Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-02-21
FOR UNITY IN
REPUBLICAN
PARTY
Especial Correspondence

W <AkotllN ONs u. - feD. lS.-Ihe
feeling is quite general in the East
that an amalgamation of the Republicans
and Progressives will soon be consum-
mated. as is evidenced by the frequent
statements that are being made by lead
ers of both factions
Ormsby McHarg, Of New York. who,
previous to the Chicago Republican
convention. was one of the most active
| lleutenants Of Colonel Roosevelt, re-
Gently made this statement which was
published in Washington paper: Col.
Roosevelt viii not, in my opinion, ever
again become a candidate for President
Not that he might not aspire to the
Presidency, but because he cannot
again get a nomination. I have just
been through the Northwest, and dis
covered a very pronounced sentiment
against the former President, practi-
cany among those who supported him
in the last election. found this con-
spieuously evident in Minnesota among
the Scandinavians. who voted for Roose-
welt in large numbers The whole rea-
son for the loss of popularity by Roose-
velt in his utterances at the Chicago
meeting, following the November election,
when he declared that if the Progressive
party accomplished nothing else. it
beat the Republicans The voters of the
Northwest resent this attitude on the
part OF Roosevelt. They say that they
voted for Roosevelt because they believed
him to be a Republican and not be-
cause he was against the Republicans,
and now they declare that they will see
to it that henceforth they vote the
Republican ticket"
President Taft. declared at a ban
quet given at Philadelphia in honor of
abraham Lincoln by the Union League
Club, that if Abraham Lincoln were
alive today he would be joined in line
with the Republican Party, and said
that he hoped to see that element OF
the party which deserted the standard
insure the continuation for SO years
more of the policies of that party.
Colonel Roosevelt, however, at the /
Lincoln day dinner of the National Pro-
gresive Club at New York, al which |
some of the conspicuous figures in !
the Progressive campaign last fall were
in attendance, declared unequiyocally
against the amalgamation Of the Repub-
Iican and Progressive parties, recently
proposed by one Of the leaders in the
campaign last fall. The Col
oual insists that the Progressives viii
not unite with either OF the old parties
He said, We believe that in each
lf these parties, however, there are hun
freds of thousands of good, honest men
and women, who are Progressives. The
,aly place for them is in our party. We
viii rsi<sz.s tssm in. and ne will treat
hem 81 an enact equality. with eur
,sivss, paying net the slightest heed to
shethsr they are fersnsr Republicans or
ormer Democrats.
Representative French. has just re-
,eayed letter from Bon. sanusl Adams
FIRST Assistant Secretary of the Inter
or, which Is OF special interest to Ida
10 IN cunnedtaon with the matter Of ez-
hanging lands owned by the State in
luded within National Forest Reserya-
hons Tor other public anas. ,
For several years It was q urooted I
uesthos whether or not without special 4,
eesslatisa, the Secretary Of the Interior
'as authorized to make these exchanges.
he Department finally decided THAI II
ad sucb authorization under existing !,
wv and accordingly exchanged with the a
tate Of Idaho about s56,Coo acres Of 4
md. 1t is altogether probable that the
tate Of Idaho will desire that other 8
rRe tracts be exchanged. A bill passed
he Senate on August 18th, 1912, specifi-
aIIy authorizing exchanges Of this char 8
,ter Senator Hepburn, however, op- q
,sed the idea including Idaho in =
e bill and upon his motion there was :
serted the words, Provided, that :.
e provisions OF this act shall not tu
ply to the State Of Idaho" r
The bill is now before the House Of aI
and the Interior Depart or
snti confronted with the question as "'
whether or not these exchanges -
uld be made in Idaho in the future. as
9yiding the bill passes with the n