Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-25
STATE CAMPAIGN
OF PROCRESS|YfS
WILL Be OPENED
q. H. Martin to Speak at
Caldwell Tomorrow Night
Other Meetings in Can
yon County Announced.

The first big gun in the Progressive
party campaign will be fired tomorrow
night at Payette when G. II. Martini,
candidate for governor. will deliver the
keynote speech in that city. sounding
the Progressive battle cry. While he
officially opens the state campaign
there he also opens the first set meet
ing for the Canyon county itinerary.
delivering addresses on succeeding
nights at various cities. =. Monroe
Smock, candidate for congress, and 9TH
err state candidates will also take UP
their itineraries and the campaign will
be waged north and south, east and
west, over the state of Idaho in the
fight for the peoples rights.
Hold Conference Tonight.
Progressive candidates will meet in
this city at state headquarters tonight
when the details of the campaign will
be carefully gone into and settled.
Itineraries will be prepared and speak
ers will be commissioned totake the
message Of the Progressive party to the
four corners Of the state p. Monroe
Smock of New Plymouth and O. V.
Bailey of Nampa were among the first
candidates on the Progressive ticket
to report at headquarters today. Other
candidates will arrive this evening in
time for the meeting. Mr.. Martin, the
gubernatorial candidate and standard
bearer, will arrive from teh north to-
night prepared to spend the balance of
the time intervening between now and
the date of the general election on the
stump. He is recognized as one of the
most aggressive campaigners in the
state, speaker Of ability and one who
Is ably qualified to promote the cause
of the new political party
Canyon County Itinerary.
The Canyon county itinerary which
has been prepared for Mr.. Martin will
take him to Caldwell tomorrow night
to open the campaign, that city having
been designated to have that honor,
has been arranged as follows:
Thursday night at Caldwell.
Friday night at Payette.
Saturday night at Parma.
Monday night at Emmett.
To Conduct Strenuous Campaign.
The Progressive party under the ac-
tive direction of State Chairman Clip
son is prepared to wage the most in
teresting political campaign that has
ever been seen in this state, and every
effort will be put forth to elect not
only congressman but the state ticket
from top to bottom. Campaign litera-
ture is being sent out of headquarters
under the direction OF the active work
ers there and voters will be kept in
formed of the issues that are before
them for decision on Nov. 5. Facts
relating to the manner in which a pres
i6ential nomination was deliberately
stolen. making the Republican party a
receiver Of stolen goods, particularly
so in its national standard bearer, will
be placed in the hands of the voters
The record made by Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt Will, president of the United
States will also be placed In such form
as to prove conclusively to electors that
he is the needed candidate at the pres
ent time to bring relief to the political
situation IN the last fight of the old
parties to champion their reactionary
policies.
The candidates who are expected to
attend the conference tonight are: p.
Monroe Smock, G. H. Martin, o. V,
Bailey candidate for secretary of state;
G. c. Miles of Nez Perez county. candi-
date for state auditor; John T.. Yates
OF Boise, candidate for state treasurer:
Alan Barclay of Jerome candidate for
attorney general. and F. Fl. Skeels Ct
Wallace, candidate for state mine in
spector.