Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-13
SPECIAL INTERESTS ARE BEHIND
EFFORT TO D|SFRANCh|SE
VOTERS OF IDAHO
Marin Declares That the Action Was Brought
in Supreme Court IN Behalf Of
Corporate Power

in ever increasing amounts. 1t has
been able to do this by controlling the
machinery OF the Republican and
Democratic parties and naming their
nominees and in controlling in large
part the legislation and administra-
tive activities Of those parties.
Political parties are useful only 20
far as they may be used by our peo-
They are not sacred We do not be-
long to a party. The party belongs
to us, Just as our clothing belongs to
us. II one pair Of shoes becomes wet
and soiled. we lay them aside to be
dried and polished and made service
able again and use another pair, but
when our shoes can no longer be
cleaned; when they have become so
dirty and rotten and soaked with
filth and so badly worn they are not
Of any further use, we unhesitatingly
consign them to the junk heap and get
a new pair. Our Republican shoes
We're good ones in their time, and they
did us good service, but in the last
quarter OF a century they have be-
come soiled and soaked and rotten
with selfishness and greed and crook
edness until they are no longer Of
value to us and must be and will be
discarded for new pair.
Tho Invisible Government.
1.-THE Republican party Is absolutely
controlled by this invisible govern
ment, 1t Is so saturated with the
influence of crooked big business that
1t Is no longer an instrument which
our people can use to effect their will.
The Democratic party is in but little
better plight. In some Of the large
| states which the Democrats must
carry this fall II they succeed, the
Democratic organization Is absolutely
controlled by the invisible govern
ment, and II Professor Wilson should
be elected, he would find himself
handicapped by that force in his own
party which came near defeating him
at Baltimore, and he will be under
this further obligation, II elected, that
his election will be due largely to that
element in the Republican party
which Is planning now to cast its en-
tire vote for him in the hope that 1t
can in that way defeat the man 1t
hates and fears-the man who has
given them cause to hate and fear
him, our standard bearer, Theodore
| Roosevelt.
This man Roosevelt comprehends
the needs Of our people better than
any man OF the last century. save
only Abraham Lincoln. He has a
clear conception Of right and wrong;
he chooses always to stand for the
right, and he has the courage and
ability to fight as few men can fight.
His splendid talents have ever been
and will continue to be employed for
the common welfare. His enemies OF
the invisible government, both Demo-
cratic and Republican, charge him
with selfishness. with egotism and
with a desire to become president Of
the United States in perpetuity. His
candidacy, however, Is proof positive,
to my mind, of his entire unselfish-
ness.
| His place In history was secure; he
had received from the American peo-
pie all the honors they could bestow
He left the presidency voluntarily. A
re nomination was his for the asking
even for the taking. He had only
to signify his wish and he would then
have been nominated instead Of Taft
Indeed. It was with extreme difficulty
|
vention from nominating him against
his will. He didn't enter the fight
against Taft in 1912 for the Republi-
can nomination until it became appar-
ent that no other progressive could en-
compass Taft's defeat. He realized
that the reelection Of Taft meant
four years more of the rule Of crooked
big business. We know now that that
is true. and we know now that Roose-
welt has saved us from that fate by
his pre- convention fight by which the
Invisible Government was forced into
the open and compelled to steal from
him in plain sight Of the American
people the nomination which the great
majority of the Republican party had
given him. There was then left oper
to him no other course than to aid