The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-12-23
lIvt WASHINGTON NOTES
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Especial Correspondence
States to Control.

States to Control.
Washington, ID. c., Dec. 15.-Events
N the past week have made it more
Serf2in than before that the Repub-
1SfxD national committee, which
meets in Washington tomorrow, will
cali a national convention for the re-
, organization of the Republican party
= -AS n condition precedent to harmony
the committee is expected to admit at
-sDn.xs that delegates to the convention
s5hall be elected under rules peculiar to
yth,H several states and not under de-
a,rs,sss of the national committee. The
proportion of representation credited
To each state will not be changed by
The committee, that action being with
IN the province of only the convention,
a1x0riing to the decision of the law
2,oesTnittee.
The attitude of Senator Elihu Root,
togeSher with the decisive action of the
Ne,E York Republican conference to-
Waz1 primaries, was the most signifi-
GaEf feature of a week which swerved
rzpaaly toward agreement for a get
together meeting.
While Senator Root reached these
1unclusions, which coincide with the
E,sa5or demands of the wing of the
party headed by Senators Cummins,
Brhstow, and Norris, it is a notable
fa6r THAT these same progressive Re-
puGJ5cans have evinced no intention of
IC1t.s1ing to demands from Kansas and
Nebraska that they cut loose from the
Republican ship. A Progressive con-
EefsDce at Topeka threatened Senator
Brzaow with the political sallows if
hss Gid not at once renounce his Repub-
Ic:sSa COWS. He was not frightened.
::Rnator Norris declared that the third
lSsF1y movement, he is now convinced,
ess g. mistake
While the Washington Post in sizing
mp the situation refers to Senator
ASorah as a presidential possibility,
and he is generally regarded as occu-
pyIRg an exceptionally strong position
ar CHS time. the senator and his i'm
z21sshate friends do not seem to be con-
z,err1ing themselves about it and are
apparently doing nothing to further
mig chances in this direction At the
sxTne time, the senator has always
1naSntained that the rank and file of
%he Republican party are progressive,
and that if given the opportunity they
WIN reorganize the party along pro-
agrs-ssive lines. This opportunity now
Seems to be opening to them and for
Ch71 reason Senator Borah is more
11GTseful than ever that the party will
present reunited front in 1916
Senator CumminS has at all times
remained moderate Republican. Next
year he enters a senatorial fight in
EcEEa, which is to be won only with a
homogeneous Republican backing
Conservative Republicans are man
Gfeetly less prone than month ago to
EzzNezt, with some venoum, that the
51zrty must be reorganized by it's
friends, not it's enemies"s
Leading Republicans of all faction
nj colors have now reached agree
rnent, it appears, that delegates ac-
credited by states shall be accepted by
the convention on prima facia evidence
III legal selection. The reduction of
sDathern representation is the bust
sness Of the convention, not the COM
.mfttee
Progressive lines were badly broken
in the November elections. 1t is cur
:rext comment that little inducement
II needed to start general stampede
FOR Republican ranks.
William A. Pendergast, of New,
York, who played so prominent part
i'm the christening of the third party
Roosevelt, but plainly stated his pur-
znose to return at once to the Republic
eran party.
The cohesive qualities of Republic
--Ens in congress are being brought to
me surface by the iron rule of the
lgreSent administration. A community
sDf interest has, in fact, been built up
i'm the senatea where Republicans of
all stripe take turns in denouncing the
anflexible partisan spirit of the major
Ivy.
President Wilson's unexpected es-
<lnNnsal of a presidential primary law
ssrzs tilted the political balance percep-
GIbFy. 1t at once suggested a method
~ effective Republican reorganization,
s1nd caused a rift in the lutte from
sh1ch Democracy has evoked harmon
5Oas tones. Republicans are not agreed
sa& to the wisdom of such an innova-
Hikn, but the suggestion has not aug
Mented discord, whereas distinct di-
Sergence Of opinion is manifested
among Democrats, who, under the
-gsnpelling force of an election vic
tory, have been united.
Progressives in California declared
s their everlasting independence of the