitted in circulating these petitions,
and when endeavoring to secure sign
ers that the league In an anti Borah
: organization.
1orah's Friends on Guard.
The knowledge that General Roberts
IL president of the league and han
charge Of its movement, as well as the
fact that he is known to be bitterly
opposed to Senator Borah, has served
10 place the league more in the open
than ever before. 1t also serves to
place the true friends of Idaho's sena-
tor on their guard, 1t Is said. General
Roberts, 1t Is claimed, was never
known to have denied that he stands
opposed to Senator Borah. In his ad-
dress at Eagle last night he delivered
q genuine standpat address.
The other speakers were Ira e. Bar
Der and Colonel D. T. Miller. Both are
ardent Taft men and as members of
the league they have taken the pledge
of that organization not to support any
Republican candidate. nor to vote for
him, who is not for President Taft and
will not countenance the theft Of the
nomination to the highest office in the
gift Of the people.
Colonel Miller made an indirect at
tack upon the Republican legislative
ticket In this county during his ad-
dress at Eagle. and used the same
method of attack on the direct pri-
mary law on the statute books. With
reference to the latter he asserted the
only way a voter can find out any
thing about a man running for office
In the direct primary was to look at
his picture in the paper: that every
man who has a clean shirt and his
neck shaved wants to be a candidate.
His coveted attack on the Republic
can legislative candidates in this
county, although he claimed he is one
OF the few Simon Pure Republicans in
the country who have a right to show
their pure Republicanism by attack
ing other Republicans, was made
when he demanded to know where
these candidates were, and II they
were campaigning for the Republican
ticket, strongly infering, although he
gave no reason for the inference, that
they were not
Curiosity attracted a number OF peo-
pie in and surrounding Eagle to the
meeting. They enjoyed the music by
a male quartet composed OF Messrs.
Van Valkenberg. Critchfield, Preston
and Morris. The members Of the
quartet and Boise speakers went to
Eagle on a special car.